STOCKHOLM – Sunniva Geertinger was devastated when her boyfriend took his life early this year. To make matters worse, his Facebook account proved almost impossible to put to rest, haunting her like a ghost with new wall-posts from network pals and holiday photos from the past. Until now, there have been few ways to control our virtual afterlives, but a Swedish Internet site is...

YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site.The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels. machine-generated captions will initially be generated in English. At first they will only be found on 13 channels.

Facebook has threatened legal action against a service that sells friends on the social networking site.It said it would take the action against marketing firm USocial unless it stopped violating Facebook's rights.

Chip giant Intel has shown-off a device designed to give vision-impaired and dyslexic people access to printed text. The device, known as the Reader, captures text and then reads it aloud and displays it on its built-in screen.