If you've received updated terms of service emails lately from the likes of Twitter, Spotify and eBay, it's because of new laws which provide huge fines if companies breach your privacy. They're the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.

The Chinese maker of application specific integrated circuits is increasing its control of mining, amid concerns that such centralised power could be used to disrupt or attack cryptocurrency networks.

Our weekly news round-up: Old data from Galileo spacecraft reexamined to confirm plumes on moon Europa; Human habitation in the Philippines dates back 700,000 years; Cold Atom Lab to create lowest temperature in the Universe aboard ISS; Google revisits its 'Don't Be Evil' mantra; Telstra suffers another major mobile outage; Facebook users shrug off recent scandals; Net neutrality rules caught up in Trump lawyer allegations.

Tolstoy wrote: "One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees..." To mark World Bee Day on 20th May, Piers talks with Simon Mulvany of Save The Bees Australia about his intensifying legal battle with big honey, recent wins in having dangerous chemicals banned by major retailers, his disdain for Australian Certified Organic and his change.org petition to ban toxic neonicotinoids in Australia - as Europe has already done.

Delegates were treated to a raft of cool (and slightly creepy) innovations. Google Assistant can robocall and make an appointment for you in a very human-sounding voice, while Gmail now has automated, predictive reply options and smart compose.

In April 2018, average atmospheric carbon dioxide exceeded 410 parts per million. There are various dangers including rising sea levels and deteriorating human health resulting from what has been described as an unprecedented experiment on the only home we have.

Uber, Google, Boeing, Bell Helicopter and others are teaming up to make electric aerial transport ubiquitous. But there is plenty of testing, development and regulatory work to do to achieve this dream.

Our weekly news round-up: Mars 2020 lander will carry a helicopter; Australian Space Agency aims to triple industry size in 12 years; Super computer modelling casts doubt on multiverse theory; 2 more killed in US Tesla crash; Apple using drones to improve their Maps; Ransom-seeking hackers target NSW family planning centre; Equifax reveals full extent of data heist on its servers; Robocallers hit with big FCC fines for breaching Truth in Caller ID Act.

There are rising concerns over the unfettered use of the technology. How well is your information secured and what are the possibilities for abuse? Should businesses like Ticketmaster in Australia be allowed to access this unique identifying technology for ticketing and venue access?

Not according to the latest ground-penetrating radar survey of the boy pharaoh's tomb, but the hunt for unknown chambers at the Great Pyramid of Giza continues.