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Minister highlights opportunity for local IT and knowledge market

As companies prepare pledges to help stop climate change, the first problem they face is quantifying their emissions

The limited edition hoverbike promises to fly for 40 minutes at up to 62 mph

Educational ecosystems struggle to ensure timely and appropriate provision of education to cope with the lockdowns

Macron has pushed to make France into a "start-up nation" since coming to power in 2017

The Hong Kong team behind celebrity humanoid robot Sophia is launching a new prototype, Grace

The pandemic has bolstered the use of gadgets in an average US household to 25 connected devices, up from 11 in 2019

Google's Android mobile operating system runs on about four-fifths of the world's smartphones

Global digital currency exchanges are exploring ways to set up in India

High traffic websites including Reddit, CNN, Spotify and the New York Times were listed as experiencing problems

An atmospheric research station in Hawaii recorded its highest concentrations of carbon dioxide

Paid online events, fan subscriptions, badges, and upcoming independent news products will be free for creators

Apple outlined plans to increase user privacy and keep consumer data out of other companies’ hands

Google plans to deploy AI feature that addresses the issue of darker skin tones being under-illuminated in video chat

The 28-year-old engineer died by suicide in 2017, after being regularly abused by his boss

Deliberately showing tattoos, and women broadcasting while wearing only underwear were also listed as violations

Microsoft has won US antitrust approval for its deal to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company

In March this year, Virgin Galactic completed its first manned space flight from its new homeport in New Mexico

Facebook had suspended Trump's account the day after the deadly Capitol Hill riot, determining he had incited violence

The report determined that 120 incidents over the past 20 years had nothing to do with unknown or secret US military

Apple thrived through the Covid-19 pandemic as home-bound consumers stocked up on electronic devices

Avid Twitter users, who for years have demanded an 'edit' button to fix typos in their tweets

Young specimens of the species Euprymna scolopes, known as bobtail squid, are on board for the trip

Tesla's big position in bitcoin and Musk's large following often set crypto markets on edge whenever he tweets

The satellite will be used for weather analysis and forecasting, environmental and disaster monitoring

Facebook is opening up ways for businesses to interact with customers on Instagram and WhatsApp

Cybercriminals struck a ferry service in the US state of Massachusetts on Wednesday

NASA announced plans on Wednesday to launch a pair of missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 – its first in decades

Researchers conducted a study on the hotspots favorable for bats that carry coronaviruses

Tesla already sources three-quarters of its lithium feedstock from Australia

Huawei will unveil its first mobile devices loaded with the new Harmony OS

Hackers will offer the victim a key in return for cryptocurrency payments that can run into millions of dollars

Twitter will begin testing ads on its disappearing posts feature called Fleets

Amazon will not screen job applicants for marijuana use for positions not regulated by Department of Transportation

A Chinese public-interest group is suing Tencent over what it alleges is inappropriate content for minors

Nokia, which makes $1.7 billion in licensing revenues every year, and Daimler had sued each other in German courts

Musk said that SpaceX had received more than 500,000 preorders for its Starlink satellite internet service

Italy can block or impose tough conditions on deals involving non-EU vendors under 'golden powers'

Sales were likely low, due to Cyberpunk's absence from the PlayStation Store and the release of a major patch

Tianzhou-2 is the second of 11 missions needed to complete China's first self-developed space station around 2022

Bitcoin dipped 5.16% to $33,849.47 at 18:00 GMT on Saturday, losing $1,842.99 from its previous close

Intel Corp's CEO said it could take several years for a global shortage of semiconductors to be resolved

Apple Podcast subscriptions will let users pay to unlock new content and additional benefits like ad-free listening

An Amazon representative said the company has initiated numerous programs to assess and address racial justice

Global shipments of PCs, the industry's collective term for laptops and desktops, grew 55.2% during the first quarter

Nobelium, originating from Russia, is the same actor behind the attacks on SolarWinds customers in 2020

Antibody drugs and Covid-19 vaccines are less effective against a coronavirus variant that was first detected in India

Apple had banned cryptocurrency wallets from App Store in 2014, but later reversed the decision and now allows them

Twitter has been subjected to a punitive slowdown in Russia since March

Roughly 27% of breakthrough infections were asymptomatic, while in 2% of cases, patients died