Technology

Toyota has been unscathed by global shortage of semiconductors following a surge in demand for electrical goods

Alexa can tend to tasks such as ordering goods, finding information, playing music, mapping routes, or reading email

Tesla’s stock extended losses and is now down by a third from its January record high

Ebang plans to use its new capital to expand into cryptocurrency mining in its own right

Toyota has so far invested in 36 early-stage startup

Meitu is the latest company to say it will hold cryptocurrencies as part of its treasury operations

Koo wants 100 million users by the end of 2021

Misinformation tends to stay on WhatsApp four times longer than authentic information

Marketing agencies argue that this type of tracking and data collection helps analyse consumer patterns and interests

The data is stored on machine-learning algorithms which sent ads and recommendations according to your preference

The move comes as the Japanese company aims to expand hardware that combines software

Electronics retailers are facing stock shortages for consoles as well as the new graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD

YAP, like other neobanks which do not have physical branches, does not offer traditional banking services

The post, sent from Dorsey’s account in March of 2006, received offers that went as high as $88,888.88 within minutes

NASA displayed a photo taken by the rover showing the wheel tread marks left in the reddish, sandy Martian soil

Microsoft blamed the initial wave of attacks on a Chinese government-backed actor

Twitter is mulling an option allowing users to 'undo' a tweet within a window of a few seconds before it is posted

Online education provider Coursera filed for a stock market listing with US regulators

Type-X combat vehicle is equipped with features such as follow-me, waypoint navigation, and obstacle detection

Qualcomm announced a new line of chips for connecting wireless speakers and headphones designed to help Android phones

Shares of Reddit-darling GameStop increased more than 20% at one point in yet another unexplained move

Japanese supercomputer simulations showed that wearing two masks gave limited benefit in blocking coronavirus

Scientists have spotted a planet orbiting a star relatively near our solar system

WhatsApp calls have increased over 50% compared to previous year

China will also establish more national laboratories to research quantum information and artificial intelligence

Facebook has had a months-long freeze on political, electoral, and social ads

Asthma itself is not a risk factor for hospitalization or more severe Covid-19

Parler went dark when Amazon suspended its web-hosting services following the Capitol attack

The method involved an automated computational flattening algorithm that was used to read an unopened letter

Led by a sharp rise in Bitcoin, digital asset markets rose above $1 trillion in early 2021

South Africa has recorded by far the most Covid-19 infections and deaths on the African continent

Both Jio and Bharti said the additional airwaves will help them to serve hundreds of millions of new users

Yusaku Maezawa launched a search for eight people to join him on a trip around the moon with SpaceX

Changes in the environment are driving displaced species of animals into new habitats

SoundCloud will start directing subscribers' fees only to the artists they listen to

Intel must pay a technology rival $2.18 billion after a federal jury decided that the company infringed on its patent

India wants to boost local manufacturing of electric vehicles to cut costly imports and curb pollution

Strong interest from adults who do not have kids at home has increased subscriptions to Disney+ streaming service

The Swedish carmaker said 50% of its global sales should be fully-electric cars by 2025

A manager at Amazon sued the online retailer for discrimination, saying it hires Black people for lower positions

The pilot program began with 100 tracking systems available at Ben Gurion Airport

The variant has increased in the circulating virus population in New York state by almost 26-fold

Twitter said it would apply warnings to tweets that contain misleading information about Covid-19 vaccines

Bitcoin, the world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, has fallen 26% from the year’s high of $58,354.14

Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online

Britain has one of the world’s highest take-ups of online grocery

China will improve detection technologies to find information protection “loopholes”

Robinhood, which is expected to go public this year with a valuation of $20 billion, has more than 13 million users

Bots on major social media platforms have been hyping up GameStop Corp and other 'meme' stocks

Over 40% of fintech staff in Britain come from overseas