Google launches new phones, speakers in hardware push
Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday unveiled the second generation of its Pixel smartphone along with new voice-enabled home speakers, redoubling its commitment to the hardware...
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UK says WhatsApp lets paedophiles operate beyond the law
Britain said WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption communication services allowed paedophiles and organised crime groups to operate beyond the reach of the law and called on the...
Gravitational wave pioneers win 2017 Nobel Physics Prize
US scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for their pioneering role in the detection of gravitational waves, prize...
‘Biological clock’ scientists win 2017 Nobel Medicine Prize
US-born scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling...
‘Let’s do polygamy’: New dating app stirs debate in Indonesia
Scrolling through dating websites a year ago, Indonesian app developer Lindu Pranayama realised there were a lot of married men looking for another wife –...
Musk plans first manned mission to Mars in 2024
To cut costs, Elon Musk‘s SpaceX company has shrunk the size of the rocket ship it is developing to go to Mars, aiming to start construction...
James Dyson to build electric car by 2020
James Dyson, the billionaire inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, said his company was building a “radical” all-electric car for launch in 2020, with a...
Dubai starts tests in bid to become first city with flying taxis
Dubai on Monday showcased a flight for what it said would soon be the world’s first drone taxi service under an ambitious plan by the United...
European countries to push internet firms to remove extremist content quicker
The leaders of Britain, France and Italy will push social media companies on Wednesday to remove “terrorist content” from the internet within one to two...
With new operating system, Apple revamps its profitable App Store
Apple Inc’s newest operating system for iPhones and iPads introduces changes to its marketplace for third-party software to satisfy app developers and add new so-called...
Cassini spacecraft incinerated ending 13-year Saturn odyssey
US space agency Nasa received the final signal from its Cassini spacecraft, which ended a groundbreaking 13-year Saturn mission on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the...
Facebook removes feature that let ads reach ‘Jew haters’
By David Ingram Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was temporarily disabling the ability of advertisers to target based on people’s self-reported education and job...
Purge of Kaspersky products from US government ordered
The Trump administration on Wednesday told US government agencies to remove Kaspersky Lab products from their networks, saying it was concerned the Moscow-based cyber security...
New Apple Watch that makes calls turns fantasy into reality
More than two years after releasing the Apple Watch, Apple has finally been able to replicate 1940s comic strip technology, an advance that analysts say...
Apple launches $999 iPhone X in bid to regain innovation lead
Apple Inc on Tuesday rolled out its much-anticipated iPhone X, a glass and stainless steel device with an edge-to-edge display that Chief Executive Tim Cook...
No more monkey business: lawsuit over macaque’s ‘selfie’ is settled
A novel U.S. legal battle over who owned a famous smiling “selfie” taken by a critically endangered monkey six years ago – the animal who...
Apple set to unveil anniversary iPhone in major product launch
A decade after then-CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, Apple Inc on Tuesday is set to introduce a completely redesigned top-of-the-line iPhone along with...
EU weighs strategy to compete in fintech with global rivals
European Union finance ministers will discuss this week a plan to attract more financial-technology companies, in a bid to bridge the gap with global competitors...
Facebook says likely Russian-based operation funded U.S. ads
Facebook Inc said it had found that an operation likely based in Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of U.S. ads promoting divisive social and political...
Australia researchers say find new way to build quantum computers
Researchers in Australia have found a new way to build quantum computers which they say would make them dramatically easier and cheaper to produce at...
