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Prevent adults from direct messaging children, Ofcom tells social media firms

A Bitcoin symbol is presented on an LED screen during the closing ceremony of a congress for cryptocurrency investors in El Salvador

El Salvador to build cryptocurrency-fuelled Bitcoin City

End-to-end encryption has sparked fears of threatening children’s safety online (Peter Byrne/PA)

Facebook owner says encryption of all messaging services not until 2023

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Electric vehicle charging points: What are they and how do they work?

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Italian competition watchdog fines Apple and Amazon £170m

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Mobile Phone Museum launches online

Art consultant Alexander Pirinoli conducts a virtual tour of exhibits offered as Non-Fungible Tokens

NFT, pingdemic and neopronoun named among top 10 words of 2021

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Lush to close social media accounts over platform safety concerns

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Should you buy… The Google Pixel 6 Pro?

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Plans to curb online abuse from anonymous accounts to be raised in Parliament

Nasa spacecraft will crash into asteroid to test defence technology

Dart spacecraft blasts off on mission to knock asteroid off course

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Online safety a game of whack-a-mole with ‘too many moles to whack’ – Ofcom boss

Around six million Sky broadband customers were exposed to a security hack.

Six million Sky broadband customers exposed to flaw that could let hackers steal bank info

Thousands of frustrated users are unable to access their emails and the video streaming service

Gmail, Google and YouTube outage leaves thousands of users unable to access services

Facebook's company name will be Meta following a rebranding exercise

Facebook changes company name to Meta as part of major rebrand

The former president launched his app to compete with tech giants such as Facebook and Twitter.

Donald Trump launches 'Truth' social media platform after exile from Twitter and Facebook

It is the second outage in a week

Facebook, Instagram and Messenger down for second time in a week

The source code of Twitch was posted online

Twitch data breach: What you need to know