Tech

The Covid-19 pandemic and the US election last year spurred a massive spike in misinformation

New voice-based platforms, including invite-only social app Clubhouse, have seen rapid growth in recent months

India is offering more than $1 billion in cash to each semiconductor company that sets up manufacturing units

SpaceX commercial space is been investigated for violating US safety requirements and its test license

The company said it will offer YouTube TV to its customer at $54.99 per month, which is $10 below the regular price

As many as 18,000 users reported issues with the micro-blogging site

The global shortage is also impacting home appliance makers who are unable to meet demand

Careem has released a new feature which enables users to book a ride to any Covid-19 vaccination center in Pakistan

PayPal will allow US consumers to use their cryptocurrency holdings to pay millions of its online merchants

Google said it derives emissions relative estimates by testing across different types of vehicles and road types

SPACs are shell corporations that list on stock exchanges and then merge with an existing company

China’s Tencent Music Entertainment Group announced a $1 billion share repurchase plan

Facebook has planned two new undersea cables to connect Singapore, Indonesia, and North America

A Renesas-owned chip plant in northeast Japan was hit by fire earlier this month

It was very likely that Covid-19 first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal

A global shortage of chips that has rattled production lines at car companies and squeezed stockpiles at gadget makers

Visa said it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment network

Data on VR travel usage is limited but developers have seen surging interest since the pandemic hit

Facebook has frozen Maduro’s page for promoting a remedy that he claims can cure coronavirus

Amazon’s social media team bared its teeth this week to go after two big critics in Congress

Retail investors on forums such as Reddit’s WallStreetBets have helped send the company’s shares

US lawmakers unleashed a torrent of criticism against social media top executives

US agencies and thousands of companies are fighting off major hacking campaigns originating in Russia and China

India’s technology minister said video streaming services have to be responsible and accountable for their shows

Xiaomi plans to make electric vehicles (EVs) using Great Wall Motor Co Ltd’s factory

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted his frustration with US lawmakers during a hearing about misinformation

The need for chip plants outside Asia has helped prompt Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) and Samsung

OneWeb said this was the second in a five-launch programme that will enable its connectivity to reach all regions

PUBG has been hugely popular since the so-called battle royale style game was launched three years ago

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out steps to reform a key internet law

Russia is developing a reusable spaceplane, a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov conglomerate

The astronomers who gave the world its first true glimpse of a black hole have produced another landmark image

Slack Technologies said it was working to fix an error in the direct-messaging feature it introduced earlier

Big Tech including Twitter and Google plan to keep their offices largely closed for months

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will be attempting to fly in an atmosphere that is one per cent the density of Earth's

Streaming platforms, led by Spotify, Apple, and Deezer, now account for 62.1 per cent of global music revenues

Intel shares rose 6.3% after the company disclosed its new strategy and full-year financial guidance for 2021

SpaceX to carry humans and 100 tons of cargo on future missions to the moon and Mars

Bill Gates in an 'Ask me Anything' session on Reddit rubbished rumors linking him to coronavirus conspiracy theories

Tesla last month said it bought $1.5 billion of bitcoin and would soon accept it as a form of payment for cars

The tweet is in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT)

The partnership could breathe life into Nintendo’s stalled mobile ambitions

Coursera, a platform used by more than 3,700 colleges and universities offers various courses

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Facebook in France

According to a report, 52% of iOS apps collect data and share it with third parties

Telegram, along with messaging app Signal, have seen an increase in users this year amid privacy concerns

Discord is a platform on which users coordinate group activities such as games, discussions, and even virtual parties

NFTs, a digital signature saved on blockchain ledgers that allows anyone to verify the ownership of items

British government to introduce a legal requirement for Google to take down financial fraud websites

Microsoft software engineer Daniel Jost has found a way to take on his peers