A YouTube video suggesting that face recognition cameras installed in HP laptops cannot detect black faces has had over one million views.
The short movie, uploaded earlier this month, features "Black Desi" and his colleague …

Microsoft has indefinitely suspended its Chinese microblogging service MSN Juku after admitting that it "copied" code used to create the site.
A vendor contracted to work for the software giant was caught lifting code from a …

  The Teletext information service on analogue and digital television will close across the UK on 16 December.
Limited services including holidays, racing and bookmaking and the subtitles on analogue channels will remain available.
Teletext’s chat and …

  A staggering majority of UK consumers are not getting the best out of their high-definition (HD) televisions, according to a survey.
Although 56% of UK households now have an HD television, 91% still watch standard …

  The iPhone will be available at Tesco Mobile from 14 December, the company has announced.
Its lowest monthly tariff will be £20 a month for the duration of a 12-month contract - but customers will …

  Facebook is launching new privacy settings, designed to simplify the process for its 350 million users.
It is the latest in a string of changes that have been made to its privacy policy this year.
The …

  Batteries made from plain copier paper could make for future energy storage that is truly paper thin.
The approach relies on the use of carbon nanotubes - tiny cylinders of carbon - to collect electric …

Google has introduced so-called "real-time web" results into its search engine.
It means that Google will display information from news organisations, blogs and platforms, such as Twitter, as soon as it is published.
Google said it …

Intel has unveiled a prototype chip that packs 48 separate processing cores on to a chunk of silicon the size of a postage stamp.
The Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC), as it is known, contains 1.3 billion …

  Malware has been blamed for a problem with the Windows 7 operating system, dubbed the ‘Black Screen of Death’.
Some Windows users are confronted by a totally black screen after they log on to their …

  Microsoft has confirmed that it is investigating a problem described as the "black screen of death", which affects its latest operating system.
The error means that users of Windows 7 see a totally black screen …

  A British man has been arrested and cautioned for stealing accounts for online game Runescape.
Jagex, creator of Runescape, said it was likely to be the first of several arrests as it tackled in-game fraud.
Online …