Technology

Novartis has reached an agreement with the FDA to proceed with a Phase III clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine

Human activity enabled coronavirus to jump to people

Scientists have discovered a comet called 2I/Borisov that is surprisingly different in its composition from comets

Facebook has been under pressure to police harmful content and misinformation related to the pandemic

US scientists have translated coronavirus’ spiked protein structure to music in an effort to understand the pathogen

The sanctions were seized upon by Iranian entrepreneurs as an opportunity to launch even more startups

Zoom, which has 200 million daily users had multiple reports of strangers hacking into private calls and meetings

Police call her posts anti-national, harmful to public peace

The cameras in effect measure how much heat people emit relative to their surroundings

This year, testimonials from survivors will be streamed online and in a pre-recorded ceremony to be broadcast

Facebook is planning to launch a gaming mobile app in a bid to take on Amazon’s Twitch

Alibaba’s cloud unit also aided the Hangzhou government in creating a digital health-monitoring system

The landmark move is aimed at shielding traditional media from the tech giants' digital dominance

Initiative will introduce computer science knowledge, concepts in children aged 9 to 14

It will spur socio-economic growth, help address unemployment challenge

Initiative will introduce computer science knowledge, concepts in children aged 9 to 14

Tech-savvy Rwanda is using drones to keep residents of the capital Kigali informed of coronavirus lockdown measures

Conspiracy theories linking Bill Gates with the virus were mentioned about 1.2 million times on TV and social media

Twitter will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the US government

Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut made a safe return from the International Space Station

The technology gap has caused thousands of poorer students to miss out on weeks of education

Teachers can assign documentaries to students without having to worry whether students have access to Netflix

The idea of live-streaming a loved one's funeral on Facebook or Instagram may seem strange or even shocking

Film and TV production has been shut down around the world amid coronavirus outbreak

Google is helping news publishers that are struggling as many advertisers pulled their marketing budgets

A pattern is emerging among Covid-19 patients arriving at the hospitals

New data shows 200 per cent increase in searches for videos showing children bleeding, choking, tortured or in pain

Mobile app will allow all officers of ministry to connect with minister

Family in the UAE had to watch the funeral of son, on Facebook as they could not fly due to travel restrictions

Bilal Saqib features in American magazine's '30 under 30 list for social entrepreneurs in Asia'

NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir will take an unusual and more exhausting route home

Corporate security teams have a harder time protecting data when it is dispersed on home computers

Avigan is approved for use in flu outbreaks and to treat Ebola, but now it is being trialed as a coronavirus treatment

Timesaco has decided to launch an e-commerce Dazaran App to support all merchants in Pakistan to open online stores

Public social media clusters can be an important indicator in detecting where coronavirus outbreak will happen next

Google will allow business and education users on Gmail to directly take calls on its video conferencing tool Meet

Scientists suggest that the temperature on the planet, called Kepler-1649c could be similar to Earth’s

Foreign government hackers have broken into companies conducting research into treatments for Covid-19

Zoom chief executive laid out steps that the company is taking against problems such as data hacking and harassment

Facebook has taken an uncharacteristically aggressive stance on false coronavirus posts

People reduce use of banknotes out of fear of contracting virus

There has been a 15% surge in internet usage since the lockdown came into effect, says PTA

John Sawers, the chief of MI6 said China was seeking to expand its global clout

More than 1,000 people from 57 countries signed up to join the free video course

Zoom’s daily users have spiked to more than 200 million in March from a previous maximum total of 10 million

Google and Apple will have to convince the public that contact tracing technology will not lead privacy breach

In a poll conducted on social media site Weibo, 60% respondents said they would not buy the $399 model

Delivery robots have seen surging demand with consumers staying home and virus risks growing

The millions of bits of smartphone data tracked by analytics firm Unacast show the economic impact of the coronavirus

Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social media network that demands users post under their real names and verify their locations