February 17, 2020 11:54 pm
The Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp said on Wednesday it now has more than two billion users around the world as it reaffirmed its commitment to strong encryption to protect privacy. MORE..
Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft are facing fresh scrutiny over whether they stifled competition by buying up smaller rivals. MORE..
Google Maps marked 15 years on the road Thursday, February 6, with the rollout of new features for the popular mobile app which has helped move navigation into the digital age. MORE..
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it is temporarily shutting down all its offices in China due to the outbreak of a new coronavirus in the country. MORE..
Scientists in Australia have become the first to recreate the new coronavirus outside of China in what they have called a “significant breakthrough”. MORE..
Vega Innovations, a subsidiary of CodeGen International (Pvt) Ltd., creates history once again as the Vega EVX, Sri Lanka’s and South Asia’s first fully Electric Supercar is shipped out to Switzerland, to be unveiled at the 90th Geneva International Motor Show, 5-15 March 2020. more..
WhatsApp, the popular messaging application is currently not working properly on both iOS and Android platforms worldwide. MORE..
Instagram and its parent company Facebook are removing posts that voice support for slain Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani to comply with US sanctions, a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to CNN Business. MORE..
India has announced it will make another attempt to land on the moon, following a mission that ended in failure last year. MORE..
WhatsApp runs on a huge range of operating systems, but even the ubiquitous messaging app doesn’t think it’s worth supporting Windows Phone any more. MORE..
Facebook on Thursday said it is investigating a report that a database containing names and phone numbers of more than 267 million users was exposed online. MORE..
Sri Lanka will launch its first-ever luxury electric supercar named “Vega” in April 2020, marking a new milestone in the island nation’s automobile industry. MORE..
It was revealed that internet users searched ‘Where is Sri Lanka’ when Google’s annual Year in Search was revealed on Wednesday. MORE..
Earlier this year Genius announced it suspected Google of copying its lyrics data -- now it’s thrown its weight behind a lawsuit accusing the company of exactly that. MORE..
Nasa says one of its satellites has found the debris of India’s Moon rover which crashed on the lunar surface in September. MORE..
Facebook and Instagram are experiencing outages on Thursday, leaving some users around the world unable to post photos or answer messages on the platforms. MORE..
Twitter will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for more than six months, unless they log in before an 11 December deadline. MORE..
A federal investigation into a fatal crash involving an Uber self-driving car concluded the probable cause was a safety driver distracted by their phone. MORE..
Google has become the latest big tech firm to move into banking by offering current accounts. MORE..
Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled the world’s first mainstream handset to feature a 108 megapixel camera. MORE..
Electronic Arts’ battle royale game, Apex Legends, is coming to mobile platform next year. MORE..
South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world. But that level of connectivity is a double-edged sword in a society that some experts say is becoming increasingly addicted to the Internet and where 95% of adults own a smartphone. MORE..
After a decade of being available exclusively to PC gamers, the cult multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, League of Legends, is finally coming to smartphones and gaming consoles. MORE..
Mastercard, Visa, eBay and payments firm Stripe have pulled out of Facebook’s embattled cryptocurrency project, Libra. MORE..
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for their research in improving battery technology. MORE..