In the same vein as the “live” space walk that wasn’t live – broadcast on 26 October on the social network – a video of a sky-high maintenance job has racked up over six million views. Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37865920

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A Chicago man was shot dead while live-streaming a video of himself on Facebook, police said on Friday. Antonio Perkins, 28, was shot in the head and neck on the city’s west side. The video is still available on Facebook and has been watched nearly 700,000 times. It is the second time in less than […]

YouTube is introducing live-streamed 360-degree videos on its service. The Google-owned platform said select concerts from California’s Coachella festival would be the first to use the virtual reality facility. In addition, it announced videos on its service could now be enhanced with “spatial audio”, which simulates the effect of sounds coming from different directions and […]

A widely distributed scam email that quoted people’s postal addresses links to a dangerous form of ransomware, according to a security researcher. Andrew Brandt, of US firm Blue Coat, contacted the BBC after hearing an episode of BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours that discussed the phishing scam. Mr Brandt discovered that the emails linked […]