Silicon Valley feigns benevolence with self-serving benefits packages
Amazon’s parental leave policy is the latest in tech company trend of ostensibly generous perks meant to retain hard workers rather than give them a real break
Facebook now averages over one billion users a day
The social media site also made more money in mobile advertising alone than the entire business did the previous year, according to quarterly results
Facebook criticised for ‘worrying lack of transparency’ over climate change
Almost quarter of world’s largest listed companies have set targets for reducing their climate emissions
Oculus VR: ‘Classrooms are broken. Kids don’t learn the best by reading books’
Palmer Luckey thinks virtual reality can bring ‘real-world experience’ to more children – and become ‘more ubiquitous than the smartphone’
World’s biggest tech companies get failing grade on data-privacy rights
Firms such as Google and Facebook didn’t offer users basic disclosures about privacy and censorship. ‘The best-scoring company got a D,’ says thinktank
Candy Crush(ed): Zuckerberg pledges to halt Facebook game invitations
Speaking at a question and answer session in India, Facebook founder says he will find a solution to the problem of annoying game notifications
Obfuscation: how leaving a trail of confusion can beat online surveillance
The art of obfuscation has a grand history, from ‘I’m Spartacus!’ to ghost radar in WWII. Could the same blurred approach give us more freedom online?
Facebook photos could be taken for use in national biometric database – officials
The projected national counter-terrorism database could include photos pulled from social media sites, government officials have told Senate estimates
Max Schrems Facebook privacy complaint to be investigated in Ireland
Audit by Irish data protection watchdog over alleged transfer of European data to US by Facebook follows three-year campaign and ECJ ruling
What do writers owe readers in the digital age?
Joanne Harris has proposed new rules for authors and audiences’ interactions, but creators including Colm Tóibín and AL Kennedy think their only obligation is to words
Newspapers face up to the ad crunch in print and digital
As the top ten print advertisers strip their budgets, digital ad growth is hit by slowdown
Sherry Turkle: ‘I am not anti-technology, I am pro-conversation’
In the social media age, we know how to connect: but are we forgetting how to talk to each other? Leading psychologist Sherry Turkle wants to fight back
Tech giants warn cybersecurity bill could undermine users’ privacy
Facebook, Google and Yahoo argue Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act under Senate review could cause ‘collateral damage’ to ‘innocent third parties’
On Ada Lovelace Day, here are seven other pioneering women in tech
Celebrating the Victorian thought to be the first computer programmer, a look at other female innovators – from gamers to coders to Hollywood stars
USA Today’s Facebook-inspired use of emojis gets thumbs down
Print front page using cartoon symbols to show whether stories were happy or sad news criticised on Twitter and elsewhere