The government has introduced new legislation to protect smart devices in people's homes from being hacked.
Recent research from consumer watchdog Which? suggested homes filled with smart devices could be exposed to more tha…
Last year, presumed frontrunner the Weeknd was shockingly shut out of the Grammy Awards — and the ensuing outrage led, at least in part, to sweeping reform of the Recording Academy’s clandestine, controversial voting system. So, as the nom…
India is set to go ahead with its plan to ban most cryptocurrencies in the country under a long-awaited bill.
Expectations had grown in recent months that the government may soften its view on digital currencies.
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Protests are being staged at Amazon buildings in the UK, US, and Europe - on Black Friday.
The shopping sales day is among Amazon's busiest all year.
An international coalition of unions, equality and environmenta…
More than 2,000 old and iconic mobile phones are being showcased in a new online museum.
The Mobile Phone Museum was set up by industry analyst Ben Wood who had collected thousands of phones as a hobby.
BBC Click's Chris Fox went to …
As the world quickly transitions into a global village thanks to the rapid penetration of internet networks, it is easy for some people to be left behind owing to the remoteness of their locations. In most parts of Zanzibar, an autonomou…
Apple has delayed the release of a feature that will eventually allow you to store your ID in the company’s Wallet app. In an update to the official iOS 15 website that was spotted by MacRumors, Apple says that functionality will now arriv…
Apple is suing Israeli spyware firm NSO Group and its parent company for allegedly targeting iPhone users with a hacking tool.
NSO's Pegasus software can infect both iPhones and Android devices, allowing operators to extract…
Samsung has chosen a site close to the city of Taylor in Texas for its new $17bn (£12.7bn) computer chip plant, amid a global shortage of semiconductors.
It is the South Korean electronics giant's biggest-ever US investment.…
Italy's competition watchdog has fined Amazon and Apple more than €200m (£168m) for allegedly flouting competition regulations.
The fine relates to Beats headphones, a brand bought by Apple for $3bn (£1.8bn at the time) in 2…
Most people in Africa wish to utilize various insurance products but are often deterred by the associated high premiums. It is, therefore, not surprising that insurance penetration across the continent remains marginal, with reported premi…
A number of Roku customers are experiencing problems with their Roku TVs following the Roku OS 10.5 update. According to reports published to Roku’s own customer forums and other sites, like Reddit, impacted Roku TV owners say many of thei…
Social media giants Facebook and Twitter have come under fire over their roles in the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia.
Critics say they are not doing enough to prevent the spread of hate speech and incitement to violence on the…
Cosmetics firm Lush says it is deactivating some social media accounts until platforms "take action to provide a safer environment" for users.
The company said that from Friday, its Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Snapchat …
Plans to roll out end-to-end encryption on Facebook and Instagram have been delayed amid a row over child safety.
Meta - as Facebook's parent company is now called - said messaging encryption on the apps would now come in 2023.
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ByteDance is shutting down its edtech business in India, the company informed the local team on Monday, according to two sources directly familiar with the matter.
The decision follows weeks-long discussion in which the company also e…
French startup Lydia is entering a whole new category by adding trading to its financial super app later this year. The company is partnering with Bitpanda for this feature. Lydia users will be able to buy, hold and sell American and Europ…
Tesla drivers say they have been locked out of their cars after an outage struck the carmaker's app.
Dozens of owners posted on social media about seeing an error message on the mobile app that was preventing them from conne…
Senior executives at Amazon's business in India have been charged after two men allegedly used the website as part of a marijuana smuggling operation.
Last week, police in the central state of Madhya Pradesh arrested two men…
El Salvador plans to build a Bitcoin city at the base of a volcano, with the cryptocurrency used to fund the project, its president has announced.
The city will be circular to represent the shape of a large coin and will be …
Teresa Phillips is the CEO and co-founder of Spherex, a data and technology company that is pioneering the culturalization of media for international film and television distribution.
The recent controversy surrounding the mistranslatio…
A year into the computer chip shortage that’s heavily affecting vehicle production, Ford announced a collaboration with chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc., as The Wall Street Journal first reported.
Ford’s press release about the non-bindin…
Today, Spotify is finally rolling out its real-time lyrics feature globally, after previously only offering it in a limited selection of countries.
The lyrics themselves are provided by Musixmatch, which claims to offer lyrics for “over…
Twitter has quietly rolled back its support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) on mobile, according to a support page spotted by SEO consultant Christian Oliveira. The support page originally detailed how Twitter would automatically send u…
TheThe Moto G Pure is the rare $160 phone that works well enough that you forget you’re using a sub-$200 device. Yes, Motorola made some compromises to deliver a phone at this low price point, but it still nails all the basics that you sho…
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It has not been a happy time for researchers at big tech companies. Hired to help executives unders…
Microsoft is planning to add a new price tracker to its Edge browser, as well as a new feature that will let people easily change their passwords if they’ve been leaked online. The price tracking feature will be available soon and is d…
The test will go live on Facebook’s app for English-speaking users. It adds three sub-menus into Facebook’s menu for managing what shows up in the News Feed: friends and family, groups and pages and public figures. Users in the test can ch…
Short-form video apps have seen major successes, like TikTok, as well as dramatic failures, like Quibi. Now, a new app called Snax wants to offer a twist on the popular vertical video format by giving users a way to not just watch mini-mov…
Like Nio, Chinese electric car maker Xpeng has kickstarted its international expansion. But unlike its rival, which put on a series of splashy campaigns in Norway, Xpeng launched quietly in the Scandinavian country last month.
In Norway…
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has said people have become afraid to say what they think for fear of being "cancelled", and that left-wing activists have "hijacked" social media.
In her first TV interview since taking the job, she sai…
Walmart-backed Flipkart is acquiring online pharmacy startup SastaSundar to enter the healthcare segment in India as e-commerce battle intensifies in the world’s second largest internet market.
Flipkart said it has signed definitive agr…
The US and UK are joining forces to "impose consequences" on their shared adversaries who conduct malicious cyber-activities.
The combined action would address "evolving threats with a full range of capabilities", they said.
The shar…
A group of US states is investigating how Instagram targets children, despite it posing potential risks to them.
The group - made up of both Democrat and Republican states - is investigating Instagram and Facebook's parent company Meta …
Microsoft’s Africa Transformation Office will drive strategic initiatives across Africa to accelerate digital transformation and economic prosperity
To enable digital transformation powered by Africans for Africa, Microsoft is doubling do…
Google has formed a key partnership to help provide loans to micro and small businesses in India, the firm announced at its annual event for the South Asian market.
The company said it has partnered with Small Industries Development Ban…
Google will roll out support for Hinglish, a mix of Hindi and English, and a range of additional features to its payments app Google Pay in India as the global tech giant makes further push to expand its reach in the South Asian market.
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Meet Cron, a new calendar app for the Mac that wants to bring some innovation to this space. The startup directly mentions Sunrise as an inspiration for those of you who still remember it. Sunrise used to be a popular calendar product that…
A weird thing has happened in the past two years. After years of decline, motorcycle and scooter sales have bounced back. That’s good news for BMW’s Motorrad division and its latest electric scooter, the CE 04.
The two-wheel retro-futur…
IBM has unveiled an advanced "quantum" processor that is part of an effort to build super-fast computers.
These machines could revolutionise computing, harnessing the strange world of quantum physics to solve problems beyond reach for e…
The number of companies launching which claim to be able to help organizations measure and reduce their carbon output continues apace. There is already Normative, Plan A and any number of others, to varying degrees of depth, detail or appr…
Over the years we’ve seen wearables measuring every aspect of your body, but lung capacity is more esoteric than most. Sylvee is a brand new wearable from Respira Labs which continuously measures lung function — perfect for COPD and asthma…
Partly as a result of modern employment trends, and partly as a result of the pandemic’s effect on the world of work, there’s an increasing gap between traditional full-time employment and freelancing. So-called ‘job pairing’ splits a full…
Amazon will stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK from 19 January, the online retail giant has told customers.
It said the move was due to high credit card transaction fees but said Visa debit cards would still be accepted.
Visa…
TikTok is trying to strengthen the detection and enforcement of rules against dangerous online challenges and hoaxes.
Just over one in five teenagers has participated in an online challenge, a survey commissioned by TikTok suggests.
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South African payments company Ozow is making waves in the fintech community. Its focus on developing innovative payment solutions that help to drive financial inclusion has attracted Tencent, a world-leading internet and technology compan…
Infinet Wireless [1], the global leader in fixed wireless broadband connectivity, will host its Smart City 2021 online event, the virtual conference designed exclusively for system integrators, service providers, municipal administration r…
While the number of attacks from online resources (known as web threats) blocked by Kaspersky (https://Kaspersky.co.za/) in Kenya and Nigeria combined for the second quarter of 2021 decreased to 14.9 million from the 16.4 million blocked i…
Twitter is updating its web platform to change the way users see new tweets. The social media giant will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web with new tweets, and users can now decide when they want to load new tweets. Twit…
Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline.
With millions of Nigerians using danfo minibuses and okadas to commute to their various …
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