Researchers from the University at Buffalo, New York and Fudan University in China have developed a low-cost chip that can reportedly detect the presence of cocaine...
A media analyst identified as Porter Bibb who has more than 40 years of experience under his belt has revealed that Microsoft is mulling purchase of...
American space agency NASA and Uber have joined forces in a project which could lead to the creation of a super-advanced new taxi. The pair signed...
Not-for-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and a coalition of digital rights groups have called on big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google, to explain decisions...
Luxury phone maker iPhone has revealed that its Face ID (a 3D-sensing face recognition system) isn’t perfect for the phone and has instructions for its stores...
YouTube stars are complaining after hundreds of videos containing adverts for an essay-writing service were removed from their channels. It follows a BBC Trending investigation which...
American space agency NASA is about to launch a mission to Mars with its new solar-powered lander. The NASA inspection kit is named InSight, and it’s...
About 24-hours ago, Twitter put out a tweet through its @TwitterSupport account urging users to change their account password(s) as a precautionary measure. The call to...
Cambridge Analytica, the Trump-affiliated data firm at the center of Facebook’s worst privacy scandal in history, is declaring bankruptcy and shutting down. The London firm blamed...
Scientists have found what looks like an exceedingly small galaxy in orbit around our Milky Way, which had previously avoided detection. Named Hydrus 1, it’s located...
Facts have begun to emerge as to why Australia’s oldest scientist David Goodall aged 104 (an ecologist by profession) has chosen to fly to Switzerland to...
Russia has launched the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, the 70-megawatt Academik Lomonosov, on the Baltic Sea. Starting from St. Petersberg, it will be towed...
Japanese engineers have developed a real-life transforming car robot which can actually transform with people inside. Standing 3.7-meters tall, the two-seater robot, dubbed “J-deite RIDE”, can...
A study by a group of researchers published in Nature Genetics reveals the discovery of a total number of 44 new genes that make people more...
Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot chief Jim Keller has left the company, the latest in a rash of executive departures at the electric-car maker led by Chief Executive...
Facebook has for the first time detailed exactly what it will ban. The company is publishing detailed guidelines about what it will allow to be published...
A high-profile British journalist and entrepreneur has announced he plans to sue Facebook for defamation over fake adverts published on the site. Martin Lewis, founder of...
A teenager who founded the hacking group that broke into ex-CIA chief John Brennan’s email has been sentenced to serve two years at a youth detention...
A newly published report claims Verizon and AT&T are the subject of a Department of Justice investigation. According to the sources cited, officials are looking into...
China’s ZTE Corp. has blasted the U.S. government decision to impose a seven-year ban on its purchases of crucial American components, calling the move “extremely unfair”...
Social media giants Facebook may be forced to exclude 1.5 billion Facebook users around the world if a new European law restricting what companies can do...
An international team of scientists has engineered an enzyme that eats plastic. It is a world first in an effort to find a solution for the...
NASA is set to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Monday, starting a new chapter in the search for planets that could potentially support...
AI must never be given autonomous power to hurt, destroy or deceive humans, a new parliamentary report exploring the development of this planet-changing technology has advised....
TESS, a new NASA planet-hunting spacecraft, is set to write the next revolutionary chapter in astronomy by revealing more details about the nearest exoplanets and, perhaps,...
Cybersecurity experts have warned Google Chrome users of a scam that infects their computers with malware – all through a simple pop-up window that asks them...
The world’s first electric road, which can charge commercial and passenger vehicles while on the move, has opened in Sweden. The 2km stretch outside Sweden’s Arlanda...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that regulation of social media companies is “inevitable” and disclosed that his own personal information has been compromised by malicious outsiders....
American social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website Reddit has banned 944 accounts including ones that were promoting a fake Hillary Clinton porn video....
Embattled Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is in Washington this week to testify before Congress. His appearance marks the first time the 33-year-old has...
Governments, especially countries spending billions on ‘third revolution in warfare’ are meeting at the UN in Geneva on Monday for the fifth time to discuss whether...
Hackers have attacked networks in a number of countries including data centres in Iran, where they left the image of a US flag on screens along...
Troubled social media giants Facebook has announced that it has also suspended Canadian data firm Aggregate IQ. In a statement to The Guardian, Facebook said “In...
Scientists have enlisted the help of artificial intelligence programs to classify planets and predict the probability of life. This could help determine which planets are worthy...
The Australian government has confirmed it will open an official investigation into the Facebook data scandal that saw data from 87 million Facebook user accounts shared...
Nasim Aghdam, the 39-year-old transgender woman who opened fire at the suburban Northern California campus of Google’s YouTube, wounding three victims before killing herself was “angry”...
A team of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a four wheel robot small enough to fit inside a shoebox which is designed...
Leading US privacy, civil liberties and human rights organizations have launched a campaign calling on tech companies to take concrete steps to protect their users in...
Social media giant, Facebook is scrambling to add safeguards in opposition to abuse of consumer information after reeling from a backlash over the Cambridge Analytica scandal....
Chinese authorities have allayed fears of the possible damage that its falling space station may cause when it eventually enters earth from space. The China Manned...
Personal details of about 150 million users of the MyFitnessPal app were compromised in one of the biggest hacks in history, its owner has confirmed. US...
Astronomers have discovered a strange galaxy that is missing most, if not all, of its dark matter. The absence of this mysterious stuff in NGC 1052-DF2,...
Scientists have identified a new human organ hiding in plain sight; in a discovery they hope could help them understand the spread of cancer within the...
Space experts predict the Tiangong-1 space station, or “Heavenly Palace”, will turn into a spectacular fireball as it enters Earth’s atmosphere sometime during the Easter long...
Nasa spotted a huge crater on Mars and named it the ‘Chryse Alien Head’, UFO hunters have discovered. The space agency said the hole ‘resembled a...
These are certainly not the best of times for social media giants Facebook as scores of Londoners are joining in on the ‘#DeleteFacebook’ bandwagon. Reports say...
Investigators from Britain’s data watchdog on Friday searched the London offices of Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm at the center of a storm over allegations...
Scientist have finally designed a new type of battery that is believed to be able to hold up to five times more power than the ones...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for a “major breach of trust” and admitted the social network made mistakes which led to an international data scandal....
One of the co-founders of messaging app WhatsApp has joined the #deletefacebook train urging Facebook users to get rid of the app due to recent revelation...