Facebook has announced it will prioritise news sources deemed to be more trustworthy on its News Feed. The firm said the social network community will determine which outlets are reliable via the use of user surveys, BBC News reports. Founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said news content will soon make up around 4% of …

The code that causes Apple devices to freeze and sometimes crash was discovered and released by a software developer. A “text bomb” has been discovered which can crash iPhones just by being sent to a victim’s device. Software developer Abraham Masri discovered the bug and said he released it to get Apple’s attention after his …

iPhone owners will be able to disable a feature that slows down their mobiles as their batteries age, Apple’s chief executive has said. Tim Cook said a forthcoming update to iOS will allow users to turn off the slowdown feature, after its emergence led to dozens of lawsuits and a probe from French authorities. Apple …

Apple today seeded the sixth beta of an upcoming iOS 11.2.5 update to developers, one week after seeding the fifth beta and a little over a week after releasing iOS 11.2.2, an update designed to mitigate a serious hardware-based vulnerability called “Spectre.” Registered developers can download the iOS 11.2.5 beta from Apple’s Developer Center or …

Scientists have created a robot that is implanted into the body to treat a rare birth defect which prevents food reaching a baby’s stomach. Around one in 4,000 babies are born with oesophageal atresia in the USA and Europe – a serious condition which is fatal if not treated. It occurs when the upper and …