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Facebook and Google are fined 50,000 Brazilian real (£10,000) for ignoring a ban on the dissemination of "degrading images" in Brazil.

Disney makes a UK-based fancy-dress retailer surrender starwars.co.uk and six other web addresses related to its sci-fi film franchise.

IBM says it has overcome technical hurdles threatening to delay the manufacture of silicon chips with the smallest components so far.

The development is approved of a completely novel type of telecommunications satellite, which will be built in the UK.

London Zoo is currently trialling miniature technology that can track birds

What drives the upstart car pick-up firm?

A Doncaster man is charged for naming a victim of a sexual offence on South Yorkshire Police's Facebook page.

Trading on the New York Stock Exchange restarts after being suspended for almost four hours due to a technical fault.

The New York Stock Exchange has suspended trading on all shares for technical reasons, but says there is no cyber attack.

Time Warner Cable is ordered to pay a woman almost $230,000 after a judge rules it harassed her with automated calls.

The Facebook designer who changed the friends icon explains her fight to put a woman at the forefront.

The dating app says it will mean if a celeb comes up "you'll know it's for real."

Microsoft cuts 7,800 jobs and takes a $7.6bn writedown as it reorganises its mobile phone unit following last year's purchase of Nokia's business.

A computing fault forces United Airlines to ground its flights for two hours, its second major IT glitch in two months.

A news site start-up is struggling to make the most of a backlash against the leadership of its larger rival Reddit.

A 17-year old hacker is punished for hijacking thousands of emails, disrupting websites, and stealing credit card details, but avoids a jail sentence.

Adobe is working to fix a security hole in its Flash Player that was made public after data was stolen from an online surveillance company.

Radical changes should be made to 999 call services in the UK to allow people to send text messages in an emergency, a report says.

The FBI makes a public appeal to help identify more than 240 victims of a man who used the internet to extort pornographic images from teenage girls.

The never-ending quest to charge our phones