Some of the biggest electronics bazaars in Asia are being flooded with customers looking for the latest piece of technology: cryptocurrency mining rigs.
Scores of miners from around the world are traveling to places like Hong Kong’s Sha…
Intel Corp plans to invest $5 billion to expand production at its Kiryat Gat plant in southern Israel, Israeli Economy Minister Eli Cohen said on Wednesday after talks with the U.S. chipmaker.
Intel, would start expanding the plant this…
Drones turned into missiles, fake videos manipulating public opinion and automated hacking are just three of the threats from artificial intelligence in the wrong hands, experts have said.
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence re…
A woman who had a stroke while on a FaceTime video call with her sister, says the technology saved her life.
Opokua Kwapong, who lives alone in New York, was on a call with her sister, Adumea Sapong, in Manchester, when Mrs Sapong notic…
As we reported last month, Google is uniting all of its different payment tools under the Google Pay brand. On Android, however, the Android Pay app stuck with its existing brand. That’s changing today, though, with the launch of Google Pa…
India’s software services exports will see revenue growth of 7-9 percent in constant currency terms in the fiscal year to March 2019, a leading lobby group forecast on Tuesday, as the industry continues to recover from what has been a toug…
Sony Corp (6758.T) said on Tuesday it would become the latest blue-chip firm to jockey for position in Japan’s taxi and ride-hailing market, with plans for a joint venture to develop an artificial intelligence-based hailing system.
The …
Uber Technologies Inc Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said on Tuesday he can see commercialization of the Uber Air flying taxi service happening within five to 10 years.
The U.S. ride-hailing app maker has said it expects flyi…
Facebook's vice-president of adverts has been criticised for tweeting that Russian-bought ads had not been designed to sway the US election.
Rob Goldman's tweet was retweeted by President Donald Trump.
His view contradicted special c…
Security researchers have posted "friendly warnings" to users of Amazon's cloud data storage service whose private content has been made public, the BBC has learned.
The BBC found almost 50 warnings posted to the firm's servers. Many ha…
African Ministers and heads of delegations attending the third Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in Africa (https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/third-africa-forum-on-sti-building-on-science-technology-and-innovation-to-…
Millions more people in Africa now have access to financial systems thanks to cashless systems using digital technology, and more and more people are seeing the benefits of mobile banking, according to Ecobank (www.Ecobank.com), the leadin…
The Essential Phone, still among the best deals you can find in smartphones today, is now set to be available in three new colors, including “Ocean Depths,” “Copper Black” and “Stellar Gray.” These include two previously announced colours,…
Google has added a notable addition to its line of “Go” edition apps – the lightweight apps designed primarily for emerging markets – with the launch of Gmail Go. The app, like others in the Go line, takes up less storage space on users’ s…
Taxi service Uber , battling to retain its license to operate in the British capital, said on Friday it would introduce new safety features, including 24-hour telephone support for riders and drivers.
The app said it would r…
Social media firms need to do more to tackle fraud and scams on their platforms and make their terms and conditions fair for all consumers, the European Commission (EC) has said.
Google, Facebook and Twitter were asked in November 2016 …
Uber and other ride-sharing apps have been urged to offer women-only cars in London by the transport authority.
The suggestion is outlined in a policy statement issued by Transport for London (TfL).
The move could affect services suc…
WhatsApp will launch a “full feature” inter-bank money transfer service in India, its biggest market, after a test involving a million users, National Payments Corp of India said.
Friday’s statement marks the de facto official launch of…
Game streaming site Twitch today is debuting an always-on chat room feature it’s simply calling “Rooms.” The addition was first announced at its developer event TwitchCon back in October, and was expected to launch before year-end. That ti…
A Belgian court threatened Facebook (FB.O) on Friday with a fine of up to 100 million euros ($125 million) if it continued to break privacy laws by tracking people on third-party websites.
In a case brought by B…
Bitcoin rose above $10,000 on Thursday for the first time in more than two weeks, as investors bought back the digital currency after having fallen 70 percent from its all-time peak hit in mid-December.
Bitcoin has been buffeted this ye…
Nokia’s been facing an uphill battle for relevance in the consumer space ever since the company threw in the towel on smartphones. Wearables seemed like a reasonable road, so the company snapped up French electronics company Withings back …
Google has launched an ad-blocker for its Chrome web browser that is designed to prevent "annoying" and "intrusive" ads being shown to users.
Google announced the move to curtail full-page and auto-playing video ads, among others, last …
Finnish network gear maker Nokia has started a strategic review of its digital health business and announced more than 400 job cuts in its home country.
Digital health, part of Nokia Technologies unit, is one of the areas where the comp…
Google makes ads show up in more smartphone apps than any other technology company. That is the core of a resurgent business for parent Alphabet Inc.
Google’s ad network unit has posted three straight quarters of year-over-year double-d…
Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) is looking at Apple (AAPL.O) products for guidance on how to style its new generation of electric cars, its top designer said, as the automaker aims to turn profits on battery-powered vehicles when they launch in 202…
Google just announced a plan to “modernize” email with its Accelerated Mobile Pages platform, allowing “engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences.” Does that sound like a terrible idea to anyone else? It sure sounds like a te…
Good morning and happy Wednesday, everyone! Here is a thing that falls under Today In Very Good Things: Pinterest is going to, finally, finally, let you move pins around on your boards.
This seems really small and trivial but, really, t…
YouTube and Instagram face being blocked by Russian internet service providers as a result of a standoff between one of the country's richest businessmen and an opposition leader.
Russia's internet censor blacklisted material on both se…
Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google is raising the price of its YouTube TV online service for new customers as it adds channels from Time Warner Inc’s (TWX.N) Turner, National Basketball League and Major League Baseball, the company said Wedne…
A television ad for Amazon's Echo Dot smart speaker that caused a viewer's device to try to order cat food has been cleared by a UK regulator.
The advert, which aired in October, featured a man asking Amazon's voice assistant Alexa to o…
PBG Tenda will introduce Augmented Reality (AR) technology as a tool for advertising and marketing and showcase its revolutionary software application, Point & Play to top marketing and advertising companies in Ghana on the 27th of Februar…
Previously undetected malware directed at users of the desktop version of the messaging app Telegram has been discovered by the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky said on Tuesday.
The malicious software has been used to tar…
Social network Instagram has come to look more like rival Snapchat after copying some of its features, but marketers say Snapchat’s younger audience and safeguards against poor placement drive enthusiasm for advertising on the smaller app…
The UK government has unveiled a tool it says can accurately detect jihadist content and block it from being viewed.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the BBC she would not rule out forcing technology companies to use it by law.
Ms…
Gmail is about to get dynamic. Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday plans to demonstrate a software programming system that would enable emails to feature continuously updating information and greater interactivity.
Users could see automati…
Three to four billion pounds of criminal money in Europe is being laundered through cryptocurrencies, according to Europol.
The agency's director Rob Wainwright told the BBC's Panorama that regulators and industry leaders need to work t…
Rangan Chatterjee is a GP and says he has seen plenty of evidence of the link between mental ill-health in youngsters and their use of social media.
One 16 year-old boy was referred to him after he self-harmed and ended up in A&E.
"T…
Uber has added a feature that will force a six-hour offline break whenever a driver on its platform reaches 12 hours of driving time. The feature is similar to one that Uber has in place in a few markets already around the U.S., which diff…
Equifax is facing a fresh demand to disclose the full extent of last year's data breach, following a report that it was bigger than previously disclosed.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Friday that cyber-thieves had accessed U…
The Snap Map is a feature that received a mixed response when it landed in the Snapchat app, since it basically let you see where all your friends on the platform were at any given time – provided they were okay with sharing that info. Now…
Instagram is testing a feature that will show users when someone else takes a screenshot of their story. Users included in the test are getting a warning that the next time they take a screenshot of a friend’s story the friend will be able…
After teasing the feature back in September, Apple is adding support for live news in the TV app on the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV — 9to5mac first spotted the new section. For now, it’s quite limited as it only supports a handful of channel…
Google’s Chrome browser will soon flag every site that doesn’t use HTTPS encryption. Starting in July, with the launch of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’ and prominently highlight this in its URL bar.
Over the…
Facebook (FB.O) launched a community leadership program on Friday that will award $10 million in total to more than 100 people who have successfully built groups on the social network as part of its push to create “meaningful” interactions…
WhatsApp has begun testing a new payments feature in India that will allow people to send money to other WhatsApp users, excluding merchant accounts. The feature is currently in beta, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans,…
Alphabet Inc’s Google will begin using content from Getty Images within its products and services as part of a multi-year licensing partnership, the photo agency said on Friday.
Getty did not provide any more details.
Reuters News, o…
Facebook is testing a new "downvote" button that will let people hide comments and provide feedback about them.
However, the social network denied that the new feature was a "dislike" button, which many Facebook users have requested.
…
Amazon is gearing up to compete directly with UPS and FedEx, according to a new Wall Street Journal report. The so-called “Shipping with Amazon” program will be an end-to-end shipping solution, with pickups from businesses and shipments ma…
Apple has confirmed that some of the source code for its iOS mobile operating system has been leaked online.
The boot-up source code used on its older iOS 9 operating platform was posted on code-sharing website Github.
Apple typicall…
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