Malaysia is investigating an alleged attempt to sell the data of more than 46 million mobile phone subscribers online, in what appears to be one of the largest leaks of customer data in Asia.
The massive data breach, believed to affect …
Gu Xiaomeng, a 24-year-old primary school teacher in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, says she’s excited about the new iPhone X, set to go on sale on Friday. The challenge for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is to persuade her to actually buy one.
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The Essential Phone has come a long way since launch in one key area: Photography. When it first hit the market a few months ago, the camera had a nasty tendency to crash and was a bit slow to load and process photos. But Essential has sta…
Amid the dire - and somewhat overhyped - predictions of occupations that will be decimated by artificial intelligence and automation, there is one crumb of comfort. Yes, lorry drivers, translators and shop assistants are all under threat f…
Drones are delivering food to residents of a Japanese town devastated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster where access to shops is limited.
Residents were allowed to return to the Minamisoma area last year but obtaining supplies can be di…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has tasked employees returning to work on Monday morning with one key objective: fix the burger emoji.
The tech giant's big cheese (sorry) stepped in after a tweet from author Thomas Baekdal highlighted inconsis…
CME Group Inc (CME.O), the world’s largest derivatives exchange operator, said on Tuesday it will launch a futures contract for bitcoin later this year, marking a major step in the digital currency’s path toward legitimacy and helping prop…
Four phones and three years ago, I took the first iPhones to “go big” to the “happiest place on earth” for a road test. It was a watershed year for iPhones, and I started thinking about how best to push them through my brain and …
Android users will now be able to battle junk mail and manage their email subscriptions using the new Android app from Unroll.Me.
To be clear, anyone with a smartphone could get the benefits of the service already. You just had to conne…
The first reviews of Apple Inc’s eagerly awaited iPhone X unanimously judged it the best iPhone yet, although some reviewers pointed out potential glitches in FaceID, the company’s new face recognition system.
The run-up to the Nov. 3 r…
Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the past two years.
The social networking site said about 80,000 posts were produced before and after the 2016 presid…
North Korea has hit back at the UK government for accusing it of being behind a massive ransomware attack that badly affected the National Health Service (NHS).
A UK government minister last week told the BBC he was "as sure as possible…
Japan’s getting an iconic new taxi courtesy of Toyota. The new, aptly named ‘Japan Taxi’ (or Jpn Taxi for conveniently fitting on a rooftop sign) is already on roads, and bears a slight resemblance to London’s signature black cabs. The ide…
Following a late-night, profanity-laced, Twitter tirade directed at CNN anchors, Roger Stone Jr., a longtime confidant and associate of President Donald Trump has been suspended indefinitely from the social media platform.
Stone (who lo…
The company has broken a run of sales decreases that stretches back six quarters thanks to promising early signs for the newly released iPhone 8, according to a new report from Canalys. The analyst firm recorded 40 percent annual growth fo…
Earlier this year, Skype introduced a revamped version of its application offering a heavier focus on media sharing and social expression tools, in an effort to better compete with more modern social communication services, like Slack and …
Facebook has always denied using smartphone microphones to gather audio from people's real-life conversations and then use that data to serve advertising.
Last week Facebook's vice-president of ads, Rob Goldman, said on Twitter that the…
YouTube is tweaking the way it chooses which videos will have adverts shown with them.
The update comes after YouTube made changes to the way videos were monetised, to stop ads appearing alongside extremist content.
The changes promp…
Apple has reportedly fired one of its engineers after his daughter posted a video of the iPhone X before the official launch.
The YouTube video was shot on the Apple campus in September when the young woman met her father for lunch.
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WhatsApp and Facebook will be scrutinised by a data protection taskforce, after they were accused of "non-compliance" with EU laws.
The regulators took issue with the messaging app's plan to share user data with parent company Facebook.…
A web address used by recovery software on Dell PCs was taken over by a third-party after a contractor apparently failed to renew it.
Dell's software checks in with the domain periodically, so whoever snapped it up could use it to distr…
Elon Musk was fed up.
The seats on Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) new Model X SUV were a mess. An outside contractor was having trouble executing the complicated design, spurring frustration and finger-pointing between Tesla and its supplier.
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Football’s governing body FIFA has announced that all 64 matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia will be produced in Ultra High Definition (UHD) with High Dynamic Range (HDR) for the first time in the history of the competition. Multi…
If you were trying to recruit a celebrity to give your ambitious young music tech company a higher profile, it is hard to imagine a much better choice than Pharrell Williams, best known for his hit song Happy.
So all credit to Roland La…
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Tuesday it would add labels to election-related advertisements and say who is behind each of them, after a threat of regulation from the United States over the lack of disclosure for political spending on socia…
Two Snapchat posts by the reality TV star Marnie Simpson have fallen foul of the UK's advertising rules.
The Geordie Shore and Celebrity Big Brother cast member uploaded images of products from two firms that she has business relationsh…
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has followed through on his plan to boost power resources in Puerto Rico after it was devastated by Hurricane Maria.
Mr Musk's firm, Tesla, has set up solar panels and energy storage batteries at Hospital del Nino…
Amazon is launching a service that will let couriers open people's front doors and put deliveries inside.
Users of Amazon Key will need a smart lock and Cloud Cam camera.
Couriers will scan a package barcode and once the delivery has…
Jared O'Mara is not the first person to have old comments he posted online come back to haunt him.
The Labour MP resigned from the Women and Equalities Committee after misogynistic remarks and degrading jokes he posted more than 10 year…
Twitter has pledged to make advertising more transparent as it attempts to fend off proposed new regulations.
It said it would be clearer about who funded ads and to what end, especially those pushing a political agenda.
The company,…
British MPs have asked Facebook if it has evidence of paid-for activity by accounts linked to Russia at the time of the Brexit referendum.
A letter addressed to Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg also asks about similar activity…
Google’s new flagship smartphones have been hit by complaints about the quality of the screens.
Tech reviewers, who have had the larger of the two devices for about a fortnight, noticed “burn in” on its display. Others noted “muddy” dis…
A high-profile plastic surgery clinic has said it is "horrified" after hackers allegedly stole data during a cyber-attack.
London Bridge Plastic Surgery (LBPS) said its IT experts and police found evidence of the breach.
A group clai…
The Chinese firm behind a palm-sized 4G smartphone has admitted that the handset's performance may fall short of expectations in certain circumstances.
Unihertz says the Jelly phone battery has up to three days of working time and lasts…
Britain’s markets watchdog said it has opened an investigation into the hacking of U.S. credit reporting agency Equifax, which affected nearly 700,000 UK citizens.
“The Financial Conduct Authority announces today that it is investigatin…
Days before Apple Inc’s much-awaited iPhone X opens for preorders, a survey by brokerage Bernstein showed that demand for the device will be substantial, but not exceptional, with about a quarter of the respondents planning to buy the phon…
Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who owns investment firm Kingdom Holding, said in an interview with CNBC on Monday that he was optimistic about his investment in Twitter.
“It’s not going to be easy because they face some difficulties, …
Kaspersky, which research firm Gartner ranks as one of the world’s top cyber security vendors for consumers, said in a statement that it would submit the source code of its software and future product updates for review by a broad cross-se…
Benin has launched a project to develop telecom and ICT infrastructures (PDI2T) and improve internet quality, reports Ecofin. Minister of digital economy and communication Rafiatou Monrou initiated the project twelve months ago, with the a…
Agents at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been unable to extract data from nearly 7,000 mobile devices they have tried to access, the agency's director has said.
Christopher Wray said encryption on devices was "a huge,…
Mobile phone data services have been boosted in hurricane-hit Puerto Rico by balloons provided by Google's parent company, Alphabet.
The Project Loon devices beam signals between each other and to users on the ground.
This extends co…
Online gambling companies have been urged to remove adverts featuring images likely to appeal to children.
Regulators said the "unacceptable" ads and third-party media, which contain graphics and images that are likely to be attractive …
Intel’s investment arm has announced plans to pump over USD 60 million into 15 technology startups focusing on the general area of big data. The new companies joining Intel Capital’s portfolio are currently trailblazing technologies that u…
WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia said on Friday that local home owners listed with U.S. short-term rental service Airbnb Inc risk imprisonment if they fail to register with the tourism regulatory body before the end of this year.
The southe…
Vodafone, EE and Three are continuing to charge customers for the mobile phones they buy as part of a contract, even after the cost of the handset has been paid off, research suggests.
Citizens Advice found that customers who do not tak…
Nearly two dozen major companies in technology and other industries are planning to launch a coalition to demand legislation that would allow young, illegal immigrants a path to permanent residency, according to documents seen by Reuters.
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If you have a Samsung phone, you most likely have Google Android. And if you have Google Android, you have the Google Assistant.
That, first and foremost, is Samsung’s problem. No matter how good its assistant - Bixby - may be one day, …
Regulators in California have temporarily suspended a Ford-owned transport start-up after its vehicles failed multiple inspections.
Chariot is a fleet of Ford Transit vans that ferry passengers along popular routes in San Francisco.
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Uber [UBER.UL] said on Friday it would open up its trove of travel data in Paris to the public to help city officials and urban planners better understand transportation needs, as the company seeks to woo national authorities.
The U.S. …
Imagine super-fast computers that can solve problems much quicker than machines today. These "quantum computers" are being developed in laboratories around the world. But scientists have already taken the next step, and are thinking about …
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