SMH Rail Sdn Bhd (SMH Rail), Malaysia's leading rolling stock manufacturer and maintenance service provider, today unveiled its newly manufactured 'H10 Series' Locomotives. Built with advanced technologny
and innovation in design engineer…
Standing as a strong link within the ICT industry, Huawei (https://bit.ly/37XpJm6) is dedicated to driving customer success and supporting diverse enterprises on the road to digital transformation.
To date, 253 of the world's top 500 en…
Lenovo will host its annual global innovation event, Tech World, virtually on September 8, marking the 6th consecutive year of the event. This year’s visionary showcase will focus on Lenovo’s transformation and new solutions for the next r…
KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today launched a resource kit in recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October.
KnowBe4’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month …
Microsoft has invested $5 million in Indian budget hotel chain Oyo, according to a regulatory filing this week. The investment confirms a TechCrunch scoop from last month.
The new investment values Oyo at $9.6 billion, only slightly bel…
Leading Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid has been hit by hackers, with almost $100m (£73m) estimated to have been stolen.
The company announced that some of its digital currency wallets have been "compromised."
It is the secon…
"We would go into villages and enrol people into this biometric data system," US Marine Special Operations Command veteran Peter Kiernan recalls.
"You had a device about 12 inches by six inches wide. It would scan their fingerprints, it…
The most critical phase in a marketing team’s mix and overall multichannel strategy happens after you press send on an email campaign: the post-send and performance pillars of email marketing.
During this phase, marketers should gather …
In May 2020, a trio of friends rented a home in Tulum, Mexico and invited their internet friends. The project was dubbed The Launch House, and the 18 entrepreneurs who came to live there had to do the following: pay rent, launch projects, …
Twitter is introducing a way to report posts as "misleading" for the first time.
Many of the large social media networks have been accused of not doing enough to fight the spread of disinformation during the Covid pandemic and US electi…
More than 40 million T-Mobile customers have been hit by a US data breach, the company has admitted.
It blamed the breach on a "highly sophisticated cyberattack".
It said it is "taking immediate steps to help protect all of the indiv…
Apple censors references to Chinese politicians, dissidents and other topics in its engraving service, a report alleges.
Citizen Lab said it had investigated filters set up for customers who wanted something engraved on a new iPhone, iP…
Amazon has entered the financial services and insurance markets of India in recent years. Now it is paving the way to foray into the wealth management category.
The American e-commerce giant has backed Bangalore-based startup Smallcase …
YouTube announced two feature updates today to make it easier for people to find the content they’re looking for on the platform. This includes visual search features and easier discovery of foreign language videos that have captions in th…
Twitter introduced a new test feature Tuesday that allows users to report misinformation they run into on the platform, flagging it to the company as “misleading.” The test will roll out starting today to most users in the U.S., Australia …
Mastercard is to stop issuing cards with a magnetic strip.
By 2033, none of its debit or credit cards will have a strip, with banks in many regions including Europe able to issue the strip-less cards from 2024.
The UK moved to chip-a…
Unbundling financial data through APIs and driving data-driven insights with value-add products in Africa keeps getting more exciting as major players continue to raise more money for scale.
Less than a year after its $3 million seed ro…
The past decade has seen several structural changes in know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations in Europe and globally. High-profile money laundering cases and the penetration of illicit funds into global market…
T-Mobile has confirmed “unauthorized access” to its systems, days after a portion of customer data was listed for sale on a known cybercriminal forum.
The U.S. cell giant, which last year completed a $26 billion merger with Sprint, conf…
Blue Origin, the space company helmed by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is taking NASA to court. The company filed a complaint with a federal claims court on Monday over the agency’s decision to award a lunar lander contract solely to rival compa…
Tinder announced this morning that in the “coming quarters,” users will be able to verify their ID on the app. This feature was first rolled out in Japan in 2019, where Tinder users must verify that they are at least 18 years old. Aside fr…
Canada-based Shopistry wants to turn the concept of headless commerce, well, on its head. On Monday, the e-commerce startup announced $2 million in seed funding to continue developing its toolkit of products, integrations, services and man…
Facebook today announced that it would extend the “most comprehensive” subsea cable to serve the African continent and Middle East region to four more branches.
Facebook will do this in collaboration with the 2Africa consortium that inc…
Apple says its announcement of automated tools to detect child sexual abuse on the iPhone and iPad was "jumbled pretty badly".
On 5 August, the company revealed new image detection software that can alert Apple if known illegal images a…
Twitter is making changes to its new redesign, after users complained of headaches and discomfort.
Unveiled only last week, the redesign mainly involved high-contrast colours and a custom-designed font, Chirp.
At the time, the social…
Executives from London-based commercial EV company Arrival told investors Thursday the company was on track to meet planned product launch dates, but much will depend on whether or not the company can fulfill orders and turn letters of int…
Foxconn is getting more serious about its electric vehicle ambitions. The company told investors during an earnings call that it plans to build EV factories in the US and Thailand in 2022 and start mass producing vehicles the following yea…
Medal.tv, a short-form video clipping service and social network for gamers, is entering the livestreaming market with the acquisition of Rawa.tv, a Twitch rival based in Dubai, which had raised around $1 million to date. The seven-figure,…
Disney’s streaming service is seeing improved growth, after initially seeing slower numbers of subscriber additions in Q2 as COVID lockdowns and mask mandates came to an end. Today, Disney+ beat analyst expectations for subscriber growth i…
People care what their avatars are wearing.
When the virtual world Decentraland said in June users could make and sell their own clothing for avatars to wear on the site, Hiroto Kai stayed up all night designing Japanese-inspired garmen…
Earlier this year, Nothing launched the Ear (1) with a grand idea: earbuds as fashion accessories. Sure, the company talked a lot about the non-invasiveness of transparent design, but at the end of the day, the product’s launch on StockX b…
Facebook could have to sell Giphy, a search engine for Gifs, which it bought for a reported $400m (£289m) last year.
The Competition and Markets Authority provisionally found Facebook owning Giphy "could lead it to deny other platforms …
"Follow the money" - for generations it's been the mantra of investigators looking for criminals.
In the cyber-realm, this battle between criminals and the authorities has been raging for years.
Despite the anonymous nature of crypto…
A hacker who stole just over $600m (£433m) worth of cryptocurrency was offered $500,000 and immunity as a reward for returning the money.
Poly Network made the controversial offer after the hacker pledged to send back the money.
The …
Samsung has opened the next chapter in foldable innovation with two new smartphones, the Galaxy Z Fold3 | Galaxy Z Flip3 5G. Both devices are premium foldable smartphones built with the craftsmanship and flagship innovations Samsung users …
The encrypted chat app Signal is adding a few new options for users looking to lock down their messages. The app will now allow anyone to turn on a default timer for disappearing messages, automatically applying the settings to any newly i…
Chinese technology giant Xiaomi has said it plans to be the world's biggest smartphone maker within three years.
The comments by the Beijing-based firm's boss come after it recently overtook Apple to become the second largest mobile bra…
A Twitter image-cropping algorithm prefers to show faces that are slimmer, younger and with lighter skin, a researcher has found.
Bogdan Kulynyc won $3,500 (£2,530) in a Twitter-organised contest to find biases in its cropping algorithm…
Parents will now be able to have images of their children removed from Google search results, the company has said.
It came as Google announced a range of changes to child-safety measures across several of its products.
It will also …
Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts which it says were involved in anti-vax disinformation campaigns operated from Russia.
The company said the network of accounts targeted India, Latin America and the US.
They attempted to rec…
Ahmer Inam is the chief artificial intelligence officer (CAIO) at Pactera EDGE. He has more than 20 years of experience driving organizational transformation. His experience includes leadership roles at Nike Inc., Wells Fargo, Sonic Automo…
Weeks after Instagram rolled out increased protections for minors using its app, Google is now doing the same for its suite of services, including Google search, YouTube, YouTube Kids, Google Assistant, and others. The company this morning…
The UK was "by far" the main origin of the "abhorrent racist abuse" on Twitter after England lost the Euro 2020 final, the social media platform has said.
Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho were abused after missing in the pe…
Apple has defended its new system that scans users' phones for child sexual abuse material (CSAM), after a backlash from customers and privacy advocates.
The technology searches for matches of known abuse material before the image is up…
TikTok was the world's most downloaded app in 2020 as it took the top spot from Facebook Messenger, according to digital analytics company App Annie.
The Chinese video-sharing platform is the only app not owned by Facebook to make the g…
There was a time, not so long ago, when 5G was only talked about in relation to ‘the future’. But as the first 5G networks are deployed around the world, with higher bandwidth and faster speeds, applications such as high-definition video, …
Facebook has today announced that it has added two new destinations for when you want to move your data from the social network. In a blog post, the company said that users will be able to move their images to Photobucket and event listing…
Vodafone has become the second UK mobile company to reintroduce roaming charges for users travelling in Europe.
From January, new and upgrading customers will be charged at least £1 a day to use their mobile phone in EU destinations, on…
UpGrad, a Bangalore-based startup that specializes in higher education and upskilling courses, hit a valuation of $1.2 billion with a $185 million funding round Monday as global investors plow record capital into firms in the world’s secon…
Apple is facing criticism over a new system that finds child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on US users' devices.
The technology will search for matches of known CSAM before the image is stored onto iCloud Photos.
But there are concern…