As technology continues to permeate society, surviving the future depends on bringing technologists and policymakers together. Here's how we might achieve it
The patterns in the eye of a fly, or the shimmer of a frozen drop of water: these are some of the best pictures of tiny things.
Teenage girls with diverse and inspiring influences have higher career aspirations and a healthier approach to the online world, finds a new report.
Platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram contributed to the explosive rise in social media use over the last 15 years, with one in three people using some form of online social plat...
It begun with #MeToo, now Russian femenists are taking photos without makeup and deliberately showing off pre-conceived 'flaws' to challenge beauty stereotypes that women's rights activis...
This infographic from Global Web Index compares key generational and regional differences of social media use based on data from nearly 114,000 internet users.
'Botslayer' is a anti-disinformation AI designed to identify false campaigns and report them before they manipulate public opinion. This could have big applications for things like the US...
Social media giants are limiting the information they share about vaccinations to reliable sources, a move against false reports that have led to a spread of measles.
Almost one in three millennials in the United States reports feeling lonely and, perhaps more worrying, one in five says they have no friends, according to a new survey.
Social media has become a platform for pseudoscience, creating attitudes such as anti-vaccine sentiments that could cause danger.
A new study asked 2,000 people how much they’d be willing to spend every month on some common apps they currently use for free.
Humanitarian agencies in Africa are hoping detailed population maps being created by Facebook researchers will save lives and improve living conditions.
From its inception in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook has rocketed to 2.4 billion users around the world in 15 years.
The brains of toddlers resist learning from screens, even video chats, according to a new study, but having a parent present can help.
Trust in media sources worldwide has dropped over the past decade. The task of rebuilding it will not succeed if we leave it to the media to be the gatekeepers - that task must fall inste...
