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North Korean, Russian hackers target Covid-19 researchers: Microsoft
Hackers have targeted more than half a dozen organisations involved in Covid-19 treatment and vaccine research
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US government holds off enforcing ban on TikTok
Trump administration has insisted on the need to ban TikTok, saying it has links to the Chinese government
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Gaming boom plays into Tencent's hands with 89% profit rise
Tencent's flagship game Honour of Kings reported a record 100 million daily active users in first 10 months of 2020
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Ferrari lifts the lid on convertible version of SF90 Stradale hybrid
Ferrari unveiled the SF90 Spider, a convertible version of its SF90 Stradale hybrid
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Amazon shifts some voice assistant, face recognition computing to its own chips
Major technology companies are increasingly ditching traditional silicon providers to design their own chips
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Covid-19 'war games': The computer program that could help save your job
In the game, participants weigh up the pros and cons of large-scale redundancies versus alternatives
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Pfizer CEO sold $5.6 million in stock on day of vaccine announcement
Pfizer announced that trials so far had shown its vaccine being 90 per cent effective
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Google curtails free photo storage, pushes users to buy more space
Google will start limiting how many high-quality photos users can store on the company's cloud back-up service`
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YouTube back up after worldwide outage
Nearly 286,000 incidents of people reported issues with the service
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Sony PS5 sold out online as pandemic chills real-world retailing
PlayStation 5 which retails for $500 or $400 without a disk-drive, was sold out on major retailing sites in Japan
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Coronavirus vaccine hope dampens prospects for corporate stay-at-home darlings
Surge in shares of Netflix, Zoom, and other stay-at-home corporate winners has been brought to a sudden halt
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Alibaba touts billions in sales as post-virus Singles' Day gets into full swing
Alibaba said orders made through its e-commerce sites had exceeded $56 billion
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One in five Covid-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days
Anxiety, depression, and insomnia were most common among recovered Covid-19 patients
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Uber launches feature in US to let customers reserve rides in advance
Uber is seeing only a slow recovery of its US rides business amid coronavirus pandemic
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Apple launches MacBook laptops powered by its own computing chips
MacBook Air will retail for $999, same as its predecessor, and have up to twice the battery life
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Trump's 'I WON' tweet inch away from breaking record
Trump's tweet has garnered huge support from his Twitter followers with over 883,200 retweets and 1.1 million likes
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China ups scrutiny of tech giants with draft anti-monopoly rules
New rules could apply to e-commerce sites such as Alibaba Group's Taobao and payment services Alipay or WeChat Pay
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Microsoft launches next-generation Xbox gaming consoles amid pandemic
Xbox will compete with Sony Corp's PlayStation 5, scheduled to launch on Thursday
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The startup competition taking Pakistani women to the forefront of innovation
She Loves Tech, the world’s largest startup competition for women in technology , returns to Pakistan
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China's tech industry relieved by Biden win - but not relaxed
China’s technology industry, one of President Donald Trump’s main targets in Washington’s tussles with Beijing
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Google, Walmart's PhonePe hit by India's move to limit some digital payments players
PhonePe and Google, which currently exceed NPCI’s stipulated cap, will get two years to comply with the new rules
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Foreigners join China's livestream sales army
Livestream shopping is a near $70 billion industry inside China
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Clash of consoles: New PlayStation and Xbox enter $150 billion games arena - fight!
Sony and Microsoft are capitalising on a pandemic-driven boom that has buoyed the $150 billion video game industry
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Virgin Hyperloop hosts first human ride on new transport system
Hyperloop envisions a future where floating pods packed with passengers hurtle through vacuum tubes at 966 kph
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Samsung may launch flagship phone early to grab Huawei share
Samsung is preparing to launch its new Galaxy S21 as early as late January next year
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TikTok tests 'Learn' feed encouraged by growing interest in educational videos
'Learn' option will appear alongside 'Following' and 'For You' streams, and will feature educational videos
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NIC Pakistan to host hackathon on agriculture
Participants will be competing to win cash prizes and will have opportunity to connect with stakeholders and donors
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Pakistan to introduce faster telecom network speed
Revenue of the telecom sector crossed Rs552 billion in the financial year 2018-19
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Tesla launches $250 tequila online, quickly 'out of stock'
Tesla launched its own brand of tequila on the electric car maker's website
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Haul of rare photos of space exploration's 'golden age' up for auction, including Armstrong on moon
A rare photograph of US astronaut Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon is expected to go for $39,000
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WhatsApp takes on Google, Alibaba in India's phone payment battle
Whatsapp Pay was quickly suspended because of competition objections raised by the central bank
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China launches 'world's first 6G experiment satellite'
The 6G satellite was among three Chinese satellites successfully launched into orbit
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Facebook removes 'inauthentic' networks spanning 8 nations
Facebook has come under fire for not developing tools to combat extremist content on its platform
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Apple must face shareholder lawsuit over CEO Cook's China sales comments
Shareholders have accused Tim Cook of concealing falling demand for iPhones in China
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Bionic gloves help keep the music playing for Brazilian pianist
Brazilian pianist João Carlos Martins had not played with 10 fingers since he lost the use of his right hand
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Bentley's luxury car range to be fully electric by 2030
Bentley Motors will launch two plug-in hybrids next year
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Fortnite to return to Apple devices via Nvidia cloud gaming service
Nvidia Corp has developed a version of its GeForce cloud gaming service that runs in mobile web browser Safari
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US seizes over $1 billion in bitcoin tied to 'Silk Road
Justice Department is seeking the forfeiture of cryptocurrency, which had been in possession of an unnamed hacker
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Could PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X be the last of consoles?
Sony has said it expects to sell 7.6 million PS5 consoles through end of March, beating sales performance of the PS4
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YouTube channels making money from ads, memberships amplify Trump voting fraud claims
At least nine popular YouTube channels were promoting debunked accusations about voting fraud in US presidential race
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India-made Covid-19 vaccine could be launched as early as February - government scientist
Bharat Biotech, a private company is developing COVAXIN with government-run Indian Council of Medical Research
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Crushed Ant is just the start of China techlash
Ant founder Jack Ma and senior firm executives were summoned to meet with financial watchdogs
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Nintendo hikes annual Switch sales forecast to 24 million units as pandemic boosts home gaming
Sony and Microsoft will release next-generation consoles next week, adding to the competition for mid-cycle Switch
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A video games timeline: From Pong to the console wars
Each generation has enjoyed rapid technological advancement, and the gaming industry is now worth billions
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Twitter suspends fake Associated Press accounts that made bogus US election calls
Twitter confirmed the accounts were permanently suspended for violating its policy on impersonation
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With PlayStation 5 launch, Sony needs a high score
Since the PS1 launched in 1994, gaming has become biggest segment of Sony's business
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#Dhandli: Pakistani Twitter has a field day after Trump rigging claims
Netizens find similarities in US, Pakistan electoral systems
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Big-tech's stablecoins may hurt privacy and innovation
Prospect of stablecoin being used by billions of people has galvanised central banks into putting together rules
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WhatsApp to launch disappearing messages soon
Disappearing messages feature will automatically remove messages sent in individual or group chat after seven days
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Lung damage found in Covid dead may shed light on 'long Covid'
Research team analysed samples of tissue from lungs, heart, liver, and kidneys of 41 patients who died of Covid-19