If targets were enough to beat the climate crisis, we would have cause for celebration. The UK, Norway, Sweden and France have written a target of...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been challenged to sell social media platforms WhatsApp and Instagram to prove his seriousness about user data privacy. Zuckerberg was reportedly...
Top executives of tech giants including Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc, Apple Inc, and Alphabet Inc’s Google, have been ordered to present internal emails, detailed financial information...
Hackers compromised personal data of almost the entire population of Ecuador which was leaked online, in what security experts said on Monday was a massive breach...
A pair of scientists from Cambridge and Columbia Universities have proposed a Moon elevator which they call Spaceline, which could offer easy access to reach space....
A group of researchers have provided data from the Hubble Space Telescope which reveals there is water vapor in the atmosphere of an Earth-size planet outside...
Three South Korean hacking groups have been sanctioned by the United States of America for masterminding the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware attacks. According to the US...
With more than 4,000 exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other than our sun – discovered so far, it may seem like we are on the cusp...
The industry body representing Google, Facebook and Twitter has rejected proposals for an industry code of conduct on fake news, warning that the recommendation would turn...
A group of scientists from the University of Surrey have developed a new AI-based tool which could determine heart failure with just one heartbeat, research suggests....
Attorney generals from 48 US states are to open an antitrust probe into Google to investigate whether its advertising practices violate current laws. According to Bloomberg,...
US tech major Microsoft is unhappy with US president Donald Trump’s push against China’s Huawei, claiming that such unfair and “un-American” treatment may hit indigenous companies...
An annual report by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has shown that the total volume of internet data consumed by Nigerian subscribers increased to to 68,154.12...
The National Communications Commission (NCC) has revealed plans to strictly regulate the use of internet in Nigeria in a bid to curtail the excesses of internet...
Scientists who captured the first image of a black hole were recently awarded an “Oscars of Science” for their astronomy achievement. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)...
Google and its YouTube subsidiary will pay $170 million to settle allegations that YouTube collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent, the Federal Trade...
Social media messaging platform, WeChat has suspended controversial Chinese face-swapping app Zao, over security risk concerns. Zao went viral in China this weekend for its realistic...
A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have created a robotic thread – similar to a worm – which could soon be...
A group of scientists have discovered a way to grow back tooth enamel, a development that could spell the end of fillings as a method to...
The account of Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey was compromised on Friday by hackers who sent public tweets and retweets including racial slurs and curse words to...
Google security experts have uncovered an “indiscriminate” hacking operation that targeted iPhones over a period of at least two years, and used websites to implant malicious...
33-year old alleged Capital One hacker, Paige Thompson who obtained personal information of over 100 million people has been indicted on wire fraud and data theft...
Anthony Levandowski, a pioneer in self-driving car technology, was criminally charged on Tuesday with stealing trade secrets from his former employer Google before joining rival Uber....
In a fresh assault to muscle out Snapchat, Facebook is developing a new messaging app called “Threads” which will promote sharing your status, location and more...
Japanese startup ispace has now adjusted timing for its Mars mission as it is now targeting 2021 for their first lunar landing, and 2023 for a...
A new blood test approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration which can detect brain injuries in minutes may reduce the number of potentially unnecessary...
YouTube has disabled 210 channels that appeared to be part of a coordinated influence campaign against pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. The action by the Google-owned...
A group of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, say they have created a set of electronic lenses that...
American space agency, NASA has revealed it’s 10-year plan to explore time and space, which involves billions of dollars and spans millions of miles, Science Alert...
Social media giants, Twitter has moved to stop accepting adverts from state-controlled news media entities, it said in a blog post on August 19. This policy...
The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, has warned that the arbitrary tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on China will make it harder for his company...
The U.S. Commerce Department is willing to extend a reprieve for the trade ban that Huawei received this year. This reprieve is designed to service Huawei...
Researchers at Florida Atlantic University have developed a robot dog which uses AI, powered by NVIDIA Jetson TX2 graphics processing units installed in its 3D-printed head,...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is set to launch five investigations against Google and Facebook over consumer privacy. According to the ACCC, chair, Rod...
IBM researchers have unveiled a new electronic tongue capable of bridging gap, making it easier to identify a range of liquids on the fly. The IBM...
Have you been seriously wondering how social media platforms handle accounts of users when they die? Over the years, online platforms built for the living increasingly...
We can’t achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement without managing emissions from land use, according to a special report released today by the Intergovernmental...
Facebook has lost its appeal that its facial recognition technology did not invade the privacy of its users located in Illinois, United States, leaving the company...
An Australian regulator has sued the maker of the country’s biggest doctor-booking software app, accusing it of deleting negative reviews and selling the personal details of...
When computer technology made electronic communication possible, the “new media” emerged: email, chat rooms, blogs, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and so much more. It looked, perhaps, like...
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to recognise patterns in breast cancer – and uncovered five new types of the disease each matched different personalised treatments. Their...
A researcher has revealed that cyberattacks designed to cause damage have doubled in the past six months and 50 percent of organizations affected are in the...
A tiny star just 12 light-years away might host two temperate, rocky planets, astronomers have announced. Reports say both of the newly spotted worlds are nearly...
Social media giant, Facebook has added its name to Instagram and WhatsApp in a move towards merging all its platforms into one unified experience for users....
American space agency NASA suggests that a newly discovered alien planet dubbed ‘Super-Earth’ is potentially capable of supporting human life. The exoplanet in question, GJ 357...
Thirty three-year-old former Amazon software engineer, Paige Thompson has been arrested by Federal Authorities for allegedly masterminding the hacking of US financial services company Capital One....
The Japanese government has given scientists under its purview the go ahead to grow human-animal hybrids. The clearance was given despite fears that the consequences of...
The details of no less that 100 million customers have been breached after a hacker gained access to the server of US financial services company Capital...
The term “data science” was coined by scientists working at the social networks LinkedIn and Facebook in 2008. A few years later, they dubbed it “the...
Japanese tech giant Sony is making moves to make summer very cool after pushing to crowdfunding the Reon Pocket, a device that’s essentially a wearable air...