Iran closes borders on messaging apps

Instant messaging apps must store data about Iranian users inside the country, Iran has ordered.

Facebook copy created in North Korea

A crude clone of the Facebook social media site briefly appears in North Korea before going offline.

MySpace and Tumblr hit by 'mega breach'

More than 400 million hacked account IDs from Tumblr and MySpace are being offered for sale on the net.

Hate the games, not the players

 Imagine that you are lead strategist for the Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump campaign (take your pick). Your job is to maximize voter turnout in November. You hypothesize that more people would vote if doing so were fun. If your campaign could turn rallies and voting into a game, you’d drive more people to the polls, right? Not exactly. Read More

Twitch launches Clips so gamers can quickly share short videos of their favorite moments

 Live streaming platform and gamer community Twitch is today launching a new feature that it hopes will help spread its content further afield. The company has now debuted Clips, a feature that lets website viewers quickly and easily clip a 30-second portion video from others’ live streams. These clips automatically include links back to the original live broadcaster, which eliminates… Read More

Minecraft is headed to China

 Microsoft is bringing Minecraft, the insanely popular game it acquired when it bought Mojang for $2.5 billion, to China. Read More

How happy chatbots could become our new best friends

Will giving computers emotions make them more useful at work?