Colombo in Sri Lanka has been named the ‘must-photograph’ travel destination of 2019, in a study. MORE..
Hundreds of German politicians including Chancellor Angela Merkel have had personal details hacked and published online, reports say. MORE..
American scientist Larry Roberts who helped design and build the forerunner of the internet has died aged 81. MORE..
Campaigners have thanked Apple for removing an app from its store that they said stigmatised LGBT people. MORE..
Facebook Inc. (FB) said that a software bug exposed the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including pictures they had not posted. MORE..
Twitter’s chief executive has been criticised for promoting Myanmar as a tourist destination despite widespread allegations of human rights abuses in the country. MORE..
The chief financial officer of Chinese tech giant Huawei has been arrested in Canada. She faces extradition to the United States. MORE..
After a seven-month, 300m-mile journey, Nasa’s Mars InSight probe has reached its destination and touched down near the red planet’s equator. MORE..
Samsung has formally apologised to employees who fell sick or died after working in its factories. MORE..
Tumblr says that child pornography was the reason for its app’s sudden disappearance from the iOS App Store. MORE..
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..