The US has unveiled tough new measures to enhance security on flights entering the country, but has held off extending a ban on laptops in the cabin.
In March the US banned cabin laptops to and from eight mostly Muslim nations, fearing …
The founder of encrypted messaging app Telegram has agreed to register the company in Russia, following pressure from local authorities.
Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor had warned that Telegram would be blocked if it did …
The Petya malware variant that hit businesses around the world may not have been an attempt to make money, suspect security experts.
The malicious program demanded a payment to unlock files it scrambled on infected machines.
However,…
Ride-hailing service Uber is rolling out a face recognition feature on its app to help verify its registered drivers and prevent impostors from picking up passengers, business site Quartz reports.
The article explains that the new safet…
Pavel Durov, founder of the Telegram messaging app, agreed on Wednesday for his firm to be registered in Russia after coming under pressure from the authorities to do so, but said it would not share confidential user data with anyone.
R…
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it will open its first U.S. appliances plant in more than three decades, a politically pleasing investment ahead of South Korean leader Moon Jae-in's two-day summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
The $…
Four people have been arrested in the UK following an investigation into scams involving calls from fraudsters pretending to be IT support staff.
It follows two years of work by City of London Police and Microsoft, who teamed up to tack…
London's transport regulator will delay the introduction of new English language requirements for private-hire drivers after Uber [UBER.UL] won the right to appeal against the plans, which could cost the ride-hailing service thousands of d…
The Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier has left its home port for the first time.
HMS Queen Elizabeth - one of two new carriers being built at Rosyth dockyard in Fife at a cost of more than £6bn - is to begin sea trials.
The ship pass…
Google's decision to stop scanning Gmail users' emails in order to target them with personalised adverts has been given a qualified welcome by privacy campaigners.
The tech firm revealed the change in a blog at the end of last week.
…
Companies across the globe are reporting that they have been struck by a major ransomware cyber-attack.
British advertising agency WPP is among those to say its IT systems have been disrupted as a consequence.
The virus, the source o…
Google has been fined 2.42bn euros ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by promoting its own shopping comparison service at the top of search results.
The amount is the regulator's …
Europe aims to develop a low-cost, reusable rocket engine for use after 2030 under a deal between Airbus Safran Launchers and the European Space Agency (ESA).
They signed a development contract at the Paris Airshow on Thursday to develo…
Young people are turning to cosmetic procedures such as botox and dermal fillers as a result of social media pressure, according to a report.
A study by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics says government must protect people from an unreg…
A demonstration of driverless cars in Nuneaton will be followed later this year by trials on public roads.
Autodrive - a collaboration between Jaguar Land Rover, Ford and Tata Motors - showed off how autonomous cars can talk to each oth…
Walmart, the US's biggest retail chain, has been accused of trying to coerce its technology suppliers into shunning Amazon's cloud computing service.
Amazon has accused its rival of attempting to "bully" the IT companies into picking a …
Saturday, June 24, will be a night of great performances when reigning VGMA Rapper of the Year, M.anifest joins other creative artists for the maiden edition of the Open Mic event which will be hosted at +233 Pub and Grill.
The event, w…
The Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Renault SA alliance plan to launch driverless ride-hailing and ride-sharing services in coming years, as the automakers look beyond making and selling cars to survive an industry being quickly transformed by new…
WhatsApp is becoming one of the prevailing ways people discover and discuss news, according to a study.
But use of the messaging app appears to vary widely between countries.
In Malaysia, more than 50% of those surveyed said they use…
Intel Corp. (INTC.O) has joined Team8, an Israeli creator of cybersecurity start-ups, as a strategic partner and will help with the formation of companies that address the largest cybersecurity problems, Team8 said on Wednesday.
Intel, …
Facebook celebrates MENA winners of First Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge.
The Bots for Messenger Challenge was launched on February 15th this year, in 64 countries across the wider Middle East and Africa to recognize and reward …
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) plans to hold a launch event in New York City for its next Galaxy Note smartphone in the second half of August, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
The person, who…
Computer programmers who use spaces as part of their coding earn $15,370 (£12,000) more per year than those who use tabs, a survey of developers has revealed.
The survey found the salary difference stretched across different languages, …
President Donald Trump met on Monday with the heads of 18 U.S. technology companies including Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O), seeking their help to make the government's computing systems more effic…
Airbus has launched a digital services platform it says will enable airlines to fly more efficiently by crunching data to help them with maintenance, reduce fuel burn and optimize routes.
The platform is powered by Silicon Valley firm P…
Several prominent journalists and activists in Mexico have filed a complaint accusing the government of spying on them by hacking their phones.
The accusation follows a report in the New York Times that says they were targeted with spyw…
Spotify has confirmed it is experimenting with allowing music labels to promote songs by adding them to users' playlists as sponsored content.
The Swedish-based music platform said subscription payers were not included in the small tria…
South Korean web-hosting firm Nayana has agreed to pay a $1m ransom to unlock computers frozen by hackers.
It is believed to be a record amount, although it is worth noting that many ransom payments are never made public.
Nayana's ch…
A European Parliament committee wants end-to-end encryption to be enforced on all forms of digital communication to protect European Union (EU) citizens.
The draft legislation seeks to protect sensitive personal data from hacking and go…
Apple Inc has hired two long-time Sony Pictures Television executives to expand the iPhone maker's push into original television programming, plunging deeper into a field crowded by Hollywood studios and online streaming services.
Jamie…
Google has unveiled four measures it will use to tackle the spread of terror-related material online.
Among the measures it is deploying will be smarter software that can spot extremist material and greater use of human experts to vet c…
For only the second time in 24 years, the US has been edged out of the top flight of the world's most powerful number-crunchers.
An upgrade to a Swiss supercomputer has bumped the US Department of Energy's Cray XK7 to number four on the…
The Wannacry worm that infected organisations in 150 countries in May has been blamed on North Korea by the US's National Security Agency (NSA).
The Washington Post said there was "moderate confidence" in the report's findings, while th…
A third of people surveyed about their smartphones said apps made them spend at all hours and hit their finances.
They said the convenience made them spend more or lose track of money, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) s…
Green entrepreneur Arthur Kay wants the red buses that have become a landmark of London to run on fuel generated by coffee waste.
He runs Biobean, a start-up which is gathering waste from coffee chains such as Costa and converting it in…
One of Microsoft's artificial intelligence systems has conquered the 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man.
The team, from Microsoft-owned Canadian AI firm Maluuba, achieved the perfect score of 999,990.
The software giant said that the metho…
The U.S. government on Tuesday issued a rare alert squarely blaming the North Korean government for a raft of cyber attacks stretching back to 2009 and warning that more were likely.
The joint warning from the U.S. Department of Homelan…
The Pirate Bay can be held liable for copyright infringement, which could signal "the end" of the platform, according to a European Court of Justice ruling.
The ruling is part of a long-running dispute between the platform and Dutch ant…
Apple's chief executive has confirmed it is developing a self-driving car system.
But Tim Cook indicated that it is too soon to say whether it would license the tech to other carmakers or try to build its own vehicles.
His interview …
Telenovela fans in Ghana can look forward to a steamy new series that is sure to give them a new perception that reality is stranger than fiction, and feelings stronger than reason. Dangerous Affairs tells the story of Miranda Cruz, played…
China upheld strict sales quotas for electrically powered vehicles in a draft regulation issued on Tuesday, ignoring concessions agreed between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier this month.
The draft…
Sony unveiled a new "Spider-man" game for its Playstation video console at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles on Monday.
"Spider-man", due for release in 2018, is being developed by Insomniac Games, the group behind P…
Microsoft has announced all the details about its new Xbox One X.
It will be the world's most powerful console when it comes out in November and will cost £449. That's £100 more than Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro which was released last year…
The self-driving bubble car developed by Waymo, part of Google's parent firm Alphabet, is to be phased out, the firm has announced.
The two-seater vehicles, which have no pedals or steering wheels, travelled millions of miles in road te…
A sleep-tracking tech start-up founded by a Briton, which was one of Kickstarter's biggest success stories, has collapsed.
Hello raised more than $2.4m (£1.9m) for its Sense bedroom monitor via the crowdfunding site in 2014, and went on…
Chinese cybersecurity companies call a linguistic analysis linking WannaCry to their country “unprofessional.”
A report suggesting that WannaCry ransomware's authors could be native Chinese speakers has drawn fire from Chinese cybersecu…
Britain's biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover said its mobility services business, InMotion Ventures, would invest $25 million in U.S. ride services company Lyft Inc to help develop and test technology for self-driving cars.
The auto ind…
Sharp is suing business partner Hisense, claiming the company is putting its name on low quality TVs.
Hisense can make TV sets using the Sharp name thanks to a deal it signed with the company in 2015.
Sharp said the TVs bearing its n…
Microsoft has unveiled the latest games console in its line-up, a more powerful version of the Xbox One called the Xbox One X.
The tech giant touted the machine's specs, including its ability to run games in 4K ultra-HD, ahead of the E3…
Every year tens of thousands of people are conned by online scammers, but it is not only the authorities taking action: a network of tech-savvy volunteers is also working to expose them.
"We waste scammers' time, we waste their resource…
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