Malware which signed users up to subscription services without their permission has been found on thousands of mobiles sold in Africa.

Twitter has suspended a number of accounts for sharing a viral message claiming to be a Black Lives Matter protester who's now planning to vote for Donald Trump's Republican Party.

People who play Fortnite on Apple Macs, iPhones and iPads are to be excluded from the game's latest update.

Elon Musk is due to demonstrate a working brain-to-machine interface as part of his ambitious plans to give people superhuman powers.

Plans for an underwater data cable between Los Angeles and Hong Kong have been dropped after the US government expressed fears that China could steal data from it.

Microsoft has developed a tool to spot deepfakes - computer-manipulated images in which one person's likeness has been used to replace that of another.

A further 118 Chinese mobile apps have been banned by the Indian government, as tensions between the two countries continue to rise.

Facebook has announced that it will not take on any new political ads in the seven days prior to the US election on 3 November

New privacy controls and a screen-recording tool are among features being added to Android phones in the latest major update to Google's mobile operating system (OS).

Boycotts can be extremely effective - as Facebook is finding out.