CEO Secrets: Reddit boss shares three tips for success

Steve Huffman, co-founder and chief executive of Reddit, offers the business advice he wishes he had been given before he started out, for the BBC News series CEO Secrets.

Game on: A history of computer games

An exhibition at the Science Museum looks at the history of computer games.

Pets left hungry as smart feeder breaks

Owners of smart pet-feeding device Petnet are told to "feed their pets manually" after a server problem stopped the device from working.

WikiLeaks' methods questioned by whistleblower Edward Snowden

Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor, Edward Snowden, has censured WikiLeaks’ release of information without proper curation.

On Thursday, Snowden, who has embarrassed the U.S. government with revelations of widespread NSA surveillance, said that WikiLeaks was mistaken in not at least modestly curating the information it releases. “Democratizing information has never been more vital, and @Wikileaks has helped. But their hostility to even modest curation is a mistake,” Snowden said in a tweet.

WikiLeaks shot back at Snowden that “opportunism won’t earn you a pardon from Clinton & curation is not censorship of ruling party cash flows.”

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Toy-maker designs £15 VR headset in deal with Google

A toy-maker from the West Midlands has signed a deal with Google to design and manufacture a low-priced cardboard virtual reality headset which works with smartphones.

Technology explained: What is the internet of things?

Jane Wakefield explains what the so-called internet of things is all about.

Facebook profits beat expectations

Facebook announces another exceptional quarter of growth, with profit climbing 186% from this time last year.

Samsung profits boosted by smartphone sales

Strong smartphone sales help Samsung Electronics post its best quarterly results in more than two years.

Democrat hack: Who is Guccifer 2.0?

A lone hacker is claiming responsibility for the hack on the US Democratic Party but is that person to be believed?

Pokemon Go: Player claims to have caught all UK characters

A Pokemon Go player claims to have become the first to catch all the characters available in the UK.

Digital divide

There are strong social divisions in how young people use digital technology at home, according to international research from the OECD.

Councils demand reassurance on universal broadband pledge

Councils urge the government to "reaffirm its commitment" to a minimum broadband speed to stop thousands falling into a "digital twilight zone".

Twitter reports slowest revenue growth since 2013

Twitter has reported its slowest quarterly sales growth in three years, as the company fends off competition from a growing number of social media sites.

Apple sees iPhone sales drop again but beats forecasts

Apple reports a second consecutive quarter of falling iPhone sales, but the 15% drop was not as bad as analysts had feared.

Osram Lightify light bulbs 'vulnerable to hack'

Security researchers discover nine vulnerabilities in a range of internet-connected light bulbs made by Osram.

Tech groups told Europe funds 'on pause'

Tech companies express concern over the current freeze on allocating crucial European funding in the wake of the Brexit vote.

Verizon's Yahoo deal creates tracking powerhouse, privacy groups warn

Verizon's planned US$4.8 billion acquisition of Yahoo is likely to create an international consumer tracking powerhouse, and that's raising serious privacy concerns.

Combined with other recent acquisitions, the Yahoo deal will allow Verizon to track consumers not only on the web, but also at their physical locations, said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a privacy advocacy group.

Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo's core digital advertising business, "when combined with the capability to gather information from its wireless devices, broadband networks, and set-top boxes, gives it control over the key screens that Americans use today," Chester said by email. 

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Tinder launches group dates feature

Tinder now allows groups of friends to meet up - a feature one expert says risks turning it into an "orgy app".

More misery for BT broadband users after new power cut

BT and Plusnet users were unable to access some websites again, after problems with the service yesterday.

Japan 'to stop making VCR machines'

The last videocassette recorder (VCR) in Japan is to be produced by the end of the month, according to the Nikkei newspaper.

Telcos should only retain metadata to fight serious crime, EU judge says

Governments may order telcos to retain customer data, but only to fight serious crime, a top European Union judge has advised.

Lobby groups European Digital Rights (EDRi) and Privacy International welcomed the recommendation, saying it adds to a growing body of legal opinion opposing mass data retention. It could even, said Privacy International, derail the U.K.'s Investigatory Powers Bill, introduced in March by Theresa May, then home secretary and now prime minister.

Advocate General Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe advised that a general obligation to retain data may be compatible with EU law, but cautioned that laws imposing such obligations should respect personal privacy and impose strict controls on access to the retained data, its security, and the period it is kept. Furthermore, such obligations can only be justified when strictly necessary in the fight against serious crime.

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R.I.P. VHS

VHS has come unspooled. It's been taped over. The screen has filled with static, then gone blank.

Pirate sites are 'affecting dance music in a bad way'

Pirate Download Stores imitate legal sites and fool people into thinking subscription fees are paid to the industry.

Children make 3D-printed boot for penguin and other news

BBC Click's Lara Lewington looks at some of the best of the week's technology news

Pokemon: Detective Pikachu live action movie confirmed

A live action Pokemon movie is to begin production in 2017, Legendary Entertainment has confirmed.

Desktop banking use falls, as users switch to apps

The use of internet banking on a computer has fallen for the first time, as users switch to mobile apps, according to the banking industry.

US man jailed over bitcoin fraud scheme

A Texan man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for running a fraudulent Ponzi-style scheme based around the Bitcoin virtual currency.

Pokemon Go finally launches in Japan

Nintendo's Pokemon Go is now available for players in Japan, the birthplace of the little monsters, says game developer Niantic Labs.

Snowden designs phone case to spot hack attacks

A smartphone case that tells its owner when their phone has been hacked is being designed by whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Players probe Elite game space mystery

Elite Dangerous gamers are working feverishly to decipher a puzzle uncovered by one player of the space simulation.

Windows 10 personal data collection is excessive, French privacy watchdog warns

Windows 10 breaches French law by collecting too much personal information from users and failing to secure it adequately, according to the French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL).

Some of the privacy failings identified can be remedied by users willing to delve deep into the Windows 10 settings, but one of the commission's gripes is that better privacy should be the default setting, not one users must fight for.

CNIL served Microsoft with a formal notice on June 30, giving it three months to comply with the law, but only made it public on Wednesday.

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Pokemon Go: Where might you catch 'em all in Japan?

Fans are still waiting for Pokemon Go to be launched in Japan, the birthplace of the phenomenon, so where might the monsters be hiding out?

Facebook's Aquila drone takes to the air

Facebook invites BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones into its drone-making factory to mark the first successful flight of one of its aircraft.

Nearly six million fraud and cyber crimes last year, ONS says

Almost six million fraud and cyber crimes were committed last year in England and Wales, new figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest.

What will stop Tumblr's tumble?

Three years have passed since Yahoo bought micro-blogging site Tumblr, but it is not the goldmine it once hoped.

File-sharing 'mastermind' arrested in Poland

US authorities have charged a Ukrainian man alleged to be the mastermind of the world's biggest online piracy website.

Cleric flags fatwa against Pokemon

A leading Saudi cleric has urged followers to shun Pokemon Go because of a fatwa against it.

France data authority criticises Windows 10 over privacy

Windows 10 gathers an "excessive" amount of personal data on users, the French data authority says in a formal notice about the operating system.

Mozilla to block Flash in Firefox browser

Mozilla is planning to end full support for Adobe's Flash software in its Firefox browser from next month.

Valve tackles Counter Strike gambling sites

Game maker Valve is threatening to shut down sites that use add-ons for its Counter Strike game to gamble.

Windows 10 personal data collection is excessive, French privacy watchdog warns

Windows 10 breaches French law by collecting too much personal information from users and failing to secure it adequately, according to the French National Data Protection Commission (CNIL).

Some of the privacy failings identified can be remedied by users willing to delve deep into the Windows 10 settings, but one of the commission's gripes is that better privacy should be the default setting, not one users must fight for.

CNIL served Microsoft with a formal notice on June 30, giving it three months to comply with the law, but only made it public on Wednesday.

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ARM: 'The jewel in the crown of British technology'

UK technology firm ARM Holdings is to be bought by Japan's Softbank for £24bn ($32bn) it confirmed on Monday.

Why fencing with a drone could make it smarter

The drones being taught to avoid moving obstacles in real-time

How F1 tech could help Ben Ainslie win the America's Cup

BBC News goes on board a high-speed catamaran with Sir Ben Ainslie and his team as they practise for the next leg of the America's Cup.

Melbourne students' 'sexualised' Instagram posts spark anger

Two students at an elite Melbourne school are suspended and police are investigating after an Instagram account giving sexual ratings to pupils sparks anger.

Train game parodies 'shambolic' railway

Web developers create an online game where players cancel Southern Rail trains and take profits from passengers.

Social media harms moral development, parents say

A majority of parents in the UK believe social media harms their children's moral development, a survey suggests.

How Pokemon Go took over the web

A dive into the data showing the popularity of the monster-hunting mobile game Pokemon Go.

Microsoft to miss 'one billion' Windows 10 target

Microsoft says it will miss a target of getting Windows 10 running on more than one billion devices by 2018.

What is ARM and why is it worth £24bn?

ARM's technology is at the heart of millions of smartphones and tablets - but the company's inventions are used wider still.

Use Tor? Riffle promises to protect your privacy even better

Privacy-minded people have long relied on Tor for anonymity online, but a new system from MIT promises better protection and faster performance.

Dubbed Riffle, the new system taps the same onion encryption technique after which Tor is named, but it adds two others as well. First is what's called a mixnet, a series of servers that each permute the order in which messages are received before passing them on to the next server.

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Inside a factory making robot waiters and waitresses

Meet the people making robot waiters and waitresses for restaurants in China

Social coup

How smartphones and social media played a pivotal role in Turkey's failed coup, and the plotters failed to realise the crucial role of modern communications.

Storage device writes information atom-by-atom

The quest for storage devices that pack ever more information into a small space has reached a new limit, with memory that writes information atom-by-atom.

Pokemon Go player calls 999 to report 'stolen Pokemon'

A Pokemon Go player calls 999 to report stolen Pokemon in Gloucestershire.

The investor said 'you don't look the part'

Justine Roberts, who founded Mumsnet, offers the business advice she wishes she had been given before she started out, for the BBC News series CEO Secrets.

Wimbledon: Tennis tournament's secret cyber security

BBC News gained exclusive access to the secrets of the tech experts protecting Wimbledon from cyber attacks.

Robot runs over toddler in shopping centre

A security guard robot runs over a 16-month-old child in a shopping centre in California.

Tesla Autopilot needs rethink urges US consumer group

US group Consumer Reports has called on Tesla to disable the automatic steering function in its electric cars.

Pokemon Go unleashed in the UK

Pokemon Go - a mobile game that has become a global phenomenon - is released in the UK.

Hacker gets two years in jail for celebrity 'swatting'

A US hacker who put the personal data of celebrities and officials online has been sentenced to two years in jail.

Pokemon Go: Sex offender caught playing game with child

A registered child sex offender is arrested after being caught playing Pokemon Go with a child outside a courthouse in the US state of Indiana.

UK robot cars to challenge Google and Tesla

A British firm develops autonomous car software that it hopes will be used by a variety of vehicle manufacturers.

German police target hate crime in co-ordinated raids

German police carry out raids on 60 addresses, targeting people suspected of posting hate content on social media.

What is Line?

You might not have heard of Line, but the Japanese equivalent of Whatsapp is set to go public. Here's what you need to know about the company.

Game changer

It's early days for Pokemon Go, but some believe the app marks a turning point in mobile video games.

Five of the most random Pokemon Go stories so far

Catch up with five Pokemon Go stories, including the husband who was playing while his partner was waiting to have a caesarean.

How do you react when you're online and an ad pops up?

Do you flick away from an online commercial, or do you watch? Well if you're in Asia, it's highly likely you'll watch - and for a long time.

Nintendo shares up more than 50% since Pokemon Go release

Shares in Japanese gaming firm Nintendo rise 16%, meaning they have increased more than 50% since the release of the hugely successful Pokemon Go game.

US sentences Chinese hacker for stealing military information

The US sentences a Chinese businessman to nearly four years in prison after he pleaded guilty to hacking sensitive military information.

Amazon tests personalised video ads

Amazon reveals it is developing personalised video ads that can be created on the fly to suit its shoppers' interest.

Google hit by fresh European Union anti-trust charges

The European Commission steps up pressure on Google, alleging that it abused its dominance in internet shopping and restricted competition.

Cheap ransomware takes files 'hostage'

Malware that gives victims 96 hours to pay a ransom before it starts deleting random files every six hours has been spotted on the dark web.

Sky's 4K line-up includes James Bond and Premier League

Sky reveals its initial line-up of 4K films, sports coverage and documentaries.

Microsoft's overseas privacy battle may be far from over

Privacy advocates, especially those outside the U.S., can rest a little easier now.  A federal court has rebuked the U.S. government’s attempt to access emails stored on a Microsoft server in Ireland.

But the legal battle may be far from over. Thursday’s ruling could affect how the U.S. conducts surveillance over suspected criminals and terrorists overseas, so expect the government to appeal, said Roy Hadley, a lawyer at Thompson Hine who studies cybersecurity issues.

“There’s a fine line between privacy and national security,” he said. “And it’s a difficult line to walk.”

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How to remove your email address from Windows 10's login screen

We’re just weeks away from the Anniversary Update for Windows 10, which includes all kinds of new features. But along with all the big stuff like better inking and a beefed up Cortana, there are also small touches that many people will appreciate.

Today we’re going to look at a new nice touch that controls what kind of information you display on the sign-in screen, specifically your email address.

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Empire strikes back

Technology that makes audiences feel like they are in the movie, rather than just watching it, is helping cinemas sell more tickets at higher prices.

How HoloLens is helping Nasa design the next Mars rover

Nasa has teamed up with Microsoft to help scientists collaborate on Mars research

Safety concerns as Pokemon Go is released in the UK

Safety concerns as Pokemon Go, a mobile game that has become a global phenomenon, is released in the UK.

Why Pokemon Go is a taste of the future

Millions of people are playing Pokemon Go - a mobile game that blends the real world with computer graphics.

Robotic furniture moves to suit your needs and other news

BBC Click's Lara Lewington looks at some of the best of the week's technology news.

Pokemon: From Game Boy to augmented reality

A look at the first time that Pokemon became a craze in the 1990s.

US senator wants guns and ammunition banned from sale on Facebook and Instagram

A senior American politician writes an open letter to Facebook and Instagram asking them to stop the sale of guns and ammunition.

The DIY diabetes kit that's keeping us alive

Meet the growing number of type 1 diabetics who are building their own unapproved, open source monitoring systems.

A surge of Pokemon Go-related apps is out to steal your data

Privacy fears about the Pokemon Go app have been largely addressed, but dozens of other apps that piggy back on the popular game have raised further concerns.

Since the game launched last week, a swarm of unofficial apps has emerged and is trying to capitalize on the title’s success. And many are hungry for your personal data.

These unofficial apps have been offering cheats, tips and even songs from the hit game. But in exchange, they demand permission to access sensitive data on your phone, said Chad Salisbury, a security engineer with RiskIQ, which monitors mobile malware.

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Microsoft wins appeal over U.S. government access to emails held overseas

A U.S. appeals court has quashed a search warrant that would have required Microsoft to disclose contents of emails stored on a server in Ireland, in a case that has broad ramifications for privacy, diplomatic relations and the ability of American companies to sell web services abroad.

“We think Microsoft has the better of the argument,” said Circuit Court Judge Sarah Carney, in an opinion written for a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York.

The panel based its judgment on the 30-year-old U.S. Stored Communications Act. The act, Carney wrote, “does not authorize courts to issue and enforce against U.S.‐based service providers warrants for the seizure of customer e‐mail content that is stored exclusively on foreign servers.” The opinion was posted Thursday.

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Pokémon Go update for iOS now available, clarifies access to Google data

If you have Pokémon Go fever, but you’re concerned about the controversy surrounding the app and access to your Google data, you’ll want to install the Pokémon Go update. (Research has shown that the risk was real.) Even if you didn’t use Google to sign into the game, you’ll want the update, since it has bug fixes.

The 1.0.1 update is now available in the App Store. Before you perform the update, sign out of the game. You can do this in Pokémon Go by going into the app settings and tapping Sign Out at the bottom of the screen. (If you don’t sign out before updating the app, that’s OK. You’ll need to do so when you launch the update.)

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US Senator Al Franken has privacy concerns about Pokémon Go’s data collection

The popularity of augmented reality smartphone game Pokémon Go has raised a variety of concerns, including a warning by the National Safety Council, urging drivers not to play the game behind the wheel and asking pedestrians to be careful while playing it.

U.S. Senator Al Franken, a strong privacy advocate, has raised the inevitable question about the privacy of the extensive data the game collects from its users, including children, and whether the data is used for other purposes.

“I am concerned about the extent to which Niantic may be unnecessarily collecting, using, and sharing a wide range of users’ personal information without their appropriate consent,” Franken, a Democrat from Minnesota, wrote in a letter Tuesday to John Hanke, the CEO of Niantic, the developer of the game.

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Goodbye, firstborn children: This study shows how wordy terms of service hurt users

It’s no secret that few people pay much attention to reading and understanding all the terms of service and privacy policies you come across online. Now a new study shows just how ridiculous and anti-consumer the lengthy agreements really are.

The new paper, titled “The Biggest Lie on the Internet,” created a fake social networking site with suggestive and outrageous clauses in its Terms of Service (ToS). But surprise! Nearly everyone joined anyway, as first reported by Ars Technica.

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US Holocaust museum asks Pokemon Go players to stop

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington requests visitors to refrain from trying to "catch" Pokemon on their phones.

GTA 5 Pride modification aims 'to honour' Orlando attack victims

A group of fans have made a free, unofficial modification which sees an Pride parade making its way through Los Santos.

Google piracy report criticised by music industry

Google's publication of a report outlining its efforts to tackle piracy is criticised by music industry chiefs.

Pokemon Go: Pikachu pops up on Downing Street

The BBC's Adam Fleming catches a popular Pokemon while waiting for the new Prime Minister on Downing Street.

Privacy row over FBI iris scan 'trial'

The FBI has collected 430,000 iris scans in the past three years, leading privacy campaigners to question the project.

Tesla says autopilot involved in second car crash

Tesla admits its autopilot feature was activated when one of its cars crashed on Sunday.

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Privacy Shield transatlantic data sharing agreement enters effect

After months of uncertainty, businesses will once again have a simple, legal way to export the personal information of European Union citizens to the U.S. for processing from Aug. 1.

Privacy Shield, the replacement for the defunct Safe Harbor Agreement, ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the EU to self-certified organisations in the U.S., the European Commission ruled Tuesday morning. It plans to notify the governments of the EU's 28 member states of its adequacy decision later in the day, at which point Privacy Shield will enter effect, although it will still be a few more weeks before companies can register their compliance with it.

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Pikachu's back

Did a player really find a dead body? Why is Pikachu a thing again? What even is this Pokemon Go?

The sound of me

As global banking giant Citi begins to roll out voice biometrics to 15 million Asian customers, we look at the pros and cons of this form of security.

Farnborough Airshow: Keeping drones safe from harm

How to protect technology such as drones from cyberattacks is one of the big issues at the Farnborough Airshow.

Pokemon Go players take to the streets

A new mobile game that lets players catch Pokemon as they roam the streets has become a phenomenon.

'Dalek' commands can hijack smartphones

Researchers demonstrate how garbled speech commands hidden in radio or video broadcasts could be used to control a smartphone.

Warner Bros paid YouTubers thousands to promote games

PewDiePie and other YouTubers took money from Warner Bros for positive game reviews

'I came out of retirement to work in digital world'

The death of a much-loved pet inspired one woman to find her dream job with an internet start-up company.

Messaging app Line set to raise up to $1.3bn in IPO

Japanese messaging app Line is set to raise up to $1.3bn when it lists its shares in New York and Tokyo later this week.

Bitcoin rewards halve for virtual cash money miners

The financial rewards for people who help to verify who does what with their bitcoins have been halved.

Kim Dotcom plans 2017 relaunch of Megaupload

Net entrepreneur Kim Dotcom plans to relaunch the Megaupload web storage system in January 2017.

Microsoft scraps Finland phone unit

Microsoft confirms it will close its mobile phone unit in Finland, cutting 1,350 jobs.

Tesla stock rises after Elon Musk's masterplan tweet

Tesla's stock rises after its chief executive Elon Musk hints he will soon reveal a new masterplan for the car-maker.

Telecoms companies unite to sign 5G manifesto

The telecoms industry signs a 5G manifesto calling for a "positive stance on innovation".

Amazon to create 1,000 UK jobs

Amazon says it is creating 1,000 new jobs in the UK and that Brexit has not caused a dip in sales yet.

Criminals winning 'cyber arms race' - National Crime Agency

Businesses and law enforcement agencies are losing the "cyber arms race" with online criminals, the UK's National Crime Agency warns.

Technology push to get girls educated

The UK's Department for International Development has announced funding for a range of tech projects to get poor girls educated

Bitcoins used in child sex abuse deals targeted

Bitcoins used to buy images of child sex abuse could soon be tracked and blocked as two companies share intelligence on how virtual cash is spent.

Huge home-built computer used for Tetris

A man has finished building an enormous computer in the sitting room of his bungalow in Cambridge.

Google's DeepMind to peek at NHS eye scans for disease analysis

One million anonymised eye scans from Moorfields Eye Hospital are to be used to train an artificial intelligence system from Google.

YouTube gamers caught in gambling row

Two YouTube gamers are criticised for promoting a betting website to their viewers, without clearly disclosing that they operate it.

DJI drones gain geo-fencing safety feature opt-out

DJI has updated its app to allow drone owners to fly its aircraft into restricted areas they were previously prevented from entering.

Work begins on Eric robot resurrection

Work begins to resurrect Eric - the UK's first humanoid robot - who was first built in 1928.

Pokemon Go release 'paused' in UK

Pokemon fans get frustrated by a delay to the release of Pokemon Go in the UK

EU prepares to raise Privacy Shield over data transfers to U.S.

European Union officials are set to give final approval to a new EU-U.S. data transfer agreement early next week, after member states gave their approval to an updated text on Friday.

Privacy Shield is intended to replace the Safe Harbor Agreement as a means to legalize the transfer of EU citizens' personal information to the U.S. while still respecting EU privacy laws.

A new deal is needed because the Court of Justice of the EU invalidated the Safe Harbor Agreement last October, concerned that it provided Europeans with insufficient protection from state surveillance when companies exported their personal data to the U.S. for processing.

The first draft of Privacy Shield agreement presented by the European Commission in January lacked key assurances from U.S. officials on the same matters that had concerned the CJEU about Safe Harbor.

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Facebook brings end-to-end encryption to Messenger with ‘secret conversations’

Facebook’s following the encrypted messaging trend set by other apps including Facebook-owned WhatsApp, Viber, and Google’s Allo. On Friday, the social network announced a limited beta version of Messenger for Android and iOS with an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature dubbed secret conversations.

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Medi Teddy

The healthcare technology sector is attracting a lot of innovative entrepreneurs to develop a range of diagnostic tools.

Man v Machine: A face recognition battle

An artificial intelligence machine called Mark took on a human being. But who won?

The hamster-powered drawing machine and other tech news

BBC Click's Lara Lewington looks at some of the best of the week's technology news

AI experiments roam Minecraft's lands

Minecraft gains a tool that lets artificial intelligence experiments be carried out in its virtual worlds.

Marvel's new Iron Man is 15-year-old black girl

The character who will replace Tony Stark as Iron Man in a new episode of the comic has been revealed - and it is a 15-year-old black teenager.

Snapchat Memories update will allow you to use old photos and videos

A new Snapchat update will allow users to save photos and videos and upload them at a later date.

UK's first robot college to teach future tech workers

The Japanese robot Pepper's latest assignment is in the classroom to teach future tech industry workers.

A brief history of the mobile phone

BBC Rewind takes a brief look at the history of the mobile phone.

Meals on wheels: Could a robot soon deliver your takeaway?

Could a robot soon be delivering your meals and groceries?

'Cheapest smartphone' Freedom 251 ready to deliver

Indian technology firm Ringing Bells has announced that the first 5,000 units of the "world's cheapest smartphone" are ready to deliver.

Green light for pink pregnant seat alert

Following a successful trial, the city of Busan in South Korea is now planning to introduce a system to help pregnant train and bus passengers.

Privacy Shield data pact gets European approval

A revised pact governing how data is handled as it flows between Europe and the US has been approved by EU governments.

Malware hits millions of Android phones

Up to 10 million Android smartphones have been infected by malware that generates fake clicks for adverts, say security researchers.

Facebook tests 'secret message' service

Messages that disappear are being trialled by Facebook as it experiments with a new option for those using its Messenger app.

Can Apple block my iPhone camera?

Apple might be developing technology to remotely block your iPhone camera at concerts. But could this technology be used for evil purposes?

Fearing surveillance, man allegedly shot at Google and set self-driving car ablaze

A man who told police he feared surveillance by Google has been arrested and charged with arson after one of the company's self-driving cars was destroyed in an attack in June.

Raul Murillo Diaz of Oakland was stopped by police after Google security spotted him driving around the company's headquarters campus in Mountain View, California, just after midnight on June 30. They became suspicious because his car matched that spotted at the scene of several attacks on the company over the preceding six weeks.

The first, on May 19, saw several Molotov cocktails thrown at a Google Street View vehicle that was parked in a company lot in Mountain View. The resulting fire didn't damage the car because the bottles bounced off it, but the ground nearby was burnt.

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Court decision raises issues about sharing passwords

An appeals court has ruled that a former employee of a company, whose computer access credentials were revoked, had acted “without authorization” in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, when he and other former employees used the login credentials of a current employee to gain access to data on the employer’s computers.

The opinion of the court is likely to be controversial as it is expected to have implications on commonplace sharing of passwords by husbands, co-workers and friends even for innocuous purposes.

One of the three judges, Stephen Reinhardt, for example, dissented from the majority opinion, stating that “people frequently share their passwords, notwithstanding the fact that websites and employers have policies prohibiting it.”

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How to tell if your Android phone has spyware

A reader whom I won’t name worries that his cousin watches what he does on his Android phone. The cousin actually told him so.

It’s possible that your cousin is just messing with your head. Ask for proof—such as texts you’ve sent and received.

On the other hand, they may actually be spying on your phone. There are a surprising number of Android apps that can do just that.

[Have a tech question? As Answer Line transitions from Lincoln Spector to Josh Norem, you can still send your query to answer@pcworld.com.]

But first, let me clarify one thing: No one is tracking you via your phone’s IP address. Take your phone on a morning jog, and its IP address  will change three or four times before you get home.

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Google teams with UK eye hospital on AI disease diagnosis

Google's DeepMind AI business unit is hoping to teach computers to diagnose eye disease, using patient data from a U.K. hospital.

Using deep learning techniques, DeepMind hopes to improve diagnosis of two eye conditions: age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, both of which can lead to sight loss. If these conditions are detected early enough, patients' sight can be saved.

One way doctors look for signs of these diseases is by examining the interior of the eye, opposite the lens, an area called the fundus. They can do this either directly, with an ophthalmoscope, or by taking a digital fundus scan. Another diagnostic technique is to take a non-invasive three-dimensional scan of the retina using process called optical coherence tomography (OCT).

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Fearing surveillance, man allegedly shot at Google and set self-driving car ablaze

A man who told police he feared surveillance by Google has been arrested and charged with arson after one of the company's self-driving cars was destroyed in an attack in June.

Raul Murillo Diaz of Oakland was stopped by police after Google security spotted him driving around the company's headquarters campus in Mountain View, California, just after midnight on June 30. They became suspicious because his car matched that spotted at the scene of several attacks on the company over the preceding six weeks.

The first, on May 19, saw several Molotov cocktails thrown at a Google Street View vehicle that was parked in a company lot in Mountain View. The resulting fire didn't damage the car because the bottles bounced off it, but the ground nearby was burnt.

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