No, it’s not a “regram” option. Sorry! But today, Instagram is officially launching a new feature that will allow users to re-share someone’s Instagram post with their friends via Instagram Stories – something it confirmed was in testi…
Fortnite is finally coming to Android…in a matter of months. After dominating the iOS gaming charts since March, the wildly popular sandbox survival game will be hitting the world’s top mobile operating system at some point this summer.
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After 14 months of silence since launching, Facebook Stories has finally announced a 150 million daily active user count for its Snapchat Stories clone. And now it’s time to earn some money off it. Facebook Stories will start testing its …
Apple has paid 1.5 billion euros ($1.76 billion) into an escrow account set up by the Irish government to hold 13 billion euros in disputed taxes, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said on Friday.
The European Commission ordered Apple in…
By Antigone Davis, Global Head of Safety and Karuna Nain, Global Policy Programs Manager at Facebook
Today we’re excited to launch our Youth Portal, a central place for teens that includes:
Education: Information on how to get…
Mobileye, Intel Corp’s Israel-based autonomous driving unit, has signed a contract to supply eight million cars at a European automaker with its self-driving technologies, a company official told Reuters.
Financial terms of the deal and…
The UK technology sector grew 2.6 times faster than the UK economy as a whole last year, new figures show. One of the biggest growth areas was in compassionate tech, with new apps and online services helping society's most vulnerable.
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Facebook has confirmed its chief executive will meet leading members of the European Parliament to discuss privacy concerns in Brussels.
The date of the meeting with Mark Zuckerberg has yet to be fixed but the president of the European …
Details have been released of the first ever console controller designed and made specifically for disabled gamers.
Microsoft says the Adaptive Controller will give people easier access to the games they love.
Currently players have …
The introduction of Nokia ‘1’ smartphone on Android (Go edition) by HMD Global, the Nokia phone manufacturers has given Ghanaians an exceptional phone experience.
The high quality, but affordable smartphone guarantees a wholesome but po…
As Hollywood studios unleash their summer blockbusters into theaters, Netflix Inc is trying to give film buffs a reason to stay home.
The streaming service is on track to release at least 86 Netflix original films in 2018, the company t…
Pupils are being told to remove watches from their wrists before taking GCSE and A-level exams, to combat cheating.
In most cases, students are being told to place the timepieces on their desks, but invigilators can demand they are left…
A few weeks ahead of its latest flagship announcement, HTC just revealed another piece of hardware. While the Taiwanese company has consolidated much of its mobile offerings in recent years, it announced today at the Consensus 2018 bloc…
When Apple introduced its completely redesigned App Store last fall, one of its goals was to improve app discovery by placing a larger emphasis on editorial content – including things like “app of the day” picks, lists, how-to’s and eve…
There’s probably an important gap in attention being paid at internet companies to young kids that are good targets for parental controls and older ones who are having to learn to use the internet in a responsible way on their own.
To…
Google is revamping its consumer storage plans today by adding a new $2.99/month tier for 200 GB of storage and dropping the price of its 2 TB plan from $19.99/month to $9.99/month (and dropping the $9.99/month 1 TB plan). It’s also rebra…
Police must address concerns over the use of facial recognition systems or may face legal action, the UK's privacy watchdog says.
Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said the issue had become a "priority" for her office.
An inv…
Zimbabwe’s central bank has stopped local banks from trading or processing payments linked to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, its governor said on Monday, but stopped short of banning local cryptocurrency trading exchanges.
In the southe…
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has registered a new electric car firm in Shanghai, as China prepares to scrap rules on capping foreign ownership of new-energy vehicle (NEV) ventures.
The new company, Tesla (Shanghai) Co Ltd, was registered on May 1…
Facebook Inc has so far suspended around 200 apps in the first stage of its review into apps that had access to large quantities of user data, in a response to a scandal around political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
The apps were su…
Apple and Samsung are facing each other in a California court for a third trial involving the same set of five patents.
Apple was originally awarded $1.05bn (£772m) in 2012 after a jury found the South Korean firm had infringed several …
A widely used method of encrypting emails has been found to suffer from a serious vulnerability, researchers say.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a data encryption method sometimes added to programs that send and receive email.
Details …
Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker that’s looking to raise as much as $10 billion in a Hong Kong IPO, is continuing to grow its presence in the American market after it announced plans to bring its smart home products to the U.S..
Th…
If you’ve been meaning to ask your friends just how eggplant emoji your new summer cutoffs are, you’re in luck. Today, Instagram is introducing a feature it’s calling the “emoji slider,” a new audience feedback sticker that polls your vi…
The science of your Instagram posts
Why is it some things we post on Instagram have much bigger engagement than others? Can we apply a formula to the way we react to different images?
Using artificial intelligence, Tomorrow's W…
The digital advertising industry is in crisis: ad fraud is rife, many online ads are never even seen and ad blocking software is threatening to undermine the internet's fundamental business model.
So how did it get into this mess and wh…
Landmark U.S. “net neutrality” rules will expire on June 11, and new regulations handing providers broad new power over how consumers can access the internet will take effect, the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday in setti…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai milked the woos from a clappy, home-turf developer crowd at its I/O conference in Mountain View this week with a demo of an in-the-works voice assistant feature that will enable the AI to make telephone calls on be…
China’s biggest ride-sharing company, Didi Chuxing, said on Friday it would halt for a week one of its domestic services, which it calls “ride-hitching”, following the death of a female passenger that sparked questions about safety.
The…
Google says it will take steps to ensure that humans are not fooled when they get called by software bots that can convincingly mimic the human voice.
Anyone called by the bot will be told they are conversing with a machine, Google told…
File sharing and storage company Dropbox Inc (DBX.O) beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly results and topped estimates for paying subscribers in its first financial report as a publicly traded company.
However, the company’s shar…
Music streaming app Tidal has been accused of inflating audience figures for two albums - Lemonade by Beyonce, and The Life of Pablo by Kanye West.
A Norwegian-language newspaper claims the move would have led Tidal to have paid disprop…
Network gear maker Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) is pulling all online ads from YouTube due to fears of the ads appearing on sensitive content on the platform, Cisco’s chief marketing officer, Karen Walker, said in a blog on Wednesday.
The…
Most Western technology companies are losing ground in Russia under the weight of restrictive rules and mounting local competition. Germany’s SAP (SAPG.DE) is thriving.
SAP is the clear leader in the Russian business-planning software m…
Uber Technologies Inc on Wednesday re-opened a contest to select the first international city to launch its proposed flying taxi project, following apparent delays in getting the service off the ground in Dubai, a previously proposed marke…
Researchers in the US say they have developed a low-cost chip that can detect cocaine in minutes.
The team hopes it will lead to the development of a portable cocaine breathalyser that can tell if a person has used the drug.
At prese…
The first things you notice are the chill in the air, the vast grid on the floor which makes you feel like you're on the film set of the movie Tron, and the whooshing sound of wheels skimming across aluminium.
The last thing on your min…
Drones that monitor crops, control mosquito populations and deliver defibrillators are to be tested in US airspace.
Ten commercial drone projects have been selected to try out new ways for unmanned aircraft to be integrated into the ski…
Google today announced a new version of Google Maps that will launch later this summer. All of the core Google Maps features for getting directions aren’t going away, of course, but on top of that, the team has now built a new set of feat…
Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday said it has set up model “smart” homes across the United States for shoppers to experience what it’s like for voice aide Alexa to dim the lights, turn on the TV or order more laundry detergent.
The rollout un…
BMW has been reprimanded after one of its TV adverts was judged to have promoted "faster, dangerous and irresponsible driving".
The ad was designed to show off the company's four-wheel drive system.
The UK's advertising watchdog said…
Match Group, the owner of dating apps including Tinder and Match.com, says it is not worried by the dating tool which Facebook unveiled last week.
The social media giant's move could help de-stigmatise the online dating scene, Match's c…
Messaging apps collectively passed the 5 billion mark for monthly active users last year, with Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger on track now to pass 2 billion users apiece. With messaging’s popularity showing no signs of slowing down, a n…
Hidden inside the code of Facebook’s Android app is an unreleased feature called Facebook Avatars that lets people build personalized, illustrated versions of themselves for use as stickers in Messenger and comments. It will let users cus…
US First Lady Melania Trump has been caught up in another plagiarism row, following the launch of her new online safety for children campaign on Monday.
A booklet put out by Mrs Trump bore a striking resemblance to one published under t…
Microsoft is launching a couple of features to Excel today that make the ubiquitous spreadsheet software a bit more powerful. Among the new features is support for Azure Machine Learning and custom JavaScript functions to Excel to extend i…
An artificial intelligence network has designed new levels for the original Doom video game.
The technique could be used to create future video games, more quickly and less expensively, researchers said.
The AI was "trained" to make …
Silicon Valley self-driving startup Drive.ai said on Monday it will launch a pilot program for an autonomous ride-hailing service in July in Frisco, Texas, with safety drivers present.
The initial pilot will run for six months and will …
The annual Digital Dialogue Conference has recently ended in Dubai calling for greater collaboration by African content producers to harness the dividend of the digital revolution. The conference organized by Africa’s number one pay-tv ope…
Walmart Inc’s (WMT.N) online grocery delivery partnerships with ride-hailing services Uber and Lyft have ended, according to two sources, a potential setback for the retailer’s ambitions to challenge Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) head-on with sp…