Liv McMahonTechnology reporter and Graham FraserTechnology reporter Watch: Trump signs executive order approving US-China TikTok deal President Donald Trump says a deal to find a new owner for social media app TikTok in the United States is done and that it has the blessing of China’s President Xi Jinping. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive […]

Microsoft has cut off some services to a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defence after an investigation found its technology had been used to conduct mass surveillance on people in Gaza. Brad Smith, president of the company, said using the firm’s technology to conduct mass surveillance on civilians was a violation of its standard terms […]

Getty Images Social media giants have also found themselves penalised in China’s campaign to clean up its internet The Chinese government is taking aim at an emotion that has become all too common on the country’s internet – despondency. This week, China’s Cyberspace Administration launched a two-month campaign to curb social media posts that “excessively […]

Zoe CorbynTechnology Reporter, San Francisco Getty Images E. coli has been used in many discoveries in genetics and molecular biology Earlier this year an extraordinary new way of using waste plastic made headlines. A common bacterium was genetically engineered to eat a plastic-derived molecule and then digest it to produce the everyday painkiller, paracetamol. The […]

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order, approving a proposal that would allow TikTok to continue operating in the US under American ownership. But details of the deal have not been confirmed by China, or the app’s Chinese owner ByteDance. The BBC’s Suranjana Tewari explains everything we know so far about how the deal […]

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is launching paid subscriptions for users who do not want to see adverts in the UK. The company said it would start notifying users in the coming weeks to let them choose whether to subscribe to its platforms if they wish to use them without seeing ads. EU users of […]

Joe TidyCyber correspondent, BBC World Service Getty Images Hackers holding pictures and private data of thousands of nursery children and their families to ransom say they will publish more information online unless they are paid. Criminals calling themselves Radiant hacked the Kido nursery chain and posted profiles of 10 children online on Thursday and a […]

Marco Silva unpacks the science and technology of cloud seeding.

Joe TidyCyber correspondent, BBC World Service BBC Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy was offered a deal by criminals to help hack the BBC Like many things in the shadowy world of cyber-crime, an insider threat is something very few people have experience of. Even fewer people want to talk about it. But I was given a […]

Abu Bakar YasinBBC Newsbeat Sony Pictures “Demon Slayer is a pop culture phenomenon,” says voice actor Zach Aguilar The lead voice actor in global box office smash Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle says he’s been “blown away” by the anime film’s success. Based on a 2016 manga series, the film is the first […]