There are a growing number of gadgets and apps on the market which aim to help keep women safe from sexual harassment and attack. But are they effective or could they merely reinforce the image of women as victims?
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The European Commission is still considering whether to regulate social media platforms to ensure they promptly remove illegal content — be it terrorist propaganda, child sexual exploitation or hate speech but also commercial scams and eve…
Twitter today is publicly launching its “Bookmarks” feature, which has been in testing since late last year, following the company’s HackWeek project dubbed #SaveForLater. A desire to save content for later reading is something people have…
Twitter has asked for help in devising a "health check" to measure its contribution to public conversation.
It said it hoped to work with "outside experts" and is inviting proposals.
Its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, said the platfor…
A BBC investigation has found that companies in Saudi Arabia are offering to artificially boost the popularity of hashtags to make them trend on Twitter - in contravention of the social media network's rules. The price to get automated "bo…
Uber’s launching a new business line called Uber Health on Thursday that will provide a ride-hailing platform available specifically to healthcare providers, letting clinics, hospitals, rehab centers and more easily assign rides for their …
You know the drill, right? A new flagship comes out and bumps the last big name out of the top spot. We’re still a couple of weeks out from the Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ release date, but the premium handset just got the DxOMark treatment, and…
Jaguar has finally fully revealed the official I-PACE all-electric SUV, a vehicle with just under 240 miles of range and a 0 to 60 mph time of under five seconds. The car can also charge to 80 percent from empty in 40 minutes using special…
Toyota Motor Corp said a new venture would be investing more than $2.8 billion to develop automated-driving software - the latest salvo in an increasingly frenetic battle to be ahead in a sector hit by a slew of disruptive technologies.
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Russian propagandists targeted the popular news-sharing website Reddit to influence American political debate, a US website has claimed.
It had been widely presumed that Reddit, a hub for campaigning, activism and often extreme views, w…
Researchers have repurposed existing robotic technology so it is able to create custom wooden furniture, a move they say will greatly improve safety.
The team at the Massachusetts' Institute of Technology (MIT) modified existing technol…
With unlimited high quality photo storage from Google Photos and a carefully curated set of pre-installed apps, the Mara X makes sure African users have enough space for the apps they love
In partnership with Google, Mara Corporation Li…
Riding a wave of new users, improved advertising options and an embrace of video content by users and advertisers alike, Twitter Inc’s (TWTR.N) revenue has leaped in Japan, helping lead the company to its first quarterly profit.
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Amazon.com Inc launched its music-streaming service in India on Wednesday, its latest offering to drive customers to shop more on its flagship e-commerce platform.
Amazon Prime Music will be available at no extra cost to members of Prim…
Amazon has bought a US firm that makes high-tech doorbells in a move expected to help the online retailer improve how it delivers parcels.
Ring makes doorbells that record live videos of customers' doorsteps, then sends the videos to th…
US border control agents have not been using the right software to verify e-passports for more than a decade, two US senators claim.
Oregon senator Ron Wyden and Missouri senator Claire McCaskill have asked US customs officials to start…
A businessman has taken Google to the High Court in London in what is being seen as a landmark case over "the right to be forgotten".
He is challenging Google's decision not to remove a criminal conviction he has from the 1990s from sea…
Lifestyle site Little Things says it has had to close after changes to Facebook's news feed algorithms "decimated" its business.
The closure of the female-focused publishing business will result in the loss of 100 jobs.
The company f…
Katapult Accelerator selected 12 exponential technology startups in their second cohort to join the three-month accelerator programme in Oslo, Norway. The Katapult Accelerator made a selection from 1,500 impact-focused startups from all ov…
Ford Motor Co is taking a different approach from rival General Motors Co in deploying self-driving vehicles, focusing initially on partnering with and operating vehicles for a variety of companies, from Domino’s Pizza to Lyft, executives …
Fitbit Inc’s (FIT.N) shares fell 14 percent in early trading on Tuesday after the company said its newly launched smartwatch was not selling as expected, raising concerns about the company’s ability to become profitable again in the near t…
Vero is the Instagram rival that's topping the App Store.
The ad-free app lets users share photos, add links, and recommend books, movies and TV shows to friends.
It has jumped from 99 to number one in Apple's UK store in the past we…
Google (GOOGL.O) is not obligated to ensure websites are free from defamatory content before displaying links to them in search results, Germany’s highest court ruled on Tuesday.
The case, which comes in the context of debate about the …
The clicky-clacky, full keyboard devices that spring to mind when you hear “BlackBerry” might be a thing of the past… but the brand lives on.
Famed gadget-unearther Evan Blass dug up a picture of an upcoming BlackBerry device said to be…
Mobile data will be used in Ghana to track and control epidemics, helping prevent a repeat of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak, in a pioneering program announced by Vodafone Foundation on Monday.
The initiative will use aggregated …
Is smartphone hardware treading water while industrial designers wait for bendy screens and other flexible, futuristic components to make more radical models possible? And will sales continue to decline until they do?
Samsung is casting…
The chief executive of Huawei [HWT.UL] said on Monday the pace of commercialization for next-generation 5G wireless network is picking up as the Chinese telecom equipment maker has begun pre-commercial development with more than 30 network…
Social networks' failure to tackle cyber-bullying is risking the mental health of young people, a Children's Society survey has found.
Almost half of 1,089 11 to 25-year-olds questioned for the Safety Net report had experienced threaten…
New and improved camera capabilities are the main thrust of Samsung's pitch for its latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S9 and larger S9+.
The handsets gain a super-slow-motion facility designed to make it easy to extend key moments…
The Xperia XZ2's rumble tech adapts a feature originally developed for the firm's PlayStation controllers.
It also records "super-slow-mo" videos at a higher resolution than Samsung's Galaxy S9.
Sony has, however, pioneered other pho…
Nissan Motor Co is taking its first steps to becoming an operator of autonomous vehicle services, hoping to break into a segment set to be dominated by Uber [UBER.UL] and other technology firms.
While automakers for more than a century …
Google Play apps and games store has started accepting payments in Kenya through Safaricom’s mobile phone M-Pesa service to boost downloads in a market where many people do not have a credit card.
M-Pesa, which enables customers to tran…
If you read the tech press, you might have seen reports that Uber is pursuing a sale in Southeast Asia that would see Grab, its Singapore-headquartered rival valued at $6 billion, acquire Uber’s business in the region.
Rumors of such a …
Concerns about the harm caused by "too much" screen time - particularly when it is spent on social media - are widespread. But working out what a "healthy" amount might be is far from easy.
Headlines rarely soothe nerves.
Apple's Tim…
Opera Max lives on after Samsung acquired the mobile browser to save it from oblivion.
The browser was one of the first data-friendly mobile browsers, and it later added privacy-focused settings, including safeguards against insecure Wi…
China’s Huawei is forging closer commercial ties with big telecom operators across Europe and Asia, putting the company in prime position to lead the global race for next-generation 5G networks despite U.S. allegations it poses a security …
Facebook is looking to clean up and clarify the way advertisers measure their campaign performance.
Over the past couple of years, the company has had to acknowledge multiple mistakes in its ad metrics. Last fall, researchers even point…
President Trump has vowed to "do something" about the violence in games and films watched by younger people.
In a meeting at the White House on school safety, President Trump said the violence played a role in shaping the way people saw…
AirBnB is offering new services aimed at wealthier travellers as it seeks to compete in the luxury travel market.
The accommodation site will offer a dedicated section for boutique hotels, bed and breakfasts and more unusual locations s…
Since October, emergency responders in Elk Grove and Sacramento County, California have received more than 1,600 false alarm 9-1-1 calls coming from an Apple repair and refurbishing site in the area.
It’s not clear if the calls are comi…
Snap’s stock investors haven’t made much money since the company went public last year, but CEO Evan Spiegel still got a hefty payday.
According to an SEC filing, he was granted an RSU of 37,447,817, which vested at the time of the IPO.…
I love buying new smartphones. Who doesn’t get a rush from buying the latest, coolest tech? Especially when it’s a device you’re going to use as often as your handset.
But when I head to the store, or, let’s face it, search online, ther…
Apple is preparing a couple of updating models of AirPods, according to Bloomberg. The popular fully wireless earbud-style headphones that Apple introduced last year are currently on track for a refresh in 2018 with the addition of a new v…
The big story at last year’s Mobile World Congress was 5G. This time out, however, we can expect a lot around 5G. And as for next year’s show? Well, then we’ll finally start talking about some 5G. Mobile infrastructure is a hard thing to m…
The hashtag #TwitterLockout has trended after an apparent purge of suspected malicious bots on the social network.
Dozens of users report having had their accounts suspended until they provided a telephone number which they then had to …
A chat app where South Koreans can anonymously dish the dirt on their misbehaving bosses and colleagues is belatedly stirring the country’s #MeToo movement, shedding new light on sexual harassment in the heavily male-dominated corporate cu…
Pictures of Samsung's latest flagship phone have been disclosed by an app released by the firm itself.
The images were discovered hidden via a hack of Unpacked 2018, a program that the company has asked invitees to Sunday's launch of th…
Angry Birds game maker Rovio Entertainment (ROVIO.HE) warned that profitability would fall short of forecasts, halving its share price and leaving investors in the Finnish company nursing big losses after a flotation last September.
Rov…
Some of the biggest electronics bazaars in Asia are being flooded with customers looking for the latest piece of technology: cryptocurrency mining rigs.
Scores of miners from around the world are traveling to places like Hong Kong’s Sha…
Intel Corp plans to invest $5 billion to expand production at its Kiryat Gat plant in southern Israel, Israeli Economy Minister Eli Cohen said on Wednesday after talks with the U.S. chipmaker.
Intel, would start expanding the plant this…