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…
China is considering easing proposed quotas aimed at producing more electric vehicles, as Beijing gets pushback from the automotive industry over the scale and pace of the plans.
If adopted, proposed changes under discussion could see a…
In towns and cities across the world, the colour of night is changing. Traditional yellow sodium street lights are steadily being replaced by white LED lamps. The new lights use less energy, dramatically cutting carbon emissions and saving…
As Bishop Paul Tighe sat down for our interview, he joked that not only is he probably the only priest at South by Southwest, but also the only person with grey hair.
His presence here marks the first time the Vatican has attended the S…
Scientists are calling on Android phone owners to donate some of their processing power to help in the fight against childhood cancers.
The spare computing power of Android devices and computers can be utilised to work out which compoun…
There is a gaping hole in the digital defences that companies use to keep out cyber thieves.
The hole is the global shortage of skilled staff that keeps security hardware running, analyses threats and kicks out intruders.
Currently, …
Website security checks that challenge people to prove they are human are likely to "disappear" in favour of a new system developed by Google.
Captcha checks typically ask people to complete a puzzle that a computer would struggle to co…
Technology firms will get "exclusive access" to details of the CIA's cyber-warfare programme, Wikileaks has said.
The anti-secrecy website has published thousands of the US spy agency's secret documents, including what it says are the C…
You might not know it from the promising talk of conversational computers, self-driving cars and lifelike human prosthetics, but computing is confronting a crisis. After decades of rapid acceleration, the speed of transistors — computeriza…
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) is planning to expand its U.S. production facilities, shifting some manufacturing from Mexico, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The company is …
Phone theft is common around the world, and the feeling of losing a mobile phone with no hope of finding it can be devastating, not only because of the lost device but also because of the loss of important contacts, bank details, saved doc…
Cox was in West Africa to find out how the region’s creatives, developers and entrepreneurs are using Facebook and Instagram to bring their passions to life
Chris Cox, Chief Product Officer at Facebook (www.Facebook.com), will be taking…
Wikileaks has published details of what it says are wide-ranging hacking tools used by the CIA.
The alleged cyber-weapons are said to include malware that targets Windows, Android, iOS, OSX and Linux computers as well as internet router…
Over the weekend, I put a question to the Google Home speaker I'd brought back from the United States. "OK Google," I said. "Is Obama planning a coup?"
I'd asked this after reading an article that suggested a relatively new feature that…
Thousands of owners of Nintendo's new console, Switch, have complained about dead or stuck pixels creating distracting and annoying dark squares on their screens.
Nintendo said such pixels were "normal and should not be considered a def…
There are numerous reports from around the world that various Microsoft services are suffering faults.
The firm said it was looking into them.
Outlook users, including those with Hotmail addresses, are reporting issues on social medi…
Social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest are causing more people to feel alone, according to US psychologists.
A report suggests that more than two hours of social media use a day doubled the chances of a person experienc…
Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee will go on trial for bribery and embezzlement on Thursday, a court said, amid a corruption scandal that has rocked South Korea and led to the impeachment of the president.
Lee, the 48-year-old third-gener…
I have a love/hate relationship with the comments section on this blog. On the one hand, I like opening things up to discussions, scrutiny, praise and, yes, criticism.
But on the other, it often descends into a tedious mess in which peo…
Chevrolet has become the first carmaker to offer an unlimited data plan with its cars.
The deal, for a 4G LTE data plan, applies to cars sold in the US from 3 March and will cost $20 (£16) a month.
It is being offered with the help o…
Cartridges for the Nintendo Switch console taste foul because of a "bittering agent" intended to prevent them from being accidentally swallowed.
The discovery was made after gamers noticed the repellent flavour.
"I can still taste it…
Once famous mobile phones such as Nokia's classic 3310 from the turn of the century have been given a new lease of life as Chinese manufacturers revive Western brands to get an edge in an increasingly cut-throat handset market.
Apple (A…
Facebook's Chief Product Officer visits Ghana to learn from its tech and creative talent Chris’s visit is part of a week-long trip to Nigeria, Ghana and Senegal where Chris is keen to understand how creatives,
developers and entrepreneurs…
YouTube has launched a $35-a-month TV subscription service that will rival US cable networks.
The live TV service will carry more than 40 channels, including some of the country's biggest networks including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and ESPN.
…
The director of Ringing Bells, the Indian firm which claimed to be selling the world's cheapest smartphone, has been arrested on allegations of fraud.
Mohit Goel was held after one of the phone's distributors claimed it had not received…
Private messages exchanged on dating sites, hotel bookings and frames from adult videos were among the data inadvertently exposed by a bug discovered in the Cloudflare network.
The firm protects websites by routing their traffic through…
The video game publisher that won a case against Facebook-owned Oculus has asked a judge to block the firm from using its code in virtual reality products.
Earlier this month a US court ruled that Oculus had used ZeniMax's code without …
China's securities regulator is considering offering a shortcut for some of the country's largest technology companies to list their shares, allowing them to jump a long line of applicants and boost domestic bourses, according to six peopl…
Early investors in Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] wrote to the ride-hailing company on Thursday to criticize it for failing to end a toxic culture of harassment.
Mitch and Freada Kapor publicly rebuked the company after former Uber emp…
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's display panel subsidiary has received a license to invest another $2.5 billion in Vietnam to boost capacity, Vietnam's State Television (VTV)reported.
The extra funding will boost Samsung Display's total inv…
Seeking to escape a cycle of falling prices and tight regulation, big telecom operators from Vimpelcom (VIP.O) to Telefonica (TEF.MC) are set to reinvent themselves as internet players to escape the industry's straight-jacket of low growth…
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Waymo self-driving car unit sued Uber Technologies [UBER.UL] and its autonomous trucking subsidiary Otto on Thursday over allegations of theft of its confidential and proprietary sensor technology.
Waymo accused…
Alphabet Inc's Google (GOOGL.O) and subsidiary Jigsaw launched on Thursday a new technology to help news organizations and online platforms identify abusive comments on their websites.
The technology, called Perspective, will review com…
AirMap, a start-up which has become the world's top supplier of air traffic management software for drones, is raising $26 million in new financing from a group of industry investors led by the venture capital investment arm of Microsoft.
…
Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) said on Wednesday its mass-market Model 3 sedan was on track for volume production by September, encouraging investors who see the electric vehicle as the avenue to profitability for the young company.
But the carmake…
Its new strategy emphasizes quality over quantity, but some say the bell may already have sounded for the embattled phone maker.
It's no secret: The last few years have been rough for HTC.
After paving the way for Android by making …
When Apple Inc (AAPL.O) launches its much-anticipated 10th anniversary iPhone this fall, it will offer an unwitting lesson in how much the smartphone industry it pioneered has matured.
The new iPhone is expected to include new features …
"Never read below the line" - that has become sensible advice for anyone tempted to look at online comments.
The depressingly toxic nature of internet conversations is of increasing concern to many publishers. But now Google thinks it m…
Unlike previous years, when Ghana has had winners in the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards, this year, no winners at the continental final held in Lagos, Nigeria.
Competing with the students from other African countries was Emmanuel Gyekye Att…
Chinese bicycle-sharing startup Mobike said on Monday it has raised funding in a new round led by Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings [TEM.UL] and hedge fund Hillhouse Capital, bringing its total new funding in 2017 to more than $300…
YouTube is to scrap "unskippable" 30-second advertisements on the video-streaming service, from 2018.
Google confirmed the plan to the BBC's Newsround programme, saying it wanted to focus on "formats that work well for both users and ad…
Snap - the company behind Snapchat - has put its video-recording sunglasses on sale online in the US.
The Spectacles glasses were previously available only from pop-up vending machines in US cities.
The rollout comes ahead of Snap's …
A landmark race between two driverless electric cars has ended badly for one of the contestants.
The unfortunate Devbot vehicle crashed out of the Roborace competition after misjudging a corner while travelling at high speed.
The inc…
If your phone, laptop or any other electronic swells, hisses or erupts into flames, you'll know what to do -- and what to avoid.
If there's one thing we learned from Samsung's battery debacle, it's that you can never be too prepared to …
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