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Will we need HS2? Of course not, in 20 years we'll have holograms says Ed Miliband's new business ambassador...

Lord Mitchell, an entrepreneur and former party spokesman in the Lords, said that he initially supported the £42.6 billion scheme but had changed his mind

The fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden alleged yesterday that the National Security Agency was 'in bed together' with German intelligence

Edward Snowden saga: US and China clash over handling of NSA whistleblower after Microsoft accused of handing over users' data to intelligence services

Fugitive appeals for the help of human rights groups in Russia, as his latest revelations suggest Microsoft lets US government access its customers' data

We are rarely satisfied with the speed at which we access the internet at home

Cyber Culture: Want to know how fast your broadband really is? Join the queue...

My internet is slow. And yes, I know that sentence is a grammatical and syntactical horror show, but it's one that's generally understood.

British paedophiles are paying to watch the live streaming of child sex abuse after conducting overseas “fact-finding” trips to identify the vulnerable, protection experts said on Monday

Number of UK paedophiles ‘live-streaming’ child abuse films soars, warns CEOP

Child protection experts record two-fold increase in indecent images and videos shared online

WhatsApp Messenger is a proprietary, cross-platform instant messaging application for smartphones.

WhatsApp hits 250 million monthly active users as OTT messaging continues to flourish

Industry analysts predict that by end of 2013 over-the-top (OTT) messaging will be double that of traditional SMS

Chalk Talk: How London pupils got a window on world hunger

Hands up those of you who have been hungry for three days, asked Sylvia Mwichuli, director of communications at AGRA, which aims to help smallholder farmers in Africa combat hunger.

Advertising careers: If at first you can't succeed, why not do it yourself?

This is the story of two young grads, frustrated at the sheer lack of career opportunities left to them, who decided to take a radical approach to finding work in the advertising industry

Google, Facebook, Apple and YouTube have all had their data targeted by the NSA

Prism and the US internet giants: The relationship, the numbers and the language

The US has been accessing private data of 'foreigners' for years - so who are the eight companies in the Prism scandal, and what was their role?

Viber offers free calls and texts using internet data

Saudi Arabi bans free internet messaging service Viber

Ban follows a warning from government regulator in March due to unspecified 'infringement'

Woolwich terror attack: Internet monitoring is now urgent for MI5 and MI6 to fight 'mayhem', says Defence Secretary Philip Hammond

British troops and citizens would be safer from terrorist “mayhem” if MI5 and MI6 had more access to people’s internet activities, the Defence Secretary has claimed.

Philip Hammond, Defence Secretary, broke cabinet ranks to suggest that there was “real sense of anger” among voters over the legislation to allow gay weddings

New data powers to access email and social media records would stop terrorists, says Philip Hammond

Proposed powers for police and security services to access email and social media records would help prevent terrorists causing mayhem and murder on Britain's streets, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said today.

The Woolwich murder will be used by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to revive plans for a “snooper’s charter”, allowing police and security services to monitor internet use, Conservative sources indicated last night

Theresa May keen to revive 'snooper's charter' in wake of Woolwich attack

Home Secretary under pressure from senior figures in all parties to strengthen police and security service powers after killing of off-duty soldier

Geoffrey Portway, 40, spent months discussing the kidnap and murder which he planned to carry out in an underground chamber

British man Geoffrey Portway admits plot to rape, murder and eat children in a dungeon beneath his US home

40-year-old's basement was equipped with a steel cage, a child-sized home-made coffin, scalpels, butchering kits, freezers and castration tools

Chalk Talk: Two-and-a-half cheers for Gove's reforms from the history boys

Spare a thought for Professor Jonathan Clark, professor of British history at the University of Kansas and one of three eminent panellists debating the proposed new history curriculum at a seminar organised by the right-of-centre thinktank Politeia last week.

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