Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out
Alphabet Inc’s Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company’s recommended settings for stopping...
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France stops short of banning Huawei
France will not completely ban the use of equipment manufactured by Chinese company Huawei, Director General of French National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) Guillaume Poupard said...
Fujitsu drastically reduces office workers after coronavirus outbreak
Japanese information technology company Fujitsu has unveiled plans to permanently close roughly half of its offices in Japan. This will result in requesting 80,000 domestic...
UK government goes back on FM radio plans
The UK government has cancelled its initial plan of completely discontinuing the use of FM and AM radio stations and replacing them strictly with DAB...
First augmented reality app launched in Paphos
The Paphos tourism board is leading the way using technology to enhance the visitor experience and has launched the first augmented reality application in Cyprus....
YouTube not obliged to inform on film pirates, Europe’s top court says
Google’s YouTube is not required to hand over the email or IP address of users who upload films illegally to its video platform, Europe’s top...
Harry Potter game anonymously confirmed amid Rowling controversy
THE Harry Potter brand value is estimated to be around 25 billion dollars. This includes the successful movie series, as well as the best-selling books...
Reddit updates rules
American news aggregation, content rating and discussion site Reddit has banned the biggest Donald Trump-centric subreddit ‘The_Donald’. The subreddit, home of roughly 800,000 Donald Trump...
United Kingdom will soon begin allowing electric scooter rentals
The United Kingdom will join the United States and several European countries in making rented electric scooters legal. These rented scooters will be allowed on...
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter to face same EU rules on hateful content
Facebook, Alphabet-owned YouTube, Twitter and other social media will for the first time be subject to EU broadcasting rules on hate speech and harmful content under European...
Summer opportunity for students in game development and AI
By Becky Kammitsi RISE, a research centre on interactive media, smart systems and emerging technologies has announced a week-long summer opportunity in July for high-school...
London’s Canary Wharf pioneers seamless Wi-Fi roaming
Residents and workers in London’s Canary Wharf will be able to experience superfast Wi-Fi broadband across the site without the hassle of logging into different...
Facebook is the enemy of Libra
When Facebook first aired its proposal for the creation of Libra, a digital currency for use in online transactions, many of us considered investing in...
Covid-19 sees digital transformation of Cyprus
By Michael Hadjihannas With a modest 1.3 per cent of its workforce working remotely in 2019, Cyprus saw a significant spike in those working from...
Favourite hacker techniques
According to Forbes, an estimated 1.7 billion dollars is lost to hackers annually, and this figure will keep rising as we continue to advance technologically....
European Union member states come together for coronavirus mobile apps
AS PART of the gradual lifting of lockdown and strict social distancing measures around the EU, the European Commission, along with member states participating in...
European Commission opens investigation into Apple
THE European Union’s executive branch has begun proceedings for a fresh investigation into US tech giant Apple, which will focus on Apple’s Apple Pay, a...
Massive spying on users of Google’s Chrome shows new security weakness
A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google’s market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters,...
Antarctica’s ‘deflated football’ fossil is world’s second-biggest eggs
A mysterious 68-million-year-old fossil found on Seymour Island off Antarctica‘s coast that looked like a deflated football has turned out to be a unique find –...
Cyprus-based company defends itself after ridicule over female orgasm app
A Cyprus-based firm has had to defend itself after ridicule on social media over an algorithm to validate female orgasm. Relida Limited – which has...
