SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - German luxury automaker BMW is looking to form a joint venture with Great Wall Motor in China, which could focus on electric vehicles, according to two sources familiar with the matter on Wednesday.
A ventur…
China’s top e-commerce firm, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd [BABA.N], is launching a $15 billion drive to build overseas research hubs as the deep-pocketed firm looks to compete with global leaders in e-commerce, logistics and cloud technology.…
Last month, 145 million Americans discovered they were victims of one of the biggest data breaches in history, after the credit rating agency Equifax was hacked.
Social security numbers, birth dates, telephone numbers and, in some cases…
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are contributing to global warming, so could technologies removing some of the gas from the atmosphere help slow the process?
When you tuck yourself into bed tonight - curling up on your memory foam mattre…
A bombshell appeared on the Dow Jones financial newswire on Tuesday: "Google to buy Apple for $9bn".
But the story, that the acquisition had been suggested in the will of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, was bogus.
It was removed after t…
Israeli spies looked on as Russian hackers breached Kaspersky cyber-security software two years ago, US media report.
The Russians were allegedly attempting to gather data on US intelligence programs, according to the New York Times and…
Jumia Ghana has rewarded its three most outstanding customer service representatives and is offering customers up to 70 percent discounts in its Superhero deals campaign in 2017. Customers could win GHS 50 vouchers to shop on Jumia.com.gh …
Nokia is winding down its high-end virtual reality camera division.
The Ozo and its follow-up the Ozo+ had been marketed to professionals as being able to capture the "highest quality" 360-degree footage possible, and had been used by D…
It must have seemed like a good idea. As a taster for a big announcement about Oculus VR on Wednesday, send Mark Zuckerberg on a little virtual reality trip, including a stop in Puerto Rico.
But the reviews are in - and they are not goo…
Fingerprint technology which can detect the brand of hair gel used by a suspect or whether they have handled a condom could soon be admissible in court.
The technique uses a form of mass spectrometry to detect traces of various substanc…
Facebook and Twitter could be asked to pay for action against the "undeniable suffering" social media can cause, the culture secretary has said.
Cyber-bullying, trolling, abuse and under-age access to porn will be targeted in plans draw…
A British solar car racing team has pulled out of a competition after the car that took two years to build crashed into a barrier during testing.
The Cambridge University Eco-Racing team's solar-powered Mirage car rolled after suffering…
Lithium batteries can be made to charge 10 to 20 times faster by using asphalt, suggests US research.
Scientists at Rice University speeded up the charging time by making one component of a battery using carbon derived from the viscous …
The BBC's 100 Women 2017 season is tackling some of the biggest issues facing women around the world and has given teams of experts a week to change the world. It kicked off by challenging women working at the home of hi-tech industries in…
Facebook has confirmed that around 5% of the adverts it has identified as having been bought by Russia around the time of the US presidential election also appeared on Instagram.
The firm has handed over around 3,000 ads to investigator…
Apple is investigating a series of reports about battery problems with some of its new iPhone 8 Plus phones.
Over the last week, six reports have come to light which show the phones splitting apart soon after they start to be used.
I…
Microsoft appears to have abandoned its smartphone operating system ambitions.
The company's Windows 10 chief has tweeted that developing new features and hardware for the Mobile version of the OS was no longer a "focus".
Joe Belfior…
Internet users are to be granted more rights on connection speeds as Ofcom imposes tougher rules on how ISPs advertise broadband services.
The proposals give consumers the right to exit contracts penalty-free if speeds fall below a guar…
Mattel has decided against releasing its AI-powered "babysitter" following concerns over privacy and other implications.
Campaigners said artificial intelligence should not be used in place of real parenting, even if only briefly.
Th…
A fresh case of Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) new iPhone popping open due to a swollen battery has been reported in state media in China, the world’s biggest smartphone market where the U.S. firm is seeking to revive faltering sales.
The inciden…
The Ministers of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of the Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are expected to adopt a proposal to abolish roaming fees at a meeting being held this week in Praia.
According to Isaías …
Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, in a disclosure that attorneys said sharply increased the legal exposure…
Samsung has unveiled a virtual reality rig designed for use with Windows PCs.
HMD Odyssey joins previously announced VR headsets and hand controllers from Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer and Asus to form the launch hardware line-up for Microsoft…
Insurer Tryg (TRYG.CO) expects 90 percent of its corporate customers to buy cyber crime insurance within five years as the threat from hackers and viruses to crucial data and IT systems grows.
Tryg, Denmark’s biggest insurer, has sold 5…
Humans are used to being outdone by computers when it comes to recalling facts, but they still have the upper hand in an argument. For now.
It has long been the case that machines can beat us in games of strategy like chess.
And we h…
A couple in the US have admitted stealing goods from Amazon valued at more than $1.2m (£910,000) by repeatedly pretending that items they ordered were damaged in the post.
Erin Joseph Finan, 38, and Leah Jeanette Finan, 37, from Indiana…
Taxi-hailing service Uber has announced an agreement with Visa under which Visa will work with its financial institution partners to set up debit and credit portfolios for eCommerce. The Uber/Visa partnership will give passengers flexibili…
Nissan has shown off a prototype sweat-sensing car seat which it says could help prevent road accidents.
The technology, called Soak, changes colour if perspiration is high in salt, suggesting dehydration.
Previous research by the Eu…
Microsoft is to close its last remaining music streaming and download service, Groove Music.
From 31 December, customers will no longer be able to buy music downloads, and streaming subscriptions will end.
People will be prompted to …
Amazon (AMZN.O) has approached various French supermarket operators - including Casino (CASP.PA) - about setting up distribution deals or making an acquisition in the country, newspaper Le Monde reported, citing its own sources.
Le Mond…
Investors put aside worries about Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) meeting production targets for its Model 3 mass-market sedan to push the electric car maker’s shares higher on Tuesday, overturning an initial drop of almost 3 percent.
Tesla stirred …
India’s ambitions to become a smartphone-making powerhouse are foundering over a lack of skilled labor and part suppliers along with a complex tax regime, industry executives say.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has championed a manufactur…
Apple Mac computers are being exposed to security risks because core software is outdated, research suggests.
Duo Security found that 4.2% of the 74,000 Macs it tested ran insecure versions of software that helps get the machines runnin…
US government requests to Google for individuals' data reached a six-year high in the first half of 2017, the company says.
A report published last week said the country had sought details about 48,902 accounts - 24% more than over the …
Uber's London-based head of northern Europe affairs is leaving the company as the ride-hailing app fights to have its London licence renewed.
In an email to staff, Jo Bertram said: "I've decided to move on to something new and exciting.…
Tesla has reached the half-way point in its plan to build the world's biggest battery, in South Australia.
The plan to build the 100MW (129MWh) lithium battery grew out of a Twitter bet between Tesla boss Elon Musk and Australian softwa…
Facebook will give copies of more than 3,000 adverts it says were bought in Russia around the time of the US presidential election to US investigators on Monday.
The technology giant also said it would share at whom the adverts had been…
A set of jargon-busting guides that teach children about their rights on social media sites has been published.
Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield said Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and YouTube had "not done enough" to cla…
The EU is urging social networks to be more proactive in both preventing and swiftly removing hate speech.
It has produced a list of guidelines that include the increased use of automation to stop removed content being reposted, and rem…
Action camera specialist GoPro has announced its first model to take 360-degree videos and photos.
The Fusion also features built-in image stabilisation, spatial audio capture and can be used underwater.
The US company is in need of …
A plan to update the security around some of the net's core address books has been delayed.
Net administrative body Icann put its plans on hold after it emerged that some ISPs and large firms were not ready to make the change.
It fea…
A software issue has caused check-in delays at several airports worldwide, and booking problems for many airlines.
Passengers reported problems at Gatwick, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Melbourne airports among others.
Gatwick blamed a…
Greece’s central bank dismissed claims by hacking group Anonymous that it had accessed confidential internal files, saying on Wednesday the material was already in the public domain.
Anonymous responded by warning that it was merely tes…
Dubai has conducted its first test of a drone taxi service that it hopes will become a viable transportation system in the city.
The two-seater, 18-rotor unmanned vehicle took off for a five-minute flight above a strip of sand on the Gu…
The search is on for a mass market personal flying machine, with a $2m (£1.4m) competition to "make the dream of personal flight [a] reality".
Sponsored by Boeing and run by start-up GoFly, the competition will encourage teams from arou…
Amazon and Google have clashed publicly after access to YouTube was pulled from one of the online retailer's devices.
On Tuesday, YouTube stopped working on Amazon's Echo Show, a voice-controlled assistant with a screen that can display…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed comments made by Donald Trump that the site has always been against him.
The US president accused the social network of "collusion" on Twitter, branding it "anti-Trump".
He made the same…
The online video platform Vimeo announced the acquisition of Livestream and the launch of its own live streaming service. Livestream already streams over 10 million events a year and will be used as a platform for professional users to p…
Huawei and Riverbed Technology announced a partnership that will bring together the power of Huawei’s CloudEPN (Cloud Enterprise Private Network) and Riverbed SteelHead, which accelerates the delivery of applications, to make it easier for…
A coalition of supporters of self-driving cars said on Tuesday that it will run ads this week in social media and Washington newspapers, in an effort to convince the U.S. Congress to adopt sweeping legislation to boost the nascent industry…
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