Internet

Google on Thursday appealed an EU court decision to uphold the bloc's 2.4-billion-euro ($2.8-billion) fine for abusing its search engine dominance.... Read more

A Paris court on Thursday ruled that Twitter must reveal its measures for fighting hate speech, in one of several cases thrashing out whether the French justice system has jurisdiction over the US social media giant.... Read more

You may think the metaverse will be a bunch of interconnected virtual spaces—the world wide web but accessed through virtual reality. This is largely correct, but there is also a fundamental but slightly more cryptic side to the metaverse that will set it apart from today's internet: the blockchain.... Read more

Nigeria lifted a seven-month ban on Twitter Inc. in the West African country, after the social network agreed to various conditions.... Read more

A cyberattack left a number of Ukrainian government websites temporarily unavailable Friday, officials said.... Read more

There's a new name in Chicago cable.... Read more

Comedian Robin Williams once called cocaine "God's way of telling you you are making too much money." This role may now have been overtaken by non-fungible tokens, the blockchain-based means to claim unique ownership of easily copied digital assets.... Read more

Online platforms that are precursors of the metaverse vision for the internet's future are already serving as workrooms to develop products destined for real-life sale.... Read more

A team of security researchers at Avanan is reporting that hackers are taking advantage of a Google Docs security vulnerability—one that takes advantage of a comment feature. They are claiming that they saw hackers using the vulnerability to target 500 inboxes of 30 Outlook users involving over 100 individual email... Read more

Former US president Donald Trump's media group is aiming to launch its long-promised social network in February, according to a listing at Apple's App Store.... Read more

While cybercrime gets a lot of attention from law enforcement and the media these days, I've been documenting a less high-tech threat emerging in recent months: a surge in stolen checks.... Read more

Get ready for TikTok on TV—everywhere.... Read more

Orlando restaurateur Robert Earl plans to offer eateries a chance to serve a delivery-only menu based on trends from the popular short video app TikTok in 2022, just the latest twist in the growing virtual restaurant trend.... Read more

At the end of 2020, it seemed hard to imagine a worse year for misinformation on social media, given the intensity of the presidential election and the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. But 2021 proved up to the task, starting with the Jan. 6 insurrection and continuing with copious amounts... Read more

The dramatic changes in technology over the past 20 or so years, from the internet to the smartphone and digital assistants like Alexa, have made communication more accessible than ever before. We have created an online world where we post, share, comment, express views and seek information as well as... Read more