Microsoft's graphics program Paint has been included in a list of Windows 10 features that will be either removed or no longer developed.
Paint has been part of the Windows operating system since its release in 1985 and is known for its…
TORONTO (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd said on Thursday it has won the right to sell tools for encrypting phone calls and text messages to the U.S. federal government, garnering an endorsement from the National Security Agency for the product…
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has outlined plans to become a world-leader in artificial intelligence by 2025, laying down a challenge to U.S. dominance in the sector amid heightened international tensions over military applications of…
Imagine logging onto your bank account just by glancing at your phone.
That's what some TSB customers will be able to do from September when the bank introduces iris recognition to its mobile banking app.
It will be the first bank in…
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has launched a social feature called Spark that allows members to showcase and purchase products on its platforms, the retail giant's first clear move into the world of social media.
Spark, which is …
Phonemaker OnePlus has admitted a glitch in some of its devices prevented people making calls to the emergency services.
The issue was highlighted on Reddit, where a customer showed their OnePlus 5 phone restarting when a 911 emergency …
The International Space Station has become the first "off planet" addition to Google Maps' Street View facility.
Astronauts helped capture 360-degree panoramas of the insides of the ISS modules, as well as views down to the Earth below.…
The value of the virtual currency Bitcoin has always been volatile.
Even so, there has been particular turbulence in recent days as fears of a "civil war" among its adherents first grew and then subsided, although they have not gone awa…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its search app on mobile phones to include a personalized feed of links about hobbies, travel, sports and other topics, a move that puts the search company into more di…
(Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) is in early talks with several news publishers about how its social media site can better support subscription business models, the company's head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown, said in a statement on…
Google is to sell a revamped version of its smart glasses to businesses, more than two years after the original version of the product was cancelled.
The company said Glass Enterprise Edition had improved battery life and felt more comf…
Users of the encrypted messaging service WhatsApp have reported disruptions in China, prompting censorship claims.
Many reported that voice messaging and pictures wouldn't send without a virtual private network (VPN) to circumvent China…
Research from anti-bullying charity Ditch the Label suggests social media is making youngsters more anxious.
Forty per cent said they felt bad if nobody liked their selfies and 35% said their confidence was directly linked to the number…
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Ericsson reported a worse than expected second-quarter loss on Tuesday and lowered its forecast for the mobile infrastructure market, blaming persistent low investment by telecoms companies.
Ericsson share…
SEOUL (Reuters) - Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Tuesday it plans to recover 157 tonnes' worth of rare metals from recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones in a bid to minimize the environmental impact of the fire-prone devices.
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Facebook has rejected Pakistan's demand to link new accounts on its main service to users' mobile phone numbers.
Officials had requested the feature to tackle fake accounts, which they say had been used to spread hate material.
They …
Netflix shares surged on Monday after the video streaming firm said it had about 104 million subscribers.
The US company said the better-than-expected number was a sign that investment in new shows and movies was paying off.
Netflix …
A security robot in Washington DC suffered a watery demise after falling into a fountain by an office building.
The stricken robot, made by Knightscope, was spotted by passers-by whose photos of the aftermath quickly went viral on socia…
Some industrial software companies in the UK are "likely to have been compromised" by hackers, according to a document reportedly produced by British spy agency GCHQ.
A copy of the document from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)…
Amazon plans to launch its own stand-alone messaging app called Anytime, according to AFTVnews.com citing a user who claims to have received an Amazon survey about the new messaging service. Amazon did not confirm to Techcrunch.com that it…
Uber Technologies Inc will suspend its services in Macau from July 22 as it has not been able to unlock the full benefits of ride sharing in the gambling hub, in another blow to the firm that is fighting legal scrutiny in many Asian market…
Package delivery company FedEx Corp said a disruption in services in its TNT Express unit following a cyber attack last month would hurt its full-year results.
FedEx's shares fell as much as 3.4 percent to $211.53 in early trading as th…
On 23 June the British parliament came under a sustained cyber attack. In a matter of hours hackers made around 200,000 attempts to get into online user accounts. It was Rob Greig who got the call: "You need to get yourself over there righ…
Phone-maker HTC says it will fix an "error" that let advertisements pop up on the keyboard on some of its phones.
Many users expressed anger online that ad banners had started appearing above the touchscreen keyboard while they were typ…
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Friday proposed new laws to compel companies such as U.S. social media giant Facebook (FB.O) and device manufacturer Apple (AAPL.O) to provide security agencies access to encrypted messages.
The measures …
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's top IT services company Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) is moving to capitalize on growth opportunities in areas such as life sciences and manufacturing, Chief Executive Rajesh Gopinathan said on Friday.
W…
The Australian government says it wants new laws to force tech firms such as Apple and Facebook to provide access to encrypted messages.
Some apps such as WhatsApp use end-to-end encryption, making messages unreadable if intercepted.
…
PARIS (Reuters) - French billionaire Patrick Drahi plans to launch an online bank by early 2019 in the European countries where his telecoms and cable firm Altice operates, a source close to the matter said on Thursday.
The service, to …
Google has revealed it has built a London data centre for the cloud computing services it rents to third parties.
The facility is its second in Europe, after Brussels, and promises to provide faster access times to nearby clients.
Go…
A Bupa employee inappropriately copied and removed information relating to 547,000 international health insurance plan customers, the company has said.
The data included names, dates of birth, nationalities, some contact and administrat…
A British-based company that made smartphones costing thousands of pounds will be liquidated after a plan to save it failed.
Vertu was known for its high-end, jewel-encrusted handsets, but recently faced financial difficulties.
The c…
Facebook is rolling out ads globally to the home page of its Messenger app.
The move follows tests of the feature in Australia and Thailand.
But Facebook is still describing the facility as being in "beta", indicating it may still tw…
Samsung looks ready for a new life with its Note series after its exploding Note 7.
The South Korean giant is expected to announce its Galaxy Note 8 on August 23, reports South Korean media outlet The Bell. Citing a Samsung executive, t…
BEIJING (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Wednesday said it is setting up its first data center in China, in partnership with a local internet services company, to comply with tougher cyber-security laws introduced last month.
The U.S. technolog…
As we approach the fall season, there are only a handful of upcoming phones that we're excited about. Among them is the sequel to Google's pair of flagships, the Pixel and its larger counterpart, Pixel XL.
Though both phones are expecte…
President Donald Trump has been party to an eye-watering 4,000 lawsuits over the last 30 years, US media say.
And now the mogul turned commander-in-chief has attracted one more, after seven people sued him for blocking them on Twitter.
…
Facebook has shut down pages offering marijuana for sale in Alaska, angering the businesses that run them, who say they were licensed to sell it.
It highlights the problems faced by social networks trying to set boundaries for what user…
A host of internet giants - from social networks to dating apps to porn sites - will join a protest Wednesday against plans to roll back rules protecting "net neutrality".
The sites will display a variety of messages, or simulate the po…
Oculus, the virtual reality company owned by Facebook Inc, is temporarily cutting the price of its hardware, as the industry tries to figure out why the technology for immersive games and stories has not taken off among consumers.
Oculu…
Nokia says it is "regrettable" that problems with its Health Mate fitness-tracking app have frustrated users.
Nokia took over health tech firm Withings in 2016 and recently replaced the Withings Health Mate app with a Nokia-branded vers…
Russian authorities are a threat to democracy, former GCHQ director Robert Hannigan has said.
There was "a disproportionate amount of mayhem in cyber-space" coming from the country, he told the BBC.
Mr Hannigan urged people to "push …
Qualcomm, the world's biggest producer of mobile phone chips, has appealed for the sale of some iPhones in the US to be blocked.
It claims that iPhones using chips by rivals, such as Intel, infringe six of its patents.
Qualcomm said …
With 3.3% of its GDP from internet-related activities, Senegal does more than many Western countries, including France and Germany
The ADIE (the state agency in charge of the information technology policy) (ADIE.sn) has formalized today…
In Ghana’s largest cities, the most popular way to get around town is via public transport buses, popularly known as trotro. Not only do trotros go virtually everywhere within the city, you can almost find one anywhere you are within the c…
China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd launched on Wednesday a cut-price voice assistant speaker, similar to Amazon.com Inc's "Echo", its first foray into artificially intelligent home devices.
The "Tmall Genie", named after the company's e-…
Singapore has a near-perfect approach to cybersecurity, but many other rich countries have holes in their defenses and some poorer countries are showing them how it should be done, a U.N. survey showed on Wednesday.
Wealth breeds cyberc…
The perpetrators of a recent cyber-attack that disrupted businesses across the world appear to have accessed the ransom payments they raised.
Just over £7,900-worth of virtual currency has been moved from the Bitcoin address listed in t…
General Motors Co on Wednesday said sales rose in China in June after two consecutive months of decline, and promised to rebuild momentum in the world's largest car market with 10 new or refreshed models in the second half of 2017.
The …
A new Europe-wide wi-fi service for aeroplanes came a step closer on Wednesday night with the launch of a key satellite from French Guiana.
Airline passengers will soon be able to connect to the internet either through this spacecraft o…
The US has unveiled tough new measures to enhance security on flights entering the country, but has held off extending a ban on laptops in the cabin.
In March the US banned cabin laptops to and from eight mostly Muslim nations, fearing …
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