Searches of travellers’ laptops and mobile phones at the US border have nearly quadrupled since 2015, digital rights groups have claimed in a federal lawsuit. The searches are often warrantless…

  Efforts to recover millions in crypto-cash from the digital wallets of a man who died without revealing passwords to access them have hit a snag. The wallets have been…

The monitors, which often take the form of sensors fitted to clothing or nappies, measure signs such as heart rate and breathing during sleep. The data is shared with a…

The Mate 9 handsets are among the first to be powered by Android 7 and come in two designs: a model with a 1080p “full HD” display, and a Porsche-branded…

This year’s E3 could prove to be a turning point – not just for gaming, but for the event itself. Traditionally a place for studios to show off what they…

Half of all misogynistic tweets posted on Twitter come from women, a study suggests. Over a three-week period, think tank Demos counted the number of uses of two particular words…

Sun Microsystems was a Silicon Valley giant.  Founded in the 80s, the company sold hardware and software to thousands of companies, and during the dot.com boom it was bringing in…

Hackers managed to steal $80m (£56m) from Bangladesh’s central bank because it skimped on network hardware and security software, reports Reuters. The bank had no firewall and used second-hand routers…

Microsoft has said it is to stop manufacturing the XBox 360 games console, 10 years after it launched. In a blog post, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said gamers had completed…

In 2013, Google – one of the world’s pre-eminent tech companies – was hacked. It wasn’t its search engine that was attacked or its advertising platform or even its social…