Technology

Scientists have recorded a rise in nuclear activity in the destroyed nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant

The Facebook app now has a rating of 2.5 on the Google Play store and a 2.4 rating on Apple’s App store

Amazon is looking forward to working with Pakistani entrepreneurs

Snap has paid $1 million per day collectively to users who post short-form videos to its feature called Spotlight

The rally in cryptocurrencies came after Ark Invest's Cathie Wood and Tesla CEO Elon Musk indicated their support

Twitter users can apply to be verified after a years-long freeze on public submissions for the site's blue checkmarks

Launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became the dominant browser for over a decade

Apple kicked the popular game off its App Store last year after Epic introduced its own system for in-app payments

The increased spectrum will also allow for affordable broadband in rural Canada

Facebook set up a 24-7 'special operations center' last week to respond to content posted on its platform

TikTok Trust and Safety team works to keep the platform safe and welcoming for the global community

Former US President Donald Trump's administration sought to force ByteDance to divest control of the app

Twitter's image-cropping algorithm has a problematic bias toward excluding Black people and men

The Zhurong rover was carried into the Martian atmosphere in a lander on Saturday

News sends cryptocurrency as low as $36,250, down 15%

The AI tool can accurately recreate lip-sync in dubbing without altering the performance of the actors

Amazon offers face-matching with 'Rekognition,' service from its cloud computing division

Italian sports car maker Lamborghini unveiled Tuesday a $1.8 billion electrification plan for its luxury vehicles

The known increased risk of severe Covid-19 and death linked to obesity may be even more pronounced for men than women

China has banned crypto exchanges but has not barred individuals from holding cryptocurrencies

Samsung will use Google's Wear OS for its upcoming Galaxy smartwatches instead of its own Tizen platform

Minister says connectivity is foundation of sustainable development

Musk has boosted crypto markets with his enthusiasm, but has lately roiled trade by appearing to cool on bitcoin

Telegram, WhatsApp trade insults on Twitter

“Most adult-only items are prohibited,” reads the new policy

The tech sector appears on track to be the latest casualty of the Covid-19 pandemic

Becomes the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet

Users will eventually face limited functionality if they don't accept WhatsApp's privacy policy update

Google did not allow JuicePass, an electric vehicle (EV) services app from Enel X, to operate on Android Auto

Both Amazon and Apple were targeted by competition chief Margrethe Vestager to stamp out tax deals used by EU states

Instagram users can opt to have pronoun choices shown publicly, or just to friends at the service

Bitcoin rebounded to about $50,000 in Asian trading after plunging as much as 17%

Scientists last week found the site, dating to around 78,000 years ago, where a child was buried in a cave

A generation of Chinese born in the 1960s are reaching their mandatory retirement age

Trump administration, designated the firm as having ties to China’s military and placed it on US ban list

The planet has already warmed 1.2C above the preindustrial benchmark, enough to unleash a crescendo of deadly storms

After 44 years of travel, Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object in space

Social media companies fined up to 10% of turnover or $25 million if they failed to stamp out online abuses

Viral app TikTok jump-started the trend of short-form video clips and was quickly copied by other apps

Data rights groups accuse social media giants of ‘discriminatory algorithms,’ demand greater transparency

Elon Musk asked his followers in a poll on Twitter whether Tesla should accept payment in dogecoin

A group of 40 state attorneys general urged Mark Zuckerberg to abandon plans to launch Instagram for children

According to official figures, around 85,000 children in Russia suffer from cerebral palsy

The company will produce its first supercar, the T50, with a powerful V12 engine, in 2022

Foxconn facility in the southern state of Tamil Nadu produces iPhones specifically for India

Global green bond issuance reached a record high of $270 billion at the end of 2020

NASA spacecraft has begun its two-year journey back to Earth

Live audio app Clubhouse will begin introducing a test version of its app to Google's Android users in the US

SpaceX won NASA’s $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024

Eight of them date to between 50,000 and 68,000 years ago, while the oldest could be 90,000 or 100,000 years old