Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates had his hands full on-stage in Beijing on Tuesday, showing a jar of human faeces.
The stunt was part of his speech at the Reinvented Toilet Expo event - a showcase for new toil…
A babysitting app says it has been overwhelmed by responses after a parent posted an ad for a babysitter to join their family on an all-expenses-paid dream Christmas holiday.
The position involves spending two weeks in the Bahamas looki…
The amount of time children spend on devices has little effect on how long they sleep, a study from Oxford University suggests.
It runs counter to previous research that suggested excessive screen time was linked to children failing to …
Language learning company Reverso is launching a new product on the web and mobile. Reverso Synonyms is a thesaurus service that lets you learn new words and improve your vocabulary.
You may have found this feature in the main Reverso…
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Monday it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for the first time this holiday season, heating up the competition with Walmart Inc (WMT.N) and other rivals vying for customers’ Christmas shoppi…
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has told its smartphone assemblers Foxconn and Pegatron (4938.TW) to halt plans for additional production lines dedicated to its new iPhone XR, the Nikkei financial daily reported s.nikkei.com/2PHPYWb on Monday.
Apple…
When Artificial Intelligence works as intended, Silicon Valley types often say it's "like magic".
But it isn't magic. It's Brenda, a 26-year-old single mother who lives Kibera, Africa's largest slum, and perhaps the toughest neighbourho…
Rainbow Six Siege players have complained about proposed changes to the game before its wide release in Asia.
Ubisoft said it had altered artwork in some "maps and icons" to ensure the game complied with local regulations.
The altera…
Taxi-hailing firm Uber has launched a membership scheme dubbed Ride Pass, for passengers in five US cities.
The deal allows passengers to avoid price surging, when costs rise at rush hour and other in-demand times.
The fixed-fare pla…
BMW is expanding its car-sharing service DriveNow into five more London boroughs as the carmaker overcomes some of the barriers to operating across the city where firms need to strike agreements with separate local authorities.
Daimler …
Uber Eats is expanding to enterprise customers with the launch of Uber Eats for Business. The new service allows companies to manage their employees’ food orders and positions Uber Eats to compete more directly against rivals that already…
Instagram hopes dollars from the long-tail of small businesses and social media stars can help it pull its weight in the Facebook family. A new ad type called “Promote” for Stories allows Instagram business pages to show their ephemeral s…
Introducing Dot Citizen: The podcast exploring the intersection of politics, technology, and human rights
WhiteHat Magazine is expanding our coverage to a new podcast: Dot Citizen!
Dot Citizen's first season dives deep into election…
University classes are set to be given a futuristic spin by letting lecturers appear as hologram-like apparitions beamed in from afar.
Imperial College London will show off the technology at a special event later on Thursday before depl…
Mario Segale, the man after whom video game hero Super Mario was named, has died aged 84.
Mr Segale was a successful Italian-American property developer from the US state of Washington.
In the 1980s, he leased a warehouse to Nintendo…
On the 10th of November 2018, Linum Labs will host our very first Blockchain Community Conference in Ghana to raise awareness on blockchain technology by creating an open platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing amongst participant…
Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts.
The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were a…
Influencer marketing could get a lot more accountable if Snapchat’s PR firm wins this lawsuit. Snapchat hoped that social media stars promoting v2 of its Spectacles camera sunglasses on its biggest competitor could boost interest after it …
On December 11, just slightly more than a month away, up to 15 exceptional startups will arrive in Lagos, Nigeria to compete in Startup Battlefield Africa 2018. Don’t miss your opportunity to watch founders of Africa’s best early-stage tec…
Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) announced today that their Light flagship, the HUAWEI Y9 2019 will be available for preorder at selected retail shops from the 1st to the 8th of November 2018. In Ghana, the early bird customers who mak…
U.S. online spending during the holiday shopping season is likely to grow 14.8 percent this year to $124.1 billion, far outpacing the 2.7 percent growth predicted for brick-and-mortar locations and highlighting the ongoing switch from stor…
When anything changes in the way the world's most powerful social media firm works, that can have huge consequences for its users and the businesses that feed off them.
And now Mark Zuckerberg has signalled a major shift in how Facebook…
A little-known California-based company has laid claim to creating the "world's first foldable phone".
Royole Corporation - a specialist in manufacturing flexible displays - unveiled the FlexPai handset at an event in Beijing.
When o…
ExaGrid’s security features insulate critical backup data from malicious attacks
ExaGrid’s hyper-converged secondary storage for backup system was put to the ultimate test by Cheshire Medical Center, which had selected ExaGrid for backu…
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) refreshed some of its lesser-known products at a New York event on Tuesday, adding iPhone features like facial recognition to the iPad Pro and faster processors and better displays to some Mac computers that had gone yea…
Bitcoin was heading towards a year-on-year loss on Wednesday, its 10th birthday, the first loss since last year’s bull market, when the original and biggest digital coin muscled its way to worldwide attention with months of frenzied buying…
PSA: If you’re an Apple Watch owner who is having trouble finding the shiny new WatchOS 5.1 update that Apple just shipped, it isn’t quite ready yet.
Apple initially shipped the update on Tuesday alongside iOS 12.1, but it quickly pull…
Ford Motor Co and Baidu Inc launched a two-year project on Wednesday to test self-driving vehicles on Chinese roads, amid a global race by carmakers and internet firms to develop autonomous vehicle technology.
The project will start tes…
A fake advert purporting to have been paid for by scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica has been posted to Facebook.
The ad, now removed but still visible in Facebook's new ad transparency portal, uses the logo of EU referendum campaign group…
NTT and FURUNO ELECTRIC: GPS Time Synchronization with World-Class Accuracy Using a Few Selected Satellites
—Multi-path-tolerant GNSS receiver developed, dramatically increasing accuracy in severe environments—
Nippon Telegraph and…
Apple has pulled an update for its smartwatches after some owners complained the software had caused their devices to stop working.
The problem appears to have baffled the firm's repair staff, and there appears to be no way at present f…
Airbus today released The Great Enabler: Aerospace in Africa – a White Paper on the role of aerospace technologies and their impact on socio-economic development in Africa.
The extensive report looks at how different segments of th…
From new iPads to new MacBook Airs, Apple had a bunch of hardware refreshes to debut this morning. Here’s everything they showed off.
New MacBook Air
The MacBook Air is, at last, getting a Retina display. Roughly six years after…
Here it is, the latest iPad Pro. A refreshed version of Apple’s highest-end tablet is, as anticipated, the centerpiece for today’s big event in Brooklyn. The new tablet marks what is arguable the most radical departure for the line from a…
Sony has forecast a huge jump in annual operating profit as demand for its games, including God of War and Spider-Man, boosted earnings.
The Japanese electronics firm raised its annual profit forecast to 870bn yen ($7.7bn; £6.0bn), up 3…
Milestone investment will combine connected digital technologies, state-of-the-art collaborative robotics and cutting-edge artificial intelligence research to create the most sophisticated, automated and flexible Factory of the Future.
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HE Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), announced that the participation in the Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport had exceeded the t…
UK police have grounded some drones because of a fault that means they can fall out of the sky, BBC Radio 5 Live has found.
Recently, a police drone "experienced an in-flight issue" and landed on the roof of a commercial property.
An…
The US has restricted American firms from selling parts to a Chinese company over national security concerns.
The US Commerce Department said there was a "significant risk" that Fujian Jinhua could get involved in activities that may hu…
Under-fives are being blitzed with app-based ads which are often manipulative, inappropriate or deceptive, according to a coalition of campaign groups.
Examples given include a character crying if the child does not pay to unlock part o…
A little good press goes a long way for a company like Amazon. The company routinely gets knocked for things like warehouse conditions, tax breaks and impact on smaller retail outlets. AmazonSmile’s helped to counteract that a bit, raising…
New AWS Infrastructure Region in the first half of 2020 will enable customers to run workloads in South Africa and serve end-users across the African continent with even lower latency
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com compa…
China’s largest ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing is entering the hotel-booking business as it strives to recover from two highly publicized murders of female passengers by drivers on its platform.
That’s according to Chinese business maga…
EasyJet has pushed back its forecast for flying electric planes to 2030, but is more confident about a technology it expects to cut emissions and costs after a partner moved to the next stage of engine development, the airline said on Mond…
A five-year old Chinese smartphone company whose high-end products are little known outside a tech-savvy niche is entering the U.S. market on Monday with the backing of two key local allies: chipmaking giant Qualcomm (QCOM.O) and mobile op…
WhatsApp is finally adding stickers to its hugely popular messaging app. The company said today that support for stickers will roll out to Android and iOS users over “the coming weeks.”
Initially, the app’s 1.5 billion users will hav…
The podcast market will discover the answer to a foundational question about its future in the next few years. Will it continue along the path of music streaming, where all podcasts are available everywhere on free, ad-supported tiers? Or,…
On the occasion of Euronaval 2018, CNIM announces the launch of two families of crafts: the Landing Crafts Assault or LCA, for Ground Forces projection; and Landing Crafts X-missions or LCX, a versatile, fast offshore vessel designed to fu…
Superfast 5G mobile broadband could power smart cities and the internet of things, (IoT) but as more devices get connected, telecoms and security experts are warning that cyber-attacks could increase in number and severity.
Our homes an…
Samsung’s foldable phone has been floating around the company under the codename “Winner” for some time now. That bit of info isn’t new. It’s understandably taken the company a while to get the thing just right.
After all, we’re talki…
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