Technology

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

The iPhone SE, available April 24, is the second generation of a previous value model

Careem delivery service will be operational from 8 am till 7 pm

Google has introduced a new periodic reminder that will send a 'wash your hands' alert on the Wear OS smartwatch

The UN chief called on social media companies to do more to root out harmful and bogus claims about COVID-19

Dormio, a glove-like device equipped with sensors plays a pre-recorded audio to interact with the human dream state

Local authorities have already fined hundreds of people for posting what they described as “fake news” about the virus

Scientists have observed the biggest supernova a stellar explosion ever detected

Schools and tutoring services have had to switch to online lessons amid coronavirus lockdown

To be useful once stay-at-home restrictions are lifted and normal activities resume

End-to-end encrypted e-government system allows officials to stay connected and on duty amid province-wide lockdown

Apple's data would reveal the effect of lockdown on the movement of people

Social media anger from Chinese nationalists over a Thai internet model’s comments has set off a regional storm

Hamas arrested six local activists for chatting by video conference with left-leaning campaigners in Israel

ITV programme is being questioned after linking the spread of the coronavirus to 5G

The G20’s Financial Stability Board set out 10 recommendations for an international approach to regulating stablecoins

Amazon faces the daunting task of hiring more people even as calls grow for it to shut facilities