Tech

Facebook's video conferencing tool will enable as many as 50 people to participate in a call

Technological developments are among the most curious topics amid coronavirus outbreak

Twitter changed its rules after attacks on mobile towers in the UK

ZecOps a cybersecurity firm claim that a flaw may have left more than half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers

Devices are expected to start supporting 6GHz Wi-Fi by the end of 2020 under the name "Wi-Fi 6E"

Netflix announced this week that it has finished filming the majority of movies and series due for release this year

Apple is working on three Mac processors based on the A14 processor in its next iPhone

The wealth surge of America’s richest men happened during a period when 22 million Americans filed for unemployment

The name comes from “Questions to Heaven”, a poem written by Qu Yuan who lived more than two millennia ago

Misinformation about the pandemic caused by coronavirus, from bogus cures to wide-ranging conspiracy theories

US government researchers have determined that the virus survives best indoors and in dry conditions

'Out of 38 economies in Asia-Pacific, only 8% states have managed to achieve G4 status'

A team of volunteers in Syria have cobbled together prototypes of a ventilator and a testing machine

Spending rose 15 per cent on mobile games, reaching $5.7 billion in March

A report which said Vietnamese government-linked hackers had attempted to break into Chinese state organisations

Zoom now has over 300 million daily users but it faces a barrage of criticism from cybersecurity experts

The study failed to prove that an anti-malaria drug seen as a candidate in treating the coronavirus

Any digital coronavirus contact tracing should be voluntary, transparent and collect only the information needed

With countries in lockdowns, mobile and console games have recorded a jump in sales and user spending

Apple is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left half a billion iPhones vulnerable to hackers

The planned smartphone app would warn users if they come into contact with anyone infected with the coronavirus

The services have been launched as China accelerates testing for the illness and the city of Wuhan

Hackers tried to compromise the personal and professional email accounts of staff

Facebook's WhatsApp messenger to offer digital payment services to small grocers in India

Earth Day Google Doodle is extra special because it teaches us an important lesson

The apparent crash between two icy bodies each about 200 km wide occurred around a star called Fomalhaut

Bluetooth-based apps are designed to be more privacy-friendly than tracking techniques that use GPS or cellphone data

Video game sales hit their highest in over a decade

Netflix reported soaring profits as subscriptions surged by almost 16 million amid coronavirus lockdown

Even in normal circumstances, internet users suffer from a lot of technological issues

Netflix has introduced a new “Screen Lock” to prevent accidental touches

Huawei is the third-largest smartphone maker in the world

Apple said it would expand the App Store to 20 countries, eight of them in Africa

Novartis has reached an agreement with the FDA to proceed with a Phase III clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine

Human activity enabled coronavirus to jump to people

Scientists have discovered a comet called 2I/Borisov that is surprisingly different in its composition from comets

Facebook has been under pressure to police harmful content and misinformation related to the pandemic

US scientists have translated coronavirus’ spiked protein structure to music in an effort to understand the pathogen

The sanctions were seized upon by Iranian entrepreneurs as an opportunity to launch even more startups

Zoom, which has 200 million daily users had multiple reports of strangers hacking into private calls and meetings

Indonesian digital fintech firms are working with Facebook to apply for regulatory approval to launch mobile payments

The cameras in effect measure how much heat people emit relative to their surroundings

This year, testimonials from survivors will be streamed online and in a pre-recorded ceremony to be broadcast

Facebook is planning to launch a gaming mobile app in a bid to take on Amazon’s Twitch

Alibaba’s cloud unit also aided the Hangzhou government in creating a digital health-monitoring system

The landmark move is aimed at shielding traditional media from the tech giants' digital dominance

Tech-savvy Rwanda is using drones to keep residents of the capital Kigali informed of coronavirus lockdown measures

Conspiracy theories linking Bill Gates with the virus were mentioned about 1.2 million times on TV and social media

Twitter will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the US government

Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut made a safe return from the International Space Station