We like feeling that the things that make us upset are considered upsetting by other people, as well.

Scrolling through their lifestyle snaps may be a little torturous for ordinary mortals, as the Rich Kids of Instagram jet between the world's most glamorous cities, dine at the finest restaurants and wear the most exclusive clothes.

Vint Cerf, one of the people who helped build the internet (and who's now been assimilated by Google of course), is warning about a digital Dark Age.

Researchers at Oxford University are developing a wireless networking technology that uses light to beam information through the air at more than 100 gigabits per second.

People talk about dating, mating and relating, all while never using those terms. Here's lingo to decode today's dating practices.

Cindy Crawford has been flooded with messages of praise after an unretouched lingerie shot of the supermodel from 2013 surfaced online.

What happened to the husks of once-heralded start-ups, or the websites that were all the rage in 2005?

Pip Smit of the Bay of Plenty's Beachrentals.net.nz was unhappy to discover his Trade Me advertisement to rent a Beach property had been copied and put on to another website.

Internet banking customers using a popular online payment system are being warned by banks that they might not be covered if fraud occurs.

Emoji are the language of our online era, and several recent arrests and prosecutions have included, at least in part, emoji.

Who made Google the official referee of exposing tech vulnerabilities?

If you're like most shoppers, it is likely that you do plenty of research before opening your wallet.

People who Facebook-post frequently about their relationships actually have better relationships than people who don't assault their friends, research suggests.

Parallel to the exponential growth in technology is the growth of the internet of everything, or put simply, the connectivity of all devices to the internet.

Twitter said government requests for user data and content removal jumped in the second half of 2014.

The internet has turned into a massive social experiment in which unknown people know everything about you and other people.

An exercise supplement containing a banned psychoactive substance was still available for sale yesterday despite Ministry of Health officials deciding it should be pulled from shelves.

First it conquered search. Then it was online video and advertising. Now Google is turning its attention toward telecommunications.

The age of information-sharing is brilliant, as long as you have no secrets, writes Heather du Plessis-Allan.

Twitter's CEO has said he is "ashamed" of the company's persistent failure to deal with harassment of users, admitting: "We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform."

If there's one thing executives need to be doing in 2015, it's getting out of the corner office and down with the kids, says Greg Doone.

You know what the Internet really needs less of? Sober coverage of serious issues.

The ex-fiance of the woman at the centre of the office romp in Christchurch says she's a 'really nice person' who made a mistake 'and it's gone world-wide'.

Buildings lie in waste, reduced to rubble. Others, their faces are shorn clean off. Bullet casings litter the streets, unexploded mortars burrow into pavements.