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She won a narrow ruling saying she should be considered an employee of Uber and should be reimbursed for expenses.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has today published its rankings of technology companies regarding how they handle user data. Apple this year has received praise from the EFF for how transparent it is when it comes to...

Now that everyone and their uncle is making a VR headset, it's getting harder for newcomers to stand out. But there's always room for new products that push boundaries, and Starbreeze's PC-based StarVR headset is trying ...

HoloLens works. If there's anything to take away from its appearance at E3 2015, that's it. Microsoft has three different HoloLens experiences on display for attendees to check out at this year's annual video game trade...

 The Apple Watch is still very young, having only made its official debut about two months ago, but a new report claims to have information about the next version of Apple Watch, which it says could include FaceTime vid...

Jaguar Land Rover is researching advanced safety technologies to help make the roads safer, including brain wave monitoring to prevent distracted driving. The company announced this week it is developing something called...

Famed soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo is an inspiration for many. You can add star-gazing astronomers to that list. See also: Cristiano Ronaldo's Haircut Predicted the Final Play of USA-Portugal Match A team of scientist...

We sterilise spacecraft bound for Mars, but we can't sterilise humans. A mock Martian trek in the Arctic shows we won't need to, our microbes don't spread as we feared

 The Article 29 Working Party — the European body comprised of representatives from member states’ data protection authorities (DPAs) — has been considering how well the appeals process for the rtbf is working. An...

Want some stock in FitBit? Don't sweat it. FitBit, the maker of fitness-tracking wearables, became a public company on Thursday, as stock in the market leader of the wearable fitness shot up more than 50% to $31.05 in it...

 YouTube announced today a trio of initiatives designed to expand the video-sharing site’s role in new media journalism, including eyewitness news. Most notably, the company is launching a service called YouTube Newsw...

The Planetary Society's impressive solar sail experiment has re-entered Earth's atmosphere. Following its deployment in Earth orbit on May 20, LightSail-A deployed its solar sail on June 7.

Saturn's moon Titan is home to seas and lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, but what makes the depressions they lie in? A new study suggests that the moon's surface dissolves in a similar process that creates sinkhole...

Facebook CEO calls the donation an "investment" in 400 undocumented students in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The next step in the evolution of JavaScript and asm.js is to do away with both of them.

Application to visit Ecuador's embassy lodged un-diplomatically late last Friday Extreme couch-surfing contender Julian Assange claims "Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny cancelled a prospective appointment to take my statem...

Facebook is testing an approach to hiring that resembles the National Football League's "Rooney Rule" as part of the social network's efforts to diversify its employee ranks.

Calling for 'international investigations' into the 'murky' details surrounding the Apollo Moon missions is normally the preserve of 4chan and tinfoil hat-wearers. But now, you can add Russian Investigative Commission sp...

It has been a long-held belief in scientific circles that many creatures navigate across land, through water, and through the skies using the Earth's magnetic field for guidance. Now scientists and engineers working at T...

DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, has seen astronomic growth in traffic the last two years, a sign that could mean privacy is becoming a mainstream concern for people online after years as a fringe issue. In f...

Flaw in pre-installed keyboard software could allow hackers to eavesdrop on users' calls and damage handsets, a security company discovers.

Should all websites employ S browsing which helps make surfing the web more secure, at least as far as your privacy is concerned? Well some digital rights advocates are claiming that should be the way moving forward and ...