Uber has struck a deal with the US National Aeronautical and Space Administration (Nasa) as part of its plans to roll out flying cars in cities around the world.
It would work with the space agency to develop software for managing flyin…
witter plans to increase the number of characters in tweets from 140 to 280 for the majority of users.
The new limit will not apply to tweets written in Japanese, Chinese and Korean which can convey more information in a single characte…
Redington Gulf, Value Added Distributor(VAD) for Apple products in Ghana, in collaboration with their Authorized Resellers Telefonika and iSHOP, are offering attractive prices for iPhone 6 to coincide with the onset of the Christmas season…
It’s long been impossible to imagine a family budget that doesn’t include line items like electricity, gas, and groceries. Today, it’s impossible to omit digital communications services like cable or satellite TV and high-speed broadband …
A Facebook test that promoted comments containing the word fake to the top of news feeds has been criticised by users.
The trial, which Facebook says has now concluded, aimed to prioritise "comments that indicate disbelief".
It meant…
EBay has removed items listed for sale on its website that claimed to contain small amounts of Hawaiian sand.
The sand, from various parts of Hawaii, ranged in price from $3.50 (£2.60) to $35, the Hawaii-Tribune Herald said.
It is il…
Visit Nokia at stand C95 at this year’s AfricaCom
AfricaCom 2017 (http://APO.af/lb7KAQ) will be a landmark event for Nokia (www.Nokia.com) as it showcases how the company is shaping the future of technology to transform human experienc…
Orange announces improved Internet and mobile services connectivity in Africa with the launch of two new IP and IPX Points of Presence in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
Following the launch of these two new IP and IPX PoPs in …
Africa’s mobile internet connections are set to double in the next five years, a study showed on Monday, thanks to affordable smartphones and the roll-out of high-speed networks.
A report by research and consulting firm Ovum in London e…
Tech companies like Google and Facebook seem like monopolies and need new rules, the organizer of one of the world’s biggest technology summits said.
Paddy Cosgrave, whose annual Web Summit takes place in Lisbon this week, joins growing…
Grab, Uber’s fierce rival in Southeast Asia, announced today that its service has crossed one billion completed rides.
The firm hit the milestone on October 26 when 66 concurrent trips from across its seven markets took it into ten-figu…
It’s been some time since Samsung mocked Apple with videos on the inferiority of the iPhone — the exploding Note 7 set that argument back a fair amount — but the Korean firm has removed the gloves again with a new video released right aft…
A fake version of the WhatsApp messenger app was downloaded more than a million times from the Google Play Store before it was removed.
The app, "Update WhatsApp Messenger", appeared to have been developed by the firm behind the real pr…
Some iPhone users have been left frustrated after an update to the iOS operating system started inexplicably auto-correcting the letter "i" to a capital "a" and a question mark.
The affected version of iOS, 11.1, is available on iPhones…
Twitter is being criticised for failing to show any photos under the bisexual hashtag.
Some are calling it bi-erasure, as photo results for "lesbian" and "gay" still exist.
Users are pointing out that when you search #bisexual, a me…
It’s no big secret that Razer (the company best known for building gaming peripherals and laptops) has been building a phone. The company bought fledgling smartphone maker Nextbit earlier this year, and there’s been talk of a Razer phone e…
Instagram and WhatsApp’s Snapchat clones aren’t slowing down. Today Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status both now have 300 million daily active users. That’s up from 250 million for Instagram in June…
I honestly thought HTC had sent the wrong phone in the mail when the U11 Life arrived. The new phone looks almost identical to its namesake at first glance — and that’s by design. Of course, on closer inspection, the differences are pretty…
Celebrities, sports figures and social media stars have been warned by US regulators about endorsing crypto-currencies.
Paris Hilton, boxer Floyd Mayweather and others have all publicly backed digital currency funding drives.
The Sec…
Malaysia is investigating an alleged attempt to sell the data of more than 46 million mobile phone subscribers online, in what appears to be one of the largest leaks of customer data in Asia.
The massive data breach, believed to affect …
Gu Xiaomeng, a 24-year-old primary school teacher in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, says she’s excited about the new iPhone X, set to go on sale on Friday. The challenge for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is to persuade her to actually buy one.
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The Essential Phone has come a long way since launch in one key area: Photography. When it first hit the market a few months ago, the camera had a nasty tendency to crash and was a bit slow to load and process photos. But Essential has sta…
Amid the dire - and somewhat overhyped - predictions of occupations that will be decimated by artificial intelligence and automation, there is one crumb of comfort. Yes, lorry drivers, translators and shop assistants are all under threat f…
Drones are delivering food to residents of a Japanese town devastated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster where access to shops is limited.
Residents were allowed to return to the Minamisoma area last year but obtaining supplies can be di…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has tasked employees returning to work on Monday morning with one key objective: fix the burger emoji.
The tech giant's big cheese (sorry) stepped in after a tweet from author Thomas Baekdal highlighted inconsis…
CME Group Inc (CME.O), the world’s largest derivatives exchange operator, said on Tuesday it will launch a futures contract for bitcoin later this year, marking a major step in the digital currency’s path toward legitimacy and helping prop…
Four phones and three years ago, I took the first iPhones to “go big” to the “happiest place on earth” for a road test. It was a watershed year for iPhones, and I started thinking about how best to push them through my brain and …
Android users will now be able to battle junk mail and manage their email subscriptions using the new Android app from Unroll.Me.
To be clear, anyone with a smartphone could get the benefits of the service already. You just had to conne…
The first reviews of Apple Inc’s eagerly awaited iPhone X unanimously judged it the best iPhone yet, although some reviewers pointed out potential glitches in FaceID, the company’s new face recognition system.
The run-up to the Nov. 3 r…
Facebook has said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the past two years.
The social networking site said about 80,000 posts were produced before and after the 2016 presid…
North Korea has hit back at the UK government for accusing it of being behind a massive ransomware attack that badly affected the National Health Service (NHS).
A UK government minister last week told the BBC he was "as sure as possible…
Japan’s getting an iconic new taxi courtesy of Toyota. The new, aptly named ‘Japan Taxi’ (or Jpn Taxi for conveniently fitting on a rooftop sign) is already on roads, and bears a slight resemblance to London’s signature black cabs. The ide…
Following a late-night, profanity-laced, Twitter tirade directed at CNN anchors, Roger Stone Jr., a longtime confidant and associate of President Donald Trump has been suspended indefinitely from the social media platform.
Stone (who lo…
The company has broken a run of sales decreases that stretches back six quarters thanks to promising early signs for the newly released iPhone 8, according to a new report from Canalys. The analyst firm recorded 40 percent annual growth fo…
Earlier this year, Skype introduced a revamped version of its application offering a heavier focus on media sharing and social expression tools, in an effort to better compete with more modern social communication services, like Slack and …
Facebook has always denied using smartphone microphones to gather audio from people's real-life conversations and then use that data to serve advertising.
Last week Facebook's vice-president of ads, Rob Goldman, said on Twitter that the…
YouTube is tweaking the way it chooses which videos will have adverts shown with them.
The update comes after YouTube made changes to the way videos were monetised, to stop ads appearing alongside extremist content.
The changes promp…
Apple has reportedly fired one of its engineers after his daughter posted a video of the iPhone X before the official launch.
The YouTube video was shot on the Apple campus in September when the young woman met her father for lunch.
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WhatsApp and Facebook will be scrutinised by a data protection taskforce, after they were accused of "non-compliance" with EU laws.
The regulators took issue with the messaging app's plan to share user data with parent company Facebook.…
A web address used by recovery software on Dell PCs was taken over by a third-party after a contractor apparently failed to renew it.
Dell's software checks in with the domain periodically, so whoever snapped it up could use it to distr…
Elon Musk was fed up.
The seats on Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) new Model X SUV were a mess. An outside contractor was having trouble executing the complicated design, spurring frustration and finger-pointing between Tesla and its supplier.
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Football’s governing body FIFA has announced that all 64 matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia will be produced in Ultra High Definition (UHD) with High Dynamic Range (HDR) for the first time in the history of the competition. Multi…
If you were trying to recruit a celebrity to give your ambitious young music tech company a higher profile, it is hard to imagine a much better choice than Pharrell Williams, best known for his hit song Happy.
So all credit to Roland La…
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said on Tuesday it would add labels to election-related advertisements and say who is behind each of them, after a threat of regulation from the United States over the lack of disclosure for political spending on socia…
Two Snapchat posts by the reality TV star Marnie Simpson have fallen foul of the UK's advertising rules.
The Geordie Shore and Celebrity Big Brother cast member uploaded images of products from two firms that she has business relationsh…
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has followed through on his plan to boost power resources in Puerto Rico after it was devastated by Hurricane Maria.
Mr Musk's firm, Tesla, has set up solar panels and energy storage batteries at Hospital del Nino…
Amazon is launching a service that will let couriers open people's front doors and put deliveries inside.
Users of Amazon Key will need a smart lock and Cloud Cam camera.
Couriers will scan a package barcode and once the delivery has…
Jared O'Mara is not the first person to have old comments he posted online come back to haunt him.
The Labour MP resigned from the Women and Equalities Committee after misogynistic remarks and degrading jokes he posted more than 10 year…
Twitter has pledged to make advertising more transparent as it attempts to fend off proposed new regulations.
It said it would be clearer about who funded ads and to what end, especially those pushing a political agenda.
The company,…
British MPs have asked Facebook if it has evidence of paid-for activity by accounts linked to Russia at the time of the Brexit referendum.
A letter addressed to Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg also asks about similar activity…
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