Facebook Watch takes on YouTube and TV with revamped video offering
The new feature, Watch, lets users discover videos from outside their feed more easily, and will also dabble in original content
Segregated Valley: the ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech
Silicon Valley says it is committed to racial diversity in its workforce. But the numbers tell a different story
Surveillance used to be a bad thing. Now, we happily let our employers spy on us
Web giants have trained us to think it’s normal for our bosses to implant us and harvest our data, writes André Spicer, a professor of organisational behaviour
13 things Apple should automate after driverless cars
Tim Cook has called autonomous systems ‘the mother of all AI projects’. So here are the things we’d most like done for us by robots
UK urges tech giants to do more to prevent spread of extremism
Amber Rudd will tell forum including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube that they share responsibility for tackling terrorism
Facebook ‘dark ads’ can swing political opinions, research shows
Ads targeted using profiles generated from individual voters’ stated interests are more successful in shifting attitudes according to Online Privacy Foundation
How Facebook groups bring people closer together – neo-Nazis included
Mark Zuckerberg’s new mission is to ‘bring the world closer together’. But Facebook groups can unite extremists as easily as they serve hobbyists
Sheryl Sandberg calls for policy changes to raise women’s pay
Facebook COO says equal numbers of men and women should apply for jobs and run for political positions to address gender gap
Going back to Facebook after four years is a sad and scary experience
You can’t beat the site’s global reach, but the dullness of the news feed is something that’s easy to leave behind
Killer robots? Musk and Zuckerberg escalate row over dangers of AI
Musk described the Facebook CEO’s knowledge of the field as ‘limited’ after Zuckerberg publicly dismissed AI doomsday warnings as ‘irresponsible’
Facebook worker living in garage to Zuckerberg: challenges are right outside your door
As the Facebook CEO travels across the US to ‘learn about people’s hopes and challenges’, the cafeteria workers at his company struggle to make ends meet
Global network of ‘hunters’ aim to take down terrorists on the internet
Group of volunteers obsessively tracks and reports Isis’s most prominent recruiters and propagandists, and tries to block the spread of their propaganda
Facebook users vexed by sound on autoplaying videos – here’s how to stop it
Social media company widens rollout of new feature that automatically plays videos with sound in the News Feed after ‘positive feedback’
‘It’s all sextortion and revenge porn’: the woman fighting cyber abuse in Pakistan
With women in Pakistan suffering increasingly lurid and dangerous forms of online harassment, Nighat Dad is leading the battle to make cyberspace safer
Genius or hubris? Why turning down Facebook may be Snapchat’s big mistake
Turning down a $3bn offer made Snapchat famous for its bold vision. But now Facebook is catching up, leading some to predict a ‘long and painful death’