Fortnite players stowed away their guns this week to kick back for a movie screening instead.

A leading medical-research institution working on a cure for Covid-19 has admitted it paid hackers a $1.14m (£910,000) ransom after a covert negotiation witnessed by BBC News.

Google will no longer automatically back up images and videos from social media platforms in its photo app.

Amazon has pulled its first major game release, putting it back into a testing phase after poor feedback from players.

Facebook says it mistakenly let 5,000 developers gather information from people's profiles after a time limit on their rights had expired.

Social media platform Twitter is dropping the terms "master", "slave" and "blacklist" in favour of more inclusive language.

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have unveiled a robotic colleague that has been working non-stop in their lab throughout lockdown.

Facebook's "vexing and heartbreaking" decisions are causing significant setbacks for civil rights, an audit commissioned by the company says.

Microsoft has added a new feature to its Teams video-conferencing app that cuts all the participants out and pastes them into the same virtual room.

The number of females playing video games in Asia is growing at a faster rate than their male rivals, according to the latest research.