After recently tweaking its design to better showcast podcasts, Spotify today announced it’s giving its entire mobile experience a refreshed look-and-feel. Starting initially with the iOS app, both Spotify Free and Premium users will notic…
The Citroën Ami is a new take on urban mobility. It’s electric, cheap and doesn’t require a license. In short, it’s less of a car and more of an electric scooter with two seats, doors and a heater. Jokes aside, the Citroën Ami could be a g…
Teebike is a new French startup that wants to make it easier to switch from a good old sweat-based bike to an electric bike. With Teebike, you don’t have to get rid of your existing bike and buy a new one. You just have to replace the fron…
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would cancel its annual developer conference due to fears over the coronavirus, as growing concerns about the economic impact of the global outbreak drove Wall Street to tumble for a sixth straight day.
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Havn launches premium chauffeur service across London with a fleet of all-electric Jaguar I-PACEs
Each Havn ride tailored in advance with options such as playlist, temperature, and chauffeur interaction
First class hospitality …
LinkedIn is a website that’s effectively a mixture between an interactive resume and a college job fair, but that hasn’t stopped it from aspiring to be a cooler, more social part of the internet. Its latest attempt? Snapchat-style stories,…
Amazon has banned more than one million products which claim to protect against the coronavirus - or even cure it.
The online retailer told Reuters it had also removed "tens of thousands" of overpriced health products from unscrupulous …
The "appropriateness" of Google's sister company's plan for a "digital city" in Toronto has been questioned.
A panel set up to scrutinise Sidewalk Labs's plan has asked it to explain what the benefits would be for citizens in collecting…
A game which challenges players to spread a deadly virus around the world has been banned in China, its makers have said.
Plague Inc. has been pulled from the Chinese app store for including "illegal content", British-based developer Nd…
VMware & Dell Technologies partner to enable focus on faster deployments with lower costs via containerized- and micro-serviced 5G end-to-end solutions
Mavenir has announced integration of its 5G cloud-native telecom network functions (…
India is unlikely to have any substantial coverage of 5G until at least the end of next year, with telecom operators in the country yet to participate in a spectrum auction. But that hasn’t stopped Chinese vendors Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi fro…
One thing you can say for sure about 2020’s smartphone landscape: There’s no shortage of options. Sales have taken a dip in the last few years, causing a number of manufactures to get creative with their offerings. LG’s certainly in that b…
Last November, Twitter rolled out its Hide Replies feature to all users worldwide. The feature, largely designed to lessen the power of online trolls to disrupt conversations, lets users decide which replies to their tweets are placed behi…
For a decade, Apple has solely relied on third-party sellers, stores and marketplaces to sell its products in India. That will begin to change this year.
At the company’s annual shareholder meeting Wednesday, chief executive Tim Cook to…
Apple's chief executive Tim Cook said the company would open its first physical stores in India in 2021 and a online outlet later this year.
Apple had to seek special approval from the Indian government to open a store without a local p…
Uber Technologies, Incorporated, commonly known as Uber, has introduced a ew safety feature that will give users the option to receive a four-digit PIN code to give to their driver before starting a trip.
According to the company, this …
Calling all energy sector technology disruptors and start-ups to African Utility Week’s Initiate! forum
INITIATE! has proven to be a powerful platform for new talent and innovation in the power and energy sector and this year’s edition…
GN Hearing today launches multiple new ReSound hearing solutions based on a powerful chip platform, which offers impressive sound quality, connectivity and customer care for people with all types of hearing loss.
New ReSound ENZO Q™ g…
Market intelligence provider IDC has positioned Canon, Inc. as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide High-Speed Inkjet Press 2019-2020 Vendor Assessment
In its latest analysis of the worldwide high-speed inkjet press market¹, marke…
Valve is adding new features to its Steam storefront’s search system, letting users filter out games they already own, set a maximum price, and avoid seeing VR-only games if they don’t have a virtual reality headset. The updates are part o…
The trend of gadgets that rethink the physical ways we make music is continuing with a little wearable device called Music Fingers. It literally puts music at your fingertips, and lets you tap out beats on any surface.
It’s a clip-like …
Facebook is banning ads that promise to cure, prevent, or otherwise incite panic around COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, the company has confirmed in a statement given to Business Insider. The company added that it has …
One of the nice things about looking at the full scope of tech news for the day is that two stories that you otherwise wouldn’t think to connect end up playing off each other perfectly. So it was today with the following pieces of news.
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Knives Out and The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson has said that Apple won’t let the bad guys in movies use iPhones. “Apple... they let you use iPhones in movies but — and this is very pivotal if you’re ever watching a mystery movie — bad …
Digital transformation is not leaving anyone behind. It's the hero in its own disruptive movie, ensuring the safety of everyone in distress by taking them to places that nobody is entirely sure they understand. The Fourth Industrial Revolu…
As the new coronavirus spreads in South Korea, private software developers have set up websites and apps to help people track cases and shun places where infected people have been in the hope of avoiding the fast-spreading virus.
The go…
Mexico’s economy ministry detected a cyber attack on some of its servers on Sunday but did not consider sensitive information to have been compromised, and beefed up safety measures, it said in a statement.
It was the second high-profil…
From his high-rise desk overlooking the sprawling city of Addis Ababa, Markos Lemma has a pretty good view.
As the founder of technology innovation hub IceAddis, his co-working space is usually abuzz with wide-eyed entrepreneurs fuelled…
MWC may have been canceled on account of rising coronavirus concerns, but the party still went on for Huawei (albeit to what appears to have been a mostly empty room). A year after wowing crowds with the Mate X, the company is introducing …
It’s been a few months since Microsoft announced the impending arrival of the Xbox Series X. The somewhat redundantly named console made cameo during the Game Awards, getting a late 2020 date in the process.
We got at glimpse at the b…
We are now onto the fifth short story of nine in Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalations. This one is a very short one at only a couple of pages, but despite its brief length, it explores some of the most fundamental issues facing us as a soci…
Sony has announced its first 5G smartphone: The Xperia 1 II — which, for the curious and/or confused, is pronounced ‘Xperia One, Mark Two’. Which isn’t at all confusing, er.
“No one understands the entertainment experience better tha…
Mastercard Inc plans to hire 1,500 more staff in Dublin over the next three to five years, more than trebling its workforce in one of Ireland’s largest single multinational jobs announcements.
The U.S. credit card issuer has had a prese…
Intel Corp on Monday launched new microprocessors, including a second generation Xeon processor for data centers and a 10nm chip for wireless 5G base stations.
Demand from cloud computing companies have boosted sales of server chips, le…
Huawei has revealed an updated version of its folding smartphone, which it plans to release outside of China for the first time.
It said it had made the screen of the new Mate XS more resilient than the original Mate X, following conc…
Google has warned people not to circumvent the ban on Google apps that affects newer Huawei phones.
Recent Huawei devices cannot download the Google Play app store or hugely popular apps such as Gmail, YouTube, or Google Maps.
Androi…
71% say current data centers are not meeting all of their needs
As today’s data center evolves to incorporate enterprise, cloud and edge resources, thorough planning and foresight is needed to meet organizational computing requireme…
71% say current data centers are not meeting all of their needs
As today’s data center evolves to incorporate enterprise, cloud and edge resources, thorough planning and foresight is needed to meet organizational computing requireme…
All time Group revenue record of US$14.1 billion
Pre-tax income (PTI) grew to record US$390 million, up 11% year-on-year
Net income up 11% year-on-year to US$258 million
Strategic Intelligent Transformation growth areas delivering…
That will revolutionize the business and compete against all others companies in mid-range budget consumer
Electra looking to outperform, out price and out class the current EV market by building an ecofriendly supercar fit for the mi…
Taking inspiration from Jaguar’s racing heritage, F?PACE Chequered Flag offers assertive exterior styling, distinctive badging and a choice of engines
Feature-packed SUV includes 10-way electric seats with driver memory, To…
Microsoft has started rolling out new colorful app icons in Windows 10 today that overhaul the look and feel of the operating system. Changes to many of the built-in Windows 10 app icons have started rolling out today, but more are coming …
A press render claiming to be LG’s unannounced V60 ThinQ has been published by Android Headlines, showing a handset with a small teardrop notch, a dedicated Google Assistant button, and a gold frame. Although not confirmed by the leak, t…
Google is placing new restrictions on which Android apps can track your location in the background, with a new review process that will check whether an app definitely needs access to the data. The changes were announced in a blog post to …
Gmail’s search is getting a significant update that will allow users to more easily narrow results to help them find a specific email. Before today, users could type in search filters by hand (e.g. label:work, has:attachment, from:marketin…
Do you need a case for your AirPods case? Perhaps not, but the accessory accessories are increasingly popular, whether your personal style extends to crocheting or leather. And what if it looked as cute as this Game Boy-inspired design f…
Several companies rolled out electric pickups in 2019. Tesla’s Cybertruck got most of the attention, but don’t sleep on General Motors and Ford — bringing electric pickups to market is critical for the viability of electric vehicles.
Au…
The coronavirus outbreak could result in at least a 3.3% drop — and as high as a 9% dip — in the volume of PCs that will ship globally this year, research firm Canalys reported Thursday evening in its revised projections to clients.
P…
Moscow is using facial recognition technology to ensure people ordered to remain at home or at their hotels under coronavirus quarantine do so, the mayor of the Russian capital said on Friday.
Russia has temporarily barred Chinese natio…
Government measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus in China look set to delay the rollout of next-generation 5G telecom networks, a key technology initiative for the country’s leadership.
Tenders for six big 5G projects have b…