Samsung’s long history of including a 3.5mm headphone jack in its flagship phones is about to come to an end. Despite years of persevering after Apple, Google, Motorola, and other companies ditched the headphone connector, Samsung is about…
Huawei’s debut 5G phone, the Huawei Mate 20 X 5G, will launch in select markets before the end of July, despite continued uncertainty around Huawei’s future as a manufacturer of Android devices. China’s state-run Global Times reports that …
Nintendo have just revealed a smaller, cheaper version of the Switch console called the Lite.
The new mini console will be released on 20 September later this year.
The guide price in the UK is £199 , so that's nearly £80 cheaper tha…
Apple has released a silent update for Mac users removing a vulnerable component in Zoom, the popular video conferencing app, which allowed websites to automatically add a user to a video call without their permission.
The Cupertino, Ca…
Apple has disabled the Walkie-Talkie app on the Apple Watch, because of a flaw that let users eavesdrop on other people's iPhones.
The Walkie-Talkie app let two people who had accepted an invitation send and receive short audio messages…
Sparkle, the first international service provider in Italy and among the top ten global operators, has announced that it has moved its Djibouti Point of Presence (PoP) into the Djibouti Data Center (DDC) selecting it as Sparkle’s IP hub fo…
Nintendo has unveiled a new Nintendo Switch called the Nintendo Switch Lite. As the name suggests, this console is a bit cheaper than the original Nintendo Switch, but it comes with a few drawbacks.
The biggest difference between the N…
The Raspberry Pi 4 is a great little beast, but Tyler Ward identified a flaw in the USB Type-C connector. The Raspberry Pi Foundation confirmed to TechRepublic that the design flaw is real, and that your Raspberry Pi 4 might not work with …
Chris Hogg is a digital health advocate interested in how new forms of health data are changing the relationship between physician and patient. As CCO of Propeller Health, he leads the company's San Francisco office and oversees the phar…
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has started a program in Shanghai to help Chinese developers create apps as part of the iPhone maker’s efforts to build out its services business in one of its most critical overseas markets.
The program, or accelerat…
Twitter is updating its hate-speech rules to ban posts that liken religious groups to rats, viruses or maggots, among other dehumanising terms.
Over time, the ban would be extended to cover to some other groups, it said.
But a public…
President Donald Trump is violating free speech laws by blocking critics on Twitter, a New York federal appeals court has ruled.
It follows a case brought on behalf of seven individuals who had been blocked by the president.
Official…
An app that harnesses the unused processing power of idling mobile phones has been used to identify anti-cancer molecules in a range of foods.
The research identified carrots, celery and oranges as having the highest number of cancer-fi…
Moody’s Analytics, a global provider of financial intelligence, has won two 2019 Risk Technology Awards for its IFRS 9 solutions:
» IFRS 9 – Enterprise Solution of the Year
» IFRS 9 – ECL Modelling Solution of the Year
These …
Moody’s Analytics, a global provider of financial intelligence, has won six categories in the 2019 Risk Technology Awards.
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ABB to install advanced collaborative robotics for medical laboratories and hospitals, starting with new healthcare hub at Texas Medical Center in Houston, US, in October
New facility at Texas Medical Center’s innovation campus to foc…
Velodyne Sensors Deliver Industry-Leading Range and Resolution to Idriverplus Autonomous Driving Products
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced that Idriverplus, one of the first companies in China to launch the commercialization of driv…
Scenarios Addresses Planning, Design, Meeting SLAs As Trials Of Next-Gen Wi-Fi Continue Ramping Up
In preparation for the impending release of next-generation Wi-Fi technology later this year, the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today…
Instagram believes its new anti-bullying tool, which prompts users to pause and consider what they are saying, could help curb abuse on the platform.
It will also soon offer the targets of bullying the ability to restrict interactions w…
Spotify’s Lite app is now official. The app has been in beta since last year, and now Spotify is officially releasing it in 36 countries worldwide.
The app is designed to work on patchy or weak internet connections and, at just 10MB, …
You can get access to Uber’s controversial Quiet Ride button that lets you ask your driver for silence if you’ll pay a 20% to 40% premium atop the UberX price. Today the Uber Comfort tier launches in 43 cities and smaller states in the US…
The U.S. Department of Commerce will issue licenses to U.S. companies seeking to sell to Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd where there is no threat to national security, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Tues…
Hackers could access cameras on millions of Apple Macs thanks to a vulnerability in Zoom's video-conferencing software, a security researcher has found.
Jonathan Leitschuh uncovered a way to force almost any Mac that has Zoom's app inst…
Four children spent nearly £550 in three weeks buying player packs to play the Fifa football video game online on the family's Nintendo Switch console.
In Fifa, special players can be bought in packs, but the contents are only revealed …
Moody’s Analytics, a global provider of financial intelligence, has won Enterprise-Wide Stress Testing Product of the Year at the 2019 Risk Technology Awards. It’s one of six categories won across finance, accounting, regulatory, and cred…
This four-week program aims to empower girls in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields to pursue higher education and careers
Secondary school girls from the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia arrived in …
In our series of letters from African journalists, technology writer Andile Masuku looks at what the launch of Facebook's digital money could mean for Africa.
From early next year, Facebook intends to let its two billion-odd users - mor…
Waymo is rolling out amenities to entice riders to use its self-driving taxis, creating a potential route to profitability in a money-losing industry.
The Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) subsidiary is testing complimentary Wi-Fi in its robotaxis…
Huawei has long said it is independent from the Chinese government with some Western countries concerned its products pose a national security risk.
The question over its relationship with the Chinese state came up again with a recent s…
* Voice-operated COATINO™ lab assistant aims to reduce labor-intensive searches in the coatings industry
* First release to customers scheduled as early as 2020
* Innovative services are gaining importance
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The partnership will start by addressing educational and infrastructure needs of communities in the White Nile state
Siemens (www.Siemens.com) and Plan International Germany have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate…
African businesses are currently making massive investments in things like machine learning and artificial intelligence tools and are using cloud and virtualized infrastructure to enhance service delivery.
Talking with industry leaders …
That’s what we heard, too: When you sent an email using this $30-a-month invite-only app, it automatically tracked every time a recipient looks at that email, and even showed you their location. That’s because it uses hidden pixel trackers…
Facebook spent the last day before a long weekend like so many of us, abruptly shutting down without its boss’ permission and without any regard for its coworkers. Jake Kastrenakes reports:
Facebook has had problems loading images, vi…
Sony’s inaugural pair of true wireless earbuds, the WF-1000X, didn’t stand out among the competition when they hit the market in 2017. They were plagued by some of the common stumbles of first-generation earbuds with no cable between them …
This month marks the 40th anniversary of Sony’s first Walkman, the portable music player that would forever change the way we consume music. And while the audio cassette long ago fell out of favor for the CD and later digital music, the …
All of those obnoxious marketing emails that crowd your inbox aren’t just pushing a product. They’re also tracking whether you’ve opened the email, when you opened it, and where you were at the time by using software like MailChimp to embe…
Apple is set to replace the technology underlying the keyboards found in its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro computers, according to a new report from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via 9to5Mac). Kuo is frequently accurate in his predictions, wh…
If you’re driving your car from Portland to Merced, you probably rely on GPS to see where you are. But what if you’re driving your Moon rover from Oceanus Procellarum to the Sea of Tranquility? Actually, GPS should be fine — if this NASA r…
European startup Dott has secured 30 million euros ($34 million) in a fundraising led by existing investors EQT and South Africa’s Naspers to launch an electric bike hiring business and roll out new generations of its electric scooters.
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China’s war on garbage is as digitally savvy as the country itself. Think QR codes attached to trash bags that allow a municipal government to trace exactly where its trash comes from.
On July 1, the world’s most populated city Shanghai…
French startup Clever Cloud is a cloud hosting company that operates a Platform as a Service (or PaaS). The company just launched GPU-based instances for machine learning purposes under a new brand, Clever Grid.
Behind the scene, the …
Police and security forces around the world are testing out automated facial recognition systems as a way of identifying criminals and terrorists. But how accurate is the technology and how easily could it and the artificial intelligence (…
European Union states opened the way to competing technologies for internet connected cars on Thursday, rejecting a European Commission push for a wifi-based standard backed by Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE).
The result represents a win for BMW…
South Korea said on Thursday it may retaliate against Japan’s latest export limits on high-tech materials, as a row over forced wartime labor threatened to disrupt global supplies of memory chips and smartphones.
Samsung Electronics Co …
This week is the 1,000th episode of BBC Click. To mark the anniversary, the team has created a special show that gives its audience complete control of what they watch.
Welcome to what might be the future of television.
By choosing t…
Facebook says glitches affecting its platforms have now been resolved.
Users across the world had been unable to upload or view photos, videos and other files.
The problems had affected its Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp…
Overuse of mobiles by university students may have offline consequences such as lower grades, drinking problems and more sexual partners, a study says.
In a survey of more than 3,400 people taking degrees in the US, those who said they …
A U.S. judge on Wednesday ruled against Qualcomm Inc’s effort to block the implementation of a sweeping antitrust ruling against it as the mobile chip supplier pursues an appeal that could take more than a year to wind through the courts.
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May we introduce Joe Nicchi, a small business owner who has told these Instagram-dwelling individuals where to go.
In an interview with The Guardian, Mr Nicchi, who runs ice cream truck CVT Soft Serve, tells of how these so-called influ…