Japanese carmaker Honda Motor Co (7267.T) on Thursday spelled out for the first time its plans to develop autonomous cars which can drive on city streets by 2025, building on its strategy to take on rivals in the auto market of the future.…
Researchers have trained computers to spot social media users who pose as somebody else - a practice known as catfishing.
They say their algorithms can identify users who lie about their gender, with more than 90% accuracy.
Most dati…
Amazon is to offer discounts on its Prime subscription service to Americans receiving financial aid from the US government.
Instead of a monthly fee of $10.99 (£8.50), those eligible for the discounted rate will pay $5.99.
Anyone rec…
In the days since the London Bridge attack, the pressure on internet companies has been building. They have been told they must take action in two areas - preventing the spread of extremist content, and ending the provision of a safe space…
Sony Corp has sold more than one million units of its virtual reality (VR) headset globally, the Asia chief of the Japanese firm's gaming unit said on Wednesday, as a relatively low price helps push the product into an early lead.
Sales…
Apple Inc's long-awaited move into original television series starts Tuesday, with a reality show about a universe that is key to the technology giant's business: the world of app developers trying to bring their ideas to the masses.
Th…
Russian security software-maker Kaspersky has filed an anti-trust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission.
It claims that the software giant is abusing its market dominance by pushing Windows 10 users towards its own an…
Apple's iOS 11 mobile operating system will not be available for the iPhone 5 and 5C or the iPad 4 when it is released in the autumn.
It means those with the older devices will no longer receive software or security updates.
The iPho…
One of Silicon Valley’s top black female executives, Bozoma Saint John, has left tech giant Apple to join ride-hailing service Uber.
Ms Saint John, who was born in Ghana before moving to the US when she was a teenager, was a marketing e…
Uber is always finding new, innovative ways to use technology at their disposal,for the benefit of both riders and drivers. One of the most
interesting ways in which this technology is changing the ride-sharing is through its impact on …
Big Brother has returned - with reactions ranging from glee to groaning.
For many, when the series appears in the TV schedules, their response is one of total indifference and tumbleweed.
But to its loyal fanbase, the show remains ad…
Apple Inc on Monday introduced the HomePod, a voice-controlled speaker that can make music suggestions and adjust home temperatures, taking aim at Amazon.com Inc's Alexa feature and Echo devices.
The move is the first into a completely …
A deal bringing Amazon Prime Video to Apple TV, announced on Monday at Apple Inc's developer conference after years of talk, shows how competitive tensions among Silicon Valley titans can stand in the way of serving customers.
The logic…
Japan's Fujitsu Ltd expects to reach an agreement "soon" on integrating its personal computer business with China's Lenovo Group Ltd , Fujitsu President Tatsuya Tanaka said Tuesday.
Fujitsu said in October that it was in talks with Leno…
Taiwanese consumer electronics maker HTC Corp on Tuesday said its virtual reality (VR) headset will be compatible with Apple Inc's High Sierra operating system (OS), which is scheduled for release later this year.
HTC's Vive headset wor…
The use of internet - or electronic - voting in elections is growing. But there are still plenty of concerns about reliability, safety and privacy. Will electing your government via the tap of a smartphone ever catch on?
Next month peop…
Engineers, supported by Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T), demonstrated their flying car on Saturday, which they hope will be able to light up the Olympic flame for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games.
"Cartivator", a start-up …
India's space agency has successfully launched its heaviest rocket.
The 640-tonne rocket blasted off from a launching site off the Bay of Bengal in Sriharikota.
As one website put it, "it's been a big day for India". The rocket will …
Emergency Communications Network (ECN), whose product CodeRED can reach millions of people in minutes during an emergency, has acquired competitor Send Word Now, the companies said on Monday.
Large corporations and government agencies a…
The Islamic State militant group (IS) is fighting on many fronts against those seeking to defeat it. One of those fronts is a digital one.
Its use of social media has been thrown into the spotlight again after it used messaging app Tele…
Prime Minister Theresa May has said more must be done to tackle terror online.
In a speech on Sunday, following the terrorist attack in London, she said the internet provided a "safe space" for extremist ideology to breed.
But techno…
In the last week, we have seen the best and worst of computer technology.
In China, Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence program took on and beat the world champion of the complex game of Go, reducing him to tears. Nineteen-year-ol…
The Trump administration has approved plans to ask US visa applicants for details of their social media use.
Consular officials can now ask for social media usernames going back five years via a new questionnaire.
It also allows auth…
Senior management are risking their companies by not taking cyber security seriously
Key decision makers do not have confidence in their Boards’ ability to manage cyber security threats, according to the latest cyber security analys…
Uber riders in Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa can now personalize their riding experience with Snapchat.
Riders will be able to have a little extra fun by unlocking custom Snapchat filters so they can Snap while they ride.
Whether i…
Security researchers are considering buying undetected software security vulnerabilities from a notorious group of hackers.
The Shadow Brokers group has previously leaked exploits allegedly stolen from the US National Security Agency (N…
China, battling increased threats from cyber-terrorism and hacking, will adopt from Thursday a controversial law that mandates strict data surveillance and storage for firms working in the country, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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The world of convertible laptops just got its thinnest yet.
Asus unveiled the Zenbook Flip S on Monday in a large-scale launch event, a day ahead of the larger Computex technology show in Taipei.
The Zenbook Flip S is 10.9mm thin. In…
Japan aims to finalize on June 9 plans to allow package delivery by drone sometime from 2020 and the commercialization of self-driving trucks by 2022, as it scrambles to breathe new life into its corporate sector, sources told Reuters.
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British Airways (BA) said it would take steps to ensure there was no repeat of a computer system failure that stranded 75,000 passengers over a holiday weekend and turned into a public relations disaster.
BA had been forced to cancel al…
Sony is dropping the 'premium standard' category of smartphones from its range, the company announced at its annual investors day. While the models such as the Xperia X and Xperia X Compact sold well in Japan, sales have been disappoin…
Young children's maths, English and communication skills improve if they use iPads in school on a regular basis.
That is one of the key findings of the most in-depth research of its kind ever carried out in Northern Ireland.
The stud…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg features in a long line of university dropouts who became millionaires after founding technology companies - Bill Gates and Steve Jobs among them.
But 12 years after leaving Harvard to work on Facebook f…
Google DeepMind's AI system, AlphaGo, has won the first of three matches it is playing against the world's number one Go player, Ke Jie.
It follows its historic win against Lee Se-dol last year, described by experts as a breakthrough mo…
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will continue looking for acquisition opportunities, a company executive said on Monday, as the firm seeks to build software and services to further differentiate its products.
"We are going to be b…
Finnish mobile games and animation studio Rovio Entertainment has decided to proceed with plans for a sequel to its Angry Birds movie, it said on Monday, aiming for release in September 2019.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 will be produced wit…
Russian cyber criminals used malware planted on Android mobile devices to steal from domestic bank customers and were planning to target European lenders before their arrest, investigators and sources with knowledge of the case told Reuter…
The majority of machines hit by the WannaCry ransomware worm in the cyber-attack earlier this month were running Windows 7, security firms suggest.
More than 97% of the infections seen by Kaspersky Lab and 66% of those seen by BitSight …
Transport technology hub, Uber, has announced plans to rope in a million female driver-partners globally, including Ghana, to empower the women economically.
The initiative, which is expected to be achieved by 2020, is in line with the …
How Facebook censors what its users see has been revealed by internal documents, the Guardian newspaper says.
It said the manuals revealed the criteria used to judge if posts were too violent, sexual, racist, hateful or supported terror…
Candidates in the general election have been asked to look through their emails for signs that they have been targeted by a phishing attack.
The list of potential targets includes recent MPs.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)…
BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO) is working with at least two automakers to develop a security service that would remotely scan vehicles for computer viruses and tell drivers to pull over if they were in critical danger, according to a financial ana…
There are now more people using Sina Weibo, the Chinese micro-blogging platform, than there are using Twitter.
According to the Chinese company's first quarter results, it has 340 million active monthly users, 30% up on the previous yea…
"Tens of thousands” of Peruvians have been getting online using Project Loon, the ambitious connectivity project from Google's parent company, Alphabet.
Project Loon uses tennis court-sized balloons carrying a small box of equipment to …
Facebook has selected 60 finalists from the hundreds of entries it received from across the Middle East and Africa
Facebook has selected 60 finalists from the hundreds of entries it received from across the Middle East and Africa for t…
The cyber attack that wreaked havoc across the NHS over the weekend, leading to patients being turned away from A&E and some operations being cancelled, has continued to spread.
By Monday afternoon, it the ransomware had targeted aroun…
German automaker BMW AG, U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp and parts maker Delphi Automotive PLC on Tuesday said they would collaborate on development of a highly-automated self-driving platform for BMW, with Delphi handling integration of compone…
Facebook Inc's (FB.O) Instagram has souped up its camera with quirky face-tracking filters, adding another feature similar to one offered by social media rival Snap Inc's (SNAP.N) Snapchat.
Instagram users will now be able to choose fro…
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has imposed a ban on Russia's biggest social media networks and internet services popular with millions.
His decision is a significant ramping up of sanctions on Ukraine's neighbour for its annexatio…
An Indian teenager has built what is thought could be the world's lightest satellite, which will be launched at a Nasa facility in the US in June.
Rifath Shaarook's 64-gram (0.14 lb) device was selected as the winner in a youth design c…
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