Technology

Netflix is testing a feature that asks viewers to verify they share a household with the account holder

Twitter’s Spaces competes with Clubhouse, which is an invite-only audio-based social network startup

The penalty could top the $975 million paid by US chipmaker Qualcomm in 2015

Valheim has proved an unexpected smash-hit, selling five million copies since its early-access released last month

The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles of our planet

NASA's Perseverance rover gently set down on Martian soil last month and sent back black-and-white images

The trans-Pacific undersea cable would have connected California and Hong Kong

Taiwan-based researchers reported to Microsoft on January 5 that they had found two new flaws which need patching

Wearable electronics have advanced significantly in recent years

The deal comes months after rival Ericsson filed a lawsuit in the United States against Samsung

Apple has been shifting some areas of production from China to other markets as it navigates the trade war

Minerals and rock deposits at Salda are the nearest match to those around Jezero Crater where the spacecraft landed

A small group of hackers viewed live and archived surveillance footage from hundreds of businesses including Tesla

Moscow and Beijing will draw up a roadmap to establish the station and cooperate closely on planning

The arrival of PayPal presents a serious new competitor for Afterpay and Zip Co Ltd

The concept of live audio chat rooms has become popular after the launch of the Club-House app

Instagram’s reels feature is the company’s version of ByteDance’s TikTok

Toyota has been unscathed by global shortage of semiconductors following a surge in demand for electrical goods

Alexa can tend to tasks such as ordering goods, finding information, playing music, mapping routes, or reading email

Tesla’s stock extended losses and is now down by a third from its January record high

Ebang plans to use its new capital to expand into cryptocurrency mining in its own right

Toyota has so far invested in 36 early-stage startup

Meitu is the latest company to say it will hold cryptocurrencies as part of its treasury operations

Koo wants 100 million users by the end of 2021

Misinformation tends to stay on WhatsApp four times longer than authentic information

Marketing agencies argue that this type of tracking and data collection helps analyse consumer patterns and interests

The data is stored on machine-learning algorithms which sent ads and recommendations according to your preference

The move comes as the Japanese company aims to expand hardware that combines software

Electronics retailers are facing stock shortages for consoles as well as the new graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD

YAP, like other neobanks which do not have physical branches, does not offer traditional banking services

The post, sent from Dorsey’s account in March of 2006, received offers that went as high as $88,888.88 within minutes

NASA displayed a photo taken by the rover showing the wheel tread marks left in the reddish, sandy Martian soil

Microsoft blamed the initial wave of attacks on a Chinese government-backed actor

Twitter is mulling an option allowing users to 'undo' a tweet within a window of a few seconds before it is posted

Online education provider Coursera filed for a stock market listing with US regulators

Type-X combat vehicle is equipped with features such as follow-me, waypoint navigation, and obstacle detection

Qualcomm announced a new line of chips for connecting wireless speakers and headphones designed to help Android phones

Shares of Reddit-darling GameStop increased more than 20% at one point in yet another unexplained move

Japanese supercomputer simulations showed that wearing two masks gave limited benefit in blocking coronavirus

Scientists have spotted a planet orbiting a star relatively near our solar system

WhatsApp calls have increased over 50% compared to previous year

China will also establish more national laboratories to research quantum information and artificial intelligence

Facebook has had a months-long freeze on political, electoral, and social ads

Asthma itself is not a risk factor for hospitalization or more severe Covid-19

Parler went dark when Amazon suspended its web-hosting services following the Capitol attack

The method involved an automated computational flattening algorithm that was used to read an unopened letter

Led by a sharp rise in Bitcoin, digital asset markets rose above $1 trillion in early 2021

South Africa has recorded by far the most Covid-19 infections and deaths on the African continent

Both Jio and Bharti said the additional airwaves will help them to serve hundreds of millions of new users

Yusaku Maezawa launched a search for eight people to join him on a trip around the moon with SpaceX