This is the most glaring and under-appreciated fact of internet-age capitalism: We are, all of us, in inescapable thrall to the handful of American companies that now dominate much of the global economy.
A tweet from a teenager asking US fast food chain Wendy's for a year's supply of free chicken nuggets has become the most retweeted ever.
Apple has gone to space to find additional talent for its augmented reality efforts. The iPhone maker has hired Jeff Norris, a specialist in the new technology from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to help build future products, according to people familiar with the matter.
With the rise of clickbait and fake news, the outrageous and controversial benefit at the expense of the sane.
A city with no cars on the street looms as a possible future for Singapore, according to its latest tech billionaire.
First fact-checking came to Facebook. Now it's coming to Google.
Facebook is taking new steps to crack down on its network's "revenge porn" problem, including a new process that prevents users from reposting intimate images shared without the subject's consent.
This is the social media equivalent of the methadone program
A little under five years ago, I got angry about a piece of fake information, and I decided to do something about it. But now it's come back to haunt me.
A Syrian refugee whose image showed up in fake news reports linking him to terrorism lost a closely watched case in Germany that sought to prevent Facebook from allowing users to repost the picture.
It's finally possible to filter out accounts with the default profile picture, so that they don't appear in your notifications.
The company has publicly released an artificial intelligence tool, called Perspective, that scans online content and rates how "toxic" it is based on ratings by thousands of people.
Walt Disney has cut ties with Felix Kjellberg, the YouTube star known as PewDiePie, after he posted videos with anti-Semitic content on his channel.
At once deadly earnest and utterly comical, Werner Herzog has turned his unique and unflinching gaze upon the internet in his latest documentary.
For those of us who spend a lot of time on the internet, there will be the occasional urge to simply disappear - delete your accounts, roll back your Google results and become invisible. Is it possible to completely disappear?
Thousands flocked to Sydney last weekend to play games and finally meet people they've known on the internet for years.
Twitter knows it has a problem with online abuse, and now it's announced three more changes to help users deal with it.
How America's most prolific tweeters send conservative political messages constantly, even when they're sleeping.
Young people on Facebook and Instagram might be the stereotype but, when it comes to social media, Generation X can't look away.
How can Twitter seriously claim to want to clean up its act when it makes so much money from online abusers?
After a 12-year-old US girl's death was broadcast on social media, police could do little to keep the disturbing footage from spreading online.
Facebook has announced that it's launching its own journalism project, continuing its efforts to change the way media organisations work with the social network. The move could be seen as an extension of its vow earlier this year to crack down on fake news on the site.
Though its decline has been a long time coming, 2016 was the year that the iconic Internet Explorer ceased to be the most popular way to browse the web on desktops.
It's no secret that teenagers love social media, but how much do they understand what they've agreed to give up when they start an account?
Mark Zuckerberg has revealed his annual personal challenge: he wants to have visited and met people in every US state by the end of 2017, in an effort to better understand the "division" he feels is growing between people that use the social network he founded.
Sony Music Entertainment's Twitter account has been hacked, publishing fake statements that pop music icon Britney Spears had died.
It turns out we tend to google a lot of things. A lot of those things tend to be sports related.
The search giant has been forced to make changes after a glitch in its results was exposed.
Donald Trump, asylum seekers, local music and #auspol were all chief topics of interest among Australian Twitter users in 2016, although as usual they were joined by a wave of memes and a near-incomprehensible amount of love for YouTube celebs turned rock band 5 Seconds of Summer.
Facebook is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content.
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