Tech

Walmart will add small robot-staffed warehouses to dozens of its stores to help fill orders for pickup and delivery

Twitter opened free access to its new application programming interface (API) software for academic researchers

Signal gained 7.5 million users globally, according to figures shared by the UK parliament’s home affairs committee

Grindr needs to respond to claims, after which the Data Protection Authority will make its final decision

Dan Riccio, who joined Apple over two decades ago as vice president of product design

TikTok representative said that the company was evaluating notice and will respond to it as appropriate

Investment flows into cryptocurrency funds and products hit a record $1.31 billion last week

Alpha Global will fight for the rights of full-time Google employees as well as temporary and contract workers

Twitter launched a pilot program that has users flag tweets that they believe are misleading

Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines due to problems in the delivery of semiconductors

'Among Us' success in 2020 was a big surprise as the title drew little attention when was originally released

Cybersecurity was demoted as a policy field under the Trump administration

Amazon aims to vaccinate 2,000 eligible members of the public against Covid-19 on the first day

Hanson Robotics said four models including Sophia, would start rolling out of factories in first half of 2021

SpaceX launched 143 spacecraft into space, a new record for the most spaceships deployed on a single mission

Moodbeam prompts wearers to log how they feel at set times throughout the day

Demand for rival applications such as Signal and Telegram surged on privacy concerns

Bitcoin, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, hit a record high of $40,000

Valve did not admit wrongdoing and was fined 1.66 million euros

LG said it had reorganised its mobile phone division to increase outsourcing of its low to mid-end smartphones

Sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid models rose 122% across EU through the first three quarters of 2020

Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech SE is likely to protect against the more infectious variant of the virus

MediaTek is amongst a handful of companies with modem technology to connect phones to mobile data networks

Bill Gates has criticised US testing system and Trump administration for the way they have dealt with Covid-19 crisis

New gene therapy can reverse some of effects of ageing in mice and extend their lifespans

Netflix delivered stronger-than-expected subscriber growth in the past quarter

With 400 million users in India, WhatsApp has big plans for the country’s growing digital payments space

Bazaar, a local B2B online marketplace, connects retailers directly to wholesalers and manufacturers

US Department of Homeland Security warned US firms of the risks to company data from Chinese-made drones

Microsoft and Amazon halted facial recognition sales to police this month following nationwide protests

In previous months Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter had faced fines in Turkey for not complying with the law

Parler was dropped by Amazon’s hosting arm and other partners for poor moderation after its users called for violence

Bitcoin barrelled to new highs to rise more than 400 per cent over the past year

Parler, which was founded in 2018, is a social media network that styles itself as a 'free speech-driven' space

The move will allow hundreds of millions of users to order products from Reliance without having to leave the app

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reached space for the first time with a successful test of its air-launched rocket

Vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics was found guilty of bribery and embezzlement

QAnon followers believe Trump is waging a secret war against a global liberal cult of Satan-worshipping pedophiles

Signal has seen a rise in downloads following a change in WhatsApp’s privacy terms

Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines because of a global shortage of semiconductors

Among the first in queue for coronavirus vaccines in Indonesia has been social media influencers

Only 21 per cent respondents consider women’s use of the internet as good in Pakistan

Conspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines and US election proliferated on social media during the pandemic

The decision limits operations to areas with light air traffic and daylight visibility

Salaat First, an app that reminds Muslims when to pray, was recording and selling location data of its users

WhatsApp is delaying an update aimed at increasing business transactions on the platform

Amazon was slapped with a class-action lawsuit accusing the e-commerce giant of inflating the prices of ebooks

Google won EU antitrust approval for its Fitbit bid after agreeing to restrictions on how it will use customers’ data

Founded by the American-British entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia is now seventh-most popular website in the world

Germany wants to jump-start gene sequencing efforts to closely track coronavirus mutations