Mobile operator Three says it will offer 5G on all its new and existing tariffs at no extra cost, when it launches its next-generation service.
Existing customers will be able to use 5G at no extra cost - if they have a compatible hands…
The center has the latest equipments and focuses on the promotion of esports in Africa through tournaments and esport players training for international competitions
Paradise Game (ParadiseGame.net) Center officially opened its…
LG Chem (KRX: 051910) announced on 25th that it will host the 2nd Global Innovation Contest (GIC) for leading universities and research institutions worldwide.
Being the first of its kind in Korean chemical industry, Global Innovation C…
Global IoT security solution aims to safeguard critical data both on device and network level, in particular for the automotive industry
Thales, a global leader in digital security, and Tata Communications, a leading global digital infr…
A French inventor has failed in his attempt to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered flyboard.
Franky Zapata, a former jet-ski champion, had been hoping to cross from northern France to southern England in just 20 minutes.
But t…
Virgin Media has pledged to offer internet download speeds of at least 1Gbps to 15 million homes by the end of 2021.
That represents about half of all UK households - and double the fastest speed the company currently advertises.
But…
The man who came up with Twitter's retweet button has likened it to "handing a four-year-old a loaded weapon", in an interview with BuzzFeed.
Developer Chris Wetherell said no-one at Twitter had anticipated how it would alter the way pe…
Facebook has used artificial intelligence (AI) to map 300,000 miles of previously unmapped roads in Thailand and made the results available to the public.
The project had been completed in 18 months, less than half the time it would hav…
Some drivers on popular ride-hailing apps in Singapore have been caught hacking or using modified versions of the apps to increase passenger fares and their earnings.
The New Paper website said it had found "a thriving online community …
Facebook has admitted that it was "rocked to its very foundations" by the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Facebook's head of global affairs, Sir Nick Clegg, told the BBC that it was fair to say the company "hadn't done enough" in the past.…
Hundreds of subtly different adverts featuring Boris Johnson have been run on Facebook since he became the UK's new prime minister.
Facebook's advert library shows that the Conservatives have been testing a variety of subtly different m…
O2 has announced it plans to turn on its 5G mobile network in October.
It intends to launch the next-generation service in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Slough and Leeds and then expand to a total of 50 towns and cities by summer…
AT&T Inc (T.N) exceeded analyst expectations on Wednesday for net wireless subscribers who pay a monthly bill, as it eked out some growth in a saturated market and continued to bundle media content from Time Warner into new wireless plans.…
As mentioned earlier, there's been big news from the US on the future of Silicon Valley - the Department of Justice (DoJ) is going to investigate large tech firms like Facebook, Google and Amazon to see if they are just too big.
The BBC…
The communications manager of Sheffield Hallam MP Jared O'Mara has resigned in a flurry of angry tweets published on the MP's own Twitter account.
Gareth Arnold - a member of Mr O'Mara's constituency staff - accused him of showing "inex…
A man has been arrested on suspicion of carrying out a "sophisticated and malicious" cyber attack against Lancaster University.
Student records, phone numbers and ID documents were accessed in the hack, and bogus invoices sent to underg…
At an event this week in Nigeria, Google introduced Gallery Go, a photo management and editing tool designed for offline use. The new offering joins a suite of Google apps created specifically for users in development markets, where solid …
The US Justice Department has announced an investigation into leading online platforms, examining whether they are unfairly restricting competition.
The DoJ did not name any firms, but companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and Appl…
New innovations in financial IT solutions are opening several opportunities for finance decision-makers in Africa. But realising the full value of these innovations will require leadership and vision.
Earlier this year, the financial pl…
Jaguar’s 322km/h, 441kW performance sedan lowers the fastest Nürburgring time for a four-door production car to 7min 18.361sec on 20.6km Nordschleife lap
Project 8 development driver Vincent Radermecker returns to legendary German cir…
Get ready for a British Trump: The UK will shortly have a new prime minister after the Conservative Party membership overwhelmingly voted to elect Boris Johnson as their new party leader, passing over his sole rival for the post, Jeremy H…
The UK gambling watchdog has told MPs that it does not currently oversee the purchase of in-game content like Fifa player packs and video game loot boxes.
This is because there is no official way to monetise what is inside them.
A pr…
A decision on whether controversial Chinese firm Huawei should be excluded from the rollout of 5G mobile phone networks in the UK has been postponed.
Culture secretary Jeremy Wright said the government is "not yet in a position" to deci…
Credit score agency Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700m (£561m) as part of a settlement with a US regulator following a data breach in 2017.
The Federal Trade Commission had alleged the Atlanta-based firm failed to take reasonable ste…
The personal data of students and applicants has been stolen in a "sophisticated and malicious" phishing attack at Lancaster University.
Officials said the information had been used to send bogus invoices to undergraduate applicants.
…
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], the Chinese company put on a U.S. black list because of national security concerns, secretly helped North Korea build and maintain its commercial wireless network, the Washington Post reported on Monday…
Elon Musk says he wants a new 10km (six-mile) vacuum tunnel for his futuristic Hyperloop - ready for next year's speed-record competition.
Hyperloop aims to transport people in high-speed pods in underground tubes.
Mr Musk tweeted hi…
Japan’s Toshiba Memory said there was a “good chance” of acquisitions as it pushes to increase its share of the market for advanced storage products used in data centers.
Toshiba Memory is the world’s No.2 maker of NAND flash memory chi…
Microsoft Corp said on Monday it was investing $1 billion in San Francisco-based OpenAI and that the two had formed a multi-year partnership to develop artificial intelligence supercomputing technologies on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computin…
Miniature remote controlled cars have proved to be a crowd pleaser at track and field throwing events, but for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Toyota Motor Corp is upping the game with a hi-tech way to fetch javelins and hammers: pint-sized, self-…
Bug hunting can be a lucrative gig. Depending on the company, a serious bug reported through the proper channels can earn whoever found it first tens of thousands of dollars.
Google launched a bug bounty program for Chrome in 2010. T…
In just a few weeks Apple’s new iOS 13, the thirteenth major iteration of its popular iPhone software, will be out — along with new iPhones and a new iPad version, the aptly named iPadOS. We’ve taken iOS 13 for a spin over the past few …
Seems Hongmeng isn’t the Android replacement it’s been pitched as, after all. The initial story certainly tracked, as Huawei has been preparing for the very real possibility of life after Google, but the Chinese hardware giant says the o…
When thousands of people converge on Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the city’s infrastructure will be tested. Toyota is getting into the mix to handle some of the ways people will get around the city and the Olympics venu…
Microsoft beat expectations yesterday to deliver revenues of nearly $34bn (£27bn) and profits of $13bn.
Aaron Shields from Fitch brand consultancy said Microsoft's strength came down to "trust" and "innovation".
Although he acknowled…
YouTube has defended its video recommendation algorithms, amid suggestions that the technology serves up increasingly extreme videos.
On Thursday, a BBC report explored how YouTube had helped the Flat Earth conspiracy theory spread.
…
Intel announced a deep partnership with SAP today around using advanced Intel technology to optimize SAP software tools. Specifically, the company plans to tune its Intel Xeon Scalable processors and Intel Optane DC persistent memory for…
Instagram is hiding the number of likes on posts in several countries, including Australia and Japan, in order to "remove pressure" on users.
At the moment, Instagram users see a running total of people who have liked a post. In the tri…
Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has called for an investigation into FaceApp, which alters users' photos to make them look older or younger.
In a letter posted on Twitter, Mr Schumer called it "deeply troubling" that personal data …
Uber passengers in the US have complained on Twitter after a "glitch" meant they were charged 100 times more than advertised fares.
One journey that should have cost $96.72 (£77.60) was reportedly charged at $9,672, while some charges w…
The police and other authorities should suspend use of automatic facial recognition technologies, according to an influential group of MPs.
The House of Commons Science and Technology committee added there should be no further trials of…
Many were left wholly unsatisfied by news that the punishment for Facebook's privacy misdeeds, from the US at least, would be set at $5bn - an amount the firm can well afford, and for which it had already mostly accounted.
The mood amon…
Telecoms equipment maker Ericsson (ERICb.ST) posted quarterly earnings in line with forecasts but said it expected costs related to winning new contracts for its network business to hit profit margins in the second half of the year.
The…
Members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives introduced bills on Tuesday to keep tight restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, amid concern about President Donald Trump’s easing of curbs on the Chinese firm.
The legislati…
Renault (RENA.PA) has formed a joint venture partnership with Jiangling Motors Corporation Group (JMCG) to target the Chinese electric vehicles (EV) market, in a deal which will also see Renault take a 50% stake in the new venture.
Rena…
After months of relative calm in cryptocurrency markets, bitcoin exploded back into life in April with its sharpest price jump in over a year - but few people could convincingly explain why.
The 20% leap focused investors’ attention on …
Google has suspended Viagogo as an advertiser, after claims touts resell tickets at inflated prices on the site.
The Competition and Market Authority is taking the ticketing website to court, alleging it has not done enough to change it…
Google's controversial plan to launch a censored search engine in China has been "terminated", a company executive has said.
The project was reported to have ceased late last year but rumours that it remained active persisted.
"We ha…
NeuraLink, a company set up by Elon Musk to explore ways to connect the human brain to a computer interface, has applied to US regulators to start trialling its device on humans.
The system has been tested on a monkey that was able to c…
Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) has agreed to partner with China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL) (300750.SZ) to supply and develop batteries for new energy vehicles.
The Japanese automaker said on Wednesday that the firms had…
