Facebook to pay record $5bn US fine over privacy violations
Facebook Inc will pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and the social media giant will restructure...
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Greta Thunberg to French MPs: you can ignore children, not scientists
By Simon Carraud and Geert De Clercq Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Tuesday it was ok for some members of the French parliament...
Huawei secretly helped North Korea build, maintain wireless network -Washington Post
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , the Chinese company put on a U.S. blacklist because of national security concerns, secretly helped North Korea build and maintain...
Facebook should not be trusted with ‘crazy’ cryptocurrency plan
Democratic and Republican lawmakers said on Tuesday that Facebook Inc’s track record of what they described as untrustworthiness should stand in the way of it launching...
Covve: the first company to be awarded the Innovative SME Certificate in Cyprus
Above the island’s popular Lost + Found bar in Nicosia is a young, vibrant and unexpectedly cool bunch of geeks, buzzing around the corridors of...
U.S. regulators approve $5 bln Facebook settlement over privacy issues
By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz July 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over...
Twitter suffers widespread outage, shares down
Shares of Twitter Inc traded lower on Thursday after users across the globe reported issues with accessing the microblogging platform. “We are currently investigating issues...
U.S. to probe French plan to tax tech companies
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered an investigation into France’s planned tax on technology companies, a...
Waymo tests Wi-Fi in driverless taxis hoping perks can route it past rivals
By Paresh Dave Waymo is rolling out amenities to entice riders to use its self-driving taxis, creating a potential route to profitability in a money-losing...
‘5G revolution’ will transform our lives says Cyta
Cyprus’ first augmented reality call offered viewers on Thursday night performances via hologram through the use of the pilot 5G network of telecommunications organisation, Cyta....
EU opens road to 5G connected cars in boost to BMW, Qualcomm
European Union states opened the way to competing technologies for internet connected cars on Thursday, rejecting a European Commission push for a wifi-based standard backed...
Draft bill on blockchain to be ready by end of 2019
A draft bill to regulate blockchain technology in Cyprus is expected to be ready before the end of the year, as part of the National...
Facebook says glitches affecting its platforms resolved
July 3 (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said an issue with uploading or sending media files on its apps and platforms has been resolved. Many users...
Push for mobile telephony across the divide in final stages
Work to link the divided island’s mobile telephony networks has been completed and all that is left is for companies to sign separate agreements with...
Twitter to ‘deemphasise’, politician tweets they say break its rules
Twitter Inc said on Thursday it would identify and deemphasise tweets that broke its rules but came from important sources, such as politicians, in order...
China hacked eight major computer services firms in years-long attack
Hackers working for China’s Ministry of State Security broke into networks of eight of the world’s biggest technology service providers in an effort to steal...
SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy rocket with 24 satellites
SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket on Tuesday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying 24 experimental satellites in what Elon Musk’s rocket company called...
U.N., European bodies outline joint push against space junk
European and U.N. bodies on Thursday outlined a joint push for global action on space junk, saying that debris orbiting the earth must be cleaned...
Prehistoric settlement in Turkey bears telltale signs ofmodern woes
Overcrowding. Violence. Infectious diseases. Environmental degradation. It may sound like the worst of modern mega-cities. But people encountered these very same problems when the first large settlements were...
High times in ancient China revealed
Marijuana chemical residue has been found in incense burners apparently used during funerary rites at a mountainous site in western China in about 500 BC,...
