BMW will not bring the iX3, the automaker’s first electric crossover, to the U.S., the latest automaker to shift its EV strategy to Europe and China.
BMW told Automotive News, the first media outlet to report the change, that at this …
Ant Financial, an affiliate of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, will start allowing third-party vendors to offer services such as food delivery and hotel bookings on its Alipay mobile payment platform in an expansion beyond its financial …
When one of Louise Halford's staff members returned from a ski trip with flu-like symptoms, she advised him to work from home rather than risk bringing the coronavirus into the office.
Ms Halford also decided to work from home after fee…
A newly discovered malware campaign suggests that hackers have themselves become the targets of other hackers, who are infecting and repackaging popular hacking tools with malware.
Cybereason’s Amit Serper found that the attackers in t…
A Chinese company says it has developed the country’s first facial recognition technology that can identify people when they are wearing a mask, as most are these days because of the coronavirus, and help in the fight against the disease.
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Visa has entered a partnership with Nigeria based startup Paga on payments and technology.
Founded in Lagos, Paga scaled its fintech business in West Africa, before targeting expansion in Ethiopia and Mexico.
The startup has create…
The European Parliament has instructed vulnerable staff with a pre-existing health condition to work from home on account of increased personal risk related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, according to sources and an em…
Images of Apple’s unannounced Powerbeats 4 earbuds have appeared online for the first time, along with new details about their specs. WinFuture reports that the earbuds will have up to 15 hours of battery life this time around, up from t…
Images that claim to be of Google’s unannounced Pixel 4A, the midrange version of last year’s Pixel 4, have appeared online for the first time. The images, which were posted on Reddit by u/mseven97 and to Twitter by TechDroider, show off…
Australia's privacy regulator is taking Facebook to court over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner said Facebook had seriously infringed the privacy of more than 300,000 Australians.
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Over the next 5 to 10 years, renewable energy will assume a more prominent role as a main power source for power grids. Solar power, in particular, as the most noteworthy form of renewable energy, has a particularly bright future. However,…
Black Shark Unveiled the World First 5G Gaming Smartphone Black Shark 3, Black Shark 3 Pro, and Black Shark Bluetooth Earphones 2
Black Shark partners with Tencent Games to launch the world 1st 5G gaming phone series Black Shark 3 an…
Just a few weeks back at CES, Google gave a sneak peek of a feature that would let your Android devices read entire web pages aloud to you — perfect for when you don’t have a hand free to scroll but still need to catch up on some text, or …
At Facebook’s 2019 F8 developer conference, the company announced plans to introduce desktop apps for its popular communications app Messenger. Now, less than a year later, the Messenger Mac App is beginning to roll out. Though not yet ava…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that you wash your hands with soap for 20 seconds to mitigate the spread of germs. In light of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that continues to spread a…
The media is full of advice about how to avoid spreading COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus. Most of it involves keeping your hands clean and not touching your face. But your hands aren’t the only things that touch your face. What…
Google Cloud today announced its plans to open four new data center regions. These regions will be in Delhi (India), Doha (Qatar), Melbourne (Australia) and Toronto (Canada) and bring Google Cloud’s total footprint to 26 regions. The compa…
Samsung is officially launching its 2020 TV lineup today, with more 8K models than in years past — including the flagship Q950TS series with barely-there bezels. That “infinity screen” got all the attention back at CES, and Samsung says …
One upon a time, if you had more than one Twitter account and wanted to switch from one to the other, you had two choices: you could either go through the boring exercise of logging out of one and logging into the other, or you could use a…
Apple is pulling out of SXSW due to the coronavirus outbreak, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Wednesday. Apple is following in the footsteps of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon Studios, and others in not attending the Austin-based conference …
Finland’s Nokia Oyj (NOKIA.HE) has entered into partnership with Intel (INTC.O) to accelerate its so-far sluggish shift to 5G, the company said on Thursday, a day after announcing a similar deal with Marvell Technology (MRVL.O).
Nokia h…
In a time of crisis, it is now probably the single most important source of news for billions of people around the world.
So what is Facebook doing to make sure that it is providing accurate and timely information about the new coronavi…
Twitter is testing a feature that will allow some tweets to disappear after 24 hours, it announced on Wednesday.
The new feature called "fleets" is similar to vanishing posts on Snapchat and Instagram Stories.
The changes prompted th…
The annual Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference will not go ahead as planned, amid growing concerns about coronavirus.
Instead, attendees are being asked to vote on whether to postpone the Vancouver-based event until Ju…
Despite Coronavirus Outbreak, OpenExchange Virtual Conferences Keep Investment Communications Flowing
Facing travel restrictions across Asia and Europe due to Coronavirus concerns, five major February investor conferences avoided outrig…
The South African drone market is certainly on the up-and-up. According to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s ‘South African Drone Market 2019’ report, the global drone market will increase from $14 billion in 2018 to more than $43 billion in 2024 (…
Global Voice Group, a global IT solutons provider for governments and regulatory authorites in emerging countries, organizes a round table dedicated to the means of fostering cybersecurity in Africa, as part of Africa CEO Forum to be held …
Actis acquires majority stake in Rack Centre, announces plans to build a $250 million African data centre platform
Leading investor of private capital into global emerging markets, Actis has acquired a majority stake in Nigeria’s leadin…
REDAVIA, a global market leader of cost-effective, reliable, and clean solar power for businesses, is celebrating 10 years of solar innovation. This milestone anniversary represents a decade of creative engineering and customer satisfactio…
The Company also Launches Global Campaign to Recruit Distributers
PaMu Scroll, of the innovative electronics manufacturer Padmate, took home the 2020 iF Design Award in Hamburg, Germany. Following the win, Padmate announced a new global…
After Facebook canceled its F8 developer conference and Google itself moved its Cloud Next event in April to a digital-only conference, it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that Google is canceling its I/O developer conference in Mountain Vi…
A Singaporean candidate is ahead of a Chinese lawyer in a race to head the world patent office as Beijing seeks its fifth U.N. leadership role in a move critics say would give it an unprecedented level of influence over new technologies.
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India's Supreme Court has lifted a ban that barred banks from being involved in cryptocurrency trading.
Financial services firms were banned from trading in virtual currency and cryptocurrency in April 2018 by the Reserve Bank of India …
China's most popular messaging app has been censoring key words about the coronavirus outbreak from as early as 1 January, a report has found.
Toronto-based research group Citizen Lab found that WeChat blocked combinations of keywords a…
Facebook -owned WhatsApp is finally giving users’ eyes a break by rolling out a dark mode setting to the messaging app — years after some other tech giants figured out how to offer a “dimmer pixels” switch.
The messaging giant says the …
Facebook will now let you post 3D photos to your timeline from the Facebook app even if you have a phone with a single camera, the company announced today. In theory, this should make it possible for a lot more phones to take 3D photos —…
Twitter has told its employees to work from home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.
In a blog post, the social media giant said it was mandatory for staff in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea to work remotely.
The company als…
Disinfecting robots, smart helmets, thermal camera-equipped drones and advanced facial recognition software are all being deployed in the fight against Covid-19 at the heart of the outbreak in China.
President Xi Jinping has called on t…
Smart cameras and baby monitors can be watched by criminals over the internet by default, security chiefs warn.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is advising people to tweak the settings after buying them.
Easy-to-guess defau…
So bitcoin’s a currency, right? Well, yes, it can be used to buy, sell and price goods much like dollars and euros.
A commodity? Come to think of it, it does behave a lot like oil and gold - it can be bought and sold in cash markets or …
In Part 6 of our multiverse series, we discuss the business opportunities and compliance challenges of virtual economies
Fictional portrayals of virtual worlds such as “Ready Player One” and “The Matrix” typically portray the physical and…
Oppo has announced the Reno 3 Pro, the latest entry in the ever-more-convoluted Reno series. It’s a mid-range model that’s altogether separate from the Reno 3 Pro 5G released in China in December; this model is launching in India first.
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The world is bracing for the seemingly inevitable proliferation of SARS-COV-12, also known as COVID-19 and coronavirus, which has already paralyzed cities and isolated millions. In the U.S., especially the nonstop work culture in startups,…
Japanese electronics giant Sharp is to use a TV factory to make surgical masks amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Its parent company Foxconn has already done the same in China to supply its own workers as they make iPhone parts.
Sha…
Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 series of phones will release this coming Friday, March 6th. This leaves you with a whole week to decide whether you want to preorder the S20, S20 Plus, or S20 Ultra.
There’s nothing wrong with waiting for relea…
The World Health Organization launched a TikTok account on Friday as part of its efforts to cut through coronavirus misinformation online. A specialized public health agency of the United Nations, WHO is one of the leading organizations wo…
Samsung has responded to some issues that early reviewers have found with the camera system on the new Galaxy S20 Ultra. The company says it’s working on an update to improve the camera, though it doesn’t acknowledge any specific problem o…
Starting today, Spotify is rolling out a new look to its iPhone app. The changes prioritize universal icons and visual indicators over written words, which Spotify says makes the app a more accessible experience for users all over the worl…
If you haven’t added Instagram to your set of social networking apps, then perhaps you should give it a try. Instagram places the emphasis on visuals — photos, GIFs, videos — but the difference between it and, say, TikTok, is that it doesn…
Apple produced the two top selling phone models in the world last year, the iPhone XR and iPhone 11, according to reports by Counterpoint Research and Omdia. The iPhone 11’s second place position was particularly impressive, given the ph…