PUBG Mobile, the sleeper hit mobile game, will terminate all service and access for users in India on October 30, two months after New Delhi banned the game in the world’s second largest internet market over cybersecurity concerns.
Indi…
Corsair Gaming today announced that it has acquired EpocCam, the software developer behind the iOS software of the same name. It’s easy to see why the gaming company would be interested in such an acquisition in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic…
Polestar, the electric vehicle brand that was spun out of Volvo Car Group, has issued another recall for its newest electric vehicle.
The company is voluntarily recalling nearly 4,600 vehicles over what has been described as faulty inve…
WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app owned by Facebook, is now delivering roughly 100 billion messages a day, the company’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at the quarterly earnings call Thursday.
For some perspective, users…
Tesla has made good on founder and CEO Elon Musk’s promise to boost the price of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) software upgrade option, increasing it to $10,000 following the start of the staged rollout of a beta version of the software up…
Business is booming for America's tech giants.
Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Google reported sales and profits figures on Thursday covering the three months to 30 September - and there was a common thread: growth shows no sign of slowing.…
Eating disorder charities have issued a warning about a "harmful" diet app that had been promoted on the Apple App Store to over-12s.
Carrot Fit aims "to transform your flabby carcass into a Grade A specimen of the human race" using enc…
The UK's data privacy watchdog has fined the Marriott Hotels chain £18.4m for a major data breach that may have affected up to 339 million guests.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said names, contact information, and passport…
Tesla Inc TSLA.O plans to add at least one new service center every week in 2021, Electrek reported on Thursday, citing a source familiar with the matter.
The electric carmaker has been expanding its network of service centers and Super…
Ford plans to reveal in November an all-electric version of its Ford Transit cargo van, the company said Wednesday as part of its broader third-quarter earnings report. The unveiling will showcase an electric van for all of the company’s g…
If there was any doubt that yesterday’s flogging of big tech CEOs by Senate republicans was anything other than an electioneering stunt, president Trump has thumped the point home by tweeting a video message to voters in which he bashes “b…
ByteDance on Thursday unveiled its first consumer hardware product, a smart light lamp with a display, that it says is part of its education technology portfolio as the Chinese internet giant continues to expand to categories beyond social…
True, the social networking app that promises to ‘protect your privacy,’ exposed private messages and user locations
True bills itself as the social networking app that will “protect your privacy.” But a security lapse left one of its s…
The chief executives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google faced more than three and a half hours of questions from US senators on Wednesday.
At present, the companies cannot be sued over what their users post online, or the decisions they m…
Australia’s Global Talent Visa Program, also known as the Global Talent Independent Program, is making waves across the Pacific, attracting dynamic, high-profile business leaders to the country’s shores, with many hailing from the US. The …
Microsoft Corp's MSFT.O cloud computing business slightly re-accelerated and its Teams messaging and collaboration software won new users, as a pandemic-driven shift to working from home and online learning drove quarterly results ahead of…
TikTok is continuing to expand despite coming under attack from the Trump administration in the US.
The Chinese-owned firm has announced a tie-up with online retailer Shopify to help businesses create video ads to promote their products…
TikTok is continuing to expand despite coming under attack from the Trump administration in the US.
The Chinese-owned firm has announced a tie-up with online retailer Shopify to help businesses create video ads to promote their products…
Facebook India's policy head Ankhi Das has resigned two months after the social media giant was embroiled in a hate speech controversy in the country.
The Wall Street Journal had accused Facebook of going easy on ruling party supporters…
The highly anticipated video game Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed again, pushing it weeks after the launch of the next-generation consoles.
The title is now set to go on sale on 10 December.
Staff had previously been told to work six…
The official website of US President Donald Trump has been hacked by an apparent cryptocurrency scam.
His re-election campaign team is investigating the security breach.
"The world has had enough of the fake news spreaded [sic] daily…
BT has signed a deal to use Ericsson's 5G radio antennas, base stations and other equipment to upgrade its EE mobile network.
BT said in time it expected 50% of all its 5G traffic to be transmitted via the Swedish company's kit.
The …
Huawei offers a comprehensive transportation solution, which leverages ICT technologies to digitize all transportation elements
In this special interview, DeeDee Doke, head of content production at Airlines. magazine interviews Mr. Wang…
A versatile home printer for work and play
Canon Europe (Canon-Europe.com) today announces the launch of the Canon PIXMA TS7440 series, a mid-level, three-in-one A4 home printer with four colour FINE ink cartridges and Automatic Documen…
TikTok is further investing in social commerce with today’s announcement of a new global partnership with e-commerce platform Shopify. The deal aims to make it easier for Shopify’s over 1 million merchants to reach TikTok’s younger audienc…
Apeel gets more cash to fight poverty and food insecurity in emerging markets with its food-preserving tech
In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, the Santa Barbara, Calif.-base…
Tinder, currently the world’s biggest biggest dating app for people to find matches and connect with them, is expanding another feature today to extend the time people spend in the app, and the communications they can have within it.
Fa…
Semiconductor designer Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) AMD.O said on Tuesday it would buy Xilinx Inc XLNX.O in a $35 billion all-stock deal, intensifying its battle with Intel Corp INTC.O in the data center chip market.
The deal, which…
Facebook has launched its first "cloud-streamed" video games but is not offering them to iPhones or iPads.
Initially, only five titles already available as standalone smartphone apps will be accessible - via the main Facebook and Facebo…
The UK's mobile networks are to be forbidden from selling phones locked to their services from December 2021.
Regulator Ofcom said unlocking handsets could often be a complicated process, and this was discouraging owners from switching …
5G Africa at this year's Africa Tech Festival asks if Africa is ready…
Globally, there is much hype around 5G. In Africa, whilst that conversation undoubtedly has its place, solutions to Africa's connectivity still require consideratio…
Having fled an economic implosion in his native Zimbabwe, Brighton Takawira was able to support his mother back home with modest earnings from a small perfume business he set up in South Africa.
Then the pandemic struck. Borders closed.…
A California court weighs in as Prop. 22 looms, Google removes popular apps over data collection practices and the Senate subpoenas Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg. This is your Daily Crunch for October 23, 2020.
The big story: Uber and…
SAP said on Monday it was going all in on its shift to cloud computing as it abandoned medium-term profitability targets and cautioned that its business would take longer than expected to recover from the coronavirus pandemic.
Investors…
As our lives become more virtual with technology, how do gadgets define our identity at work, home and social circles at this unique moment in history?
Mary L. Gray, an anthropologist and recent recipient of a 2020 MacArthur “genius gra…
Microsoft Corp, which has largely evaded Washington’s scrutiny of Big Tech companies and scored a lucrative $10 billion government contract under the Trump administration, has emerged as a significant backer of the Biden campaign.
The R…
The Digital Energy Festival for Africa kicked off last week and as expected, has already yielded some thought-provoking and inspiring content and conversations.
Programme highlights and coverage from last week include:
ESI Africa ta…
Cybersecurity Solutions provider RevBits named as Gold Winner in four categories and Bronze Winner in two more at the 12th Annual Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards
RevBits today announced it was declared as a winner in six c…
Netflix launches a virtual HBCU boot camp with Norfolk State to increase exposure to the tech industry
Netflix is going back to school.
Working with Norfolk State University, the alma mater of one of the company’s senior software eng…
Uber is facing a class-action lawsuit over Proposition 22 that alleges the company is illegally coercing its drivers to support the ballot measure that seeks to keep workers classified as independent contractors. The suit was brought forth…
A Dutch security researcher says he accessed President Trump’s @realDonaldTrump Twitter account last week by guessing his password: “maga2020!”.
Victor Gevers, a security researcher at the GDI Foundation and chair of the Dutch Institute…
Huawei announced earnings results today showing that its growth has slowed significantly this year as the Chinese telecom equipment and smartphone giant said its “production and operations face significant challenges.”
While Huawei did …
Intel Corp INTC.O on Thursday reported that margins tumbled in the latest quarter as consumers bought cheaper laptops and pandemic-stricken businesses and governments clamped down on data center spending, news that sent its shares down 10%…
Two of Apple’s latest iPhone 12 models went on sale in China on Friday, after early pre-order data showed strong consumer interest in the 5G-enabled device in the firm’s second-largest market.
The short queues outside Apple stores in th…
Huawei has unveiled its Mate 40 smartphones claiming they feature a more "sophisticated" processor than Apple's forthcoming iPhones.
The component was made using the same "five nanometre" process as its US rival's chip, but contains bil…
France has launched a new version of its troubled Covid-tracing app to a rough start plagued by server issues.
Renamed as "TousAntiCovid" - Everyone Against Covid - it is an update to the StopCovid app, which was never widely adopted am…
Smartphone shipments reached an all-time high in India in the quarter that ended in September this year as the world’s second largest handset market remained fully open during the period after initial lockdowns due to the coronavirus, acco…
Facebook’s dating bolt-on to its eponymous social networking service has finally launched in Europe, more than nine months after an earlier launch plan was derailed at the last minute over privacy concerns.
From today, European Facebook…
Cyber security firm McAfee Corp MCFE.O sold shares in its initial public offering (IPO) on Wednesday at $20 a piece, within its target range, to raise $620 million.
The IPO valued McAfee, which is backed by U.S. private equity firms TPG…
AT&T Inc on Thursday reported the coronavirus pandemic had taken a heavy toll on its media business, but quarterly results were offset by more new phone subscribers than expected, which executives credited to the improved quality of its wi…