I never thought I’d need a pair of serious noise-canceling headphones. I don’t mind hours of droning white noise on international flights and generally don’t like feeling like my head’s been locked in an airless tomb, so I’ve always used o…
A South Korean agency for protecting personal information on Wednesday fined Facebook Inc 6.7 billion won ($6.06 million) and sought a criminal investigation for providing users’ personal information to other operators without consent.
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A second-hand car website has seen its value rocket to more than $1bn (£750m), putting it into unicorn status.
India's Cars24 has seen a big rise in business during the pandemic as people look to alternatives to public transport such as…
Chinese e-commerce platform AliExpress is the latest casualty in yet another Indian ban on Chinese mobile apps.
India's government has banned 43 more Chinese apps citing cyber security concerns, taking the total to 220.
The move come…
Advanced Technology Research Council Announces ‘ASPIRE’ – to Drive the Creation of Future Transformative Technologies
• ASPIRE frames problem statements with cross-sector industry stakeholders, universities and research institutes
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JoomPay, a startup with a similar product to PayPayl-owned Venmo in the US, is set to launch in Europe shortly after being granted a Luxembourg Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license. The app allows people to send and receive money wit…
Major security flaws in popular smart doorbells are putting consumers at risk of being targeted by hackers inside their homes, according to Which.
The consumer group says devices being sold on marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay, could…
Messaging app Snapchat is offering a share of $1m (£750,000) to its users every day as it tries to compete with TikTok on viral videos.
Its new Spotlight feature will use an algorithm to recommend "the most engaging" posts to watch base…
Vodafone said on Monday that operations on its German mobile network were returning to normal after the failure of control equipment caused a widespread outage lasting more than three hours.
The German unit of British-based Vodafone, th…
Apple Inc’s security chief on Monday was indicted on bribery charges as prosecutors alleged he promised a donation of 200 iPads to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office to secure four concealed-weapon permits for Apple employees.
The …
SITA and Orange Business Services stretch the bounds of edge connectivity and lead the way with shared SDN at airports
SITA and Orange Business Services have implemented a multi-tenant edge SD-WAN platform at more than 60 airports glob…
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and Oracle partner with African governments to manage large-scale vaccination programs in the cloud - over 73,000 people vaccinated and registered in the first 8 days in Ghana
The Tony Blair In…
Cyber Risk Aware and Blue Cube Security’s new partnership brings a high-value, low-cost approach to the ever-rampant cyber threat to businesses.
Cyber Risk Aware , the only company in the world to offer a ‘real-time’ cyber security awar…
Britain’s competition regulator said on Monday it had received a complaint about Google related to its market study this year on online platforms and digital advertising.
The complaint from a coalition of technology and publishing calle…
Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will transfer control of the @POTUS account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan. 20, the social media companies said on Saturday.
The @POTUS account on both platforms is the official account of the Presid…
China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s.
The Chang’e-5 probe, named after the anc…
I had a neat look into the world of mental health startup fundraising planned for this week, but after being slow-motion carpet-bombed by S-1s, that is now shoved off to Monday and we have to pause and talk about COVID-19.
The pandemic …
YouTube says it will start showing adverts on more videos - but won't necessarily pay the video-maker a cut.
The company currently shares ad revenue with video-makers who are enrolled in its partnership scheme, when it shows ads before …
A satellite that will be critical to the understanding of climate change has blasted skyward from California.
Sentinel-6 "Michael Freilich" is set to become the primary means of measuring the shape of the world's oceans.
Its data wil…
Its long fruitful relationship with Apple may be sunsetting soon, but Intel’s still got a fairly massive footprint in the PC market. There’s never a good time to get complacent, though (a lesson the company learned the hard way on the mobi…
Facebook’s battle against misinformation will never be over at this rate, but that doesn’t mean the company has given up. On the contrary it is only by dint of constant improvement to its automated systems that it is able to keep itself ev…
Image Credits: Campus concerts are a key strategy for Realme to attract young consumers in India / Photo: Realme
Starting a new phone brand in 2018 might seem too late in an already crowded market, but Sky Li was convinced that consumer…
President-elect Joe Biden may have spent eight years in an administration that doted on the tech industry, but that long honeymoon, punctuated by four years of Trump, looks to be over.
Tech is on notice in 2020. The Russian interference…
TO ENSURE MORE CONVENIENT AND HASSLE-FREE REPAIR SOLUTION FOR TECNO, ITEL AND INFINIX USERS, CARLCARE HAS STARTED ONLINE RESERVATION SERVICE FOR PHONE REPAIR!
Carlcare is the official after-sales service provider for TECNO, itel and Inf…
Advertising drives the modern digital economy. Whether it’s reading news sites like this one or perusing your social media feeds, advertising is the single most important industry that came out of the development of the web. Yet, for all t…
The Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan group of dozens of state attorneys general are in the final stages of filing one or more major antitrust complaints against Facebook Inc FB.O in early December, according to four sources famili…
Twitter Inc TWTR.N has resolved most performance issues with its new ephemeral "fleets" product and expects to complete the global launch by Friday, the company's product chief said in a live video on Thursday.
“As we were rolling out o…
Apple Inc AAPL.O and Verizon Communications VZ.N on Thursday announced a program in which Verizon will subsidize the replacement of corporate customers' entire fleet of smartphones with any of Apple's iPhone 12 models.
Verizon Business,…
Nvidia has confirmed Fortnite is coming back to iPhones through its cloud gaming service, despite Apple having thrown the game off its App Store.
The company's GeForce Now service is now available through the Safari web browser - bypass…
Three of the largest social networks have said they will join forces with fact-checkers, governments and researchers to try to come up with a new way of tackling misinformation.
Vaccine misinformation has been rife on Facebook, Twitter …
Children's charity the NSPCC has said a drop in Facebook's removal of harmful content was a "significant failure in corporate responsibility".
Facebook's own records show its Instagram app removed almost 80% less graphic content about s…
Sita and orange business services stretch the bounds of edge connectivity and lead the way with shared sdn at airports
Agile and scalable SD-WAN already introduced at more than 60 airports globally
SITA and Orange Business Services h…
Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.O Google on Wednesday relaunched its U.S. payments app, introducing paid promotions to the service and opening a waitlist for bank accounts being launched next year with Citigroup Inc C.N and 10 other institutions.
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An app that aims to translate your cat’s miaow has been developed by a former Amazon Alexa engineer.
MeowTalk records the sound and then attempts to identify the meaning.
The cat's owner also helps to label the translation, creating …
Twitter has at various times acknowledged that Donald Trump isn’t bound by the same rules that govern the rest of us. This executive privilege has allowed him to continue posting comments that could have long ago gotten any normal person b…
Many customers hoping to get hold of a PlayStation 5 on its launch day have been left disappointed after online retailers sold out of the console.
In an email to customers, Game blamed courier firm Yodel, which has strenuously denied it…
African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has raised a $30 million Series B funding round led by Ribbit Capital with participation of Bezos Expeditions — the personal VC fund of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Chipper Cash was founded in…
A new feature on Twitter designed to allow people to share "their fleeting thoughts" has faced a backlash, with many saying it encouraged harassment.
So-called "fleets" vanish in 24 hours, and Twitter said they are meant to "help people…
Apple will pay $113m (£85m) to settle allegations that it slowed down older iPhones.
Thirty-three US states claimed that Apple had done this to drive users into buying new devices.
Millions of people were affected when the models of …
Wipro’s Annual State of Cybersecurity Report Finds Increasing Adoption of AI in Cybersecurity to Tackle Advanced Adversaries
Nearly half (49%) of organizations plan to extend Cognitive and AI capabilities for security to detect and resp…
Holiday Shopping Warning: Simple Typos Can Lead Consumers and Brands to Online Fraud, Counterfeit Goods, and Cyber Crime
CSC research also indicates lower than expected domain security amongst top shopping websites, putting brand owners…
Luxembourg Teams up with ESA to Create a Unique “European Space Resources Innovation Centre” to be Established in the Grand Duchy
Luxembourg entered a strategic partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) to create a “European Spac…
Apple's new M1 powered MacBook shows impressive performance gains that make Intel's chips obsolete overnight
Survival and strategy games are often played in stages. You have the early game where you’re learning the ropes, understanding …
Nigeria based startup Autochek looks to bring the sales and servicing of cars in Africa online. The newly founded venture has closed a $3.4 million seed-round co-led by TLcom Capital and 4DX ventures toward that aim.
The raise comes fre…
Republican senators on Tuesday attacked the chief executives of Facebook and Twitter for what they called censorship of President Trump and his allies during the U.S. election while Democrats bemoaned the spread of misinformation on social…
Amazon has launched its own online pharmacy that will allow customers to buy prescription medicines.
Amazon Prime members are eligible for free two-day delivery and discounts of up to 80% on generic medicines and 40% on prescribed brand…
Apple is halving the commission it takes from the sale of apps and virtual goods sold within them from many of the smaller developers using its stores.
From January, any existing app-maker who earned $1m (£830,000) or less from Apple's …
A laptop which caught fire after being fitted with a battery bought on Amazon has prompted safety charity Electrical Safety First to warn of the dangers of buying cheap electronics online.
It said that it had found "some extremely dange…
Swedish truckmaker Scania plans to invest more than 1 billion Swedish crowns ($116 million) over several years in a battery assembly plant in Sodertalje, near Stockholm, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
The company, owned by Germany’s…
Social media giant Twitter TWTR.N Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches, is appointing one of the world's best-regarded hackers to tackle everything from engineering missteps to misinformation.
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