In security, nothing is “unhackable.” When it’s claimed, security researchers see nothing more than a challenge.
Enter the latest findings from Pen Test Partners, a U.K.-based cybersecurity firm. Their latest project was ripping apart t…
Facebook has been accused of "auto-generating" extremist content, including a celebratory jihadist video and a business page for al-Qaeda.
The material was uncovered by an anonymous whistleblower who filed an official complaint to US re…
Uber drivers protested around the world on Wednesday. It was a spirited, though largely unquantifiable, demonstration against what they see as disgracefully low wages, poor job security, and an unacceptable lack of benefits.
Above all, …
Data breaches are a "time bomb" under companies that let customer information go astray, warns a security expert.
Bryan Sartin, Verizon's head of global security services, said he was "surprised" more breaches had not become public.
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Kymeta, the communications company that is completing the connectivity fabric across EMEA, has announced a new partnership with Türksat, one of the world’s leading companies providing satellite communications across a wide area extending f…
Instagram says it will block hashtags being used to spread "verifiably false" information about vaccinations.
The social network already blocks hashtags that are themselves false claims, such as #vaccinescauseautism.
It says it will …
Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has unveiled a mock-up of a new lunar lander spacecraft that aims to take equipment and humans to the Moon by 2024.
The unmanned, reusable Blue Moon vehicle will carry scientific instruments, satellites an…
A drone sighting caused all flights to be suspended at Frankfurt Airport for around an hour this morning. The airport is Germany’s busiest by passenger numbers, serving almost 14.8 million passengers in the first three months of this year.…
Over the past two years, Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi has used his peace-making and political skills to settle battles with lawmakers and rivals and endear himself to employees who had suffered through a wretched period of corpor…
Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) said on Friday it had fined Facebook a total of 1.65 million lira ($270,976.01) in April due to a data breach.
It cited a Facebook statement from December as saying the company had disc…
An "extensive" fraud let thieves steal cash from Amazon merchants for six months during 2018, the online retailer has revealed.
About 100 accounts run by merchants who sell via Amazon were compromised by fraudsters, Bloomberg reported.
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Yolo - an app that lets anonymous questions be posed to Snapchat users - has become the most-downloaded iPhone app in the UK and US just a week after its release.
It is highly unusual for an app to top Apple's chart so soon after its la…
Uber has partnered with bicycle sharing platform Yulu in India as it looks to grab a piece of the growing e-bikes market that is increasingly posing a challenge to taxi services in the nation.
The San Francisco-headquartered firm, wh…
Google reveals lower-cost Pixel 3a phones and Nest Hub Max
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Alphabet Inc unit Google in the coming months plans to introduce new internet browser tools to limit how users’ web activity is tracked by advertising companies and give them greater insight into why certain ads are shown to them, the comp…
A US woman is suing Amazon, alleging that she was sacked because she was pregnant, raising more questions about working conditions in its warehouses.
According to tech news site CNET, the online retailer has been involved in seven simil…
Hackers have stolen $41m (£31m) worth of Bitcoin in a major crypto-currency heist.
The Binance exchange, which stores Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies for members, said hackers took 7,000 bitcoins in one go. Withdrawals have now been…
Mark Zuckerberg: “The future is private.” Sundar Pichai: “The present is private.” While both CEOs made protecting user data a central theme of their conference keynotes this month, Facebook’s product updates were mostly vague vaporware wh…
At the risk of sounding too optimistic, 2019 might be the year of the private web browser.
In the beginning, browsers were a cobbled together mess that put a premium on making the contents within look good. Security was an afterthought …
Africa is emerging as a lively battlefield for global cloud providers. This week, Microsoft’s Azure Africa cloud services went live, with services offered from data centers in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
The launch of Azure came just on…
Its SPARK 3 Pro is a 4G smartphone with AI Bright Camera and 32GB ROM + 2GB RAM
Global premier mobile phone brand TECNO Mobile (www.TECNO-Mobile.com) announced plans at Google IO 2019 which will see its SPARK 3 Pro running on Android™ P…
The German hybrid specialist DHYBRID will supply seven PV-diesel hybrid systems in remote Senegalese locations with sophisticated hybrid control and energy storage systems. The total output capacity is 2 MW, the storage capacity 2 MWh. The…
Microsoft today announced the private preview launch of Visual Studio Online, an online code editor the company is positioning as a companion to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
The service is based on the Visual Studio Code, Mic…
Apple may be bringing an Android favorite to iOS at its software developers conference next month. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has published a big list of little software tweaks his sources say are coming to iOS at WWDC.
One of the more in…
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Tuesday it has launched a four-month program in Israel to help startups grow globally using its experts and tools.
The Google Startup Growth Lab Programme has picked eight companies, after a pilot was compl…
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it cannot confirm the shipping date for its foldable device Galaxy Fold yet and apologized to its pre-order customers in the United States for the delay.
The world’s top smartphone maker delayed globa…
The effects of social media use on teenage life satisfaction are limited and probably "tiny", a study of 12,000 UK adolescents suggests.
Family, friends and school life all had a greater impact on wellbeing, says the University of Oxfor…
A new feature in Microsoft's Word aims to help improve writing beyond the usual grammar fixes.
Using artificial intelligence, Ideas will suggest rewrites for clunky sentences as well as changes to make sure language is gender inclusive.…
Optiva Inc. (TSX: OPT), an innovative software provider of mission-critical, cloud-native, monetization solutions to leading communication service providers (CSPs) globally, is advising CSPs at TM Forum Digital Transformation World that te…
Leading East African transportation company deploys powerful ERP solution to improve visibility across organisation and unlock greater efficiencies in daily operations.
With the tenth-fastest growing economy in the world this year, Keny…
Flintstone Technology Ltd has delivered an in-line tensioning and pull through connection mooring system for MODEC in West Africa.
The system will be deployed on Tullow Oil’s Kwame Nkrumah MV21 floating production storage and offloading…
The spat between Spotify and Apple is going to be the focus on a new investigation from the EU, according to a report from the FT.
The paper reported today that the European Commission (EC), the EU’s regulatory body, plans to launch …
May is national Older Americans Month, and this year’s theme is Connect, Create, Contribute. One area in particular threatens to prevent older adults from making those connections: the digital divide.
Nationally, one-third of adults age…
German carmaker Volkswagen will join forces with China’s NIU to produce battery-powered kick scooters, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Monday without giving sources.
The companies will jointly build the Streetmate model, which has…
Dropbox started shifting workloads away from AWS to its own data centers several years ago because it needed more control over how files were stored and accessed. It developed a storage architecture called Magic Pocket to help, but over ti…
A leaked image of the unannounced Moto Z4 suggests that the phone could be the first flagship Moto Z device to have a headphone jack. Outside of the 3.5mm connector, the handset appears to support Motorola’s Moto Mod accessories — includin…
Microsoft today announced that it wants to bring the ease of use of Plug and Play, which today allows you to plug virtually any peripheral into a Windows PC without having to worry about drivers, to IoT devices. Typically, getting an Io…
If it seems like robocalls are getting worse, it’s not simply your imagination. Over 48 billion robocalls were placed in the US last year, which is 46 percent more than just a year earlier. The US agency in charge of protecting consumers f…
Bitcoin jumped to a new six-month high on Friday in a move that traders said was the result of technical forces, with no immediate news catalysts sending the cryptocurrency higher.
Bitcoin climbed more than 6 percent to briefly break $5…
The Federal Trade Commission is in the midst of negotiating a settlement with Facebook that would require the company to strengthen its privacy practices by creating new privacy-focused positions at the company, according to a new report…
YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl reaffirmed the company’s plans to take its Originals out from behind the paywall, making them free and ad-supported.
Kyncl was speaking at YouTube’s annual Brandcast event, where the Google…
Three years and a few dozen reviews ago, I declared the Bang & Olufsen H6 the best portable headphones you could buy. As if to spite me, B&O ended up discontinuing the H6s in favor of some wireless mediocrities, and I’ve been stuck without…
Global security officials agreed a set of proposals on Friday for future 5G networks, highlighting concerns about equipment supplied by vendors that might be subject to state influence.
No suppliers were named, but the United States has…
There’s nothing about HP’s 2019 Chromebook 14 that’s flashy or makes it stand out among the field of inexpensive Chromebooks. It’s a hefty, plasticy laptop that, at $329 as reviewed, will appeal to schools and other use cases where the s…
The Apple Watch Series 4 is currently $349 from Amazon and Best Buy. This is $50 less than the usual cost of the wearable, which has a 40mm watchface and GPS capability. If you want the larger 44mm model, it is $379, which is also $50 off …
A donor kidney has been delivered to surgeons at a US hospital via drone, in the first flight of its kind.
Many see huge potential for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) delivering medical products, with some drones already doing so in Afr…
In 1995, French anthropologist Marc Auge categorised the airport as a “non-place”. Found the world over, non-places are devoid of identity – uniform structures (think Starbucks or McDonalds) that remain the same no matter where they are. B…
DHL is launching an e-commerce app called DHL Africa eShop for global retailers to sell goods to Africa’s consumers markets.
The platform goes live today and brings more than 200 U.S. and U.K. retailers — from Neiman Marcus to Carter…
ABB Robotics to provide advanced robotics painting solutions to SAIC VOLKSWAGEN, helping to build first global New Energy Vehicle (NEV) factory characterized by automation and environmentally-friendly manufacturing technologies.
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Tesla Inc launched issues of new shares and debt worth more than $2 billion on Thursday, with Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk pitching in $10 million as the electric carmaker gave in to Wall Street pressure to bolster its cash reserves.
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