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How would you feel about being able to pay to control multiple aspects of another person's life? A new app is offering you the chance to do just that. When writer Brandon Wong recently couldn't decide what takeaway to order one…

A new emergency alert text system will be trialled this summer before being rolled out across the UK. Warnings will be sent directly to people's phones in the event a risk to life, such as flooding or fire. Similar systems…

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to improve US cyber-defences in light of recent attacks. The detailed order issues strict deadlines for all government departments to tighten security. It comes as the US…

The property ads pop up like they would on any other real estate website. A three-bed, two-bathroom apartment with a turquoise pool for rent on Colombia's Caribbean coast. A four-bedroom, four-bathroom wood-floored house near the…

Review platform TripAdvisor has apologised after initially opting to leave up an offensive review of the Auschwitz Museum in Poland. The review has now been deleted and the poster banned, it said, blaming a screening "failure".…

The NHS contact-tracing app had a significant impact on lowering the spread of the coronavirus in the UK, a peer-reviewed paper has found. Researchers estimate the app prevented hundreds of thousands of cases of the disease, and…

A woman who worked for beauty YouTuber James Charles says she has received online death threats since making her legal action against him public. Kelly Rocklein claims she was fired two weeks after fainting and hitting her head…

In a policy shift, Facebook is now removing groups and pages that discourage people from getting vaccines. As social media giants grapple with the anti-vaccine movement, Specialist disinformation reporter Marianna Spring meets the…

A Facebook moderator has for the first time given evidence revealing the mental toll of the job, to a parliamentary committee. The Irish parliament heard how moderators viewed graphic content up to eight hours a day.…

US model Chrissy Teigen has apologised to TV personality Courtney Stodden for bullying them online a decade ago. In 2011, Teigen allegedly sent Stodden messages on Twitter urging them to take their own life. It was around…

Amazon has won a court battle over €250m (£215m) in taxes it had been ordered to pay Luxembourg. The European Commission had ordered the tech giant to repay the funds as back taxes, alleging that Amazon had been given unfair…

Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile customers face the longest wait to speak to customer service operators by phone, the regulator Ofcom has found. Virgin Media customers waited seven minutes and 40 seconds on average, while Virgin…

Social media firms will have to remove harmful content quickly or potentially face multi-billion-pound fines under new legislation. The government's Online Safety Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech, comes with a promise of…

Investigators at the largest fuel pipeline in the US are working to recover from a devastating cyber-attack that cut the flow of oil. The hack on Colonial Pipeline is being seen as one of the most significant attacks on critical…

An actor is suing TikTok for using her voice in its text-to-speech function. It converts writing into speech, which can then be played over videos uploaded to the app, often for comedic effect. Bev Standing recorded about…

Online seller eBay says it is handing regulators the power to take down dangerous listings without consulting the company. Officials will be able to remove items "where they have evidence of a risk to consumer safety", eBay said.…

Live-audio app Clubhouse is launching on Google’s Android, more than a year after its initial launch. The invitation-only platform has previously been available on only Apple’s App Store, where downloads have significantly fallen.…

Martin Lewis and Sir Richard Branson are the celebrities whose names are used most in fake endorsement scams, a report has found. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) removed more than 730,000 websites running the tricks in…

Elon Musk has said his rocket company SpaceX will now accept the meme-inspired cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment. In a tweet he said the commercial space exploration firm will launch the "DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon" early next…

Mary-Kate Smith was out kayaking off the coast of Connecticut last August when she overturned. "I was very scared, didn't know what to do, or where to go," she says. Only four months earlier another kayaker had drowned in…

A study of more than 430,000 young people aged 10-15, using data gathered over a period of 28 years, has found "little association" between tech use and mental health problems. It looked at TV viewing, social media use and device…

Twitter has suspended an account sharing posts from former US president Donald Trump's new communications platform. The account claimed to be tweeting "on behalf" of Mr Trump. A spokesperson for the company said the…

BT Smart Hub 2 users are complaining of connection issues between their wifi-enabled devices. The telecom giant's router operates using two different wireless frequencies: 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. Users are complaining that any…

Twitter has launched a new "tip jar" feature that lets people send money to others on the social network. The company says the feature is "an easy way to support the incredible voices that make up the conversation". To begin…

A father and a student campaigner are seeking a High Court hearing to consider whether the government should tighten youngsters' access to porn. Ioannis Dekas and Ava Vakil want the government to implement proof of age for access…

Apple has added extra paid-for advertisements to its App Store, a week after its new operating system limited tracking for ads from other companies. The new ad space lets app-makers advertise on the App Store search tab, rather…

Millions of people could be using outdated routers that put them at risk of being hacked, Which? has warned. The consumer watchdog examined 13 models provided to customers by internet-service companies such as EE, Sky and Virgin…

Facebook's Oversight Board is set to rule on whether former US President Donald Trump can return to Facebook and Instagram. Mr Trump was banned from both social media sites last January following the Capitol Hill riots. The…

A woman says she is facing bankruptcy after losing just under £113,000 to a scammer she met on a dating site. Rachel Elwell, from the West Midlands, said the man, who claimed he lived nearby, told her he had gone abroad for an…

Donald Trump has launched a new "communications" website, which says it will publish content "straight from the desk" of the former US president. Mr Trump was banned by Twitter and suspended by Facebook and YouTube after the…