Enlarge ImagePeople are increasingly ignoring adverts on their phone, new figures say. Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images More than one in five people routinely block adverts on their phones, new figures say.At least 419 million people are stopping ads from appearing on their mobile devices, according ...

Enlarge ImageTwitter and other Inte et giants are backing new rules to combat hate speech. James Martin/CNET Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube have signed up to new rules to tackle online hate speech.The Inte et titans have agreed to a new code of conduct by the European Union that takes aim ...

Jamie Parker is the adult Harry Potter. Charlie Gray Harry Potter is all grown up.The former boy wizard is now a husband and father in "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", a new play continuing his magical adventures. And now, before you can say "Expelliarmus!", the first pictures of Harry and his f...

Intel has confirmed its next-generation processors will arrive in 2016. Intel has confirmed that it will launch its eagerly anticipated 7th Generation core processors by the end of the year, with production begi ing within months. Taking the stage at Computex in Taipei on Tuesday, General Manager of...

[embedded content] Rivet is a startup that streams 360-degree, VR-compatible gigs on YouTube. The company has now launched an impressive iOS app that lets iPhone and iPad users stream concerts live -- and in VR. At the moment, Rivet only streams performances from New York's Blue Note Jazz Club, whic...

The first pictures from the forthcoming play show Harry, Gi y and their youngest son Albus.

Photothek via Getty Images If you want to get in on the Bitcoin action (and have the bank to back you up), now's a good opportunity. The Australian police will be auctioning 24,518 bitcoins seized as the proceeds of a crime. The exchange rate at the time of writing sees one bitcoin equal $534.18 -- ...

The next generation Broadwell-E chip is getting a makeover. Intel Dual-core, quad-core, octa-core -- chipset manufacturers have been boosting your processing power in leaps and bounds in recent years. But now, Intel is going one better with the next-generation Broadwell-E chip family, its first ever...

A hacker seemingly took over Katy Perry's Twitter account this mo ing, sending out a series of bizarre Tweets to the pop star's 89 million-plus followers, the most followers of any account on Twitter.Included in the Tweets was a message telling Taylor Swift that Perry missed her (the pair have a rou...

Oscar Gutiérrez/CNET Apple, Caltech alleges, has been using Wi-Fi technology it oughtn't. In a suit filed with the US District Court for the Central District of Califo ia, the university claims that Apple has infringed four of its patents for improved data transmission rates and performance over Wi-...

Enlarge Image Flaming Fowl A group of Lionhead developers is raising the Fable franchise from the ashes. Having formed a new studio called Flaming Fowl in the wake of Lionhead's April closure, the team will be taking to Kickstarter to crowdfund a Fable-themed, free-to-play digital card game called F...

Striking workers of Verizon telecommunications giant, picket in front of a Verizon office in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2016. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images A massive strike conducted by 36,000 unionised Verizon workers that has been ongoing since April should come to an end this week, with worker...

Traditionally, the Pokémon games have been released in China and Hong Kong in different languages. With the upcoming Pokémon Sun and Moon, for the first time the game will be released across the entire Greater China region in one language, Simplified Chinese, and no one is happy. According to a Quar...

An image snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope on May 12, 2016 as Mars moves closer to Earth. NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute) It's time to bust out the telescopes: Mars has moved in to say hi. Tonight, May 30 in the US, marks th...

[embedded content] He inspired the creation of Superman, a heroic role model for generations of wide-eyed children. Now, Clark "Doc" Savage Jr, created in 1933 by pulp novelist Lester Dent, going to hit the big screen played by possibly the most fitting actor ever -- WWE superstar-cum-actor Dwayne "...

Claudia Cruz/CNET While it makes plenty of processors for mobile phones, Qualcomm isn't putting all its chips in one basket -- the company's latest Snapdragon Wear 1100, revealed here at Computex in Taipei, is meant for wearables, but unlike the earlier Wear 2100 a ounced earlier this year in Februa...

Sony PlayStation fans who can't get to E3 will be able to once again be able to tune into Sony's presentation at the giant a ual gaming expo in cinemas this year. In a post on the PlayStation blog, Sony a ounced that The PlayStation E3 Experience would be livestreamed on June 13, 2016 from 6:00 p.m....

WhatsApp The Iranian gove ment has given apps with data on Iranian users a year to move that data onto Iran-based servers, Reuters has reported. The move is a bid to keep closer tabs on conversations being conducted by Iranian citizens and crack down on the sharing of what the gove ment considers "i...

Edward Snowden. Thomas Trutschel/Getty Former US Atto ey General Eric Holder has admitted that whistleblower Edward Snowden performed a "public service" by opening a debate about surveillance. However, speaking to David Axelrod of CNN and Chicago Institute of Politics podcast The Axe Files, he also ...

Earlier this month, an odd photo of a seemingly boring brick wall flummoxed a lot of people online as they tried to see just exactly what weird thing was going on in the image. If you've had enough of the wall, then it's time to enjoy a much cuter optical illusion. There's a cat that's exciting the ...