It’s pretty clear why Google opted not to announce this news on Monday, along with those new Gmail additions. When the company first mentioned at I/O that musician John Legend’s voice would be coming to Assistant, honestly, we weren’t sur…
WhatsApp today announced another protection for users in an effort to clamp down on the spread of fake news and misinformation. Through a new feature, users can control who has permission to add them to groups. The company says this will “…
Apple this week lowered the price on a number of key hardware lines in China, including AirPods, Macs, iPads and, most notably, the iPhone. The move, noted by CNBC, is believed to be the direct result of a 3 percent tax cut that took effe…
A flaw in Huawei Matebook laptops, found by Microsoft researchers, could have been used to take control of machines, the Times has reported.
The "sophisticated flaw" had probably been introduced at the manufacturing stage, one expert to…
Car manufacturer Toyota is to offer royalty-free access to its hybrid vehicle technology patents until 2030.
It is part of a move to promote hybrid cars as a bridge to fully electric vehicles (EVs).
It will grant licences for nearly …
5G RURALFIRST
How Parallel Wireless is helping to include rural communities in the economic and sustainable development conversation
Despite significant strides in the telecom industry, which have been made in terms of technology and…
Al-Rashed Empire Cinema Consortium has just signed a new deal with CJ 4DPLEX [1], the world's leading cinema technology company, to open 10 4DX theatres around Saudi Arabia by 2023.
The agreement comes a year after the association has a…
Half of U.S. adults think automated vehicles are more dangerous than traditional vehicles operated by people, while nearly two-thirds said they would not buy a fully autonomous vehicle, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll.
In …
ABB and Ericsson today strengthened their long-standing relationship with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Hannover Messe 2019. The collaboration enhances their joint vision for the future of flexible production with a…
Bitcoin soared to its highest in almost five months on Tuesday, pulling smaller cryptocurrencies up with it, after a major order by an anonymous buyer set off a frenzy of computer-driven trading, analysts said.
The original cryptocurren…
Some environmentally focused investors are not ready to buy into Lyft Inc or Uber Technologies Inc, worried about the climate impact of this year’s two most closely watched initial public offerings.
Both companies hope to push people aw…
At the weekend Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg surprised the world by calling for more regulation, suggesting that the US should adopt Europe's data protection rules.
But now the UK's information commissioner has asked him to take action to …
Google+, the search giant's failed social network, will finally be laid to rest on Tuesday morning.
Launched in 2011 and competing with Facebook and Twitter, it was Google's fourth attempt at a social network.
But the platform failed…
Two leading fact-checking agencies have stopped their work with Facebook, striking a blow to the network's efforts to fight fake news.
The social network had paid the Associated Press and Snopes to combat its misinformation crisis.
B…
Automation is putting pressure on organisations to rethink and refine every aspect of process, skills and technology infrastructure
The next two years will see organisation and infrastructure impacted by large-scale automation. Artifici…
Exactly 15 years ago, Google decided to confuse everybody by launching its long-awaited web-based email client on April 1. This definitely wasn’t a joke, though, and Gmail went on to become one of Google’s most successful products. Today, …
Facebook has deleted 712 accounts and 390 pages in India and Pakistan for “inauthentic behavior”, it said on Monday, many of them linked to India’s opposition Congress party days before a general election, and others related to Pakistan’s …
US presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren says she'd consider dismantling the tech giants should she ever get the top job. But is this really necessary or even possible?
A growing chorus of people think the big beasts of the tech world -…
An investigator for Amazon boss Jeff Bezos says that Saudi Arabia hacked Mr Bezos's phone and accessed his data.
Gavin de Becker was hired by Mr Bezos to find out how his private messages had been leaked to the National Enquirer tabloid…
Facebook is launching a new feature that explains how its algorithms decide what to display in your News Feed.
A new "Why am I seeing this post?" button will indicate what activity influenced Facebook's algorithms.
It is the first ti…
“We want children to see how the world doesn’t come in bounded natural groups, but that there are spectrums of difference and multiplicities of intersecting identities that overlay this difference.” – Michael Baran
Deepening divides fr…
In collaboration with HP’s Anti-Counterfeiting and Fraud (ACF) experts, over 110,000 illicit items were seized across Uganda and Mozambique
HP’s (HP.com) ACF team, alongside local African authorities, have conducted two highly successfu…
Ventures Africa explores the Future of Nigeria’s tech with 10 leading women in its newly launched business series
Ventures Africa, an online news platform and community that produces stories about an evolving Africa, has announced the l…
Royal Swaziland Sugar Corporation shows sweet tooth for IoT with efficiency-boosting SAP implementation
Leading sugar, renewable energy company deploys IoT solution integrated to SAP Leonardo to improve logistics, water management.
I…
Sony Corp is closing its Beijing smartphone plant, a spokesman said on Thursday, as the Japanese electronics giant cuts costs in an attempt to make the money-losing handset business profitable from next year.
The business is one of Sony…
Facebook Inc on Wednesday banned praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism, a move that drew qualified approval from New Zealand where a massacre of 50 people in mosques was live streamed earlier this mon…
Liquid Telecom Kenya, part of the pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, and Nokia have announced a two-year partnership to upgrade their existing fiber network to support OTN/DWDM technology with an initial network capacity of 500G.
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Gay dating app Grindr is up for sale by its Chinese parent company, Kunlun Group, media reports say.
The move comes after US authorities expressed concern that the firm's ownership of the US-based firm is a national security risk, sourc…
Collaboration with Philippines’ public weather provider enables faster early warning and new weather data for the country and the broader region
Earth Networks announced today the completion of the Philippines’ first nationwide severe w…
Toshiba’s New Semiconductor Company Will Strengthen Solution Proposals and Bring Greater Efficiency to R&D
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (TDSC) today announced the consolidation of two of its subsidiaries, Toshiba …
Xiaomi is back with another teaser of the foldable concept device it first showed off in January.
This time around, in a video posted to its Weibo account, the Chinese company showed off the device working in tablet mode and, after fold…
The Chinese company Huawei has been strongly criticised in a report by the body overseeing the security of its products in UK telecoms.
The report, issued by the National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ, says it can provide…
Bahrain, headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, plans to roll out a commercial 5G mobile network by June, partly using Huawei technology despite the United States’ concerns the Chinese telecom giant’s equipment could be used for spyi…
Netflix Inc is testing a 250 rupee ($3.63) monthly subscription for mobile devices in India, the video streaming giant said, aiming to boost its presence in a price-sensitive market where data consumption on smartphones is surging.
Cali…
Harnessing the latest developments in AI technology, Taulia’s upgraded platform supports simplified, informed decision-making and strengthens the buyer-supplier relationships.
Taulia has upgraded its platform with a set of new world-…
(Reuters) - Spotify Technology SA said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy Parcast, the third podcast company it is purchasing in two months, in an ongoing quest to transform itself into the Netflix of audio.
Spotify did not disclose terms …
The U.S. campaign against China’s Huawei is having little impact on the company’s sales and it is unlikely many countries will follow the United States in banning Huawei from building next-generation mobile networks, its rotating Chairman …
Today at Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, Adobe announced some enhancements to its Analytics Suite that are supposed to help marketers understand their customers more deeply, including a new tool to track the entire customer journey, and one to …
Huawei unveiled its brand new flagship phone — the P30 and the P30 Pro — at a press conference today in Paris. In many ways, this year’s update is a continuation of the P20 series — but everything has been upgraded. I played with both devi…
Meaningful conversations spark creative thinking at the Cape Town Marriott Hotel Crystal Towers
Marriott Hotels in partnership with TED, hosted its first TED Fellows Salon in Cape Town, South Africa, sparking conversations around Africa…
Ransomware attacks worldwide rose by 350 percent from 2016 to 2017, says a recent special report by SC Magazine sponsored by Cofense, a provider of intelligent phishing defence solutions.
“Security pros constantly invent better mousetra…
Top level 3-day conference on Skills development, Value chain approach, Circular economy & Finance, start-ups and digitalization
Due to the upbeat market development and an ever increasing interest in the Nigerian market, agrofood & pla…
By 2030, the number of sensors and devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to increase to about 125 billion worldwide
Intelligent Living Summit: GROHE (www.GROHE.com), Miele and Viessmann start cross-industry d…
Finland’s data protection ombudsman said on Thursday he would investigate whether Nokia-branded phones had breached data rules after a report said the handsets sent information to China.
Nokia-branded mobile phones are developed under l…
The iPad mini is super enjoyable to use and is the best-sized tablet for everything but traditional laptop work. It’s very good and I’m glad Apple updated it.
Using Apple Pencil is aces on the smaller mini; don’t worry about the real …
Poland will fall behind the rest of Europe on 5G unless it makes regulatory changes, an Ericsson executive told Reuters, raising fresh concerns over the country’s plans as it considers excluding China’s Huawei from its 5G rollout.
Swedi…
On the outskirts of Oslo, a row of Fiat 500es imported from California stand parked in the snow outside the Buddy Electric dealership, part of a global flow of pre-owned electric cars to Norway powered by green subsidies elsewhere in the w…
Apple has launched a new version of its wireless earphones that allows users to activate the virtual assistant Siri by voice alone.
It means that the assistant can now be reached without any buttons having to be pressed - users just utt…
Apple has just announced the second-generation AirPods.
The new AirPods are fitted with the H1 chip, which is meant to offer performance efficiencies, faster connect times between the pods and your devices and the ability to ask for …
Toyota Motor Corp and Suzuki Motor Corp on Wednesday said they planned to produce electric vehicles (EVs) and compact cars for each other to better compete with fast-changing technologies in the global auto industry.
The agreement follo…