Exactly how much involvement did Cambridge Analytica have in Donald Trump’s election campaign? It’s a question that’s been asked multiple times over the past few days, and thanks to undercover reporting by British broadcaster Channel 4, we finally have some answers straight from the mouth of now-suspended Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix. In a video …

Millions of US voters had their Facebook data exploited by consultants working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to news reports this weekend. But the fallout from the revelations extends far and wide beyond US borders. The EU will investigate whether the privacy rights of European citizens have been violated by social media companies that may have shared their data …

Facebook issued an apology on Friday after offensive terms appeared in the social network’s search predictions late Thursday. When users typed “videos of” into the search bar, Facebook prompted them to search phrases including “videos of sexuals,” “videos of girl sucking dick under water” and, perhaps most disturbingly, “video of little girl giving oral.” Shocked users reported the problem on …

Streaming service Spotify is testing its own voice assistant, which could give navigating its app a significant speed boost. The feature, spotted first by Twitter user Hunter Owens, is available to some users through its iOS app and can be found inside the search bar. It appears to allow users to skip tapping and typing in order to find and …

Messaging service WhatsApp can’t legally share customer data with parent company Facebook in the UK, the local regulator said on Wednesday. The sharing of customer information between the two companies would breach data protection law, said the UK Information Commissioner in a blog post. Fortunately for Facebook, the Commissioner didn’t discover any evidence of data-sharing activities between the two services, …

Snowflakes begin to fall upon Nokia’s makeshift Finnish village at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. For a moment, I’m charmed by the company’s all-in commitment to re-creating a scene straight out of Lapland on the Mediterranean coast, via what I presume is a fake snow machine. But then it dawns on me: there is nothing fake about …

The British government on Saturday announced the winners of a £25 million competition to test 5G technologies across the UK. The fund will be split six ways, with amounts of between £2 million and £5 million spread across projects exploring the benefits of 5G for rural communities, tourism, health care, agriculture, manufacturing and self-driving cars. The introduction of 5G is …

Shiny flagship phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S9 and the Nokia 8 Sirocco are the talk of the town at Mobile World Congress this week. If you like your phones with precision-engineered, wafer-thin edges and expansive glass, you’ll be in heaven. But while these devices are pretty, they don’t necessarily meet the demands of a more outdoorsy lifestyle. Fortunately, …

Read our full review of the Nokia 8 Sirocco, the latest Nokia phone from HMD Global.  Remember when phones used to be fun? HMD Global, the startup making Nokia phones, sure does. The company reminded us of the fun side of phones last year at the Mobile World Congress trade show, when it relaunched the 3310. It repeated the performance this …

Read our full review of the Nokia 8 Sirocco, the latest Nokia phone from HMD Global.  HMD Global, the startup behind the latest incarnation of Nokia phones, is coming to America after all. The Nokia 6, which made its debut at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona on Sunday, will hit the US market in May. It won’t be …