The communications manager of Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O'Mara has resigned in a flurry of angry tweets published on the MP's own Twitter account.
Gareth Arnold - a member of Mr O'Mara's constituency staff - accused him of showing "inex…
A man has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a "sophisticated and malicious" cyber attack against Lancaster University.
Student records, phone numbers and ID documents were accessed in the hack, and bogus invoices sent to underg…
At an event this week in Nigeria, Google introduced Gallery Go, a photo management and editing tool designed for offline use. The new offering joins a suite of Google apps created specifically for users in development markets, where solid …
The US Justice Department has announced an investigation into leading online platforms, examining whether they are unfairly restricting competition.
The DoJ did not name any firms, but companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and Appl…
New innovations in financial IT solutions are opening several opportunities for finance decision-makers in Africa. But realising the full value of these innovations will require leadership and vision.
Earlier this year, the financial pl…
Jaguar’s 322km/h, 441kW performance sedan lowers the fastest Nürburgring time for a four-door production car to 7min 18.361sec on 20.6km Nordschleife lap
Project 8 development driver Vincent Radermecker returns to legendary German cir…
Get ready for a British Trump: The UK will shortly have a new prime minister after the Conservative Party membership overwhelmingly voted to elect Boris Johnson as their new party leader, passing over his sole rival for the post, Jeremy H…
The UK gambling watchdog has told MPs that it does not currently oversee the purchase of in-game content like Fifa player packs and video game loot boxes.
This is because there is no official way to monetise what is inside them.
A pr…
A decision on whether controversial Chinese firm Huawei should be excluded from the rollout of 5G mobile phone networks in the UK has been postponed.
Culture secretary Jeremy Wright said the government is "not yet in a position" to deci…
Credit score agency Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700m (£561m) as part of a settlement with a US regulator following a data breach in 2017.
The Federal Trade Commission had alleged the Atlanta-based firm failed to take reasonable ste…
The personal data of students and applicants has been stolen in a "sophisticated and malicious" phishing attack at Lancaster University.
Officials said the information had been used to send bogus invoices to undergraduate applicants.
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Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], the Chinese company put on a U.S. black list because of national security concerns, secretly helped North Korea build and maintain its commercial wireless network, the Washington Post reported on Monday…
Elon Musk says he wants a new 10km (six-mile) vacuum tunnel for his futuristic Hyperloop - ready for next year's speed-record competition.
Hyperloop aims to transport people in high-speed pods in underground tubes.
Mr Musk tweeted hi…
Japan’s Toshiba Memory said there was a “good chance” of acquisitions as it pushes to increase its share of the market for advanced storage products used in data centers.
Toshiba Memory is the world’s No.2 maker of NAND flash memory chi…
Microsoft Corp said on Monday it was investing $1 billion in San Francisco-based OpenAI and that the two had formed a multi-year partnership to develop artificial intelligence supercomputing technologies on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computin…
Miniature remote controlled cars have proved to be a crowd pleaser at track and field throwing events, but for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Toyota Motor Corp is upping the game with a hi-tech way to fetch javelins and hammers: pint-sized, self-…
Bug hunting can be a lucrative gig. Depending on the company, a serious bug reported through the proper channels can earn whoever found it first tens of thousands of dollars.
Google launched a bug bounty program for Chrome in 2010. T…
In just a few weeks Apple’s new iOS 13, the thirteenth major iteration of its popular iPhone software, will be out — along with new iPhones and a new iPad version, the aptly named iPadOS. We’ve taken iOS 13 for a spin over the past few …
Seems Hongmeng isn’t the Android replacement it’s been pitched as, after all. The initial story certainly tracked, as Huawei has been preparing for the very real possibility of life after Google, but the Chinese hardware giant says the o…
When thousands of people converge on Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the city’s infrastructure will be tested. Toyota is getting into the mix to handle some of the ways people will get around the city and the Olympics venu…
Microsoft beat expectations yesterday to deliver revenues of nearly $34bn (£27bn) and profits of $13bn.
Aaron Shields from Fitch brand consultancy said Microsoft's strength came down to "trust" and "innovation".
Although he acknowled…
YouTube has defended its video recommendation algorithms, amid suggestions that the technology serves up increasingly extreme videos.
On Thursday, a BBC report explored how YouTube had helped the Flat Earth conspiracy theory spread.
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Intel announced a deep partnership with SAP today around using advanced Intel technology to optimize SAP software tools. Specifically, the company plans to tune its Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC persistent memory for…
Instagram is hiding the number of likes on posts in several countries, including Australia and Japan, in order to "remove pressure" on users.
At the moment, Instagram users see a running total of people who have liked a post. In the tri…
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has called for an investigation into FaceApp, which alters users' photos to make them look older or younger.
In a letter posted on Twitter, Mr Schumer called it "deeply troubling" that personal data …
Uber passengers in the US have complained on Twitter after a "glitch" meant they were charged 100 times more than advertised fares.
One journey that should have cost $96.72 (£77.60) was reportedly charged at $9,672, while some charges w…
The police and other authorities should suspend use of automatic facial recognition technologies, according to an influential group of MPs.
The House of Commons Science and Technology committee added there should be no further trials of…
Many were left wholly unsatisfied by news that the punishment for Facebook's privacy misdeeds, from the US at least, would be set at $5bn - an amount the firm can well afford, and for which it had already mostly accounted.
The mood amon…
Telecoms equipment maker Ericsson (ERICb.ST) posted quarterly earnings in line with forecasts but said it expected costs related to winning new contracts for its network business to hit profit margins in the second half of the year.
The…
Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives introduced bills on Tuesday to keep tight restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, amid concern about President Donald Trump’s easing of curbs on the Chinese firm.
The legislati…
Renault (RENA.PA) has formed a joint venture partnership with Jiangling Motors Corporation Group (JMCG) to target the Chinese electric vehicles (EV) market, in a deal which will also see Renault take a 50% stake in the new venture.
Rena…
After months of relative calm in cryptocurrency markets, bitcoin exploded back into life in April with its sharpest price jump in over a year - but few people could convincingly explain why.
The 20% leap focused investors’ attention on …
Google has suspended Viagogo as an advertiser, after claims touts resell tickets at inflated prices on the site.
The Competition and Market Authority is taking the ticketing website to court, alleging it has not done enough to change it…
Google's controversial plan to launch a censored search engine in China has been "terminated", a company executive has said.
The project was reported to have ceased late last year but rumours that it remained active persisted.
"We ha…
NeuraLink, a company set up by Elon Musk to explore ways to connect the human brain to a computer interface, has applied to US regulators to start trialling its device on humans.
The system has been tested on a monkey that was able to c…
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) has agreed to partner with China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL) (300750.SZ) to supply and develop batteries for new energy vehicles.
The Japanese automaker said on Wednesday that the firms had…
Personal data belonging to millions of Bulgarians has been stolen in a cyber-attack on the country's tax agency.
According to a local cyber-security researcher, most adults in the country of seven million people are likely to have had s…
Facebook’s Libra digital coin project cannot go ahead in the form it has been presented so far, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Wednesday.
“Today the conditions are not in place for this currency the Libra as proposed by …
An advert for one of Dyson's £400 fans has been labelled misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
The video, for the company's Pure Hot and Cool Fan, suggests the fan is cordless when it actually needs to be plugged in, …
The Service Organisation Controls (SOC) Reporting Framework is a globally recognised report for cybersecurity risk management controls
Kaspersky (Kaspersky.com) has successfully completed the Service Organisation Control for Service Org…
Global leader in business support systems (BSS) solutions joins forces with one of the leading systems integrators in the African region, to equip regional operators with the tools they need to satisfy fluctuating subscriber demands.
Ne…
It is the individual who plays the single most important role in keeping the company secure
Relevant cybersecurity isn't perpetuated exclusively through investment and systems, it is reliant on people and their understanding of the cybe…
Twitter is rolling out a new desktop design today that adds more customization options and a completely rearranged navigation experience. The redesign has been open to testers for the past few months, but it will be available to everyone o…
Tamer Farouk, Regional Senior Director – East and West Africa Applications Sales Leader at Oracle
Nowadays, customers can easily access product and service details through their devices at any time and compare competitors’ offers. M…
Users of the Gozem app can now order auto-rickshaws from their smartphones in Lomé, Togo and Cotonou, Benin. After launching other on-demand transport products such as motorcycle taxis (“zemidjans”), Gozem enriches its transport offering w…
Enables developers to instantly verify users on mobile web products
Truecaller today announced the global launch of its Truecaller SDK solution exclusively for the mobile web platform. With this, Truecaller SDK now supports all the…
"It feels concerning that someone is potentially using my identity and that I can't do much about it."
Journalist and blogger Nicholas Fearn told the BBC that someone created a Gmail account in his name, and withdrew his job application…
Tennis superstar and mom to a 22-month-old, Serena Williams has joined Mark Cuban to invest $3 million seed funding in Mahmee, a startup working toward filling the critical care gap in postpartum care.
For those who’ve never given bi…
Twitter won’t be treating President Donald Trump’s recent tweets telling congresswomen to “go back” to their supposed home countries as a violation of its hateful conduct policy, the company confirmed to The Verge. That means the tweets …
Scammers are being targeted by a new tool for UK Facebook users that allows the reporting of fake adverts.
The feature came about after Martin Lewis, founder of the MoneySavingExpert website, sued over his name and photo being used on f…