Technology

Data on VR travel usage is limited but developers have seen surging interest since the pandemic hit

Facebook has frozen Maduro’s page for promoting a remedy that he claims can cure coronavirus

Amazon’s social media team bared its teeth this week to go after two big critics in Congress

Retail investors on forums such as Reddit’s WallStreetBets have helped send the company’s shares

US lawmakers unleashed a torrent of criticism against social media top executives

US agencies and thousands of companies are fighting off major hacking campaigns originating in Russia and China

India’s technology minister said video streaming services have to be responsible and accountable for their shows

Xiaomi plans to make electric vehicles (EVs) using Great Wall Motor Co Ltd’s factory

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted his frustration with US lawmakers during a hearing about misinformation

The need for chip plants outside Asia has helped prompt Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and Samsung

OneWeb said this was the second in a five-launch programme that will enable its connectivity to reach all regions

EU telecoms operators have been reluctant to invest in 5G networks

PUBG has been hugely popular since the so-called battle royale style game was launched three years ago

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out steps to reform a key internet law

Russia is developing a reusable spaceplane, a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov conglomerate

The astronomers who gave the world its first true glimpse of a black hole have produced another landmark image

Slack Technologies said it was working to fix an error in the direct-messaging feature it introduced earlier

Big Tech including Twitter and Google plan to keep their offices largely closed for months

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will be attempting to fly in an atmosphere that is one per cent the density of Earth's

Streaming platforms, led by Spotify, Apple, and Deezer, now account for 62.1 per cent of global music revenues

Intel shares rose 6.3% after the company disclosed its new strategy and full-year financial guidance for 2021

SpaceX to carry humans and 100 tons of cargo on future missions to the moon and Mars

Bill Gates in an 'Ask me Anything' session on Reddit rubbished rumors linking him to coronavirus conspiracy theories

Tesla last month said it bought $1.5 billion of bitcoin and would soon accept it as a form of payment for cars

The tweet is in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT)

The partnership could breathe life into Nintendo’s stalled mobile ambitions

Coursera, a platform used by more than 3,700 colleges and universities offers various courses

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Facebook in France

According to a report, 52% of iOS apps collect data and share it with third parties

Telegram, along with messaging app Signal, have seen an increase in users this year amid privacy concerns

Discord is a platform on which users coordinate group activities such as games, discussions, and even virtual parties

NFTs, a digital signature saved on blockchain ledgers that allows anyone to verify the ownership of items

British government to introduce a legal requirement for Google to take down financial fraud websites

Microsoft software engineer Daniel Jost has found a way to take on his peers

Both Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna use messenger RNA (mRNA) to send genetic instructions to the human body's cells

Google reportedly cashes in your data for over $120 billion a year from ad revenue

Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri confirmed that a version for children under the age of thirteen is in the pipeline

Demand has soared for chips in recent months, with panic buying further squeezing capacity and driving up costs

These attacks did not lead to a leak of confidential research or personal information

Tesla sold 147,445 cars in China last year, or 30% of its total deliveries

The Justice Department is probing whether Visa uses anti-competitive practices in the debit-card market

Apple successfully challenged PMC’s case at the US patent office

The iPhone maker has been at loggerheads with Epic Games, the creator of the popular game Fortnite

Twitter will seek public input on when and how it should ban world leaders

Shorts currently records more than 6.5 billion daily views globally

James Roland Jones faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison

NASA aims to send an uncrewed spacecraft to orbit the moon in November and return US astronauts to the moon by 2024

PUBG is rolling out its first CG movie titled ‘The Growth' alongside the release of exciting gaming updates

Covid-19 has forced people to increasingly embrace e-commerce

Iman Hadi and her burqa-clad colleagues are achieving what many would have thought unthinkable