Following news stories in the past few days, it's understandable you might be concerned about your data.
The UK's elections watchdog revealed on Tuesday it had been the victim of a "complex cyber-attack" potentially affectin…
Google is officially adding a translation option for Gmail mobile users, the company said in a blog post Tuesday. If you've been using a web-based translation tool to convert Gmail messages on your phone, you'll soon be able to conve…
Galaxy Z Flip 5
The Galaxy Z Flip 5's biggest new feature is its cover screen, which now measures 3.4 inches compared to the Z Flip 4's 1.9-inch external display.
Galaxy Z Flip 5
The cover screen ca…
PS5 systems are melting USB ports during extended gameplay sessions, according to a report from Kotaku on Monday.
The issue was noticed this past weekend at Evolution in Las Vegas, the world's largest fighting games tournament. P…
Electronic signature has become table stakes for companies involved in document storage and management. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Google announced an open beta of its new-ish eSignature capability in Google Workspace today. T…
Disney is preparing to crack down on password sharing on its streaming services, following similar move from Netflix that kicked off a few months ago.
The company’s CEO Bob Iger said that password sharing among Disney Plus has been “sig…
In the fast-paced world we live in today, staying connected, productive and entertained while on-the-go has become a fundamental part of our daily lives. Mobile technology advancements have revolutionized the way we interact, work, play, a…
AI has permeated many facets of technology in recent years, whether it's as a large language model-based chatbot, with ChatGPT leading the charge, or as AI-generated songs, creating music using the voices of popular artists like Drake and …
Google Messages will now be encrypted by default when messaging between Android devices, the company said in a blog post Tuesday.
Previously, it was an option to encrypt your Google Messages, but now it's set to default. This means that…
It's already been a big year for VR: the PlayStation VR 2 headset added tethered VR gaming to Sony's PS5; Meta's upgraded standalone Quest 3 headset arrives this fall; and Apple's first mixed reality device, also standalone, is coming …
Apple appears to be ready to launch its new iPhone 15 next month. The company's next iPhone will go on sale around Sept. 22 after being unveiled at an event planned for either Sept. 12 or Sept. 13, according to a report Sunday from Bloombe…
Meta's messaging app WhatsApp is positioning itself as more of a Zoom, Teams and Skype competitor by introducing screen sharing during video calls.
The new feature, announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Tuesday, is leaving beta and will…
An 18-year-old Aberdeen University student and her mother will travel to space later this week after winning a place on Virgin Galactic's second commercial flight in a prize draw.
Anastatia Mayers and her mum Keisha Schahaff…
Zoom, the video communications company whose name became synonymous with remote work during the pandemic, has ordered staff back to the office.
The firm said it believed a "structured hybrid approach" was most effective and …
Paramount said that it added 700,000 subscribers to Paramount+ in Q2 2023 after the company launched a subscription tier with Showtime integration in June. This addition meant Paramount+ subscriber count now stands at around 61 million — u…
In its continued attempt to diversify its product offerings, Zoom today launched a new asynchronous video tool, Zoom Clips, that lets users record, edit and share video clips without having to hop on a meeting.
Zoom Clips, available in …
Microsoft launched it's artificial intelligence-powered search on Bing six months ago. In that time, there have been more than 1 billion chats and 750 million AI-generated images produced, Microsoft said Monday.
To celebrate half a year…
The rumor mill is buzzing about a significant upgrade to the iPhone. But don't expect a foldable device from Apple this year.
Apple is weeks away from its annual fall event, where the next iPhone, which we're unofficially calling the iP…
For me, nearly everything in iOS 17 falls into one of four categories that I made up: delightful features, intuitive improvements, personal additions and helpful tools. Those sound like Jeopardy categories, but they all add up to an iOS th…
Cher Horowitz had one, Serena van der Woodsen had one, Lizzie McGuire had one, and now, in 2023, Sydney Sweeney has one. I'm talking about flip phones, which through the 1990s and early 2000s were the must-have tech status symbol for teen …
Next month, you'll finally be able to download iOS 17 on your iPhone and try out all the exciting new features. Some new additions from Apple include a new Standby mode, a Journal app and a major update to Messages. However, some iPhone us…
India’s lower house of parliament greenlit the revised data privacy legislation presented the previous week, even as the bill has received criticism, with many believing that it grants significant discretionary authority to the Prime Minis…
It’s an oft-told story: the boom of space startups today can be traced to dramatically lowered cost in launch and satellite manufacturing over the past ten years. But Array Labs, a two-year-old startup based in Silicon Valley, is also taki…
Your Samsung phone breaks -- maybe your screen cracks after a drop, or your battery doesn't hold a charge no matter what cable you use. Whatever the issue, you need to get it fixed ASAP -- so where should you get it repaired?
On Thursda…
As expected, Apple recently launched the second public beta for iOS 17, the upcoming mobile software update for the iPhone. This comes a little over two weeks after Apple released the initial iOS 17 public beta in July.
The general publ…
As far as sales go, BMW still lags well behind Tesla on the electric-vehicles front, but the German automaker is arguably making strides.
BMW told investors Thursday that EVs made up 12.6% of the firm’s total deliveries during the first…
Get ready for a version of TikTok you’ve never seen before! Without the hyper-sticky, AI-driven ‘For You’ feed…
The video sharing platform has announced that TikTok users in the European Union will “soon” be able to switch off its infam…
I used the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 for a week as a replacement for my phone and my work laptop. Though apps like Slack aren't exactly optimized for the new $1,800 foldable, the phone proved more than capable of handling the majority of my …
Google will soon make it easier for people to remove results about themselves from the company's search engine, Google said in a blog post Thursday.
In the next few days, an update to the "Results about you" section in the Google…
AI may have found a center of gravity in the Bay Area, but we’re seeing a lot of activity elsewhere among those who believe that there is a market opportunity ensuring that the pace of innovation does not only get played out in just one co…
Apple’s services business now has more than 1 billion paying subscribers, the company said during its third-quarter results conference call.
The company’s services portfolio comprises iCloud, Music, Fitness+, Pay, Apple Card and Apple T…
One-day Latitude59 event to take place in Nairobi, Kenya this December in partnership with global fintech leader - Admirals.
3 August 2023, Tallinn, Estonia; According to Ms. Liisi Org, CEO of Latitude59, the main ambition of the move …
Another former Twitter app developer has turned their attention to Mastodon in the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, which put an end to third-party clients. Launching today, a new app from the developer of the Twitter app Chirp is bri…
Microsoft is shutting down its digital assistant app Cortana this month, having now put more of its focus on modern-day AI advances, like its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat and other AI-powered productivity features across Windows and its web brow…
The government has announced a new panel to steer the UK's semiconductor industry, which it describes as "vitally important for the modern world we live in".
Around the world, governments have been taking action, passing new…
Amazon's e-commerce business perked up in the three months to June, after months of lacklustre spending amidst a wider, sluggish economy.
The uptick follows a push by boss Andy Jassy to make the online shopping giant's …
Japan's finance ministry has called on X, formerly known as Twitter, to take down an account impersonating its top currency diplomat Masato Kanda.
"Please don't follow the impersonation account and/or comment on the post," t…
Meta, parent company to Facebook, is beginning the process of blocking news in Canada, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Google also aims to block links to Canadian journalism later this year for people in Canada in respons…
Today AnkerMake -- Anker's 3D printing branch -- announced the M5C, the company's latest foray into 3D printing. Built on the back of the AnkerMake M5 and featuring a very similar aesthetic, the M5C is alleged to give the same performance …
Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has renamed TweetDeck to XPro in an ongoing rebranding exercise of the social media service.
The company has adopted the @Pro handle instead of @TweetDeck for the tool. However, many parts of the too…
Kenya was one of the first countries where Worldcoin — the controversial startup that aims to create a new “human identity and financial network” through eye scans and its own cryptocurrency — launched sign-ups and as of this week, it was …
The firm that owns Twitter, now called X, is suing an anti-hate organisation whose research criticised the platform.
X Corp has accused the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which has offices in the US and the UK, o…
Nokia Bell Labs is deploying the first cellular network on the Moon to demonstrate that cellular technologies can provide the critical communications needs for future lunar or Martian missions. For the first time, we are digging into the d…
Around 1.3 billion broadband speed tests conducted across 220 countries, and analysed by Cable.co.uk
Western Europe dominates the global speed table, containing eight of the top ten fastest countries in the world for broadband. The se…
Flapmax (https://Flapmax.com/), a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced today its strategic partnership with Intel, the global technology leader, to foster AI innovation and drive economic empowerment in Africa. The colla…
Cher Horowitz had one, Serena van der Woodsen had one, Lizzie McGuire had one, and now, in 2023, Sydney Sweeney has one. I'm talking about flip phones, which through the 1990s and early 2000s were the must-have tech status symbol for teen …
When Google had its unpleasant realization that it had been complacently spinning its wheels on a form of fake AI for a decade, chances are it started realigning itself that day. And it sounds like Assistant itself is now getting a generat…
While Threads' meteoric rise has mostly tempered down, that hasn't stopped Meta from continuing to bring long-awaited updates to its users. This week, Threads got some pretty key updates to the platform that seem to have begun to level the…
Reddit is rolling out a number of updates to its website for logged-out users, including improved performance, a more helpful search results page and better communities and related post suggestions.
The company said in a post on Monday …
NASA will be launching its own streaming service later this year, the US space agency said Thursday.
The service, called NASA Plus, will livestream NASA missions. It will also feature original video series, including new shows being pro…