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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An Austrian privacy advocacy group drew a strongly critical response from Apple on Monday after it said an online tracking tool used in its devices breached European law.
The group, led by campaigner Max Schrems, filed complaints with d…
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors on Tuesday said it had entered a strategic relationship with Amazon.com’s cloud computing unit to help cars communicate with data centers.
NXP is one of the biggest suppliers of computing chips to auto…
If you follow US tech, you're probably getting a sense of deja vu.
Senators are about to grill Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
It's only three weeks since both chief executives testified. But since then the poli…
Wi-Fi Urgently Needs More Spectrum According to the DSA and PIP in Latest Research Paper
The new paper explains how the 6 GHz band can be used to deliver a step-change in connectivity
With over half of all the connections to the In…
At the 2020 Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF), Mr. Yang Chaobin, President of Huawei Wireless Network Solution, unveiled the future-oriented "1+N" 5G target networks and released a full series of 5G solutions for building simplified "1+…
Uber Technologies Inc started on Monday to take instant payments in Brazil in partnership with payments startup Ebanx, both companies said.
More than 60 million people had already signed up to the newly launched instant payments platfor…
Technology companies’ services could be banned from the European market if they do not heed EU regulation, Europe’s industry chief Thierry Breton told German weekly Welt am Sonntag, as the European Commission finalizes rules on internet co…
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft.
SpaceX’s newly designe…
Children searching for content relating to depression and self-harm can be exposed to more of it by the recommendation engines built in to social networks.
Sophie Parkinson was just 13 when she took her own life. She had depression and …