Silicon Valley assures us that we can stay plugged-in for as long as want, then disconnect for a while and everything will be fine. But Nic Healey thinks when tech companies advocate for digital detoxing, it’s ironic at best and complicit at worst.
Online daters continue to express outrage about the revelation that OkCupid has been experimenting on users by telling them they matched well with people they had nothing in common with. But perhaps the real revelation is that even bad matches could come together as happily as good matches.
Twitter, championed as a tool of free expression during the Arab Spring, faces censorship charges after announcing it can now block tweets on a country-by-country basis if legally required to do so.
Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition system and deleting a billion faceprints, in response to serious concerns over privacy at the scandal-hit social media network.
A new age of environmental protest is dawning in China as the 'lao baixing', or ordinary people, gain a voice with the help of social media, writes Monica Tan.
With communications in Haiti ravaged by an earthquake, tech-savvy residents turned to Twitter to send pictures and news of the destruction while others used the Web service to mobilize appeals for aid.
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The 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, will be held at a time when many parts of the eurozone struggle with recession, writes Ricardo Goncalves.
Google's new digital assistant, which uses human voices, has sparked an ethical debate about how the technology could be used.
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