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...
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...
