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PUBG to launch new updates, content and special events
PUBG is rolling out its first CG movie titled ‘The Growth' alongside the release of exciting gaming updates
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Payment startups big winners of e-commerce boom
Covid-19 has forced people to increasingly embrace e-commerce
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Yemeni women use solar to light up homes, one village at a time
Iman Hadi and her burqa-clad colleagues are achieving what many would have thought unthinkable
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WhatsApp hires Amazon Pay's Mahatme to lead India payments
WhatsApp also has plans to partner with banks to offer financial services such as pensions and insurance
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Facebook services including WhatsApp back online after worldwide outage
The outage affected millions of people around the globe
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Long-awaited 'Super Mario' theme park opens in Japan
Nintendo's first-ever theme park, featuring a 'Mario Kart ride in a real-life Bowser's Castle, opened in Japan
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Why does bitcoin use 10 times more electricity than Google
The bitcoin market now exceeds $1 trillion with its price rising tenfold in a year
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Coronavirus variants found to be deadlier and more contagious
Antibodies induced by vaccines are dramatically less effective at neutralizing some of the coronavirus variants
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France opens privacy probe into audio app Clubhouse
France's data privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into Clubhouse, a US-based audio chat app
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Pakistani province plans to build pilot cryptocurrency mining farms
Pakistan has formed a federal committee to formulate a new crypto policy
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Once a wet world: Mars had abundant bodies of water on its surface
Mars may have possessed liquid water on its surface approximately equivalent in volume to half of the Atlantic Ocean
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China delivers on threats to rein in internet economy
Beijing is making good on its threats to clamp down on the sprawling 'platform economy'
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More US states join Texas-led antitrust lawsuit against Google
Lawsuit alleges Google quietly teams with its closest online advertising competitor, Facebook
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Facebook launches fund for human rights defenders facing threat
Facebook said the fund, the size of which was not disclosed, will provide offline aid to the defenders
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Adults can no longer DM teens who don’t follow them on Instagram
Instagram is also going to start using prompts to encourage teens to be cautious in conversations with adults
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Google to cut app store fee by half on developers' first $1 million in sales
Epic Games said in a statement that Google’s move only alleviates some of the financial burden of developers
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TikTok considers introducing group chat feature this year
Group messaging is part of owner ByteDance’s plan to develop TikTok into more of a “social interactions app”
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Encrypted messaging app Signal stops working in China
China’s cyber authorities have become increasingly strict in recent years
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Software startup Sprinklr confidentially files for IPO
The New York-based firm provides software that helps its clients with marketing, advertising, and customer engagement
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Bitcoin falls after weekend record high as India considers a ban
India is preparing a bill that would criminalise possession, issuance, mining, trading, and transferring crypto-assets
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Covid-19 test accuracy may vary by time of day
The accuracy of gold-standard PCR tests of nasopharyngeal swab samples may vary by time of day
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AMD launches 'Milan' chip for data centers as battle with Intel intensifies
The 'Milan' chip and its predecessor have both outperformed Intel’s chips
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Elon Musk officially proclaimed Tesla's 'Technoking'
The decision was announced in an administrative document sent to the American Financial Markets Authority (SEC)
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Bitcoin ATMs are coming to a gas station near you
There are now bitcoin ATMs in almost every state, according to an online map by Coin ATM Radar
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AKU-IED celebrates PiDay online
Teachers from different schools including private, government, and Madrassa schools participated in the conference
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Scientist develops retinal scan technology to identify early childhood autism
The technology was able to identify children with autism 95.7 per cent of the time
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India's draft e-commerce policy calls for equal treatment of sellers
India will require e-commerce firms to treat sellers equally on their platforms and ensure transparency
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Oman blocks audio app Clubhouse citing lack of permit, but some fear censorship
Oman_blocks_Clubhouse was trending on social media in the country
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Facebook to label all posts about Covid-19 vaccines
Facebook has been criticized by lawmakers for allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on its platforms
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Taxing used computers
The move will fall in direct conflict with the incumbent government’s Digital Pakistan Vision
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China eventually wants astronauts to stay on moon for long periods of time
In China’s next mission to the moon, lunar samples of the south pole will be retrieved
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Play as a tech CEO in this new board game about evil billionaires
Evil Corp hints that the character called 'Visionary' is based on Tesla CEO Elon Musk
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Use these tools to block social media apps from yourself and save time
RescueTime is an award-winning tool that tracks the amount of time you spend on websites
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Bitcoin hits $60,000 in record high
Bitcoin has risen sharply this year, broadly outperforming conventional asset classes
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How societal imperfections drive bias in artificial intelligence
Nex gen smart programmes designed to develop their insights without relying upon human expertise
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Huawei listed once more as a threat to US national security
Huawei chief and founder Ren Zhengfei last month called for a reset with the United States under President Joe Biden
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Microsoft and Google openly feuding amid hacks
Executives from both firms have been put on the defensive over competing crises
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What are NFTs and who's cashing in on them?
NFTs are all the buzz this year, with people raking in millions by auctioning these digital assets
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Judge narrows Zoom lawsuit over user privacy, 'Zoombombing'
US Judge dismissed large parts of a lawsuit accusing Zoom of violating users’ privacy rights
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Google opens enrollment for career certification courses
You don’t need any prior knowledge or experience in these fields to sign up for the courses
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Tesla investor sues Musk, claims tweets violate SEC settlement
The complaint highlighted several Musk posts on social media platform Twitter
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Web inventor Berners-Lee says 'fad' of internet giants will pass
Berners-Lee insists that urgent change was needed to improve a digital divide in young people’s online access.
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Netflix tests feature that could limit password sharing
Netflix is testing a feature that asks viewers to verify they share a household with the account holder
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Twitter aims to make live audio feature 'Spaces' available globally by April
Twitter’s Spaces competes with Clubhouse, which is an invite-only audio-based social network startup
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China eyes record monopoly fine of $1 billion for Alibaba
The penalty could top the $975 million paid by US chipmaker Qualcomm in 2015
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'Valheim' rides Viking gaming mania to 5 million sales
Valheim has proved an unexpected smash-hit, selling five million copies since its early-access released last month
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Large asteroid to pass by Earth on March 21
The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles of our planet
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Perseverance 'SuperCam' begins hunt for past life on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover gently set down on Martian soil last month and sent back black-and-white images
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Facebook halts project for undersea data cable to Hong Kong
The trans-Pacific undersea cable would have connected California and Hong Kong
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At least 10 hacking groups using Microsoft software flaw
Taiwan-based researchers reported to Microsoft on January 5 that they had found two new flaws which need patching