Facebook may face multiple government investigations — and trillions of dollars in fines — over revelations that it didn’t do enough to protect user data used by the Trump campaign to target voters in 2016, according to a report. Mark Zuckerberg’s social network may have violated a 2011 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission …

The bug, which was flagged by Check Point Research, means that hackers could easily access your account, without even needing a password. A worrying new bug has been discovered in the Mac version of the Google Chrome Remote Desktop application. The bug, which was flagged by Check Point Research , means that hackers could easily …

Hollywood stars can now be digitally recreated so convincingly, that actors are reportedly specifying in their wills what they’ll permit their images to do — long after their death. “We can recreate dead actors,” Mike McGee, co-founder of the special effects company Framestore, told The Daily Telegraph. “Actors alive now are already selling their image …

WhatsApp has agreed to stop sharing data with Facebook following an ICO investigation. WhatsApp has agreed to not share user data with parent company Facebook before new data protection regulations come into force in May. The messaging service has signed an “undertaking” with data protection watchdog the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), publicly committing to not …

Walmart has filed a patent for robotic bees that would pollinate crops just like the real insects. The patent outlines how tiny autonomous “pollination drones” would use sensors to locate crops, transport pollen, and verify which crops have been successfully pollinated. It would be a significantly more efficient way to pollinate crops than crop dusting, …