Philippine boxing champion Manny Pacquiao launched his very own cryptocurrency on Sunday at a free concert in Manila, where he serenaded more than 2,000 fans to drum up interest in the product.
The 40-year-old boxer, who defeated Keith …
Singapore is pursuing more foreign tech talent as it ramps up efforts to grow the sector, its trade minister said on Monday, adding that locals would also benefit from the plans amid concerns about preserving jobs as the economy sours.
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The co-founder and chief executive of Twitter had his own account on the service briefly taken over by hackers.
A group referring to itself as the Chuckling Squad said it was behind the breach of Jack Dorsey's account.
The profile, w…
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ZAO - a new Chinese app that lets users swap their faces with celebrities, sports stars or anyone else in a video clip - racked up millions of downloads on the weekend but swiftly drew fire over privacy issues.
The app’s surge in popula…
Tired of digging all those blocks in Minecraft? Help could be at hand from an artificial intelligence assistant that can dig and build on command.
Facebook researchers are developing the assistant that players control by typing commands…
Facebook’s (FB.O) proposed Libra currency could undermine the European Central Bank’s ability to set monetary policy and Europe should ignore its siren call of “treacherous promises” ECB board member Yves Mersch said on Monday.
Facebook…
The gaming industry is larger than films and music combined, yet few of us are likely to put our Fortnite playing achievements on our CVs. But why not? Businesses are waking up to the skills gamers can bring to the workplace.
One start-…
Just under half of UK parents, 49%, think their child's school should ban mobile phones, a survey by price comparison site uSwitch suggests.
One in eight parents said their child's school had already done so.
The survey, of just over…
Security researchers at Google have found evidence of a “sustained effort” to hack iPhones over a period of at least two years.
The attack was said to be carried out using websites which would discreetly implant malicious software to ga…
Facebook has unveiled new political advertising rules ahead of next year's US presidential election amid fears the platform will be exploited.
Political advertisers will now have to verify their identity before being given a "confirmed …
Alibaba's Jack Ma and Tesla's Elon Musk took opposing views of the risks and potential rewards of artificial intelligence at an event in Shanghai.
The Chinese entrepreneur said he was "quite optimistic" about AI and thought it was nothi…
Huawei's next flagship smartphone will not come with Google's popular apps including Maps and YouTube.
Google confirmed that due to a US government ban on sales to Huawei, it could not license its apps to the Chinese smartphone giant.
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Apple has apologised following revelations that it paid third-party workers to listen to voice recordings of Siri users.
The practice known as "grading" has been used by several tech firms as a way of improving the quality of speech rec…
A hugely popular Android app that takes high quality photographs of documents has been found to contain malware.
CamScanner has been downloaded more than 100 million times by Android users.
However, cyber-security researchers at Kasp…
The Danish company Blue Ocean Robotics has acquired the robot Beam® from one of the world’s leading suppliers of telepresence robots, Silicon Valley-based Suitable Technologies, Inc.
Blue Ocean Robotics recently concluded an agreement w…
Velodyne Sensors Deliver Industry-Leading Range and Resolution to Optimus Ride Fleet
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced that Optimus Ride will use Velodyne’s groundbreaking lidar sensors in its entire fleet of self-driving vehicles. T…
Ericsson (ERICb.ST) and Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE) will team up to tap rising demand for mobile technology at industrial sites in Germany, as communications providers seek local uses for 5G with national deployment still years away.
Ne…
EU regulators are checking Google for Jobs to see if the company unfairly favors its fast-growing tool for searching job listings, Europe’s antitrust chief said on Tuesday.
Launched two years ago, the tool has already drawn numerous com…
An artificial intelligence system that generates realistic stories, poems and articles has been updated, with some claiming it is now almost as good as a human writer.
The text generator, built by research firm OpenAI, was originally co…
A legal battle between two chip firms could see some of the world's most popular gadgets removed from sale.
Apple and Google's products are among those that may have to be taken off the shelves because of the patent dispute.
US-based…
The UK will decide whether Huawei should be excluded from the rollout of its 5G mobile networks by the end of the year, a cabinet minister has said.
Digital Secretary Nicky Morgan told the BBC she hoped the government "could do somethin…
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DevSecOps is fundamentally changing the cybersecurity risk response for organisations that are paying attention
DevOps practices allow for development and operations to build, test, release and design soft…
Global engineering, design and advisory company Aurecon established Unsigned Studio (formerly Studio Magnified) as a visual communication agency within the company in 2018. Unsigned Studio’s immersive, interactive visual communications wer…
It’s hard at times not to feel sorry for Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, given all that he inherited when he became the rideshare giant’s top boss back in April 2017.
Among his many to-do items: take public a money-losing company whose priv…
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) CEO Elon Musk and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) chairman Jack Ma will speak at a conference on artificial intelligence (AI) to be held this week in Shanghai, an Alibaba spokeswoman said on Monday.
The two entrepr…
A hacker who carried out cyber attacks on more than 100 companies has been ordered to pay back £922,978.14 of cryptocurrency.
Grant West had been jailed for fraud after carrying out attacks on brands such as Sainsbury's, Uber and Argos.…
Among the thousands upon thousands of words that make up the privacy policies of the tech giants, one you rarely find is “human”.
There are zero uses of the word in Amazon’s privacy policy for its Alexa voice assistant. The same goes fo…
All major UK airports must introduce 3D baggage screening equipment before the end of 2022, the government says.
Ministers say the technology will boost security, speed up pre-boarding checks, and could end the restrictions on travellin…
It is a familiar experience - you are surfing the web, perhaps looking at an online shoe shop, and half-an-hour later when you are on Facebook an advert pops up for the very pair of shoes you have been looking at.
This happens because o…
How much would you pay to have a stylus in your phone?
That’s the essential question for the Note 10 Plus. It wasn’t always this way: the Note line has meant a few different things over its eight-year history. It was the first phone t…
Although many data plans these days are advertised as “unlimited,” most actually have a cut-off point when your data stream is going to slow radically. If you don’t want to pay the premium prices that “unlimited” plans demand, then it’s ev…
YouTube is shutting down its private messaging feature on September 18th, the company announced in a support post. It said it made the decision after choosing to focus its attention on public conversations, like the Stories feature it laun…
Google made a subtle announcement today on Twitter: it’s in the process of rolling out new AI features for its Lens platform that will let you search your Google Photos library for text that appears within photos and screenshots. Then, you…
U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is in advanced talks with South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd (051910.KS) to source batteries for vehicles to be made in its Shanghai plant, a person familiar with the matter said.
The move represent…
When Instagram first hit the news this week, it was over a hoax. A host of celebrities had posted to their timelines a battered image declaring that Instagram would soon make our deleted photos and messages public, and use them against us …
One of the private companies aiming to deliver a commercial lunar lander to the Moon has adjusted the timing for its planned mission, which isn’t all that surprising, given the enormity of the task. Japanese startup ispace is now targeting…
Social media "influencers" - people who promote goods and services for money online - are getting younger and younger it seems. And services are springing up to teach parents and kids just how to do it.
Ralphie Waplington is just two-an…
The boss of a company which gets children into computer programming has warned a current skills shortage will get worse unless it is tackled.
Robotical's Sandy Enoch said the problem hit home after struggling to fill developer jobs hims…
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Watching someone else revising for hours might not sound like the best use of time.
But if you've done your GCSEs recently, you've probably done exactly that on StudyTube.
It's a "weird little niche of YouTube where you have students…
The next version of the Android operating system (OS) will not be named after a dessert or sweet treat, ending a tradition that started in 2009.
Following the pattern, the name of the new version would have started with Q.
But Google…
Google has shut down 210 channels on YouTube it said were part of a "coordinated” attempt to post material about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong.
The firm said attempts had been made to "disguise the origin of these accounts and other…
Russia has launched a rocket carrying a life-sized robot to the International Space Station (ISS).
It was launched from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday and is set to arrive at the station on Saturday.
The robot…
China Telecom said on Thursday it is ready to build a 5G mobile network with its rivals in order to reduce costs, a proposal that is likely to cut multi-billion dollar equipment orders for vendors such as Huawei Technologies.
China’s bi…
Microsoft has said that it will stop listening in to Xbox users, saying it was "no longer necessary".
It comes after Vice news revealed that it had been recording and listening to the private conversations of gamers - many of whom were …
Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) on Thursday denied a media report which suggested that the German carmaker was interested in buying a stake in United States electric car manufacturer Tesla.
“The speculation about buying a stake in Tesla made by …
Apple has advised owners of its new credit card to keep it away from leather and denim.
Keeping the card in a leather wallet or in the pocket of a pair of jeans could cause "permanent discolouration".
The Apple Card is a relatively p…
Huawei is in Greater Manchester this week, showing off its "5G Experience tour".
But times are tough for the Chinese telecoms equipment maker.
Huawei has been under severe international scrutiny in recent months for its alleged close…
French President Emmanuel Macron is pressing ahead with a digital tax in France, a move U.S. President Donald Trump described as “foolishness”, and the French leader is keen to reach an international agreement on taxing big tech companies.…