Did John McCarthy, one of the “founding fathers” of AI, rub his hands together and laugh maniacally in 1955 hoping that this thing would one day lead to global instability?

The Cambridge Analytica scandal embroiling Facebook in recent months has raised a crucial question about many of today’s most influential technology companies: What are companies like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn?

Far from setting us free, autonomous vehicles are set to enable new forms of surveillance and oppression.

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, it’s hard to feel sorry for either one of them and to be fair none of us really have to. They’re in the wrong, they’ve taken advantage of most people’s reliance on vanity, convenience and addiction to ‘likes’...

Facebook isn’t having a good week. In fact, since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Facebook, along with other social networking platforms, (Twitter, Instagram, Google etc.) have been in a bit of hot water.

Watch former Cambridge Analytica employee and whistleblower Christopher Wylie tell British MPs that the EU referendum result may have been different without Leave campaigns ‘coordination’ and financial ‘cheating.’

A very special event took place last night at the Frontline Club with two whistleblowers answering questions about Cambridge Analytica’s role in the EU referendum campaign.

Once upon a time we paid for music.

The European Union is not about mysterious institutions, nor a technocrats club, it is about people. Today’s digital tools have the power to restore the democratic dialogue in Europe.

Norway hopes to have emission-free road transport by 2025, and the rest of the world would like to catch up. Electric cars offer a bright future for everyone, writes Caroline Jones Carrick.

The government doesn’t need to implement a surveillance state if social media and private companies provide one already.