Internet regulators in China's capital plan to summon Apple Inc APPL.O to urge the American firm to tighten its checks on software applications available in its Apple Store, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday.
The Bei…
Snapchat has launched new 3D lenses, allowing users to change the world around them in three dimensions.
The new feature lets you interact with what you see on screen. You can write giant words that float about next to real objects - or…
Chinese internet giant Baidu has said it will share much of the technology it has created for its self-driving cars.
The firm predicted that the move would help drive the development of autonomous vehicles.
Called Apollo, the project…
Nearly half (46%) of British businesses discovered at least one cybersecurity breach or attack in the past year, a government survey has indicated.
That proportion rose to two-thirds among medium and large companies.
Most often, thes…
Facebook’s annual developers’ event, held this year in San Jose, is the social network's chance to bring together all of the people that work with the site to create the apps and other features used by the almost two billion people.
The…
The owner of the Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza hotel brands has disclosed that payment card-stealing malware has struck about 1,200 of its franchisees' properties.
UK-based Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) said all but one of the loca…
Google has been adjudged the world’s most popular website or search engine dominating across North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and in parts of Africa and Asia, according to a study.
YouTube and Facebook are the next most …
Samsung has confirmed that its much-anticipated answer to Apple’s Siri will be delayed.
The Bixby voice-powered assistant was unveiled at a special event last month and was meant to debut on the South Korean giant’s new flagship devices…
The "Shadow Brokers" hacker group has released malware allegedly created by the US National Security Agency (NSA).
The group, which earlier tried to sell the encrypted cache of hacking tools in an online auction, released a password for…
Chinese telecoms equipment and smartphone maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] on Tuesday said it aims to compete with Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N) as a global provider of public cloud services.
Th…
The way you tilt your mobile while you're using it could allow hackers to work out your pin numbers and passwords, according to new research.
Experts at Newcastle University analysed the movement of a smartphone as the screen was used.
…
In the near future, ocean search-and-repair specialists won't need arms or legs, according to one vision.
In fact, they are destined to be much more slithery.
"We try to get people to move away from the word snake because it's seen a…
For the first time in the era of the modern automobile, the most valuable U.S. car maker is not based in Detroit.
Silicon Valley's Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) overtook General Motors (GM.N) on Monday to become the U.S. car maker with the largest…
AT&T Inc said on Wednesday customers of its unlimited mobile data plan would get Time Warner Inc's HBO, home to hit shows such as "Game of Thrones" and "Veep", as part of the service at no additional cost.
The No. 2 U.S. wireless carrie…
Eleven charities have been fined by the UK's data watchdog for misusing information about millions of past donors to seek further funds.
Those fined include Oxfam, Cancer Research UK, The Royal British Legion and Battersea Dogs' and Cat…
Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) decision to stop licensing graphics chips from Imagination Technologies Group Plc (IMG.L) is the clearest example yet of the iPhone maker's determination to take greater control of the core technologies in its products…
Members of the British public are getting their first extended trial of a driverless shuttle bus.
Over the next three weeks, about 100 people will travel in a prototype shuttle on a route in Greenwich, London.
The vehicle, which trav…
Facebook is taking fresh action to prevent so-called revenge porn from being spread across its platforms.
The social network is making it impossible to repost or share intimate images of people thought to have been uploaded without thei…
The maker of an internet-enabled garage door device is facing a backlash after blocking its use by a customer who had complained about the tech.
The owner had written negative comments about Garadget's kit on both Amazon and the start-u…
According to Kaspersky Lab records, from December 2015, malware samples relating to Lazarus group activity appeared in financial institutions, casinos software developers for investment companies and crypto-currency businesses
Kaspe…
Samsung would like to thank its loyal customers across the continent for enabling it to become the number one most admired brand in Africa and helping it to keep changing people's lives.
The brand recently clinched top position in the 2…
Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler and supplier Robert Bosch [ROBG.UL] are teaming up to develop self-driving cars in an alliance aimed at accelerating the production of "robo-taxis".
The pact between the world's largest maker of premium cars …
Over one hundred young female vocational and technical students have graduated from a 1.08 million Euro programme designed to boost the number of girls and young women in the male-dominated electronics sector.
Dubbed “Female Professiona…
Microsoft has announced the availability of the Windows 10 Creators Update on April 11, as well as markets expansions of Surface Studio and Surface Book with Performance Base.
A statement issued by Microsoft and copied to the Ghana News…
Facebook has launched its own version of the Snapchat Story feature.
The company is encouraging users to take more pictures and add effects and filters like falling snow and rainbows.
With the update, users will be able to get to the…
Truecaller today announced a strategic agreement to integrate Google Duo, a high quality video calling service, within the Truecaller app. This will add a crucial communications layer that strengthens the value of Truecaller's wildly popu…
Facebook Inc added a feature to its Messenger app on Monday to allow users to share their locations continuously for up to an hour, ramping up competition with tools offered by Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google Maps.
The company has f…
Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] put its self-driving cars back on the road on Monday, voicing confidence in its autonomous vehicle program three days after one of its cars was involved in a crash in Tempe, Arizona.
Uber wrapped up a bri…
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) said late on Monday that it plans to sell refurbished versions of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, the model pulled from markets last year due to fire-prone batteries.
Samsung's Note 7s we…
A new fruit-shaped sensor could help cargo companies to keep fruit fresher in transit, researchers say.
The device - which mimics the size, shape and composition of real fruit - is packed in with produce in transit and closely monitors …
A Lithuanian man has been charged with tricking two US technology firms into wiring him $100m (£80.3m) through an email phishing scam.
Posing as an Asian-based manufacturer, Evaldas Rimasauskas tricked staff into transferring money into…
YouTube says it's going to start "actively helping" gamers build their audiences.
It's part of a new multi-year deal the company has signed with FaceIt, one of the world's leading eSports platforms.
YouTube has bought the rights to e…
Apple's latest iPhone might be red, but it's not Red in China. The special-edition version of the iPhone 7 and 7plus goes on sale in more than 40 countries, but China has done it slightly differently. The BBC explains why.
What is Red a…
Chinese bike-sharing company Mobike has taken a slice of Singapore's bike-sharing market, launching its services in Singapore Tuesday to ride alongside its competitors oBike from Singapore and Ofo from China.
Mobike users can locate a b…
Google released a developer version of Android O, and here are some of our favorite features and why you should actually care.
It's a fun day when the developer preview for an upcoming operating system is released. Whether you're a deve…
A broad coalition of advertising trade groups, ad buyers and sellers from Western Europe and the United States have urged the industry to stop using annoying online marketing formats that have fuelled the rapid rise of ad-blockers.
The …
Instagram is expected to announce on Wednesday that it has reached more than 1 million monthly active advertisers, as the Facebook Inc-owned photo-sharing app tries to become a center of online commerce.
The number of advertisers has gr…
Apple has launched a red version of its iPhone 7 and 7 Plus as well as a new video app for iOS.
The red iPhone celebrates Apple's 10-year partnership with Red, an organisation that aims to combat Aids.
A video app for iOS, called Cli…
LG Pay is set to debut with the G6 flagship phone on LG's home turf in the third quarter.
LG Electronics wants a chunk of the meaty mobile payment market that is estimated to reach $780 billion worldwide this year.
The South Korean c…
Plusnet, an internet service provider owned by BT, has been fined £880,000 for wrongly billing more than 1,000 former customers.
An investigation by watchdog Ofcom found that the ISP broke a fundamental billing rule by continuing to cha…
Twitter says it shut nearly 377,000 accounts for promoting terrorism in the second half of last year.
It represents a big increase on the last numbers given by the company, which covered from February to August 2016, although the data o…
Google (GOOGL.O) vowed on Tuesday to police its websites better by ramping up staff numbers and overhauling its policies after several companies deserted the internet giant for failing to keep their adverts off hate-filled videos.
Googl…
McDonald's delivery app in India leaked personal information about 2.2 million users, a security firm has found.
A poorly configured server gave anyone access to the names, emails, home addresses and phone numbers of users, said Fallibl…
A park in Beijing has installed toilet paper dispensers with facial recognition to stop visitors from taking too much loo roll, media reports say.
Machines at the Temple of Heaven park scan visitors' faces before dispensing a fixed leng…
The Royal Navy is to hold its first large scale cyber war games.
Information Warrior 17 will involve Artificial Intelligence (AI) and test the protection of warships and submarines against cyber attacks.
The training will be held dur…
Online retailer eBay has promised to get items to US shoppers in three days or less with a new programme called "Guaranteed Delivery".
From the summer, the site will guarantee the speedy delivery of 20 million products from certain sell…
Nepal will provide GPS tracking devices to some mountaineers who attempt to scale Mount Everest this year to prevent them from making false summit claims and to track climbers in distress, an official said on Monday.
Climbers who reach …
International Business Machines Corp has launched a service that will allow businesses to build applications on its cloud using blockchain code from the Hyperledger Project, the cross-industry group led by the Linux Foundation.
The U.S.…
Kenya, East Africa’s industrial nerve centre is on the cusp of real growth and innovation. In fact, according to the African Economic Outlook in 2015, East Africa was again the continent’s fastest growing region and is expected to continue…
In today's so-called smart home, you can dim the lights, order more toothpaste or tell the kids to go to bed simply by talking to a small Wifi-connected speaker, such as Amazon's (AMZN.O) Echo or Google's (GOOGL.O) Home.
This voice-firs…
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