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Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg left European Union lawmakers fuming over unanswered questions at the end of a hearing that began with a mea culpa for the company's recent privacy woes.

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin urges the Justice Department to review whether tech companies, including Google, are becoming monopolies.

“People should be free to walk down the street without being watched by the government,” ACLU attorney Matt Cagle writes in a post tied to the news. “By automating mass surveillance, facial recognition systems like Rekognition threaten this freedom, posing a particular threat to communities already

China's share of the global venture capital industry is growing rapidly, along with a rise in tech unicorns. The trend threatens the supremacy of Silicon Valley.

The peak in the tech unicorn bubble already has been reached, and with higher interest rates and stock market volatility returning, it's about to burst.

There seems to be a barrage of upcoming foldable smartphones in the market, at least that is how brands are making it sound like, with some promising foldable screens as soon as 2018. Big players lik

OnePlus has launched its much-awaited OnePlus 6 smartphone, today. With its high-end specs and features, it will compete with other flagships like Samsung Galaxy S9 and iPhone X for market share. Wh

And yes, it's as disturbing as it sounds.

A new Google policy calls for such deindexing based on administrative agency findings—without a court order—in cases where the agency is "charged

The browser is changing to flag the things that are dangerous, not the ones that are safe.

The much-awaited OnePlus 6 smartphone has launched in India at an official event in Mumbai. The flagship phone is priced at Rs. 34,999 for the 6GB RAM/64GB configuration and Rs. 39,999 for the top-e

Security research firm Symantec has discovered two new sets of malicious apps on the Google Play Store. The first set is of seven apps and the second set is of 38 apps. However, now the research firm

A new book The Future of Work predicts men between the ages of 25 and 54 years old who work blue-collar jobs will be the first group of people to be replaced by robots.

Twitter has acknowledged that it is working to artificially limit the reach of "troll-like" accounts on the platform — "shadowbanning" users in all but name, a practice that the company has repeatedly denied.

Smokers just can't catch a break! First, we all learned of the obvious dangers of smoking cigarettes and then, not long afterwards, the effects of second-hand smoke became a topic of heated d...

Google has suspended all advertising connected to Ireland's abortion referendum.

Eight months after it disclosed the massive breach of 146 million consumers' data, Equifax files documents revealing its broad reach.

The EU's GDPR should serve as a cautionary tale for Americans eager to reign in tech titans

The corporate boots of Silicon Valley are still going to tread on you.

When it seems that everybody around you has gotten rich by investing in cryptocurrency, the temptation to invest in initial coin offerings (ICOs) can be almost irresistible. After all, even though ...