US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for a week by Twitter

Twitter is blocking the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from posting to its platform for a week.The InfoWars broadcaster's past tweets will, however, remain viewable to others while his acc…

Nigerian Teenage Girls Win Global Tech Competition In Silicon Valley

A team of teenage girls representing Nigeria has defeated teams from the United States of America (USA), Spain, Turkey, Uzbekistan and China to win the 2018 Technovation world pitch junior division i…

Facebook denies seeking users' bank data

Facebook has denied reports that it is actively asking banks for details of users' financial transactions.The statement follows a story in the Wall Street Journal that said the social media giant had…

Ten arrested for "lynching murder" by Indian police in latest WhatsApp related incident

Indian police said Tuesday that 10 people had been arrested over the murder of a man accused of kidnapping children in the latest lynching linked to rumours circulating on WhatsApp.More than 20 peopl…

Apple scraps podcasts of U.S. conspiracy theorist's Alex Jones from iTunes

Apple has removed hundreds of podcasts by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars brand from its iTunes and Podcasts apps.Five of the six InfoWars-related shows are no longer available on iTu…

'Spycam porn' sparks record protests in South Korea

Even a record heatwave will not keep Claire Lee from joining tens of thousands of South Korean women at a mass protest Saturday against secretly-filmed spycam pornography -- as anger over the issue s…

Uber to end development of self-driving trucks

Uber has said it will stop developing self-driving trucks to focus its autonomous technology solely on cars.Uber's self-driving truck programme started in 2016 with a team based in San Francisco.The …

Facebook sets up China subsidiary

Facebook has opened a subsidiary in mainland China, records show, a long-awaited step for the social networking giant and its Mandarin-speaking founder Mark Zuckerberg.The company, called Lianshu Sci…

Another victim of WhatsApp rumour as woman lynched by mob In India

A mob lynched a woman in India after rumours circulated on WhatsApp about child kidnappers, police said on Monday, days after the messaging firm said it was curbing the forwarding of messages.More th…

Singapore says hackers stole 1.5 m health records in record cyberattack

Hackers have stolen health records belonging to 1.5 million Singaporeans, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong who was specifically targeted in the city state's biggest ever data breach, authorit…

Hyperloop project goes to China

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies said Thursday it will team up with a southwestern Chinese city to build a new 10-kilometre (six-mile) test track for its high speed hyperloop transportation syst…

Elon Musk apologies to Thai cave diver for Twitter attack

Tech entrepreneur and Tesla Inc founder Elon Musk has apologised to a British cave diver Vern Unsworth for comments he made on twitter calling him a "pedo guy" in a row over the cave rescue of a doze…

Rolls-Royce unveils flying taxi prototype, to be ready 2020

British engine maker Rolls-Royce revealed plans this week to develop a hybrid electric vehicle, dubbed the "flying taxi", which takes off and lands vertically and could be airborne within five years.…

Investigations reveals 'vaping' pilot caused Air China plane's rapid drop in altitude

A co-pilot smoking an e-cigarette on an Air China flight caused the plane to start a rapid emergency descent, investigators have said.They say he tried to hide the fact that he was smoking but accide…

China investigates sudden altitude drop of a passenger airplane

Chinese authorities are investigating why a plane was forced to drop more than 6,500m (21,000ft) due to loss of cabin pressure.The Air China flight from Hong Kong to Dalian lost altitude rapidly and …

WhatsApp launches Indian media campaign to dispel fake news woes

Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messaging platform on Tuesday published advertisements in key Indian newspapers to tackle the spread of misinformation, its first such effort to combat a flurry of fake messag…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk offers to help Thai cave rescue, sends a team of engineers

Billionaire space adventurer and carmaker Elon Musk has offered his services to the Thai government to rescue 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave.In a series of tweets, Mr Musk…

WhatsApp 'horrified' over India lynchings, promises action

WhatsApp said on Wednesday it was "horrified" by a spate of lynchings in India sparked by false rumours shared on its platform as the government accused the messaging service of irresponsibility.More…

Ugandan civic groups file suit challenging social media tax

Ugandan civic groups on Tuesday filed a suit challenging the introduction of new tax on social media.Ugandans pay 200 shillings (0.0517 dollars) per day to access Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube…

Indian state cuts internet after three new lynchings

Authorities in north-eastern India have cut internet access after crazed mobs beat three people to death in the latest cases of lynchings sparked by false rumours spread on smartphones, officials sai…