Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google, has published its plans to build a smart city in Toronto, sparking fresh controversy.
In a 1,500-word document, the company laid out its ambitions to "improve the urban environment" with a vari…
A town in Florida has paid $500,000 (£394,000) to hackers after a ransomware attack.
The total paid by Florida municipalities over ransomware in the last two weeks now stands at $1.1m.
Officials in Lake City voted to pay hackers in B…
China's tech giant Huawei has shut down its solar energy business in the US, the Financial Times reported citing anonymous sources.
The FT said the company confirmed it had cut jobs in the US but did not confirm which parts of the busin…
Twitter Lists have never gotten the attention they deserve. A feature largely adopted by Twitter power users, lists allow you to create custom timelines by adding only those users whose tweets you want to track. And this can be done witho…
China’s largest telecommunications operator China Mobile said on Tuesday it will set up a 30 billion yuan ($4.36 billion) 5G industry fund and has already raised the first installment of 7-10 billion yuan.
China Mobile Chairman Yang Jie…
My, hasn't it grown. It started as a modest project to get a few thousand children coding but has since become the best-selling computer ever made in the UK.
It is used by schools, hobbyists and in factories - and even turns up as a mea…
Girls in Northern Ireland are more likely than boys to experience cyber-bullying, new research suggests.
The EU-funded Blurred Lives project studied how young people between the ages of 14 and 16 experienced and responded to cyber-bully…
Huawei has said it is willing to sign a "no back door" agreement with the Indian government, according to local media reports in India.
A “back door” is a term used to describe a secret entry point in software or a computer system that …
Hackers targeted mobile phone networks around the world to snoop on specific users, according to a report.
The level of access they gained to the networks meant they could have shut them down had they wanted to.
US-Israeli security f…
In recent months I have been influenced by a paper on The Geopolitics of Digital Governance by two University of Southampton academics, Kieron O'Hara and Dame Wendy Hall. The paper popularised, but didn't invent, the idea of the "splintern…
Telecom Niue sees widespread adoption of 4G following launch, Alepo and Blue Arcus partnership credited
Main mobile service provider on the South Pacific island of Niue
In August last year, it launched 4G/LTE plans using Alepo’s di…
AI has the potential to become so manifest and omnipresent that the global AI economy could be worth $150 trillion by 2025.
But too much hype in the absence of AI products undermines the cultural enthusiasm that will be vital to ensure …
Record Audience Experiences Convergence of Physical and Digital Worlds
A record crowd gathered in Boston last week for the annual LiveWorx® digital transformation event, where attendees explored how digital transformation is becoming a …
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Connected intelligence and 5G technology are set to profoundly impact the way the industrial sector approaches quality control
The research that surrounds artificial intelligence (AI) is plentiful and varied. …
Chinese authorities intend to investigate several incidents in the last month where packages containing Huawei smartphones have failed to be delivered to their intended destinations in the US.
One of the packages was intended for PC Mag…
Huawei may be on the ropes as it battles sanctions from the U.S. government, but fellow Chinese smartphone rival Xiaomi is in expansion mode with the launch of a new brand that’s aimed at winning friends (and sales) among the young and fa…
The Trump administration is looking into the possibility of requiring that the 5G equipment used in the US be made outside China, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
It comes as the US has encouraged allies to block Chinese tech giant…
The value of Bitcoin soared by more than 10% over the weekend, hitting $11,247.63 on Sunday - its highest price since March 2018.
Last week, Facebook announced that it plans to launch a new digital currency called Libra in 2020.
The …
America's messaging system that sends presidential warnings about impending emergencies is "easy" to spoof, warn researchers.
Cyber-security experts from the University of Colorado have shown how to exploit the system to send fake alert…
Huawei, a leading technology company has been named number 47 on BrandZ's Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands and number 79 in Forbes World's Most Valuable Brands in 2018.
The company was ranked fifth globally amongst top spending compa…
The Huawei has announced that its latest smartphone device Huawei Y9 Prime will be available from June 22.
The company said the pre-order and its accompanying gifts, which include Sports Band, Bluetooth Headset, Bluetooth Speaker and Ph…
The writing has been on the slate for some time now. Roughly this time last year, we reported that Google had wiped all tablet sales off its site. Turns out that was just a bug, but it seemed like an ominous portent of things to come.
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So many cybersecurity vulnerabilities exist on the internet nowadays that giving out your email address or phone number when signing up for a service is akin to giving someone your full name on the first date. Recently, a string of SIM swa…
Ethiopia is flexing its ambitions to become Africa’s next startup hub.
The country of 105 million with the continent’s seventh largest economy is revamping government policies, firing up angel networks, and rallying digital entrepreneur…
Italy’s sovereign wealth fund is maneuvering to pull off a multibillion-euro telecoms merger and end a prolonged corporate stalemate that has held up Rome’s plans to create a national broadband network, sources say.
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A Florida town has decided to pay malicious hackers $600,000 (£475,000) to get its computers working again.
Municipal computers for Riviera Beach, a suburb of Palm Beach, were rendered unusable by the ransomware attack.
The virus dis…
Huawei smartphone sales in Western Europe have risen “in the past few days” as customers grow more confident the Chinese company will weather U.S. sanctions imposed last month, an executive for the Chinese firm said on Friday.
Walter Ji…
Globalstar Announces The Successful Completion Of Mss And Terrestrial Authorizations Across Africa, Covering A Population In Excess Of 100 Million
Globalstar, Inc. (NYSE American: GSAT) announced that it has received MSS and terrestrial…
About 150,000 businesses still do not have the paperwork they need to keep exporting to the EU in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Mark Carney has said.
The Bank of England governor added that many had built up contingency stocks, but the…
US supermarket giant Walmart has confirmed it uses image recognition cameras at checkouts to detect theft.
The cameras identify when items are put in a shopping bag without first being scanned by a cashier, or at the self-service checko…
Shares in messaging app Slack surged 49% as the company became the latest tech start-up to join the stock market.
Slack set a guide price of $26 a share, but rose 60% at the start of trading before easing back to finish at $39.
The c…
Struggling to find saved passwords in your browser or PC? Keep calm, we’ll find them pretty soon.
Do you know that your passwords are stored somewhere in your browser?
Even though this can be set differently, a lot of people, inclu…
Young people are growing up with a "warped view of what is normal because so much of what they see on social media is false", says Damian Hinds.
The education secretary wants "fewer selfies" and more "authenticity".
He warned of the …
Leading wireless solutions provider has successfully deployed solutions in the mining sector worldwide
InfiNet Wireless, the global leader in fixed wireless broadband connectivity, will showcase its ground-breaking wireless solutions …
GROHE has developed a quick and easy quiz to help you match yourself to one of six design personality profiles
When it comes to being our true selves, there is no place like home. But what about our bathroom? Thanks to the ground-breaki…
Tamer Farouk, Regional Senior Director - East and West Africa Applications Sales Leader at Oracle
It is unlikely to have escaped your attention that the culinary world is witnessing an explosion of fusion cuisine, with chefs mixing vari…
Microsoft’s LinkedIn on Thursday said it would add 800 new roles to its European headquarters in Dublin, the latest major jobs announcement that capped off a record six months for foreign direct investment (FDI) into Ireland.
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YouTube has teamed up with Universal Music Group to remaster nearly a thousand classic music videos, the companies announced today, including those from Billy Idol, Beastie Boys, Boyz II Men, George Strait, Janet Jackson, Kiss, Lady Anteb…
As we asked back in February, “We’re ready for foldable phones, but are they ready for us?” The answer, so far, has been an enthusiastic, “not really.” The Galaxy Fold was pushed back after multiple review units crapped the proverbial be…
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has once again downplayed the impact of the US moves against the company in an interview with CNBC.
In May, the US added Huawei to a list of companies that American firms cannot trade with unless they have a …
The makers of Fortnite say they were "surprised" when Prince Harry called the game "irresponsible".
Back in April, the Duke of Sussex said the game should be banned.
"It's created to addict and keep you in front of the computer for a…
Global company in the development and distribution of cutting edge technology Smiths Detection has won a contract with Meridian Port Services Limited (MPS) to provide cargo inspection technology for the major Tema Port Expansion project in…
In an announcement today from its support account, Twitter said it is removing the option to tag precise locations in tweets. The feature will still be available for photos through Twitter’s updated camera. The company said this is because…
For e-reader devotees, it doesn’t get better than the Kindle Oasis. Amazon’s the last giant player standing in the category (unless you consider what Barnes & Noble is doing “standing”), and the Oasis is ounce for ounce the best Kindle dev…
Facebook has been accused of disabling a large number of user accounts in Hungary.
One user, David Butykai, told BBC News his Facebook and Instagram accounts had been blocked and between 30 and 40 of his friends in the country had exper…
China has fallen behind slightly in the list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, which is published every six months.
The US maintained its position, holding first and second place with the two most powerful computers in the world.
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A US lawmaker has said Facebook should delay the launch of its Libra crypto-currency - hours after the social network formally announced the project.
Libra, set to be launched next year, will let people make payments via Facebook's apps…
Ferring Collaboration with Digital Health Innovators WOOM Aims to Help More People Build Families Faster
Collaboration sees Ferring fuse fertility expertise with personalised tech solution from digital health innovators, WOOM
Insig…
The first time I showed the Palm phone to the TechCrunch staff, they were excited. At the very least, it was a unique take on the category, designed to be a second phone for those moments that didn’t require a larger, bulkier device.
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There are operating system updates that feel tacked on or otherwise not particularly useful. Then there are those that genuinely alter the way you interact with a device. This new addition by way of iOS 13’s second beta falls firmly into t…
