Samsung Electronics has been hit by falling sales for its smartphones and semiconductors.

The “difficult business environment and slowing IT demand” sent net profit for the fourth quarter to December down by 40% to 3.2tn won ($2.7bn, £1.9bn). The South Korean giant warned it would be difficult to maintain profits this

Social media giant Facebook said that profits more than doubled in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Net profit for the three months to December rose to $1.56bn (£1.09bn), up from $701m.The company also said that 80% of its advertising revenue in that period came from mobile advertising, up from 69% a

Many sports are dangerous, but few are dangerous by design.

For years the powers-that-be behind American Football tried to hide it, but it became too serious. The more it was studied, the taller the pile of evidence became.To succeed in a game where brute force is part of the DNA, you

A Google artificial intelligence program has beaten the European champion of the board game Go.

The Chinese game is viewed as a much tougher challenge than chess for computers because there are many more ways a Go match can play out.The tech company’s DeepMind division said its software had beaten its