Technology

In July, companies including Coca-Cola Co and Starbucks boycotted Facebook for not doing enough to curb hate speech

Reddit group members generated significant profits by gorging on shares of GameStop

Starship rocket destroyed in the accident was being developed by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk

In a television show 'Competition of the Century: AI vs Human', Kim Kwang-seok’s voice is used to perform 'I miss you'

Electric car sales in 2019 accounted for only 2.6 per cent of the global market

Cryptocurrency theft, hacks, and fraud fell 57%, as market participants boosted security systems

GameStop shares went down 25% as retail brokerages restricted purchases of the stock

Huawei shipments plunged due to US sanctions on the Chinese firm’s chip and component suppliers

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook criticised polarization and misinformation on social media

Google’s iPhone apps such as Maps and YouTube will stop using a tool from Apple that allows them to personalize ads

Shares of GameStop and other companies tumbled in extended trading

Police dismantled a criminal hacking scheme used to steal billions of dollars from businesses and citizens worldwide

Apple's revenue for the quarter ended December 26 rose 21% to $111.44 billion

Antibody vaccines for treating Covid-19 are less effective against some of the new variants of coronavirus

Pakistan has kick-started its journey to make most advanced 5G internet commercially available to consumers in 2022-23

Online Safety of Young Adults Curriculum aims to help young people understand how the online world operates

Microsoft reported its Azure cloud computing services grew 50%

China’s Tencent, Bytedance, US-based Zoom, and unicorn Grab and Sea are among companies expanding in Singapore

Walmart will add small robot-staffed warehouses to dozens of its stores to help fill orders for pickup and delivery

Twitter opened free access to its new application programming interface (API) software for academic researchers

Careem is collaborating with UNDP to raise awareness on safety issues through a series of animated videos

Signal gained 7.5 million users globally, according to figures shared by the UK parliament’s home affairs committee

Grindr needs to respond to claims, after which the Data Protection Authority will make its final decision

Dan Riccio, who joined Apple over two decades ago as vice president of product design

TikTok representative said that the company was evaluating notice and will respond to it as appropriate

Investment flows into cryptocurrency funds and products hit a record $1.31 billion last week

Alpha Global will fight for the rights of full-time Google employees as well as temporary and contract workers

Twitter launched a pilot program that has users flag tweets that they believe are misleading

Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines due to problems in the delivery of semiconductors

'Among Us' success in 2020 was a big surprise as the title drew little attention when was originally released

Cybersecurity was demoted as a policy field under the Trump administration

Amazon aims to vaccinate 2,000 eligible members of the public against Covid-19 on the first day

Hanson Robotics said four models including Sophia, would start rolling out of factories in first half of 2021

SpaceX launched 143 spacecraft into space, a new record for the most spaceships deployed on a single mission

Students from Usman Institute of Technology have put together ‘Burraq’, a low-cost, water-powered turbine

Musk, who co-founded and sold PayPal Holdings Inc, now leads some of the most futuristic companies in the world

TikTok wants its young users to make informed choices about what they share and with whom

EU Parliament will provide input into proposals by EU Commission to force US tech giants to play fairly with rivals

Mueller says the app rules set by the two US tech giants are holding back innovation, in breach of EU regulations

Moodbeam prompts wearers to log how they feel at set times throughout the day

Software developers, call centres, telemedicine under net

Traders said a report suggesting that part of a bitcoin may have been spent twice was enough to trigger selling

Trump will remain suspended while the Facebook Oversight Board, a recently created body, reviews the decision

Australia wants to pass laws to make Big Tech pay local publishers, broadcasters for content

Paralysed rodents that received the treatment started walking after two to three weeks

Demand for rival applications such as Signal and Telegram surged on privacy concerns

Bitcoin, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, hit a record high of $40,000

Valve did not admit wrongdoing and was fined 1.66 million euros

LG said it had reorganised its mobile phone division to increase outsourcing of its low to mid-end smartphones

Sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid models rose 122% across EU through the first three quarters of 2020