Indian activists and politicians are pointing fingers at the state after WhatsApp revealed Indian journalists and activists were among those targeted with spyware on its platform.
WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against Israeli firm NSO Gr…
In early September 2017 David Rimmer was on the final day of a corporate get-together in the US, organised by Equifax, the giant financial firm he worked for.
It is one of the world's biggest credit score agencies, and Mr Rimmer was the…
In the past, Xiaomi’s products have looked a lot like Apple versions, and Xiaomi’s first smartwatch, which will launch on November 5th, appears to be no exception. From the images and video teasers Xiaomi released through Weibo earlier t…
In April, Faustin Rukundo received a mysterious call over WhatsApp from a number he did not recognise.
He answered, but the line was silent and then it went dead. He tried calling back but nobody answered.
He didn't know it but his p…
Drive around the streets of Kuwait and you won't see these women. They are behind closed doors, deprived of their basic rights, unable to leave and at risk of being sold to the highest bidder.
But pick up a smartphone and you can scroll…
Fitness device marker Fitbit is being bought by Google for $2.1bn (£1.6bn).
The move allows Google to expand into the market for fitness trackers and smart watches. It comes at a time when loss-making Fitbit has been looking to expand i…
AFRICACOM AWARDS 2019 SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED
The word is out. The AfricaCom Awards, one of the global technology and telecommunications industry's most respected awards, has announced the current shortlist of nominees. Top honours will be…
Just as as tangible as airplanes, computers and contraception, The Roman Empire, the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States of America are also human inventions.
Technology is how we do things, and political institutions are how we …
An American giant may have figured out a way to simplify the tedious procedure of issuing driver’s licenses. And an early sneak peek of this solution is now live in parts of India.
Hundreds of people who have taken the driver’s license …
Pumpkin, the most popular raccoon on Instagram, has died at the age of four.
Her owner, Laura Young, confirmed on the social media platform that Pumpkin passed away two weeks ago.
"Her passing came as a complete shock to us and we ar…
Twitter is to ban all political advertising worldwide, saying that the reach of such messages "should be earned, not bought".
"While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power b…
New numbers from Gartner mark another major increase for global wearable spending in 2020. The analyst firm forecasts a 27% jump in end-user spending over this year, from $40.5 billion to $51.5 billion. Once again, the pack is led by smart…
Do you drive a connected car? If you don’t know, you’re not alone.
Connected cars are part of a bigger technology trend called the Internet of Things, which is the connection of everyday devices via the internet.
Connected cars allo…
Your Future Is About To Unfold
Since Samsung Globally unveiled the Galaxy Fold and created a new mobile category, there’s been much hype about the extraordinary device. Not only is the Galaxy Fold infused with never-seen-before integrat…
The IDTechEx Show! on November 20-21 at the Santa Clara Convention Center brings together key emerging technologies with end users who seek product differentiation and solutions to grow their businesses.
The event covers key inno…
Apple Inc is mobilizing suppliers to launch its first 5G iPhone range, the Nikkei Asian Review said on Wednesday.
"It will be the first time Apple introduces 5G iPhones ... There will be three of them and the company has set an aggressi…
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group, alleging the firm was behind cyber-attacks that infected devices with malicious software.
WhatsApp accuses the company of sending malware to roughly 1,400 mobile ph…
Facebook has agreed to pay a £500,000 fine imposed by the UK's data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
It had originally appealed the penalty, causing the Information Commissioner's Office to pursue its…
“These $250 earbuds are nice.” That’s the first thing I wrote to a co-worker after unboxing and trying on the new AirPods. After wearing them around the New York City streets, the subway and into a couple of cafes, that pithy review stands…
In a move to boost family subscriptions to its app, Spotify this morning announced the launch of a dedicated Kids application which allows children three and up to listen to their own music, both online and offline, as well as explore play…
Kaspersky supports the Paris Peace Forum 2019, the Paris-based international event promoting global governance for sustainable peace
Kaspersky will be supporting and joining this second edition, presenting its Global Transparency Initia…
Innovators partner to create better animation production experience
Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, and Animal Logic, one of the world’s leading independent creative digital studios, have announced a part…
Customers are encouraged to download all data from Irista before the service closes
Canon EMEA (Canon-Europe.com) has today announced that it will close its Irista cloud photo service on 31 January 2020.
Canon EMEA will m…
Around the turn of the 19th century, the first skyscraper was born. All ten storeys of Chicago’s iconic Home Insurance Building comprised a wondrous skeleton of iron and steel, wrapped in a facade of glass and pane. It wasn’t only the buil…
Facebook (FB.O), Google (GOOGL.O) and Twitter (TWTR.N) must do more to tackle fake news or face regulatory action, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
The threat by the EU executive came a year after the U.S. tech giants together w…
Isabelle, an actor based in London, had her identity stolen in 2017. "I got home one day and found my post box had been broken into," she says.
"I had two new credit cards approved which I hadn't applied for, and a letter from one bank,…
Donald Trump's tweet picturing a dog that helped "capture and kill" the Islamic State group's leader is inspiring dog owners to share pictures.
The Belgian malinois was injured when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself during a US milita…
A huge cyber-attack has knocked out more than 2,000 websites - as well as the national TV station - in the country of Georgia.
Court websites containing case materials and personal data have also been attacked.
In many cases, website…
Apple iPhone 5 users have been warned to update their software before the weekend or face losing access to the internet.
The technology giant said users who did not download iOS 10.3.4 by 3 November would be locked out of features that …
A fight over access to radio-wave frequencies for 5G mobile data is coming to a head as officials decide how wavelengths should be allocated.
The European Space Agency has warned opening up the airwaves will harm climate change research…
According to more and more studies, one of the biggest strengths of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) is their ability to give students “real world immersive experiences” that could make learning both more memorable and more …
Mobile operators can accelerate their 5G network buildout thanks to an integrated software framework based on Intel data-centric technology
Altran, global leader in Engineering and R&D services (ER&D), has created an industry-fi…
Strategic Financing and New Leadership Position 1025Connect for Accelerated Growth
AM Property Holding Corp. announced the successful completion of a $21 million credit facility for 1025OCR, its 200,000-square-foot Technology Center loc…
A world-leading German science and technology company is the most recent organisation to announce its collaboration with District 2020 in Dubai
Merck KGaA Germany, a leading science and technology company, announced today the establishm…
Kenya’s Twiga Foods has raised a total of $30 million from lenders and investors led by Goldman Sachs.
The B2B food distribution company financed $6.25 million of the funding in convertible debt and $23.75 million in equity, classified…
The British government is still to decide whether to grant China’s Huawei Technologies access to the UK’s future 5G telecoms network, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday.
The spokesman said a decision would come …
Instagram has expanded a ban on graphical self-harm imagery to include a broader range of content depicting suicide, including fictional illustrations of self-harm and suicide methods such as drawings, cartoons and memes.
“This past …
Bitcoin held ground on Monday near a one-month high scaled over the weekend after China’s president Xi Jinping said the world’s second biggest economy should accelerate the development of blockchain technology.
Blockchain, a digital led…
It's a common experience. The phone rings at home, and somebody claiming to be from Microsoft tells you there is something wrong with your computer and they can fix it.
But usually this is a scam called computer software service fraud -…
The Pentagon has awarded a $10bn (£8bn) cloud-computing contract to Microsoft, following a heavily scrutinised bidding process in which Amazon had been seen as the favourite.
The 10-year contract for the Joint Enterprise Defence Infrast…
This campaign has been pushed to the climax by a photography camp from Nigeria
For its campaign #CAMON12#CtheWorld Best Photography, the Global premier mobile phone brand TECNO Mobile (TECNO-Mobile.com) continues making more than millio…
Today is D-Day for banks and the City of Johannesburg to pay ransom demands sent through by hackers last week. Bryan Hamman, territory manager for sub-Saharan Africa at NETSCOUT Arbor, which specialises in advanced distributed denial of se…
Motorola’s Moto G8 Plus is the latest G-series device from the budget phone manufacturer. It’s the latest in a series of smartphones with previous entries that have been some of the best budget smartphones you can currently buy. The bigg…
These days, more and more electronic devices are water resistant, including the Apple Watch. Unless you’ve got a first-generation Watch, you can wear it in the shower, while swimming in a pool or lake, and while running until you sweat. In…
Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, has largely kept quiet on its self-driving car program. The Japanese company has released some information about its test vehicles and the types of sensors it’s using, but we’ve seen very little of …
Google is currently rolling out a change to its core search algorithm that it says could change the rankings of results for as many as one in ten queries. It’s based on cutting-edge natural language processing (NLP) techniques developed …
Few, if any, saw coming the Chromebook’s utter dominance of the K-8 category. In hindsight, it’s easy to see why the systems have been such a success story, of course: low prices, coupled with ease of wide-scale deployment and lockdown mak…
RED’s ambitious Hydrogen phone project is ending after the release of just a single device, the Hydrogen One, according to an announcement from Jim Jannard. The company’s founder says that he is “shutting down the HYDROGEN project” as he r…
If you want to keep your Apple Watch from disturbing you with alarms, notifications, or any other sounds, you have no fewer than three different ways to keep it quiet: silent mode, theater mode, and Do Not Disturb. They differ subtly, but …
Facebook’s news section, which was previously reported to be imminent, is here: The company is rolling out Facebook News in a limited test in the U.S. as a home screen tab and bookmark in the main Facebook app.
In a blog post, Facebook’…