A group of astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a mutual centre of gravity with a triple-star system. The newly discovered planet has a rather catchy...
Tree planting has been widely promoted as a solution to climate change, because plants absorb the climate-warming gases from Earth’s atmosphere as they grow. World leaders...
The governor of Louisiana has been forced to declare a state of emergency following a wave of cyberattacks which hit some local government areas in the...
Many African countries have a long way to go to meet the sustainable development goals. These goals, set by the United Nations, call for all countries...
A group of researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute, Harvard’s John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences, and McGill University have created a new type...
The police in Bulgaria has launched an investigation into what is now regarded as the biggest-ever data breach to have hit the country. Findings by security...
Tech giants Microsoft, has agreed to pay about $25 million in settlements with both the Justice Department and SEC over charges that its Hungary subsidiary violated...
One week after a first attempt was canceled at the last minute, a 142-feet-tall rocket blasted off at 2:43 p.m. on Monday from the Satish Dhawan...
A man in Japan has invented an app that allows users to check how much sugar content is in their drink. According to SoraNews24, Daiki Shimizu...
Search engine giants, Google has reportedly reached a multi-million dollar settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission over alleged violations of children’s data privacy laws on...
A controversial Israeli software company claims to be able to hack people’s private data held by Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, according to a report....
Robots and prosthetic devices may soon have a sense of touch equivalent to, or better than, the human skin with the Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES),...
Forest elephant extinction would exacerbate climate change. That’s according to a new study in Nature Geoscience which links feeding by elephants with an increase in the...
American space agency, NASA, in what will be a huge first has picked a new edible plant to be grown aboard the International Space Station, and...
India’s Space agency ISRO says the launch of its second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, was called off in the early hours of Monday due to a “technical...
The TrickBot malware, which earlier this year worked in tandem with the Ryuk ransomware to siphon millions of dollars for hackers, is back with a new...
Social media giants, Facebook is set to be fined for privacy lapses: The deal, which would be the largest penalty ever imposed by the FTC for...
A Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange said Friday, that it had halted all services after losing cryptocurrency worth more than $32 million in the latest apparent hack involving...
Digitisation could change the game for agriculture in Africa. That’s a key message in a report recently released by an international institution that enhances smallholder farming...
The European Commission launched a 35 million euros (39.2 million U.S. dollars) call for proposals on Tuesday to support the development of artificial intelligence-based image recognition...
Social media giants, Instagram has had a major problem with online bullying on its platform and Adam Mosseri, the head of the Facebook-owned company, says he’d...
British Airways says it is facing a record fine of £183 million for last year’s breach of its security systems, the BBC reports. The airline, owned...
Japanese mobile payment application, 7-Eleven suspended a recently-launched mobile payments feature on its 7Pay app after a flaw allowed a third party to make bogus charges...
An ICT Foundation (AFICTF) has called for the adoption of artificial learning and machine language in Nigerian healthcare system. This, the body said, will change the...
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back up again after being down for around 9-10 hours globally. Facebook informed via a tweet that it has finally managed...
Facebook has been fined more than $2 million in Germany for inaccurately reporting the amount of illegal content on its platform. German authorities said Tuesday that...
A “turbocharged” flu vaccine created by a computer with artificial intelligence in South Australia is set to undergo trial in the United States. Flinders University Professor,...
A group of cybercriminals found their way into Yandex – the Russian version of Google, in an attempt to steal data for espionage purposes, an exclusive...
A Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare expert panel has given the green light for remotely-controlled surgery using medical robots, opening the way for patients to...
NASA plans to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, by sending a drone that can fly through the icy world’s skies to search for signs of alien life....
Medical tourists and other patients alike can get adequate information about ailments before committing themselves to long hours in the air, and otherwise with the launch...
Social media giant, Facebook is working on a policy to police deepfakes, an emerging threat on the social network that involves users posting videos altered by...
A town in Florida has paid $500,000 (£394,000) to hackers after a ransomware attack, the BBC reports. The total money paid by Florida municipalities over ransomware...
Scientists have suggested that a sperm bank could one day open in space, according to a new study. According to the results of a small preliminary...
The United States of America has launched a cyber-attack on Iranian weapons systems as President Donald Trump pulled out of air strikes on the country, BBC...
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have unveiled a new brain-computer interface (BCI) that enables a person to control a robot arm with their minds without requiring invasive...
The Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) has been selected as World Bank’s centre for excellence in Future Energies and Electro-Chemical System, also known as ACE-FUELS....
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could help promote the development of material science and accelerate the invention of new materials, according to Chinese experts. Many key and core...
A group of researchers led by Takuya Hashimoto from Waseda University have discovered the earliest example of merging galaxies and have published their results on June...
The United States Cyber Command has made a number of incursions into Russia’s electrical infrastructure in recent months, according to a new report in The New...
A group of researchers based at Northern Illinois University in the States has created a method of distinguishing between normal cry signals and abnormal ones, such...
Twitter said Thursday it has removed 4,779 accounts linked to the Iranian government and will add more data from account take-downs to a public database. That...
American space agency, NASA is now gazing ahead to see what the space weather forecast is looking like for the upcoming decade, and things appear to...
The Cybercrimes Act, which many lawyers, journalists and activists have considered repressive, unconstitutional and illegal, will be amended, so says the Federal Government of Nigeria. More...
The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials on Monday said that one of its subcontractors had been breached in a “malicious cyberattack,” exposing images of...
American space agency, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, a two-rotor, 1.8 kilogram (4 pound) aircraft hitching a ride to the red planet aboard the space agency’s Mars 2020...
Facebook said Friday it would cut off Huawei from its popular social networking apps to comply with U.S. sanctions, further isolating the Chinese tech giant considered...
Search engine giants, Google has warned the White House that it will compromise national security if it goes ahead with imposing trade restrictions on Chinese telecom...
Military pilots may soon have a new kind of wingman to depend upon: not flesh-and-blood pilots but fast-flying, sensor-studded aerial drones that fly into combat to...
Google is taking steps to remove supremacist videos from YouTube and limit the spread of videos that approach the threshold of harmful hate speech. Yesterday, Google...