Rwanda has become the first African country to launch a smartphone when a local company Mara Group unveiled two smartphones on Monday. The firm described them...
Eight Chinese technology giants were blacklisted by the President Donald Trump administration on Monday, over accusations of being implicated in human rights violations against Muslim minorities...
Three scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. The Nobel...
A researcher has released details of a WhatsApp remote code execution (RCE) flaw it is claimed could be used to compromise not only the app, but...
American space agency, NASA is about to find life on the Red Planet Mars, but Earthlings may not be ready yet for this phenomenal discovery. According...
A software engineer at Yahoo stole sexual videos and images from thousands of young women’s accounts while working at the company. Reyes Daniel Ruiz, who is...
Social media platforms based in the US, including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty...
A new blood test developed by researchers has shown ability to screen for numerous types of cancer with a high degree of accuracy, a trial of...
Do you constantly check at least three of your social media accounts daily, compromising your efficiency at work? Have you created profiles assuming a different identity...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the UN body responsible for communicating the science of climate breakdown – has released its long-awaited Special Report...
A new 500-megapixel cloud camera system produced in China and launched by a group of scientists is now raising fears in some quarters that facial recognition...
Earth’s oceans are under severe strain from climate change, a major new United Nations report warns, threatening everything from the ability to harvest seafood to the...
Facebook’s ambitious project of developing technology which could let people type straight from their brains may soon see the light of day after the social media...
Asian Information technology giants, India has informed that it is planning to send a man to space noting further that it is moving ahead to meet...
Social media giants Facebook has revealed that it has suspended tens of thousands of apps from the platform because of privacy reasons. Facebook did not give...
The rise of killer robots is now unstoppable and a new digital Geneva Convention is essential to protect the world from the growing threat they pose,...
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...
