With more people than ever cutting the cord, watching via smart TVs, and turning to streaming media players like Roku and others, YouTube decided it was time to update is TV application to be easier to use on the big screen. A new version of the application rolling out now will feature a different look and improved organization of categories, in order to better fit in with how people watch YouTube in the living room.

A Vancouver-based technology firm is suing Snapchat, alleging that the social media company is infringing on its "geofencing" patents, which allow the service to monitor the physical locations of its users.

When people talk about how the internet has changed the way we travel, they typically lament the way our compulsion to document removes us, somehow, from the actual experience. In an article for Backchannel on Medium earlier this year called “Instagram Is Ruining Vacation,” Mary Pilon wrote about social-media dependency and how the “fight for the perfect Instagram” was influencing where — and how — people decided to spend their time. “At times, it felt like destinations were morphing into mere photo sets,” she writes about tourist behavior on a trip to Angkor Wat.

It looks like last week’s rumours were true, because Android 7 Nougat is finally here. Although Nougat has been with us for a while now, last week rumours surfaced of a public release date – and they've been proven right. The new rumours stemmed from the Android Central, website who noticed something odd in the Canadian network operator Telus’ software update schedule.

Windows users are complaining that Skype and other apps that require a webcam are no longer working, thanks to a major Windows 10 update earlier this month. And Microsoft says a fix isn't expected until September.

Hyundai announced a partnership with Amazon to allow drivers to use their Amazon Echo to control elements of their Hyundai Genesis, according to USA Today.

A report by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has shown a slight decline of 0.12% in the number of mobile service subscribers in April, compared to March.

More than 30 major technology companies are joining the U.S. government to crack down on automated, prerecorded telephone calls that regulators have labelled a “scourge.”

The days of having to ditch your old games when you get the latest video game console might be a thing of the past.

The US has confirmed it is finally ready to cede power of the internet’s naming system, ending the almost 20-year process to hand over a crucial part of the internet's governance.

Intel has announced that one of its factories will start making smartphone chips based on designs by the UK-based firm ARM.

Ford has said it will mass-produce a fully autonomous self-driving car without a steering wheel by 2021.

A new team of specialist police officers is being set up to investigate online hate crimes, including abuse on Twitter and Facebook.

China on Tuesday launched the world's first quantum satellite, which will help it establish "hack-proof" communications between space and the ground, state media said, the latest advance in an ambitious space program.

Twitter has reinstated a suspended account that publicised leaked personal data belonging to Democrat politicians.

The global Pokemon Go craze has prompted a slew of complaints, from memorial sites arguing it's disrespectful to play there to whole countries imposing a ban on the smartphone game.

Born in Google's shadow, Niantic strode into the spotlight with a mobile internet spin on hunting Pokemon but can the obsession with the game lead to long-term financial success?

Dutch and Kenyan scientists have designed a unique mosquito trap which uses human odour to attract the malaria-carrying insects, helping cut the number of cases dramatically, researchers said.

Almost every penny Facebook makes comes through advertising - and so any threat to that model really does put the entire company at risk.

A US couple is suing an internet mapping firm for $75,000 (£58,000) after years of "digital hell".

Researchers at University College London have taught a computer to imitate anyone's handwriting.