UK internet use more than doubled in 2020, as people stayed home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Boxing Day was the busiest day for broadband users, according to data from Openreach, which runs much of the UK's broadband network.
Ov…
An American app that promoted private parties during the coronavirus pandemic has been removed from the Apple App Store.
Vybe Together calls itself a “private community to find, join and host parties."
A recent video on its TikTok ac…
A 12-year-old girl is hoping to take legal action against video-sharing app TikTok, claiming the company uses children's data unlawfully.
A court has ruled the girl can remain anonymous if the case goes ahead.
The action is being sup…
Apple kicked tens of thousands of products off the Chinese version of its App Store on the final day of the year to meet Beijing's demands.
The bulk of them were unlicensed games.
But civil rights campaigners have said the company ne…
After a year where the movie business was defined almost entirely by pauses and delays, Warner Bros. took decisive action on December 3.
It had only been a couple of weeks since the studio had announced that in the face of surging coron…
Amazon is planning to extend its computer science program Future Engineer to India, demonstrating its growing interest in the education space in the world’s second largest internet market.
In a job recruitment post, the company said th…
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has approved Tokyo-based GMO Internet to launch GYEN, the first stablecoin pegged to the Japanese yen.
GMO Internet, an internet conglomerate that offers a large array of services, …
LG has confirmed plans to launch its first TVs based on Mini-LED technology.
The innovation vastly increases the number of light sources on the TV's back panel in order to deliver more "dimming zones".
These should help the screens e…
The US is entering a new era of global competition and the country needs to invest much more in future generations, the boss of Snap has told the BBC.
Evan Spiegel, whose firm includes the Snapchat app, said the US faces a "century of s…
Survey-software seller Qualtrics International Inc, owned by business software group SAP, filed for a U.S. initial public offering of up to $100 million on Monday, with tech stocks largely outperforming the broader market this year.
Qua…
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc said on Monday it would suspend trading in cryptocurrency XRP after U.S. regulators last week charged associated blockchain firm Ripple with conducting a $1.3 billion unregistered securities offering.
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Small drones will be allowed to fly over people and at night in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Monday, a significant step toward their use for widespread commercial deliveries.
The FAA said its long…
Tesla will begin operating in India in “early” 2021, a top Indian minister said on Monday, a day after the tech-centric carmaker said it was confident it would enter the world’s second-most populated market next year.
Tesla’s operation…
Well, my media predictions for 2020 were a load of rubbish, weren't they? I didn't see a pandemic coming. Then again, neither did you, unless you did; in which case, you must be very rich, and I'm free for lunch when restrictions have ease…
Covid-19 catapulted the health sector to the forefront of cyber-security in 2020, but the next year is likely to see the dangers continue and evolve.
Threats from nation states and criminals to the health system are a growing concern.
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The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) adds additional 500 MHz of 6 GHz band for the Wi-Fi radio frequency spectrum.
In line with the vision of TRA to enhance the regional and global leadership of the United Arab Emirates in …
Videoconferencing platform Zoom has had a blockbuster year, with its stock price rising more than 500 percent due to the unprecedented surge in remote work brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. But now the company is looking to expand be…
Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook 2 seems like it will improve on the battery life and price of its predecessor, according to leaked Samsung slides (via 9to5Google). The previous Galaxy Chromebook was an attractively designed 2-in-1 that nonethe…
More details of Samsung’s unannounced Galaxy Buds Pro wireless earbuds with active noise cancelation have leaked, including the price.
According to slides shared on Twitter by WalkingCat, the Galaxy Buds Pro will cost $199 at launch mak…
Telegram will introduce ads, TikTok’s parent company is moving into drug discovery and President Trump continues his battle against Section 230. This is your Daily Crunch for December 23, 2020.
The big story: Telegram prepares to moneti…
Crypto-currency firm Ripple has been charged with conducting investments without proper licences by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The SEC asserted that Ripple's XRP token is a tradable asset, known as a security, and thus s…
Twitter has confirmed that the official US presidential accounts will be wiped of their millions of followers before being transferred to the Biden administration.
Mr Biden's team "fought" the plan, but the social media giant said its d…
Twitter is rolling out new features to its developer community with an update to its recently rebuilt Twitter API. One addition to the now expanded collection of API v2 endpoints will allow app developers to eventually better support Twitt…
Google said on Tuesday it is investing in two Indian startups, Glance and DailyHunt, as the Android-maker makes further push in the world’s second largest internet market.
Two-year-old Indian startup Glance, which serves news, media con…
The demise of the Apple car, the technology giant’s not-so-secret secret project, was perhaps overstated. Apple’s so-called Project Titan, which last year reduced the team by some 200 employees, is not only alive, it has plans to produce a…
Christmas 2020 is not what any of us would have planned. Covid-19 restrictions and travel bans suddenly imposed on the UK have left millions of Brits cut off from one another and facing a potentially depressing Christmas Day.
These may …
The UK will fail to achieve a target of offering gigabit-capable broadband to 85% of the UK by 2025, MPs have warned.
Initially, the government had aimed for nationwide coverage within five years.
But targets were scaled back when it…
Today, we have another Galaxy S21 leak, which seems to confirm some of the specs that have been floating around, published by WinFuture. Information about and images of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S21-series phones have been landing almost d…
Apple's iPhone 12 put up a good fight after being submerged in the chilly waters of Lake Tahoe.
We know the iPhone 12 can handle spills and splashes, but Apple may be downplaying just how water-resistant this phone really is. The iPhone…
Drone maker DJI and chipmaker SMIC are the latest Chinese firms to be added to a US trade blacklist.
In total, 77 firms were added to the list - most of them Chinese.
The Entity List is drawn up by the US Department of Commerce, and …
Wireless networks will continue to improve and that should hopefully mean more deals for customers.
For the wireless industry, 2020 was notable not just because of the coronavirus pandemic, but because it marked the true beginning of th…
The cyber-security firm that identified the large-scale hacking of US government agencies says it "genuinely impacted" around 50 organisations.
Kevin Mandia, CEO of FireEye, said that while some 18,000 organisations had the malicious co…
If you’ve ever used a Snapchat or Instagram filter, you know that one of the popular use cases for AR (augmented reality) is to change up your appearance with virtual makeup — like a different shade of lipstick or eyeshadow, for example. T…
Walmart and TikTok announced this morning they will be partnering on the first pilot test of a new shoppable product experience on TikTok’s social video app. Walmart, as you may recall, had planned to invest in TikTok when the app was bein…
Last month, Twitter announced it would soon begin testing a new social experience on its platforms involving audio-only chat rooms, similar to the sometimes controversial startup Clubhouse. Today, Twitter Spaces, as the product is now bein…
Twitter Inc is reversing changes made to its retweet function intended to curb the spread of misinformation during the U.S. presidential election, the company said.
The microblogging site had in October made it difficult for users to re…
There are over 600 million internet users in India, but only a fraction of this population is fluent in English. Most online services and much of the content on the web currently, however, are available exclusively in English.
This lang…
A Russian court fined Google 3 million roubles ($41,000) on Thursday for failing to remove banned content from its search engine, the Interfax news agency reported.
($1 = 72.8400 roubles)
French startup PhotoRoom is launching its app on Android today. The company has been working on a utility photography app that lets you remove the background from a photo, swaps it for another background and tweaks your photo.
And it’s …
More than half of vaccines go to waste globally every year because of temperature control, logistics and shipment-related issues.
Logistical hurdles are a significant risk for efforts to rapidly distribute COVID-19 vaccines, but they ha…
The campaign aims to highlight the successes, strength and resilience of its users, whilst reinforcing Facebook’s ongoing commitment to the region
Facebook (Facebook.com) today released its “2020 Year in Review: Highlights” an infograph…
Vision Gran Turismo SV: All-electric virtual endurance race car designed by Jaguar and engineered by Jaguar SV for Gran Turismo
Emotive evolution: Developed from the existing Jaguar Vision Gran Turismo Coupé to deliver extreme per…
Facebook is working to bring back the Instagram Lite app, months after it shut down the light version offering worldwide.
The social conglomerate said on Wednesday that it is testing the revamped Instagram Lite app in India, where it ho…
Following recent reports, Periscope announced today that it will end operations as a standalone app by March 2021. The Twitter -owned company referred to its current operations as “unsustainable” in an open letter posted today. It also cit…
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet on Wednesday passed new legislation to introduce all-electronic securities as part of its wider blockchain strategy, finance ministry said.
The law eases rules that until now had forced issuers and hol…
Big tech firms face yearly checks on how they are tackling illegal and harmful content under new rules unveiled by the European Commission.
Fresh restrictions are also planned to govern their use of customers' data, and to prevent the f…
Fitness apps have seen a steep rise in users during the pandemic.
Strava, which now has 73 million users, said each month this year an average of two million had been registering with its app for the first time.
The app uses global-p…
When it comes to cybersecurity, a lack of resources can be a bigger threat than the criminals who have their sights set on stealing organizations’ data, money, time, and reputation
Resources have always been a problem when it comes to c…
Nokia said on Tuesday mobile operator Proximus Luxembourg has selected the Finnish telecom network equipment company for a seven-year deal to supply 5G coverage nationwide.
Nokia is replacing China’s Huawei, according to a source famili…
Apple Inc plans to manufacture up to 96 million iPhones in the first half of 2021, a nearly 30% year-on-year increase owing to strong demand for its 5G handsets, Nikkei reported s.nikkei.com/3mlVbPC on Tuesday.
It has asked suppliers to…
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