A US man accused of knocking game servers offline in a series of attacks has pleaded guilty to charges of computer hacking.
Sony, EA Origin and Steam were all hit by Utah resident Austin Thompson's attacks in 2013 and 2014.
Mr Thomps…
Toshiba Memory Corporation Develops High-Speed and High-Energy-Efficiency Algorithm and Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning Processor
Toshiba Memory Corporation, the world leader in memory solutions, today announced the development …
5G mobile data will be so reliable and fast most homes will no longer need a separate home broadband connection, according to one of the companies planning to launch a UK service.
Three UK's chief executive told BBC News there would be …
Alibaba Group’s newly formed on-demand online services unit has rocketed in value to as much as $30 billion after raising $4 billion in fresh funds, people with knowledge of the situation told Reuters.
Alibaba (BABA.N) combined the oper…
Ford is buying electric scooter startup Spin, Axios reports. The deal, according to a source close to the matter, “the total consideration in the deal was close to $100m.” Axios had previously reported the price tag was around $40 million…
China's state news agency has unveiled a virtual newsreader sporting a sharp suit and a somewhat robotic voice.
Xinhua News claims the presenter "can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor", though not everyone may agree.…
Samsung has unveiled a folding handset at an event in San Francisco.
It described its Infinity Flex Display as "the foundation of the smartphone of tomorrow" and said it intended to start production within months.
When unfolded, the …
Automakers need standards for key equipment, a wide-reaching 5G broadband network and strong partnerships to make self-driving cars and electric vehicles a success, top European car industry executives said on Wednesday.
Ralf Speth, chi…
It has been just a decade since the mobile phone spread rapidly across Africa, leapfrogging the landline and bringing literacy, education and connectivity to widely scattered populations. Mobile has played a significant role in building im…
Google Cloud is getting a managed cron service for running batch jobs. Cloud Scheduler, as the new service is called, provides all the functionality of the kind of standard command-line cron service you probably love to hate, but with the…
China is home to the world’s largest network of CCTV cameras — over 170 million — and its police have adopted Google Glass-like ‘smart specs’ to seek out suspects in crowds, but now its surveillance efforts have hit a new level with techno…
Finnish mobile telecom network maker Nokia announced on Wednesday that it had signed frame deals with China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom worth more than 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion).
The deals includes deliveries of 4G radio…
Technology and automation will define the future of road transport according to new IRU research, but significant obstacles stand in the way.
In the face of geopolitical and economic uncertainty, technology-driven innovation w…
Hybrid cloud has become the new standard in data centres thanks to its fit for purpose potential and scalability
Cloud. At its most basic form, it drives innovation and harnesses intelligence for the organisation. It is the delivery of …
Staggering growth across industry and innovation is changing the face of performance testing
As secrets go, the fact that technology has fundamentally changed the face of business has to be the worst kept. From leap to bound, tech inno…
Amazon and its rival in India, the Walmart-owned Flipkart, did not break regulations through their selection of merchants and brands, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in a ruling late on Tuesday.
The decision is a defeat f…
Software engineer Samee Alam was ready to take the big leap and buy an iPhone in this week’s Diwali festival sales, but at the last minute he opted for cheaper Chinese competitor OnePlus instead.
Alam, 27, spends hours on his phone watc…
Z Services, an innovative cloud-based cybersecurity solutions provider in the MENA region, and TitanHQ, the award-winning web filtering, email filtering, and email archiving Security-as-a-Service provider, have expanded their existing OEM …
At last month’s Apple event, the Mac Mini was greeted like a returning hero. Maybe it was the over the top space advert or the fact that the company had packed the seats of the Brooklyn opera house full of local employees.
Most likely…
Bitcoin has experienced one of its worst annual price performances of its short 10-year-old life but also appears to have become more stable in the process.
Volatility of the original and biggest cryptocurrency has sunk to its lowest fo…
Several popular verified Twitter accounts have been hacked by scammers to promote an ad using Tesla boss Elon Musk's name and likeness.
British fashion retailer Matalan, film distributor Pathe UK and US publisher Pantheon Books were amo…
Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates had his hands full on-stage in Beijing on Tuesday, showing a jar of human faeces.
The stunt was part of his speech at the Reinvented Toilet Expo event - a showcase for new toil…
A babysitting app says it has been overwhelmed by responses after a parent posted an ad for a babysitter to join their family on an all-expenses-paid dream Christmas holiday.
The position involves spending two weeks in the Bahamas looki…
The amount of time children spend on devices has little effect on how long they sleep, a study from Oxford University suggests.
It runs counter to previous research that suggested excessive screen time was linked to children failing to …
Language learning company Reverso is launching a new product on the web and mobile. Reverso Synonyms is a thesaurus service that lets you learn new words and improve your vocabulary.
You may have found this feature in the main Reverso…
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Monday it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for the first time this holiday season, heating up the competition with Walmart Inc (WMT.N) and other rivals vying for customers’ Christmas shoppi…
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has told its smartphone assemblers Foxconn and Pegatron (4938.TW) to halt plans for additional production lines dedicated to its new iPhone XR, the Nikkei financial daily reported s.nikkei.com/2PHPYWb on Monday.
Apple…
When Artificial Intelligence works as intended, Silicon Valley types often say it's "like magic".
But it isn't magic. It's Brenda, a 26-year-old single mother who lives Kibera, Africa's largest slum, and perhaps the toughest neighbourho…
Rainbow Six Siege players have complained about proposed changes to the game before its wide release in Asia.
Ubisoft said it had altered artwork in some "maps and icons" to ensure the game complied with local regulations.
The altera…
Taxi-hailing firm Uber has launched a membership scheme dubbed Ride Pass, for passengers in five US cities.
The deal allows passengers to avoid price surging, when costs rise at rush hour and other in-demand times.
The fixed-fare pla…
BMW is expanding its car-sharing service DriveNow into five more London boroughs as the carmaker overcomes some of the barriers to operating across the city where firms need to strike agreements with separate local authorities.
Daimler …
Uber Eats is expanding to enterprise customers with the launch of Uber Eats for Business. The new service allows companies to manage their employees’ food orders and positions Uber Eats to compete more directly against rivals that already…
Instagram hopes dollars from the long-tail of small businesses and social media stars can help it pull its weight in the Facebook family. A new ad type called “Promote” for Stories allows Instagram business pages to show their ephemeral s…
Introducing Dot Citizen: The podcast exploring the intersection of politics, technology, and human rights
WhiteHat Magazine is expanding our coverage to a new podcast: Dot Citizen!
Dot Citizen's first season dives deep into election…
University classes are set to be given a futuristic spin by letting lecturers appear as hologram-like apparitions beamed in from afar.
Imperial College London will show off the technology at a special event later on Thursday before depl…
Mario Segale, the man after whom video game hero Super Mario was named, has died aged 84.
Mr Segale was a successful Italian-American property developer from the US state of Washington.
In the 1980s, he leased a warehouse to Nintendo…
On the 10th of November 2018, Linum Labs will host our very first Blockchain Community Conference in Ghana to raise awareness on blockchain technology by creating an open platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing amongst participant…
Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts.
The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 120 million accounts, which they were a…
Influencer marketing could get a lot more accountable if Snapchat’s PR firm wins this lawsuit. Snapchat hoped that social media stars promoting v2 of its Spectacles camera sunglasses on its biggest competitor could boost interest after it …
On December 11, just slightly more than a month away, up to 15 exceptional startups will arrive in Lagos, Nigeria to compete in Startup Battlefield Africa 2018. Don’t miss your opportunity to watch founders of Africa’s best early-stage tec…
Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) announced today that their Light flagship, the HUAWEI Y9 2019 will be available for preorder at selected retail shops from the 1st to the 8th of November 2018. In Ghana, the early bird customers who mak…
U.S. online spending during the holiday shopping season is likely to grow 14.8 percent this year to $124.1 billion, far outpacing the 2.7 percent growth predicted for brick-and-mortar locations and highlighting the ongoing switch from stor…
When anything changes in the way the world's most powerful social media firm works, that can have huge consequences for its users and the businesses that feed off them.
And now Mark Zuckerberg has signalled a major shift in how Facebook…
A little-known California-based company has laid claim to creating the "world's first foldable phone".
Royole Corporation - a specialist in manufacturing flexible displays - unveiled the FlexPai handset at an event in Beijing.
When o…
ExaGrid’s security features insulate critical backup data from malicious attacks
ExaGrid’s hyper-converged secondary storage for backup system was put to the ultimate test by Cheshire Medical Center, which had selected ExaGrid for backu…
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) refreshed some of its lesser-known products at a New York event on Tuesday, adding iPhone features like facial recognition to the iPad Pro and faster processors and better displays to some Mac computers that had gone yea…
Bitcoin was heading towards a year-on-year loss on Wednesday, its 10th birthday, the first loss since last year’s bull market, when the original and biggest digital coin muscled its way to worldwide attention with months of frenzied buying…
PSA: If you’re an Apple Watch owner who is having trouble finding the shiny new WatchOS 5.1 update that Apple just shipped, it isn’t quite ready yet.
Apple initially shipped the update on Tuesday alongside iOS 12.1, but it quickly pull…
Ford Motor Co and Baidu Inc launched a two-year project on Wednesday to test self-driving vehicles on Chinese roads, amid a global race by carmakers and internet firms to develop autonomous vehicle technology.
The project will start tes…
A fake advert purporting to have been paid for by scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica has been posted to Facebook.
The ad, now removed but still visible in Facebook's new ad transparency portal, uses the logo of EU referendum campaign group…