Singapore personal data hack hits 1.5m, health authority says
The attack by hackers on a health database has affected about a quarter of the population.
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Hackers net almost $1m in Russian bank raid
The theft is the latest in a series by the MoneyTaker gang which has targeted Russian banks
The mega-machines helping China link the world
As China embarks on one of the greatest infrastructure projects in history, it is changing how railways are built.
Hackers ‘targeting US mid-term elections’
According to Microsoft, at least three Congressional candidates have been targeted by hackers.
India lynchings: WhatsApp sets new rules after mob killings
The changes come as violence in India is blamed on rumours of child abductions, spread via WhatsApp.
Boomless speed
Three firms are vying to be the first to reintroduce commercial supersonic flight in the next decade.
The robot that cares for your plants and other news
BBC Click's Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week.
UK criticises security of Huawei products
The report revealed shortcomings in the Chinese firm's engineering processes.
Money to help Trump immigrants rejected
A software company criticised for working with US Border Control has a donation to a refugee charity rejected.
Eyes on the skies
Farnborough Airshow in pictures: The big, the fast, the noisy.
Google’s Loon brings internet-by-balloon to Kenya
The network of balloons travels by predicting the speed and direction of winds in the stratosphere.
PUBG game apologises for ‘offensive mask’
The makers of a popular online game apologise after an in-game item upsets some Korean fans.
Zuckerberg in Holocaust denial row
The Facebook founder's assertion that Holocaust deniers should be given a voice has outraged many.
Kitty Hawk Flyer: ‘A big drone that a human can fit in’
A look inside the Kitty Hawk Flyer, a new flying car from the firm backed by Google's Larry Page.
Fortnite: Schools ‘could learn lessons from gaming’
Should teachers in Wales adopt some of the techniques from gaming to make lessons more engaging?
Different world
This is how people did their jobs before having all the answers at the tips of their fingers.
Roblox blames ‘gang rape’ on hacker adding code to game
The makers of the online children's game say a hacker uploaded malicious code to one of its servers.
Farnborough Airshow: Aston Martin unveils sports car for the skies
James Bond's favourite car company has plans to develop small aircraft with engine giant Rolls-Royce.
Google committed a very serious offence says Vestager
The EU's competition chef explains why she believes Google deserves a record-sized fine over Android.
Apple iCloud: Chinese data now managed by state-owned firm
Privacy advocates have warned that storing iCloud data on Chinese servers will make emails and messages vulnerable
Abuse inquiry fined £200,000 for email data breach
A mass email using the "to" field instead of the "bcc" field identified possible abuse victims.
3D-printed gun blueprints given go-ahead by US government
After a four-year battle with the US government, Defense Distributed can publish blueprints for guns.
Elon Musk apologises to Thai cave diver for Twitter attack
The tech entrepreneur lashed out at a British cave diver in Thailand for mocking his mini-sub.
‘Netflix effect’ poses challenge to British TV
Video streaming services now have more subscribers than traditional pay TV services in the UK.
Google hit with €4.3bn Android fine from EU
The European Commission has claimed Android unfairly cemented Google's dominance of search.
Business booming for giant cargo planes
$7tn of goods travel by air every year. Much of it goes in the hold of normal airliners. But for those big, awkward loads, something rather larger is required.
Driving ambition
A student racing car competition wants to tackle a global shortage of recruits into engineering.
Rose gold rising
Rose gold clothes, shoes, furniture, cars, weddings - why is this colour still so popular?
Formula 1: The tech driving the races
BBC Click gets exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the technology behind F1.
Biggest losers: Who shed followers in the Twitter detox?
Twitter has started deleting locked accounts, leaving several celebrities with much fewer followers.
The app changing the dating scene for India’s disabled people
The BBC's Ayeshea Perera meets the makers of an app seeking to improve opportunities to socialise.
Silver Snipers: The geriatric gamers on a mission
A group of five elderly Swedish gamers has stormed an online battlefield.
Facebook moderators ‘keep child abuse online’
An undercover film suggests moderators are routinely keeping up content that violates Facebook's policies.
Election interference to be sniffed out by early-alert system
The tool will track "dark" sources to help government and other groups tackle subversion attempts.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos beats Bill Gates in new rich list
The Amazon founder is now richer than Bill Gates has ever been.
Apple unveils its latest emojis on World Emoji Day
If you're bald, ginger, grey-haired - or love lobster - these are the ones you've been waiting for.
Emotional surveillance
How facial recognition is being used to identify suspects in crowds and spot suspicious behaviour.
The artificial intelligence bot you make with a potato
Smartibot is an artificial intelligence robot you can control from your smartphone.
Google’s job hunting service comes to UK
Google's centralised job hunt services signs up most individual sites with one major exception.
AI will create as many jobs as it displaces – report
But PwC warns there will be "winners and losers" with many roles set to change.
Amazon website crashes on Prime Day in US and elsewhere
The e-commerce giant is experiencing outages in the US and elsewhere as its summer sale gets underway.
Netflix shares plunge as subscriber growth stalls
The firm's shares dive 14% after it misses its projections for subscriber growth.
Amazon Alexa: is it friends with your kids?
Debate is raging over whether smart speakers are suitable for children.
Uber investigated over gender discrimination
The ride hailing firm is being investigated over a complaint about gender inequality, the BBC understands.
Blogger brummymummyof2 fat-shamed by Instagram troll
Emma Conway's image of her in a swimming costume was photoshopped by a stranger online.
Kodak Bitcoin mining ‘scam’ evaporates
The company behind a Kodak-branded crypto-currency scheme confirms the plan has collapsed.
Amazon Prime Day deals ‘not what they seem’
Shoppers are warned to check prices and be wary of high-pressure sales techniques.
British caver ‘could sue’ Elon Musk over Twitter attack
The entrepreneur called the diver a "pedo" after he ridiculed his effort to help missing Thai boys.
Smart luggage reviewed
The Travel Show's Lucy Hedges looks at the latest in smart luggage.
Aliens killed by spelling mistake in 2013 Colonial Marines game
A typo in the code of a poorly reviewed game from 2013 is being blamed for one of its biggest problems.
Lift-off for Scotland: Sutherland to host first UK spaceport
The UK Space Agency backs Scotland's north coast as the place to launch satellites to orbit.
Theresa May pledges to boost aerospace amid Brexit fears
The prime minister promises extra investment for industry weeks after Airbus threatened to leave UK.
‘It was pretty crazy’
Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowski had never met before they teamed up to launch cloud storage giant Dropbox.
Rolls Royce develops propulsion system for flying taxi
The engine maker is working on a flying vehicle which it says could take off by the early 2020s.
How this Grand Theft Auto stream is highlighting US gun crime
Professor Joseph De Lappe has created a modified GTA stream where every dead body represents a real death in 2018.
Ghanaian boys use cassavas to generate electricity
Ghanaian brothers James and Kwesi Ansah use the root vegetables to power radios and mobile phones.
Twelve Russians charged with US 2016 election hack
The dozen allegedly used spear phishing emails and malware and hacked voter data on a state website.
Autonomous car is first to get round Goodwood circuit
A self-driving car has become the first to make it round the Goodwood race circuit.
Facebook will not remove fake news – but will ‘demote’ it
It says fake news is not against its "community standards".
NHS still reliant on ‘archaic’ fax machines
The outdated technology was last widely used in the 1990s.
A musical instrument for astronauts and other news
BBC Click's Nick Kwek looks at some of the best technology stories of the week.
Active defence
How firms are using cutting-edge techniques to stop cyber criminals breaching their networks.
Fake Twitter users: Celebrities lose followers amid crackdown
Some users, such as Katy Perry and Barak Obama, lost more than two million followers.
Cambridge Analytica staff set up new firm
Auspex will be an ethical consultancy, its founder say, using similar data analysis techniques.
Stolen sensitive drone files sold on dark web
Tank tactics and drone details were up for sale by hackers who got them from military networks.
Facebook ruling: German court grants parents rights to dead daughter’s account
In a key ruling, a German court says the parents have rights to the account under inheritance law.
YouTube blackout in middle of England match
Google's YouTube TV goes down at a crucial moment in England's World Cup semi-final.
‘Virtual reality cured my fear of heights’
How Fay Nugent beat her phobia by riding Wilber the Whale through a 10-storey tower block.
India adopts ‘world’s strongest’ net neutrality norms
The new principles explicitly forbid telecom operators to differentiate between online content.
ZTE inches closer to resuming business in US
Once the Chinese tech giant pays a $400m deposit it can start buying US-made parts for its phones again.
Survey: Half of young people want electric cars
Young drivers increasingly want to buy electric cars - but myths are still deterring older drivers, survey shows.
Marvel magic
The artists who help create the look of the all-conquering blockbusters reveal their secrets.
Could artificial intelligence replace doctors?
UK company Babylon Health is testing an artificially intelligent medical chatbot in Rwanda.
Facebook scandal: Who is selling your personal data?
Data brokers such as Acxiom make millions of pounds a year selling access to your data.
Emma’s Diary faces fine for selling new mums’ data to Labour
UK's data watchdog plans to fine the owner of the Emma's Diary baby advice and gift service £140,000.
Facebook fine ‘reflects magnitude of breach’
The UK's Information Commissioner says Facebook failed to follow its responsibilities.
Apple employee ‘stole driverless car secrets’
An engineer is accused of stealing databases and hardware, and trying to flee to China.
Facebook faces £500,000 fine from UK data watchdog
The social media giant failed to ensure Cambridge Analytica deleted users' data, UK watchdog says.
Uber executive resigns after race discrimination probe
The ride-hailing firm's head of human resources has left after claims she mishandled complaints.
Electric carmaker Tesla to build factory in Shanghai
Tesla's move comes as the US-China trade war heats up.
How artificial intelligence is transforming tennis
Click goes to Wimbledon to see how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in tennis.
Daimler races to keep up on driverless cars
Daimler is teaming up with Bosch to launch a small fleet of driverless taxis in California next year.
Mobile phone warning road signs ‘a UK first’
In a UK-first the system detects a phone is in use in a passing vehicle and triggers a warning.
PayPal told customer her death breached its rules
Payments firm apologises after writing "insensitive" letter to cancer victim about her debt.
Why was Elon Musk at the Thai cave rescue?
A mini-sub delivered by the entrepreneur was said to be "not practical" by the rescue effort's chief.
Broadband speeds in UK slip down global league table
Singapore is fastest, Yemen slowest and speeds are rising around the world but UK still lags behind.
Ground breaking tech
Virtual reality, drones and automation are making mining safer and more productive.
Uber invests in Lime city scooter hire company
The deal with Uber means users will be able to hire scooters via the ride-hailing company's app
Nazi-themed goods found on Amazon marketplace
The sale of the merchandise was helping hate groups "prosper", a report by rights groups says.
Twitter ‘shuts down millions of fake accounts’
Up to 70 million fake accounts are shut as Twitter seeks to limit abuse of its service, according to reports.
Smart home gadgets in domestic abuse warning
New list aimed at women offers information and advice.
Glenn Burrows: Illegal Sky TV device trader jailed
Glenn Burrows traded under the names "Ooberstick" and "Oober media".
Electric cars: Charge points could be requirement in new build homes
Hundreds of thousands more charge points could be installed under plans from the transport secretary.
Drugs via WhatsApp
As many as 40 tonnes of heroin could be passing through Mozambique every year, in a trade that is boosted by the use of mobile phone apps.
BP says card payment problem resolved
The fuel giant said all its petrol stations can now accept card payments after a three-hour outage.
Exoskeleton that allows humans to work and play for longer
The technology to give people superhuman powers is being developed, but is it the right thing to do?
Three YouTube vloggers die in waterfall plunge at Canada’s Shannon Falls
Tributes have been paid to three members of the High On Life travel collective.
Banks told to reveal tech meltdown plans
They must show how they would cope with a cyber-attack or tech failure, following problems at TSB.
‘We live in a 3D-printed home’
A family in France has become the first in the world to move into a 3D-printed home.
Fetch rover! Robot to retrieve Mars rocks
UK engineers will design a robot in an audacious plan to bring home Mars rocks to study for signs of life.
A new gold rush?
Discarded phones and televisions are a rich source of metals, and e-waste miners see money-making potential.
Kids baffled by YouTube and Instagram terms
13 year olds can sign up to Facebook and Google sites. But can they understand those companies' privacy policies?
YouTuber in row over copyright infringement of his own song
YouTuber Paul Davids has been cited by the video platform for infringing the copyright of his own song.
Lucy Staniforth on using VR to improve football skills
England footballer Lucy Staniforth tries out a new virtual reality training system for soccer.
Haptic gloves help blind people to ‘see’ art
A virtual reality kit is helping visually impaired people "see" art through haptic gloves.
Reaping rewards
Digital technology can transform the lives of farmers as they discover how apps and blockchain offer new ways of doing business.
Adapt or die
Carlos Ghosn says traditional car companies face many challenges in an era of automation and electrification.
Get me out of here!
How instant feedback software and AI bots could make meetings more interesting and productive.
Surplus energy rides the ‘gravity train’
A company in California has developed a gravity train to store and transport surplus electricity.
AI India
India's vast engineering workforce and burgeoning start-up scene are among the advantages it enjoys.
Artificial intelligence software sees people through walls
Creators of RF-Pose are hoping to use artificial intelligence to detect degenerative diseases.