I went on a data diet and all I got was ads and paranoia
Tired of your dirty data habits? Here's how to regain control over your privacy and stop leaking more than you need to the big tech companies
Access to the internet is great, but it’s not a human right
The ability to get online is now routinely regarded as a universal human right, but it really doesn't deserve that lofty status, says Steve Fuller
Maths website stops you being ripped off by your flatmates
Who pays what in a flat-share is a tricky problem. Results from website Spliddit show the maths of fair division gives the solutions people think are best
Fake football website reveals what makes us become nasty trolls
The web can be a vicious place, but anonymity isn’t solely to blame. Comments made in a fake forum have shown that the main influence is others’ behaviour
UK government pulls ads from YouTube in extremist content row
Google has been summoned for discussions at the Cabinet Office to explain why government ads appear alongside extremist material, as brands also pull ads
Video game beta test reveals how we might act if the world ends
Players who tried out role-playing game ArcheAge knew their characters would be deleted at the end of the test, and acted differently when the end was nigh
Image recognition app scans paintings to act like Shazam for art
A smartphone app uses image recognition to let users scan artworks in galleries for extra information and curate their own digital collection
Why the dark net is more resilient to attack than the internet
The dark net is less vulnerable to massive cyberattacks than the regular internet. A network theory analysis puts this down to its unique structure
How could Obama best hit back if election hack by Russia proved?
Outgoing US president Barack Obama has been urged to act over claims Russia hacked the election to aid Donald Trump. How should he respond, wonders Tim Stevens
Google Translate AI invents its own language to translate with
The translation tool is thought to have made up its own language to find common ground for translating between language pairs it isn’t trained on