Tech

Activist group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood says privacy risks of the intelligent Barbie outweigh benefits

LiFi has achieved speeds of 1GB per second during office tests

Which side are you? Light or Dark? Jedi or Sith? Good or evil? Google is letting you choose

Pakistan wins three gold and one silver at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards 2015 in Colombo

Karim Aslam downloads audio files sent from the US which he transcribes before sending back

With the service already operational in Lahore, the company has set its eyes on Karachi

Rizwan Asghar's 'Oblivion' is a solution to Google's agonizingly slow process to remove information online

Co-developed with Google and Intel, the "Tag Heuer Connected" will cost $1,500

Competitor social network Facebook says it doubled daily video views to 8 billion since April

Deal is expected to close in the third calendar quarter of 2016

World's second-largest economy has far lower robot penetration than other big industrialized economies

The event was organised by the HEC and National Textile University

Letter sent to Google says videos "praise assailants and present Jews and Israelis in a hateful and racist manner"

Profile pictures will now be in the center rather than aligned to the left

Meanwhile, a game in which players have to conduct drone strikes is freely available

Downdetector.com's Facebook map showed outages in North America, Europe, Australia and India

On mobile devices, shifting perspectives can be done by dragging fingers or just turning handsets

Founders vow to verify every pledge of accommodation personally; Refugee Hero created in only 4 days

Microsoft shifts strategy from one-time sales to cloud-based system that can be accessed from PCs and mobile devices

Apps infected by malware can transmit info about user's device and mount phishing attacks to steal passwords

Researchers say network is for use in disasters when regular communications are often disrupted

Researchers say at-home options will disrupt roughly $64 billion of traditional US provider revenue in next 20 years

Tech experts say overloaded servers to blame; advise users to wait several days before installing new upgrades

Signal allows journalists to discover trends, photos and videos, and embed Facebook and Instagram content

The 7-inch Fire is part of new family of tablets launched by Amazon, along with upgraded Fire TV streaming devices

The free app will allow migrants to fill in personal data, education and work experience while still on the road

Europe's new emissions standard makes hybrids more attractive as it increases cost of running cars powered by diesel

Apple last week unveiled the new iPhone models, along with overhauled Apple TV hardware and iPad Pro tablets

Technology promises new applications in long run, from lifelike games to screens with temperature, texture and sound

Major industry players partnering with Google to encourage online trade.

Unprecedented growth of untraceable malware on Android devices concerns security experts

Phillips says its new "SoftBlue" technology is gentler on the retina

Secret apps could look like ordinary functions but when users enter a secret password they get access to hidden files

K-P officials and Microsoft discuss intellectual property rights, e-governance and opportunities of collaboration

Innovation will create flexible electronics to be worn by soldiers and embedded on warplanes

'Personal Trakker' helps geo-locate family members or employees, gives them the ability to send out distress signals

Jide Tech will start shipping the device globally in October 2015

Microsoft Office users from all over the world compete to exhibit their mastery of MS Office products

An inside look at Microsoft's global tech competition for young programmers and developers

Anyone can find your details and location by entering your phone number in Facebook search

Pichai will oversee the biggest company under that umbrella, which will still be called Google

Find out how to avoid game request notifications and 'seen' feature from messages

Sumail Hasan and four other members of his team, Evil Geniuses, have now become more than a million dollars richer

The futuristic skateboard will have a price-tag of around 100,000 Japanese Yen (about $800)

Many enhancements to the existing features are expected in the upcoming phone

An app called Stagefright Detector checks to see if your phone is vulnerable or not

Find out how nine of the world's biggest technology companies got their names and what they mean

The colourful interactive online map displays the geographic locations of nearly 15,000 types of ant

Service allows public figures to send out live video streams, rest of us can access videos in our news feeds

Attack program takes control of physical parts on input/output circuits, vibrates them at frequency chosen by hacker