Is Google’s Dragonfly real, and does it mean the Silicon Valley company is cooperating with China to censor citizens’ searches? That’s what a bipartisan group of US senators wants to know.  Sens. Mark Warner, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Ron Wyden, Cory Gardner and Robert Menendez sent a letter Friday to Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking …

The day was dawning at popular Instagram spot Lago di Braies when a young man and his girlfriend broke into the boathouse, jumped into one of the waiting boats and paddled out across the mountain lake in Italy’s Dolomites range. It sounds so romantic. Waking at daybreak, stealing a boat, rowing out into the middle of the lake to watch …

Has the rise of fake news plunged democracy into crisis? Some UK politicians believe it has. Britain should have more powers to regulate and scrutinize the world’s largest tech companies, says a report published Sunday by Parliament’s committee investigating fake news. The report paints a picture in which people’s data is being manipulated and voters are being targeted without their …

The European Commission slapped Google with a record fine of 4.34 billion euros ($5 billion) on Wednesday over antitrust violations related to the Android mobile operating system. The European Union is concerned that Google’s agreements with phone makers such as Huawei, Samsung and LG put those companies at a disadvantage because they’re completely dependent on Android. The agreements stipulate that …

Germany’s highest court ruled Thursday that personal Facebook profiles should be made accessible to people’s heirs after they’ve died. A judge made the ruling as part of a case brought by the parents of a 15-year-old girl who died after being hit by a train in 2012, according to Reuters. The girl’s parents were told Facebook should grant them access …

Fed up with flicking between watching music videos on the YouTube app and listening to audio on your music streaming service of choice? Google thinks it’s cooked up just the thing for you. The company on Monday launched YouTube Music, a subscription service that serves as its latest challenger to Spotify and Apple Music. The app is available now on …

iPhone users who call 911 will automatically be able to share location data with first responders when iOS 12 is released this fall, Apple said Monday. The service will allow 911 operators to more easily locate callers in order to dispatch responders more quickly and accurately to emergency situations, the company said in a statement. Apple first launched a version of …

Have you ever wished you ever hit send on a tweet and wished later you could go back and edit it? Maybe there was a typo. Maybe you realised your sarcasm didn’t translate. Maybe your husband tweeted something a bit out there that you think he should tone down a tad. I’ve been there, you’ve been there and Kim Kardashian …

Facebook has a fake news problem. It’s something the company has made no secret of and — even though it was reluctant to acknowledge it at first — is now working to tackle. One of the ways it’s doing this is by hiring “news publisher specialists” to advise on news content that appears on the social network, according to job …

Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix told British politicians on Wednesday that he’d been the victim of entrapment and that the media had misrepresented the work of his company. A Channel 4 documentary that aired in March showed Nix offering to entrap politicians in compromising positions in order to influence the outcome of elections. He even suggested he had previously …