Cryptocurrency miners, including HashCow and BTC.TOP, have halted all or part of their China operations after Beijing intensified a crackdown on bitcoin mining and trading, hammering digital currencies amid heightened global regulatory scr…
Cryptocurrencies fought back on Monday, clawing back ground after a bout of weekend selling fuelled by further signs of a gathering Chinese crackdown on the emerging sector.
Bitcoin climbed as high as $37,391 after falling some 7.5% a d…
Ericsson (ERICb.ST) said on Monday it might get lower share in China's 5G roll-out than its share of the current telecom infrastructure market there, partly due to a spat over exclusion of Chinese vendors from Sweden's roll-out of ultra-fa…
Hytera, as a world leading provider of professional communications technologies and solutions, brings body worn cameras (BWC) to a new level with innovative hardware and software design, convergence with push-to-talk technology, and integr…
The specialty chemicals company Evonik and China's largest SLS 3D printer manufacturer Farsoon are strengthening their collaboration in powder-based 3D printing. Both companies aim to open up market access to new large-scale industrial app…
Alongside news that Twitter is relaunching its account verification system to the public, the company previewed a slate of changes that will soon come to Twitter profiles. In addition to your name, photo, banner, bio and other features ava…
A little over a decade has passed since The Economist warned us that we would soon be drowning in data. The modern data stack has emerged as a proposed life-jacket for this data flood — spearheaded by Silicon Valley startups such as Snowfl…
Amid a pre-recorded Partner Summit where Snap took users through a whole set of new tools for Snapchat users, creators and companies, Snap also threw in a “one more thing” at the end that shows the company, after a rocky start several year…
Apple last month unveiled its plans for paid podcast subscriptions in a newly redesigned Apple Podcasts app. Now, it’s introducing a new program that will help podcast creators grow their subscriber base: affiliate marketing. The company’s…
Snap Inc (SNAP.N), owner of photo messaging app Snapchat, is introducing a new feature to help notable Snapchat personalities earn money and is also developing new augmented reality glasses.
The Santa Monica, California-based company sa…
Twitter (TWTR.N) users can once again apply to be verified after a years-long freeze on public submissions for the site's blue check marks, though the company said only "notable" users would be awarded the badge.
The social media compan…
Apple has confirmed that it is storing Chinese customers' data inside data centres based in China, following reports by the New York Times.
However it said it had "never compromised the security" of either its customers or their data.
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China’s Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) is expanding its smart car partnership with state-owned Chongqing Changan Automobile Co Ltd (000625.SZ) to include the design and development of auto-use semiconductors, four sources with knowledge of t…
Microsoft's Internet Explorer will finally be retired next year after more than 26 years of service, the tech giant says.
The veteran web browser was released with Windows 95.
It will no longer appear on consumer versions of Windows …
The ongoing Facebook Creators campaign which features eight creative artists from Nigeria and Ghana, has been an interesting exposé into the life of the creatives, producing great insights into their creative process, and highlighting how …
The CEO and co-founder of TikTok's owner ByteDance has announced he will step down and transition to a new role by the end of the year.
In a letter to employees, Zhang Yiming said he will be succeeded by fellow co-founder Rubo Liang.
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A brief visit by Tesla boss Elon Musk to Luton has ignited rumours that he is considering a Tesla factory in the UK.
The electric car mogul flew into Luton Airport on a private jet last weekend and stayed two days, reports say.
The D…
A cyber-crime spree wreaking havoc around the world has reignited calls for governments to ban ransom payments to hackers.
Ransomware criminals are holding computer systems hostage on a daily basis, demanding large payments from victims…
Twitter Inc's (TWTR.N) image-cropping algorithm has a problematic bias toward excluding Black people and men, the company said in new research on Wednesday, adding that "how to crop an image is a decision best made by people."
The study…
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is pulling the plug on its once omnipresent browser, Internet Explorer, next year as it prepares to battle market leader Chrome with its slicker Edge browser.
Launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became the domina…
At Google I/O today Google Cloud announced Vertex AI, a new managed machine learning platform that is meant to make it easier for developers to deploy and maintain their AI models. It’s a bit of an odd announcement at I/O, which tends to f…
Last September we concluded our 27-inch iMac review thusly,
“The big open question mark here is what the future looks like for the iMac — and how long we’ll have to wait to see it. That is, of course, the perennial question for hardware…
Crypto-currency scammers pretending to be Tesla boss Elon Musk have made more than $2m (£1.4m) in just six months, US consumer-protection officials say.
The Federal Trade Commission received 7,000 complaints from people who had lost a t…
Google has unveiled a tool that uses artificial intelligence to help spot skin, hair and nail conditions, based on images uploaded by patients.
A trial of the "dermatology assist tool", unveiled at the tech giant's annual developer conf…
Last year Google's developer conference was cancelled. Google I/O was back this year with several new announcements. Here are the things that caught our eye.
More inclusive camera
Google says it is creating a smartphone camera that mor…
Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) today announced Zoom Events, an all-in-one platform with the power to produce interactive and engaging virtual experiences, available this summer. Zoom Events combines the reliability and scala…
Pinterest is expanding further into the creator community with today’s launch of a video-first feature called “Idea Pins,” aimed at creators who want to tell their stories using video, music, creative editing tools and more. The feature fe…
Shein‘s quiet rise has reached a crescendo as the fast fashion e-commerce app takes the crown from Amazon as the most downloaded shopping app on iOS and Android in the United States, according to data from app tracking firm App Annie.
I…
Microsoft was investigating its co-founder Bill Gates over a 20-year-old affair shortly before he stepped down from the company's board last year.
The tech giant confirmed that it had launched a probe after concerns were reported about …
It's not just the unseasonally cold weather that's creating a somewhat chilly climate for Huawei's UK operations.
It's been banned from the UK's 5G infrastructure and it faces ongoing scrutiny from the National Cyber Security Centre ove…
The EU Commission recently proposed a new set of stringent rules to regulate AI, citing an urgent need. With the global race to regulate AI officially on, the EU published a detailed proposal on how AI should be regulated, explicitly banni…
Amazon has long maintained that its video streaming service, Prime Video, helps drive more sales on the shopping app. Now the e-commerce giant is testing what happens when it brings a video streaming service directly to the shopping app.
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Voice social network Clubhouse said on Sunday it will expand its Android app worldwide in a week, days after launching a beta version of its service on Google-owned mobile operating system for users in the U.S.
The startup — backed by A…
Ride-hailing giant Gojek and marketplace Tokopedia, Indonesia’s two biggest startups, said on Monday they have combined their businesses to form GoTo Group, the largest technology group in the Southeast Asian nation, the fourth most populo…
YouTube has launched a multi-million-pound advertising campaign to encourage young people in the UK to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
It said the partnership with the NHS would involve ads on buses, billboards, bus stops and YouTube, …
One. That’s the number of African tech companies that have gone public on the NYSE in the last 10 years. Two, if you’re counting local exchanges. The former is African-focused e-commerce company Jumia and the latter is Egyptian fintech com…
The Internet of Things just got bigger. Four years after Ford Motor Company introduced an integration with Amazon’s suite of smart home devices, the automaker is beefing up its in-vehicle software offerings with built-in Alexa voice assist…
Pinterest is expanding into live events. The company is planning to host a three-day virtual event that will feature livestreamed sessions from top creators, including big names like Jonathan Van Ness and Rebecca Minkoff, among others. The…
Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit, which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. The company leverages a combination of real-time image processing, co…
PayPal announced today it’s acquiring Happy Returns, a returns solution provider that offers online shoppers access to easier ways to send back unwanted merchandise to retailers without having to box it up and ship it themselves. The compa…
Electric car startup Fisker signed an agreement with Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles iPhones, to co-develop and manufacture a new electric vehicle. Production on the car, which will be sold under the Fisker brand name in Nort…
President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to improve US cyber-defences in light of recent attacks.
The detailed order issues strict deadlines for all government departments to tighten security.
It comes as the US deals with a…
The boss of the US tech giant IBM has said a computer chip shortage could last another two years.
Its President Jim Whitehurst told the BBC it could be "a few years" before the situation improves.
Many firms have seen production dela…
Users yet to accept new terms and conditions for the messaging platform WhatsApp will start to get "persistent" reminders after the 15 May deadline.
The changes relate primarily to the way businesses interact with customers.
Since th…
It’s beginning to feel a bit like 2020, as yet another major manufacturer has announced that it won’t be attending MWC’s upcoming in-person event in Barcelona. Roughly a month and a half out, Samsung is joining a growing list of companies …
Seeing someone mention their pronouns in their Instagram bio has become commonplace — so much so that the app now has a dedicated location where users can put pronouns without taking up that valuable profile space.
The company announced…
Amazon this morning announced a handful of updates across its Echo Show line of smart screens. The top-level most interesting bit here is the addition of a pan and zoom camera to the mid-tier Echo Show. The feature is similar to ones found…
On May 6th, TECNO (TECNO-mobile.com), a rising superstar as a global smartphone brand of the new generation, has successfully launched the TECNO CAMON 17 Pro and get back their focus on the seflie for the users in post-epidemic era with48M…
England’s NHS app will be available to use as a vaccine passport from Monday, the government has said - but only for those who have had both doses of the jab.
A paper version will also be available - by calling 119 but not through a GP.…
Cryptocurrency ether hit a record high on Wednesday, taking gains this year to almost 500% on the back of a growing interest in decentralised finance applications and increasing institutional interest in cryptocurrencies.
Ether, the sec…