Facebook and Microsoft to build private internet highway underwater
Projects to install undersea cables from US to Spain would ensure fast enough connectivity for tech companies’ virtual reality and live video services
Trace the face: how tech has changed the way we find missing people
From a website calling itself the ‘Google for refugees’ to Facebook, the way we reunite families separated by conflict, disasters or migration has been transformed
Research reveals huge scale of social media misogyny
Labour’s Yvette Cooper is at forefront of cross-party campaign aiming to tackle the growing menace of online abuse
‘Make Google and Facebook pay levy to support journalism’ – academic
Think tank calls for profit-making new media giants to fund ‘endangered’ investigative, long-form and local journalism in Britain
The death of a friend is always hard. What if you find out on Facebook?
There’s no clear etiquette for digital mourning, but it’s something we’re faced with increasingly often. Here’s how I navigate grief in the age of social media
Facebook to change trending topics after investigation into bias claims
Internal report finds ‘virtually identical’ rates of conservative and liberal topics, but guidelines updated to ‘exclude possibility of improper actions’
Too fat for Facebook: photo banned for depicting body in ‘undesirable manner’
Facebook has apologized for wrongly banning a photo of plus-sized model Tess Holliday for violating the its ‘health and fitness’ advertising policy
Inside Facebook and friends: a rare tour around tech’s mind-boggling HQs
Facebook has wifi-enabled wildflower meadows, LinkedIn an inhouse pastry chef, and Samsung tai chi in the cactus garden. But they’ll all be left behind by Amazon’s jungle biospheres. Take our tour of the tech campuses of Silicon Valley
Coming to a screen near you… the 20 best new social apps
There are plenty of great social apps jostling to be the next smartphone hit. Here are some of the contenders
Facebook execs, conservatives address ‘issue of trust’ with trending topics
Conservative commentators had a wide-ranging discussion with Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook’s headquarters after accusations of political bias
Google Assistant takes on Amazon and Apple to be the ultimate digital butler
Alphabet’s flagship company unveiled smart speaker Google Home, which it says will let people turn on their lights and surf the web, among other things
The miracle of live: man uses Facebook Live to stream his child’s birth
Fakamalo Kihe Eiki defended himself from internet backlash, saying ‘The gift of life … is so bad to share … wow … such a world we live in … shame’
I worked on Facebook’s Trending team – the most toxic work experience of my life
A former contractor says that while the social media company did not impose political bias upon news ‘curators’, she and other employees were subject to poor management, intimidation and sexism that left them feeling voiceless
I can explain porn sites on my screenshot, says politician – really, I can
US congressional candidate Mike Webb offers supporters 2,000-word justification for video tabs visible in his Facebook post
Connecting everyone to internet ‘would add $6.7tn to global economy’
Report says getting 4.1 billion more people online would lift 500 million out of poverty over five years