Spotlight on 'Gay dating app' Grindr's handling of HIV data

Gay dating app Grindr was under fire on Monday for sharing information about users' HIV status or locations with two companies enlisted to optimize its software.Grindr chief technology officer Scott …

Fraud rap for cryptocurrency promoted by DJ Khaled, Mayweather

The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday laid charges over a fraudulent cryptocurrency fundraiser that boxer Floyd Mayweather and rapper DJ Khaled touted on social media.Neither celebrity …

A bridge so far: China's controversial megaproject

Touted as an engineering wonder, the world's longest sea bridge, which connects Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, includes a snaking road crossing and an underwater tunnel and reportedly uses enou…

Facebook announces new steps to protect users' privacy

Facebook said Wednesday it will overhaul its privacy settings tools to put users "more in control" of their information on the social media website.The updates include improved access to Facebook's u…

Air New Zealand calls for drone legislation after near miss

Air New Zealand has called for tougher regulations on drone use after one came within just 5m (16ft) of a plane, narrowly avoiding a "serious incident".The pilots of flight NZ92 from Tokyo spotted th…

Chinese space station Tiangong-1, to fall back to Earth 'in days'

Scientist say debris from a defunct Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, which was put into orbit in 2011 as part of China's ambitious space programme could crash to Earth as early as Friday.Tiangong-1…

Twitter to ban cryptocurrency adverts on its platform

Twitter Inc is to ban most advertising of cryptocurrencies on its platform, joining Facebook and Google in a clampdown on the nascent industry, the company said in a statement. The San Francisco-base…

Mahathir raises 'remote takeover' theory in MH370 mystery

Malaysia's veteran ex-leader Mahathir Mohamad said Friday that missing flight MH370 might have been taken over remotely in a bid to foil a hijack, reviving one of the many conspiracy theories surroun…

Dashcam video shows final seconds before fatal Uber crash

Dashcam footage of the first fatal self-driving car crash involving a pedestrian shows the Uber vehicle operator appearing to be distracted, then gasping in horror seconds before the impact.The drive…

Facebook's Zuckerberg breaks silence over 'data breach' scandal

Since news broke in the US, about British data consultancy firm, Cambridge Analytica (CA) using data harvested from over 50 million Facebook users to create psychological profiles that may have been …

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica sued in U.S. by users over data harvesting

Facebook Inc and the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica have been sued in the United States for obtaining information belonging to 50 million of the social media company's users without pe…

Blackberry modified to 'help drug cartels'

The chief executive of a company that created highly-secure smartphones allegedly used by some of the world's most notorious criminals has been indicted.Canadian-based Phantom Secure made "tens of mi…

Spotify to go public on April 3

Spotify will go public on April 3 as the world's largest streaming company lists on the New York Stock Exchange.Paul Vogel, the Swedish company's head of investor relations, made the announcement at …

World's biggest battery in Australia to trump Musk's

British billionaire businessman Sanjeev Gupta will built the world's biggest battery in South Australia, officials said Friday, overtaking US star entrepreneur Elon Musk's project in the same state l…

China to see driverless cars in '3-5 years': Baidu

Self-driving cars will hit the roads in China "within three to five years", the founder of Chinese internet giant Baidu, one of the world's leading designers of driverless cars, said Thursday.That is…

Space bases could preserve civilization in World War III: Elon Musk

Bases on the moon and Mars could help preserve human civilization and hasten its regeneration on earth in the event of a third world war, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, said on Sunday.Musk, the …

SpaceX carries out 50th launch of Falcon 9 rocket

SpaceX carried out the 50th launch of its signature Falcon 9 rocket early Tuesday, a swift ascent to a milestone which many aerospace giants take far longer to attain.The launch of the Falcon 9 carry…

Online Petition Calls For a Rollback on Snapchat's Latest Update

A petition asking Snapchat to roll back it s latest update has garnered over one million signatories. The petition which on the change.org website, is one of several appeals to Snapchat to revert to …

U.S. Lawmakers urge Facebook to post-inform users who saw Russian-backed ads

- U.S. Lawmakers urge Facebook to post-inform users who saw Russian-backed ads.- Compares the problem with informing patients in a hospital of possible contamination.- Facebook is a crime scene says …

Facebook says over 126 million Americans viewed Russian-sponsored US election posts and adverts

- Facebook says over 126 million Americans viewed Russian-sponsored US election posts and adverts- This figure is half the total number of registered U.S. voters.- Facebook however does not beli…