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Facebook to provide ad data for independent audit
The social network admitted to overstating key ad metric
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Aviation takes baby steps toward sustainable fuels
The aviation industry is the first commercial sector to commit itself to limiting carbon emissions within 20 years
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Frenchman sues Uber for $48m claiming privacy bug led to his divorce
He claims due to a glitch in Uber app, every time he took a ride his wife got notifications which led to the divorce
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Tech firms must do more against 'fake news': Apple boss
The change is designed to ensure that trends reflect real world events
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Tesla chief in public feud with auto workers union
United Automobile Workers group denied accusations of planting a mole to unionize Tesla employees
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WhatsApp finally enables security feature we were all waiting for
Two-factor authentication requires a pre-assigned six digit passcode to verify a user’s phone number
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17-year-old Pakistani becomes world's third highest earning gamer
Sumail has amassed a massive $2,401,560 in tournament earning
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Ford to invest $1 bn in artificial intelligence startup
The venture will employ leading engineers and roboticists to develop a virtual driver system
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How algorithms (secretly) run the world
The complex mathematical formulas are playing a growing role in all walks of life
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Website names can now be acquired in Urdu
Country achieves major milestone towards becoming ‘Digital Pakistan’
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Crowdsourcing, crowd-funding Pakistan!
Besides complex equity funding, reward-based crowd-funding has been widely popular among micro-investors
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Hackers targeting Macs using age-old Windows malware trick
Researchers found a Word file that contained a boobytrap that would download malicious code from a Russian address
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Finding pirated movies on Google is about to get a lot harder
Under this new legislation pirated content might soon become very difficult to find online.
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Over 12m internet users now using ad-blockers in Pakistan
Globally, 11% internet users have ad- blockers installed on their devices
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Remote control: Companies blur lines over who owns devices
Samsung said it retrieved 96 per cent of the more than three million Note 7s it had sold and activated
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Snap to spend $1 billion on Amazon cloud services
Snapchat has more than 100 million active users, about 60 per cent of whom are aged 13 to 24
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Wikipedia bans contributors from citing Daily Mail as source
Cites newpaper’s reputation for poor fact checking, sensationalism and flat-out fabrication to justify the ban
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Factory that made batteries for Samsung Note 7 catches fire
The fire broke out in a part of the facility used for waste products including faulty batteries
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Pinterest lets phones spy eye-catching items
Pinterest says it has over 150 million users
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Facebook Safety Check now lets you find and offer help in crisis situations
'In times of crisis, connecting is more important than ever'
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Sony's new smartphone camera sensor best among the rest
Sony's 3-layer CMOS sensor can capture slow motion video about eight times faster than its competitors
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Tesla Model S is now the world's quickest car
Tesla Model S P100D can reach 0-60 in just 2.28 seconds
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Home-grown streaming app Patari helps Pakistan's musicians find voice
Patari now boasts a library of 40,000 Pakistani songs and podcasts with over half a million subscribers
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US could ask visa applicants for social media passwords
The move could come as part of the effort to toughen vetting of visitors
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Quarter of US tech workers perceive discrimination: survey
24 per cent said they had been discriminated against due to their race, gender, age, religion or sexual orientation
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New software to help Indian police snare human traffickers
Reports of human trafficking in India rose by 25 per cent in 2015
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YouTube stars can live stream from mobile, make money from fans
YouTube also launched Super Chat, allowing users to highlight their messages for a fee
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LG to unveil 'Big Screen' smartphone soon
Taking a jibe at Samsung, LG pledges that its new phone will not explode
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Careem to invest $150m in next five years in Pakistan
Aims to expand its services to 30 more cities
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Humans aren't the only ones using internet
According to a new report, most of the internet traffic usage now comes from robots
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Channeling Steve Jobs, Apple seeks design perfection at new "spaceship" campus
Project managers estimate the cost to be at a massive $5 billion
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BlackBerry inks hardware licensing deal covering India
India is one of BlackBerry's biggest handset markets
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US House passes bill requiring warrants to search old emails
Privacy advocates have expressed alarm at President Donald Trump's ability to expand government spying
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Start-up fever grips young tech-savvy Indians
India now has the highest number of start-ups in the world after the United States and Britain
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Now you can see every photo your friends have ever liked on Facebook
Don't you think the popular social networking portal is just getting 'creepier'?
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Tech sector leads resistance to Trump travel ban
Dozens of technology giants have filed a joint legal brief arguing against the temporary ban on refugees
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Facebook fraudsters cloning users’ profiles to steal money from their friends
Scammers go as far as copying the statuses used by legitimate users to make clone profiles look legitimate
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Facebook, Google, others launch drive against fake news in France
In the United States, Facebook has said users would in future find it easier to flag fake articles as a hoax
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The world's biggest companies have united to sue Trump over Muslim ban
US tech firms have been among the more vocal sectors speaking out against the policy
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South Korea to strengthen battery safety rules after Note 7 fires
Manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries would be subjected to greater oversight and regular inspections
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Technology firms to urge Trump to alter US travel ban: sources
Technology companies expected to sign the letter include Apple, Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft
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Pedal power revival as bike-share apps race for glory
China's bike-share concept have attracted huge venture capital
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Mobile app helps China recover hundreds of missing children
611 missing children were found last year
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Google, unlike Microsoft, must turn over foreign emails: US judge
A federal appeals court had reached the opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft
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Lithuania builds 'dream' Tesla factory with Minecraft
Tesla's new 'gigafactory' would provide a significant boost to the Lithuanian economy
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In the era of Trump, US companies must navigate a minefield
Trump's election has laid bare the deep divisions of American society
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India's techies fear US crackdown on high-skilled visas
President Trump's crackdown on immigration will include restrictions on so-called H-1B visas
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Hacker released tools FBI used to crack San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone online
Cellebrite reportedly helped FBI crack the iPhone 5c owned by Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino shooters
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Google may no longer offer its stock Android launcher
Google Now Launcher has over 50 million downloads on Play Store
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Facebook photo search set to get way more visual
With popular networking site's latest search tool, you can easily recognise what's in an image