Social network firm Reddit said on Sunday it would buy short-video platform Dubsmash, becoming the latest company to expand in a space dominated by Chinese-owned TikTok.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but a spokeswo…
Google services, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, were restored for most users on Monday, following a global outage that affected thousands.
Google’s website that logs outages said the services that were affected for nearly an…
International Atomic Energy Agency and African Energy Chamber encourage implementation of nuclear derived technologies in Africa
In pursuing working with the African Energy Chamber and its strong private sector network, the IAEA seeks t…
Moody’s Analytics today announced that Standard Insurance Limited, the insurance arm of Johannesburg-based Standard Bank Group and one of South Africa’s leading insurance providers, has selected the Moody’s Analytics RiskIntegrity™ for IFR…
Twitter Inc launched a new feature on its mobile app on Thursday that would allow users to share tweets directly to Snap Inc’s photo messaging app Snapchat, in a bid for cross-media engagement to get more users.
Users on the iOS platfor…
A group of industry heavyweights, including Google, Box, Citrix, Dell, Imprivata, Intel, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMware and Zoom, today announced the launch of the Modern Computing Alliance.
The mission for this new alliance is to “dr…
Disney+, the on-demand streaming service that launched a year ago and has already courted over 86 million subscribers, is ready to expand to more international markets.
At its annual investor day Thursday, the American entertainment gia…
We try out Apple’s new headphones, Spotify resets passwords and Airbnb goes public. This is your Daily Crunch for December 10, 2020.
The big story: First impressions of the AirPods Max
Our fearless leader Matthew Panzarino has writte…
Facebook Inc could be forced to sell its prized assets WhatsApp and Instagram after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and nearly every U.S. state filed lawsuits against the social media company, saying it used a “buy or bury” strategy to s…
Cybersecurity investigators at Facebook have traced a hacking group long suspected of spying on behalf of the Vietnamese government to an IT company in Ho Chi Minh City.
The announcement on Friday is the first time Facebook has publicly…
New Service Delivery Platform Aims to Fix E-governance Lag Exposed by Pandemic
GxP, a customer-centric service delivery platform developed by NRD Companies, allows seamless inter-institutional data exchange and enables institutions to i…
Microsoft is bringing its cloud game-streaming service to Apple's iOS and Windows PCs in spring 2021.
Previously known as xCloud, until now it has been available on Xbox consoles and Android smartphones only.
Microsoft tried to launc…
The rise of U.S.-China tensions has accelerated the bifurcation of global technology, with the two superpowers each working on their own tech systems. While the rift might be discouraging cross-border investment and business expansion betw…
France’s data privacy watchdog has handed out its biggest ever fine of 100 million euros ($121 million) to Alphabet’s Google for breaching the country’s rules on online advertising trackers (cookies).
The CNIL said on Thursday it had al…
A huge collection of states filed an antitrust lawsuit Wednesday accusing Facebook of suppressing its competition through monopolistic business practices. Forty-eight attorneys general across 46 states, the territory of Guam and the Distri…
YouTube said on Wednesday it would start removing content that falsely alleges that widespread voter fraud changed the result of the US election.
The update applies to all new content, including videos from President Donald Trump.
Th…
For many organizations, the shift to cloud computing has played out more realistically as a shift to hybrid architectures, where a company’s data is just as likely to reside in one of a number of clouds, as it might in an on-premise deploy…
Apple unveils new high-end headphones, Calm raises more funding and Cyberpunk 2077 faces criticism. This is your Daily Crunch for December 8, 2020.
The big story: Apple announces AirPods Max headphones
These are Apple’s first over-e…
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced it has banned 105 mobile apps for violating Chinese internet regulations. While almost all of the apps are made by Chinese developers, American travel booking and review site TripAdvis…
Driverless robot buggies started delivering hot restaurant meals to paying customers in one central Moscow district on Wednesday, their operator, Russian Internet giant Yandex, said.
The Yandex.Eats app, one of several food and grocery …
Criminals are becoming more sophisticated in their use of cryptocurrencies to launder money, with hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty funds last year flowing through digital wallets that allow users to hide their trail, according to E…
Good luck finding a PlayStation 5: Walmart and other retailers battle ‘bots’ snatching up hot products
Seven times last month, Benjamin Karmis, a 26-year-old priest from Wheaton, Illinois, failed to get his hands on the latest Sony Play…
BMW has developed a data hub with Amazon’s cloud computing division, in a sign of how companies are increasingly using “big data” to try to boost efficiency.
“We want to switch from gut-driven decisions to data-driven decisions,” said K…
As many parents have struggled with childcare issues during the pandemic, a number of tech firms have been offering solutions.
Richard Conway says that many people were not convinced by his idea for "virtual nannies" - whereby the child…
Japan plans to boost its tumbling birth rate by funding artificial intelligence matchmaking schemes to help residents find love.
From next year it will subsidise local governments already running or starting projects that use AI to pair…
China has removed 105 apps from its app stores as part of a campaign to get rid of content related to pornography, prostitution, gambling and violence.
Most of the banned apps are Chinese but US travel app TripAdvisor is also included o…
Encryption of online messages could make it harder to police child abuse and grooming online, the children's commissioner for England has warned.
End-to-end encryption is a privacy feature that makes it impossible for anyone except the …
After a year-long due diligence process, EOH, a JSE-listed technology services firm, through its IT services company, iOCO, has chosen to extend its partnership with Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurit…
Google Maps is getting a new update that lets you create Street View photos using just a phone. Android users with ARCore-compatible devices can now capture imagery and publish it to Google Street View in certain areas. Google is allowing …
Samsung is starting to roll out updates to Android 11 and One UI 3.0, its customized interface, to some of its latest phones. The first up are Galaxy S20 series devices in the US, Korea, and most of Europe, which will start receiving updat…
Android Auto, the Google-powered software system for cars, is expanding to dozens of new markets around the world, the company announced. In the coming months, Android Auto will be available in 36 additional countries, including much of Ea…
Amazon is testing a new feature for its iOS Alexa app: the ability to type out Alexa commands, instead of having to ask questions or requests by speaking out loud.
“Type with Alexa is a Public Preview feature available to iOS Alexa app …
Razer released its first set of true wireless earbuds in 2019, with the main appeal being a low-latency mode that made them better suited for mobile gaming. Now, the company is ready with its second pair, the Hammerhead True Wireless Pro, …
Slack’s life as an underdog darling of Silicon Valley ended on November 2nd, 2016. That’s when the upstart communication startup published an open letter to Microsoft in The New York Times, offering the tech giant an insincere “welcome” to…
Remember the first folding phone? No, not Samsung’s ill-fated original Galaxy Fold — the one that beat it to market. In hindsight, and honestly in foresight back then as well, Royole’s FlexPai was a hurried attention grab that existed sole…
Twitter is shutting down its experimental app twttr, which the company had used publicly to prototype new features back in 2019. The app was first introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2019, then launched to testers that M…
Fintech startup Stripe has announced an ambitious new product today called Stripe Treasury. The company is partnering with banks to offer a banking-as-a-service API. In other words, Stripe clients will be able to provide bank accounts to t…
Online shoppers are being warned of the risks of cyber-fraud during the festive season.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) - part of GCHQ - is launching a major campaign called Cyber Aware with its first ever TV ads.
It says o…
Facebook says it will start removing false claims about Covid-19 vaccines to prevent "imminent physical harm".
The company says it is accelerating its plans to ban misleading and false information on its Facebook and Instagram platforms…
Like most of us, Hannah Lawson-West has a regular night-time routine.
Unlike most of us though, hers involves carrying out thousands of complex scientific calculations to help fight Covid-19.
This is how it works: Hannah heads to bed…
Odeon owner AMC is in "urgent talks" with Warner Bros after the film maker said all releases would be available to stream instantly in the US.
The move will enable film fans to watch the forthcoming sci-fi epic Dune and the Matrix seque…
Bitcoin has grabbed headlines this week with its dizzying ascent to an all-time high. Yet, under the radar, a trend has been playing out that could change the face of the cryptocurrency market: a massive flow of coin to North America from …
China has pledged that it would be sharing its COVID-19 vaccines with other countries, especially those with which it has close ties. While the country is not ready to deploy its vaccines internationally, it is gearing up the infrastructur…
Web Summit announced today that it will revive RISE, one of Asia’s largest tech conferences, in March 2022, moving it to Kuala Lumpur after five years in Hong Kong. It also announced a new event, called Web Summit Tokyo, that will launch i…
Hundreds of thousands of people will have access to hyper-fast broadband after Virgin Media said it would bring its gigabit service to Wales.
The service will be available to people in parts of Cardiff and some nearby counties in south-…
Researchers have revealed a flaw that allowed Apple iPhones to be hacked from afar without the owner doing anything.
Usually, smartphone hacks rely on user error - by clicking on a suspicious link, opening a message or downloading a mal…
Streaming a television show in standard definition can shave a little off your carbon emissions, a report from scientists at the UK's Royal Society says.
HD video streaming on a phone generates about eight times more in emissions than s…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would veto the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act unless it includes a measure eliminating a federal law protecting tech companies such as Facebook and Twitter.
“If the very da…
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group said on Wednesday it will introduce an electric vehicle-only platform early next year that will use its own battery technology to cut production time and costs.
The plan underscores efforts by the world…
Spotify is today launching its 2020 Wrapped personalized experience — the company’s popular year-end review of users’ favorite artists, songs, genres, and podcasts. This year, however, Spotify is making a few changes. For starters, Wrapped…