Huawei Technologies HWT.UL, the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, said on Wednesday that Chinese police are conducting an investigation, after the China sales head of its smartphone unit was detained on suspicion of accepting bribes.…
In need of an unfinished skyscraper? Act fast and you might be able to get your hands on one in China.
A 156m (511ft) skyscraper in northern Shanxi province has been listed on Taobao, China's largest e-commerce website, by a local court…
Tesla's chief has pledged to make a pick-up truck as part of future plans for the electric vehicle-maker.
Elon Musk made the promise on Twitter after asking his followers for suggestions about how the firm could improve.
He said the …
Apple is said to be working on a way to allow developers to build apps that work with touchscreen input on iPhone and iPad, and with mouse and trackpad on Mac devices, to be implemented next year, according to Bloomberg. The system would u…
It’s been quite a year to say the least, but at least it’s nearly over. And so now is the perfect time to reflect on the single most important issue of 2017: the best smartphones of the year.
Our most recent trip around the Sun brought …
Although the rush to connect everything from toys to toothbrushes, cars to sex toys, and any number of household appliances to the internet, seems inexorable, there is little regulation protecting your cyber-security.
Not surprising the…
Chinese firm Qihoo 360 Technology has shut down a website that was streaming live video from its cameras in schools, gyms and restaurants.
Qihoo shut down the site, called Water Drop, following criticism on social media that the streams…
Apple has confirmed the suspicions of many iPhone owners by revealing it does deliberately slow down some models of the iPhone as they age.
Many customers have long suspected that Apple slows down older iPhones to encourage people to up…
Facebook no longer displays red warning icons next to fake news stories shared on the platform, as it says the approach has not worked as hoped.
In December 2016, the site started showing a "disputed" warning next to articles that third…
The US and UK governments have said North Korea was responsible for the WannaCry malware attack affecting hospitals, businesses and banks across the world earlier this year.
The attack is said to have hit more than 300,000 computers in …
Toyota is finally revealing the details of its plan to catch up with some of its rivals on electrification; the automaker has focused primarily on hybrids and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles before now, despite having led the market with the P…
Bringing small scale Nigerian farmers to a broader market has netted the new startup Farmcrowdy $1 million from investors including Techstars, Cox Ventures and Social Capital.
Farmcrowdy’s digital platform connects investors to farmers …
Uber Technologies [UBER.UL] said on Monday it has joined forces with BBM Messenger to allow users around the world, including in the application’s biggest market of Indonesia, to book rides via the messenger service.
The partnership agr…
The head of the National Infrastructure Commission has called for urgent action to tackle poor mobile phone coverage.
Lord Adonis has written to the telecoms regulator Ofcom urging it to take action to deal with the issue.
It follows…
The number of daily detected malicious files reflects the average activity of cybercriminals involved in the creation and distribution of malware
The number of new malicious files processed by Kaspersky Lab’s in-lab detection technologi…
Google is deepening its push into artificial intelligence (AI) by opening a research centre in China, even though its search services remain blocked in the country.
Google said the facility would be the first its kind in Asia and would …
Engineers at a small British internet service provider have successfully made a broadband connection work over 2m (6ft 7in) of wet string.
The connection reached speeds of 3.5 Mbps (megabits per second), according to the Andrews and Arn…
Lectures by a radical Islamist cleric linked to the 9/11 attacks and other jihadist content have been discovered on LinkedIn.
The business-focused social network was alerted to the issue after an investigation by the Tony Blair Institut…
Niantic’s much-anticipated Harry Potter follow-up to Pokémon GO is coming next year, but Harry Potter fans who want their first taste of Hogwarts on mobile don’t have to wait, because Harry Potter is coming to the Los Angeles-based mobile …
Another tidbit around how WhatsApp’s incoming business accounts will function: According to a FAQ for users of the messaging platform — on “Chatting with businesses” — they will either have one of three status types: unconfirmed, confirmed…
Exercise gadget integration hasn’t exactly been elegant in the past. It’s been half a decade since Apple transitioned to the lighting connector, and still I regularly see the long-retired iPod 30-pin cable flopping off treadmill dashboards…
Can something which has no physical presence consume as much electricity as an entire country?
The internet has recently been awash with claims that the digital currency Bitcoin could be using more electricity than a number of developed…
Scan your eyes over Apple's just-published list of the year's most popular iPhone apps, and there's one notable omission: Shazam.
In fact, it's been a while since the song-identifying software squeezed its way into the iOS App Store's t…
Several influential figures responsible for creating the internet have demanded that a controversial vote be cancelled.
This week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will decide on whether to repeal an Obama-era law that protect…
Facebook has published its internal workplace harassment policy in part to help other companies, chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has said.
The policy's definitions of harassment include unwelcome sexual advances, threats, insens…
Worried that a robot will one day take your job? Don't fear says a senior politician who is urging people to "embrace an android".
If machines can take over routine tasks, deputy Labour leader Tom Watson believes, it will liberate peopl…
China is using fake LinkedIn profiles to gather information on German officials and politicians, the German intelligence agency (BfV) has said.
The agency alleges that Chinese intelligence used the networking site to target at least 10,…
Apple is close to buying the music recognition app Shazam for about $400m (£300m), media reports say.
Shazam, a UK company founded in 1999, allows people to use their smartphone or computer to identify and buy music through a snippet of…
Hidden software that can record every letter typed on a computer keyboard has been discovered pre-installed on hundreds of HP laptop models.
Security researcher Michael Myng found the keylogging code in software drivers preinstalled on …
Online game service Steam has stopped accepting payments made with the Bitcoin virtual currency.
In a statement, development studio Valve, which runs Steam, said "high fees and volatility" had driven it to stop accepting them.
It sai…
San Francisco officials have voted to restrict where delivery robots can go in the city, in a blow for the burgeoning industry.
Start-ups will have to get permits to use such bots, which will be restricted to less crowded urban areas.
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Experts say it is "unlikely" that Beyonce changes her email address every week as claimed by singer Ed Sheeran.
"I have an email address that I email - that actually changes every week," he said during an interview about working with he…
How young is too young to be on social media?
Strictly speaking, only those aged 13 and over are allowed to use Facebook. But the prevention methods are trivial, meaning more than 20 million under-13-year-olds are thought to be using th…
Google will dedicate more than 10,000 staff to rooting out violent extremist content on YouTube in 2018, the video sharing website's chief has said.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Susan Wojcicki said some users were exploiting YouTube …
Carmaker Nissan plans to test self-driving taxis on Japanese roads from March next year.
The company is partnering with Japanese software company DeNA, which operates online services for the gaming, healthcare and automotive industries.…
For the first time, Facebook is opening up to children under age 13 with a privacy-focused app designed to neutralize child predator threats that plague youth-focused competitors like Snapchat. Rolling out today on iOS in the U.S., “Messen…
What's the cyber-security policy in your organisation? Is it common to share login passwords with your colleagues? Because that's how it works in the House of Commons - according to one MP at least.
Responding to the row over just who m…
A software fix Apple released to close a serious Mac security bug may not have fixed the problem on some machines.
The bug meant anyone with physical access to a Mac running High Sierra could get admin access to the machine.
Wired ma…
Facebook is opening a new London office that will allow it to create 800 new UK jobs in 2018.
By the end of next year about 2,300 people will work for the social media company in the UK.
The office will be Facebook's biggest engineer…
Singularity. It’s discussed by futurists and by scientists. Then there are the rest of us grappling to get our heads around the “reality” that within a decade or so, Artificial Intelligence will cause machines to become “smarter” than huma…
The UK government has announced it will introduce draft legislation in the spring aimed at preventing unsafe or criminal use of drones.
Last year it ran a public consultation that recommended addressing safety, security and privacy chal…
Nearly three years ago, Saar Gur and I wrote about how early-stage consumer product companies were overlooked by venture capitalists, but had the potential to create breakout success. At the time, VCs largely shrugged off the category by p…
With Amazon as the 800-pound gorilla, many of my fellow investors choose to ignore e-commerce altogether. In fact, the industry hit recent lows in a number of deals and investments. But as Bonobos’ $310 million acquisition by Walmart and S…
Twitter has acknowledged that a day-long block of one of the New York Times's accounts was imposed in error.
The @nytimesworld team, which covers international events, has about 1.9 million followers and is recognised by the social netw…
Image-sharing website Imgur has confirmed that the emails and passwords of 1.7 million users were compromised in 2014.
The data breach has only recently come to light after being discovered by security researcher Troy Hunt.
Mr Hunt s…
The NHS is spending £20m to set up a security operations centre that will oversee the health service's digital defences.
It will employ "ethical hackers" to look for weaknesses in health computer networks, not just react to breaches.
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Last month, Twitter started work on a new “save for later” feature for Tweets in your timeline that you wanted to flag to refer back to in the future. Now it’s given the feature a name — it will be called Bookmarks — and is running tests w…
Facebook plans to let people see if they had "liked" pages created by "foreign actors" to spread propaganda during the US presidential election.
The social network has previously said as many as 126 million Americans may have seen conte…
Singapore plans to introduce driverless buses on its public roads by 2022.
The government says they will be piloted in three new neighbourhoods which will have less-crowded roads designed to accommodate the buses.
The buses will be u…
Turnout at U.S. retailers was relatively subdued on Black Friday, with many shoppers flocking to stores to eye items in person and enjoy the festive atmosphere while waiting to do their actual bargain hunting online.
There were few sign…
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