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It was 10 years ago, on the bus on my way to work, that I first I saw a man using Grindr. I had heard friends describe a free iPhone app that could show you where the nearest gay guy was. And sat in front of me was an early adopter, tapping his way through a grid of...

It might not be the first place you imagine when you think about robots. But in the Renaissance splendour of the Vatican, thousands of miles from Silicon Valley, scientists, ethicists and theologians gather to discuss the future of robotics.The ideas go to the heart...

Scientists have created 3D images of a baby's heart while still inside the womb - a development that could revolutionise the treatment of congenital disease before birth. Regular MRI scans of pregnant women were put through a powerful computer program developed by...

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Natwest and Ulster Bank customers have been put at risk of cyber-attack after being recommended flawed security software.Since January, the banks' business clients have been offered a product called Thor Foresight Enterprise free of...

A self-driving shuttle service is to be deployed in New York City by the middle of the year. Boston start-up Optimus Ride will run vehicles on private roads at the Brooklyn Navy Yard site located on New York's East River. The shuttle will help workers get around the...

Questions have been asked about whether a government petition calling for Brexit to be cancelled has been swamped by bots. Bots are automated programmes which can carry out a command thousands of times.The BBC spoke to three cyber-security experts about how likely it...

The social network says that the passwords were never exposed externally and that it found no abuse of the glitch Facebook has fixed a bug that caused that the passwords of many of its users were stored in plain text and were visible for the social network’s...

By Zayneb Benyoucef. news reporter A baby monkey, Grady, is the first one to be born from experimental technology using frozen testicular tissue. The scientists successfully froze and then thawed testicular tissue using a technique that could offer hope to young...

Facebook employees raised concerns about Cambridge Analytica's data-scraping practices three months earlier than thought, according to US court documents.A US-based employee warned colleagues about the activity in September 2015.Facebook had said it previously...

Ride-hailing firm Uber will list on the New York Stock Exchange, according to reports, in one of the most anticipated stock debuts of the year.The decision to opt for the Wall Street exchange over the tech-heavy Nasdaq was first reported by Bloomberg, citing sources....