A US privacy investigation of Facebook Inc, which began after a major data breach was exposed in March, is likely to result in a record fine...
Bad news for Twitter users, as the company has just admitted that it recently discovered a bug that may have affected Android users since November 3,...
Federal prosecutors are investigating Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, for allegedly stealing trade secrets from US businesses and could soon issue an indictment,...
A Skype call and a gullible employee was all it took for North Korean hackers to infiltrate the computer network of Redbanc, the company that interconnects...
The first ever seed planted by China at the far side of moon lunar exploration mission have sprouted in a first for growing biological matter on...
Transport Canada has adopted new regulations that will require the registration of any drone weighing between 250g and 25kg (0.55lbs to 55lbs), and would-be pilots will...
Huawei has sacked the Chinese executive arrested on espionage charges in Poland last week, as the Chinese tech giant tries hard to distance itself from the...
American space agency NASA has discovered two more exoplanets with its planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Reports say the exoplanets are one of the densest...
Twitter users in China are facing threats, lengthy interrogations and even days in a detention center after posting messages critical of the Chinese government, according to...
Chinese chip making company Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co Ltd has pleaded not guilty to U.S. charges alleging that it stole trade secrets. The indictment was...
An exoplanet three times the size of Earth, but 23 times heavier, has been discovered relatively close to our solar system. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite...
Artificial intelligence could detect heart disease faster, earlier and cheaper than traditional tests, two new studies claim. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic and Stanford University say...
The Wilkinson Baking Company has found a way through the tedious task of making oven baked bread in a rather innovative way. It’s called the BreadBot,...
Phone numbers, addresses, as well as private messages of German politicians, journalists and celebrities have been stolen and uploaded online by unnamed hackers. The massive leak...
PepsiCo has announced that it will be rolling out a fleet of snack-carrying robots on the University of the Pacific’s campus in California. The robots —...
Asian giants, China plans to install thousands of smart locks with facial recognition technology to monitor public housing and prevent illegal subletting. Beijing is home to...
UK-based Privacy International revealed on Sunday to the 35th Chaos Communication Congress a glimpse of the extent to which app developers are handing data to Facebook,...
A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft entered orbit Monday around the asteroid Bennu,...
The government of the United Kingdom is hoping to cut down huge expenses on road construction not to mention disruptive sets of roadworks by deploying micro-robot...
A cyber-attack has caused printing and delivery disruptions to major US newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Baltimore Sun. The attack...
China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency and internet giant Alibaba on Thursday jointly launched the country’s first short video intelligent production platform to improve news reporting efficiency....
Chinese schools have begun enforcing “smart uniforms” embedded with computer chips to monitor student movements and prevent them from skipping classes. Eleven schools in the south-west...
The umpire in the forthcoming general elections in the country, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has introduced a mobile app that will enable Nigerians observe...
Luxury and gadget phone makers Apple have been hit with a patent infringement lawsuit for Apple Pay. According to the report from Patently Apple, the lawsuit...
The United Kingdom has decided to put a detection system in place to combat the threats of drones following the Gatwick Airport incident in London. Security...
Some governments demanded access to 163,823 Apple devices in the first half of 2018, according to new figures released by the company. The latest Apple transparency...
As far as artificial intelligence is concerned, one industry most likely to be most disrupted is the health care industry. Effective application of AI is projected...
Facebook has suffered a near non-stop drip of bad news in 2018, and with each event advertisers have barely uttered a peep while continuing to spend....
Three autonomous Mars rovers have been put through their paces in a barren corner of the Sahara Desert in Morocco. Overlooked by over 40 engineers and...
A report by the New York Times has revealed that hackers successfully targeted the European Union’s diplomatic communications over a period of several years. Thousands of...
For the country to move up in rankings in the area of technology readiness, it would need significant investment in ensuring that the young people of...
Facebook gave technology companies more access to personal user data than was previously made public, according to “hundreds of pages of Facebook documents” obtained by the...
New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago. The...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said last week that concerns about harmful applications of artificial intelligence are “very legitimate.” In a Washington Post interview, Pichai said that...
Researchers at the University of Washington have come up with a novel way to create a wireless platform: using bumblebees. The team was working on ways...
Social media giants Facebook says it has discovered a bug that allowed outsiders access to private photos, potentially affecting some 6.8 million people who use the...
CHIPMAKER Qualcomm is asking courts in China to ban sales of Apple’s latest iPhone XS, XS Max and XR smartphones. The move, first reported by the...
The word “idiot” quickly became the most searched term on Google after Republican congresswoman Zoe Lofgren pointed out that results from the search reveals pictures of...
Numerous buildings on Facebook’s campus in Menlo Park, California were evacuated Tuesday evening after local police were forwarded a tip about a bomb threat. Police searched...
After years of scrambling to discover new antibiotic compounds that can go on living even when hit with the most potent drugs a team from MIT...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is concerned about the market power held by Google and Facebook, their impact on businesses and the extent to...
A new music technology has been created by researchers as a fresh way to appreciate music. It comes in the form of a wearable device which...
China is preparing to launch a ground-breaking mission early Saturday to soft-land a spacecraft on the largely unexplored far side of the moon, demonstrating its growing...
The chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei has been arrested in Canada. Canada’s Department of Justice said Wednesday (local time) that Meng Wanzhou, 46,...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the use of a new technology, TV White Space in a bid to extend broadband internet coverage, especially to...
Brazil-based Hoobox Robotics and Intel have both aligned to develop an artificial intelligence wheelchair that can be controlled by using facial expression. Working together in a...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has halted the allocation of frequency spectrum likely to be approved for 5G services by the International Telecommunications Union. This was...
Scientists at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University respectfully disagree. They’ve created an oddball chest-mounted social feeding robot system which uses a third robotic...
Eight Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from Amazon regarding privacy concerns with the company’s facial recognition software that has been used by some local police departments....
NASA’s Curiosity rover is to investigate a strange ‘super shiny’ object found on the surface of Mars. Scientists said the rover is being sent to re-examine...
