The Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan group of dozens of state attorneys general are in the final stages of filing one or more major antitrust complaints against Facebook Inc FB.O in early December, according to four sources famili…
Twitter Inc TWTR.N has resolved most performance issues with its new ephemeral "fleets" product and expects to complete the global launch by Friday, the company's product chief said in a live video on Thursday.
“As we were rolling out o…
Apple Inc AAPL.O and Verizon Communications VZ.N on Thursday announced a program in which Verizon will subsidize the replacement of corporate customers' entire fleet of smartphones with any of Apple's iPhone 12 models.
Verizon Business,…
Nvidia has confirmed Fortnite is coming back to iPhones through its cloud gaming service, despite Apple having thrown the game off its App Store.
The company's GeForce Now service is now available through the Safari web browser - bypass…
Three of the largest social networks have said they will join forces with fact-checkers, governments and researchers to try to come up with a new way of tackling misinformation.
Vaccine misinformation has been rife on Facebook, Twitter …
Children's charity the NSPCC has said a drop in Facebook's removal of harmful content was a "significant failure in corporate responsibility".
Facebook's own records show its Instagram app removed almost 80% less graphic content about s…
Sita and orange business services stretch the bounds of edge connectivity and lead the way with shared sdn at airports
Agile and scalable SD-WAN already introduced at more than 60 airports globally
SITA and Orange Business Services h…
Alphabet Inc's GOOGL.O Google on Wednesday relaunched its U.S. payments app, introducing paid promotions to the service and opening a waitlist for bank accounts being launched next year with Citigroup Inc C.N and 10 other institutions.
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An app that aims to translate your cat’s miaow has been developed by a former Amazon Alexa engineer.
MeowTalk records the sound and then attempts to identify the meaning.
The cat's owner also helps to label the translation, creating …
Twitter has at various times acknowledged that Donald Trump isn’t bound by the same rules that govern the rest of us. This executive privilege has allowed him to continue posting comments that could have long ago gotten any normal person b…
Many customers hoping to get hold of a PlayStation 5 on its launch day have been left disappointed after online retailers sold out of the console.
In an email to customers, Game blamed courier firm Yodel, which has strenuously denied it…
African cross-border fintech startup Chipper Cash has raised a $30 million Series B funding round led by Ribbit Capital with participation of Bezos Expeditions — the personal VC fund of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Chipper Cash was founded in…
A new feature on Twitter designed to allow people to share "their fleeting thoughts" has faced a backlash, with many saying it encouraged harassment.
So-called "fleets" vanish in 24 hours, and Twitter said they are meant to "help people…
Apple will pay $113m (£85m) to settle allegations that it slowed down older iPhones.
Thirty-three US states claimed that Apple had done this to drive users into buying new devices.
Millions of people were affected when the models of …
Wipro’s Annual State of Cybersecurity Report Finds Increasing Adoption of AI in Cybersecurity to Tackle Advanced Adversaries
Nearly half (49%) of organizations plan to extend Cognitive and AI capabilities for security to detect and resp…
Holiday Shopping Warning: Simple Typos Can Lead Consumers and Brands to Online Fraud, Counterfeit Goods, and Cyber Crime
CSC research also indicates lower than expected domain security amongst top shopping websites, putting brand owners…
Luxembourg Teams up with ESA to Create a Unique “European Space Resources Innovation Centre” to be Established in the Grand Duchy
Luxembourg entered a strategic partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) to create a “European Spac…
Apple's new M1 powered MacBook shows impressive performance gains that make Intel's chips obsolete overnight
Survival and strategy games are often played in stages. You have the early game where you’re learning the ropes, understanding …
Nigeria based startup Autochek looks to bring the sales and servicing of cars in Africa online. The newly founded venture has closed a $3.4 million seed-round co-led by TLcom Capital and 4DX ventures toward that aim.
The raise comes fre…
Republican senators on Tuesday attacked the chief executives of Facebook and Twitter for what they called censorship of President Trump and his allies during the U.S. election while Democrats bemoaned the spread of misinformation on social…
Amazon has launched its own online pharmacy that will allow customers to buy prescription medicines.
Amazon Prime members are eligible for free two-day delivery and discounts of up to 80% on generic medicines and 40% on prescribed brand…
Apple is halving the commission it takes from the sale of apps and virtual goods sold within them from many of the smaller developers using its stores.
From January, any existing app-maker who earned $1m (£830,000) or less from Apple's …
A laptop which caught fire after being fitted with a battery bought on Amazon has prompted safety charity Electrical Safety First to warn of the dangers of buying cheap electronics online.
It said that it had found "some extremely dange…
Swedish truckmaker Scania plans to invest more than 1 billion Swedish crowns ($116 million) over several years in a battery assembly plant in Sodertalje, near Stockholm, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
The company, owned by Germany’s…
Social media giant Twitter TWTR.N Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches, is appointing one of the world's best-regarded hackers to tackle everything from engineering missteps to misinformation.
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An Austrian privacy advocacy group drew a strongly critical response from Apple on Monday after it said an online tracking tool used in its devices breached European law.
The group, led by campaigner Max Schrems, filed complaints with d…
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors on Tuesday said it had entered a strategic relationship with Amazon.com’s cloud computing unit to help cars communicate with data centers.
NXP is one of the biggest suppliers of computing chips to auto…
If you follow US tech, you're probably getting a sense of deja vu.
Senators are about to grill Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
It's only three weeks since both chief executives testified. But since then the poli…
Wi-Fi Urgently Needs More Spectrum According to the DSA and PIP in Latest Research Paper
The new paper explains how the 6 GHz band can be used to deliver a step-change in connectivity
With over half of all the connections to the In…
At the 2020 Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF), Mr. Yang Chaobin, President of Huawei Wireless Network Solution, unveiled the future-oriented "1+N" 5G target networks and released a full series of 5G solutions for building simplified "1+…
Uber Technologies Inc started on Monday to take instant payments in Brazil in partnership with payments startup Ebanx, both companies said.
More than 60 million people had already signed up to the newly launched instant payments platfor…
Technology companies’ services could be banned from the European market if they do not heed EU regulation, Europe’s industry chief Thierry Breton told German weekly Welt am Sonntag, as the European Commission finalizes rules on internet co…
Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft.
SpaceX’s newly designe…
Children searching for content relating to depression and self-harm can be exposed to more of it by the recommendation engines built in to social networks.
Sophie Parkinson was just 13 when she took her own life. She had depression and …
People who play video games for long periods of time tend to report feeling happier than those who do not, a study has indicated.
The Oxford Internet Institute research focused on two games: Nintendo's Animal Crossing and EA's Plants vs…
Christmas parties are being organised virtually by businesses whose offices are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A vaccine will arrive too late for office parties, so companies have invested in digital events and activities.
F…
Google Photos will no longer offer unlimited free photo storage, in a move that will affect storage for other Google products including email.
The company's photo storage launched in 2015, promising unlimited uploads.
But Google now …
Volkswagen has raised its planned investment on digital and electric vehicle technologies to 73 billion euros ($86 billion) over the next five years as it seeks to hold onto its crown as the world’s largest carmaker in a new green era.
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Netflix already borrowed the concept of short-form video “Stories” from social apps like Snapchat and Instagram for its Previews feature back in 2018. Now, the company is looking to the full-screen vertical video feed, popularized by TikTo…
The latest Mac operating system arrives, Amazon faces a lawsuit over PPE and Disney+ turns one. This is your Daily Crunch for November 12, 2020.
The big story: Apple releases macOS Big Sur
This update, which was first announced five …
Alphabet GOOGL.O CEO Sundar Pichai has apologised to Europe's industry chief Thierry Breton over a leaked internal document proposing tactics to counter the EU's tough new rules on internet companies and lobby against the EU commissioner.
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Another banner month month for Nintendo hardware sales, per the latest figures from NPD. The firm puts Switch sales (including the standard and Lite models) at 735,000 units in the U.S., making the best October for a Nintendo console since…
After filing earlier this year, DoorDash dropped its public S-1 filing this morning, bringing clarity to its numbers and moving it closer to a public debut that should happen before the end of the year.
The company is one of several sta…
The next time you pack your bags at the supermarket checkout, give yourself a small pat on the back.
A task which is so simple for humans - quickly and efficiently packing a bag of groceries of different sizes and shapes without crushin…
Amazon's home voice assistant Alexa is taking a step closer towards natural conversation by trying to guess what users might say next.
So if asked how long it took to brew a cup of tea, it may answer and then ask if the user wants it to…
The US Commerce Department has halted a ban on TikTok that was due to come into effect on Thursday night.
The order would have prevented the app from being downloaded in the US.
The Commerce Department delayed the ban "pending furthe…
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter has surprised some of its users by replying to complaints they made seven years ago.
Many focused on a book which attracted huge numbers of complaints about encouraging sexual assault.
Users who recei…
State-backed hackers from North Korea and Russia have been targeting organisations working on a coronavirus vaccine, Microsoft has said.
It said a Russian group nicknamed "Fancy Bear" and North Korean groups dubbed "Zinc" and "Cerium" w…
German luxury automaker BMW AG unveiled on Wednesday an electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) called the BMW iX, planned to go on sale in the United States in early 2022 to compete with Tesla Inc and other rivals.
BMW said the iX should …
French startup Molotov provides a TV streaming service in France that replaces the traditional set-top box. You can access live TV, subscribe to premium channels, watch content after they air and record content in the cloud. Today, the com…