Facebook said Tuesday that hackers “scraped” personal data of some half-billion users back in 2019 by taking advantage of a feature designed to help people easily find friends using contact
The UK is heading towards a “catastrophic” digital skills shortage “disaster”, a think tank has warned. The Learning & Work Institute says the number of young people taking IT subjects
Drones that fly into clouds, giving them an electric shock to “cajole them” into producing rain, are about to be tested in the United Arab Emirates. The country already uses
China’s tech giants are coming under increasing pressure from regulators worried about their growing influence. By Monday, Tencent had shed more than $60bn (£42bn) from its market value as its
YouTube has removed more than 30,000 misleading Covid-19 vaccination videos in the past five months, it said. A YouTube spokeswoman said the videos contradicted vaccine information from the World Health
The European Banking Authority’s email servers have been compromised in a global Microsoft Exchange cyber-attack. The EU body said personal data may have been accessed from its servers. And it
A smartphone with an expanding display that can grow and shrink on demand has been demonstrated by Chinese phone-maker Oppo. The device has a flexible display that rolls up inside
Parler has withdrawn its antitrust action against Amazon, two months after filing the case against the tech giant. The website was removed from Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) hosting platform in
Microsoft on Tuesday set the stage for a future in which long-distance coworkers can collaborate as though in the same room, using augmented reality glasses and cloud computing power. The
India Sunday successfully launched into space as many as 19 satellites, including the 637-kg Amazonia-1 for Brazil. The 19 satellites were launched on board the state-owned Indian Space Research Organisation’s