China’s state news agency has unveiled a virtual newsreader sporting a sharp suit and a somewhat robotic voice. MORE..
A survey conducted by Cable.co.uk has revealed that Sri Lanka provides the cheapest fixed broadband in Asia while only coming in second globally. MORE..
Uber is seeking permission from the state of Pennsylvania to resume testing its self-driving cars on public roads more than seven months after a fatal crash in Tempe, Arizona. MORE..
Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company’s treatment of women. MORE..
Apple is looking into its Apple Watch supply chain after a report was published last week claiming its manufacturer relied on student interns to complete the devices, according to the Financial Times. MORE..
Facebook has said that 8.7 million images of child nudity were removed by its moderators in just three months. MORE..
YouTube users were left searching for other ways to entertain themselves Tuesday (16) after outages spanning the globe lasted more than an hour. MORE..
Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen, the man who persuaded school-friend Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard to start what became the world’s biggest software company, died on Monday at the age of 65, Reuters reports, citing a statement from his family. MORE..
Sri Lanka’s telecoms sector is making significant progress in its IoT ventures, according to Research & Markets. MORE..
Microsoft pumped the brakes on its rollout of the latest version of its Windows 10operating system, after users reported the recent update deleted files on their computers. MORE..
Two researchers from the US and Japan have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that have revolutionised cancer care, turning the body’s immune system loose to fight tumours in an approach credited with saving an untold number of lives. MORE..
Facebook has said “almost 50 million” of its users were left exposed by a security flaw. MORE..
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger resigned from the photo-sharing company today. MORE..
Jeff Bezos – founder of Amazon, the wealthiest person in modern history, world’s first centi-billionaire, founder of Blue Origin, owner of Washington Post. In short, 54-year-old Bezos has achieved everything a man dreams of. MORE..
Creator of open-source software Linux, Linus Torvalds, is taking time off and apologizing for his “unprofessional and uncalled for” behavior, Torvalds said in an email to members of the Linux community Sunday. MORE..
Artificial intelligence will widen the chasm that already separates the rich and the poor, warns a former Microsoft and Google executive. MORE..
A machine-learning study that analysed hundreds of thousands of earthquakes beat the standard method at predicting the location of aftershocks. MORE..
There are now as many internet users in China as there are people in the US, Indonesia and Brazil combined. And two in five Chinese are still offline. MORE..
Cuba’s government said it provided free internet to the Communist-run island’s more than 5 million cellphone users on Tuesday, in an eight-hour test before it launches sales of the service. MORE..
It’s a sunny summer morning in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Cicadas chirp in the trees. A lone plane flies high overhead. Then a flash of light, followed by a loud blast. Buildings are flattened and smoke rises from crackling fires under a darkened sky. MORE..
Reddit has suffered a data breach compromising usernames, passwords and email addresses of groups of users, the site has confirmed. MORE..
An Indiana teen is speaking out after a viral social media challenge left him with second-degree burns on his face, back and chest. MORE..
Uber and Lyft said Monday they had fired a driver who livestreamed hours of his passengers’ rides without their knowledge or consent, making money off the ride-hailing apps as well as the Twitch live streams. MORE..
Facebook, facing growing criticism for posts that have incited violence in countries including Sri Lanka, has said that it would begin removing misinformation that could lead to people being physically harmed. MORE..
Communist-run Cuba has started providing internet on the mobile phones of select users as it aims to roll out the service nationwide by year-end, in a further step toward opening one of the Western Hemisphere’s least connected countries. MORE..