August 6, 2020 3:01 am
United States President Donald Trump has announced he is banning the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok in the US. MORE..
NASA’s next-generation Mars rover Perseverance blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Thursday atop an Atlas 5 rocket on a $2.4 billion mission to search for traces of potential past life on Earth’s planetary neighbor. MORE..
The CEOs of some of the world’s biggest tech companies, Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon faced off with the US Congress on Wednesday and were told they have ‘too much power’, spread fake news and are a danger to the American economy. MORE..
Twitter has banned the US president’s eldest son from tweeting for 12 hours. MORE..
China has launched its first rover mission to Mars. The six-wheeled robot, encapsulated in a protective probe, was lifted off Earth by a Long March 5 rocket from the Wenchang spaceport on Hainan Island at 12:40 local time (04:40 GMT). MORE..
The United Arab Emirates successfully launched its Mars-bound Hope Probe on Sunday, marking the the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission -- and the first of three international missions to the Red Planet this summer. MORE..
The Twitter accounts of some of the most prominent U.S. political and business leaders, from Barack Obama and Joe Biden to Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett, were hacked Wednesday afternoon in an apparent effort to promote a Bitcoin scam. MORE..
Microsoft Teams has introduced a host of new features to better its video calling app. MORE..
Elon Musk’s electric car business exceeds the value of almost every company in the S&P 500, including some iconic American companies. MORE..
Nintendo-backed The Pokemon Company on Wednesday announced a cross-platform Pokemon team battling game developed with Tencent’s Timi Studio as the two gaming heavyweights deepen their cooperation with a twist on the Pokemon format. MORE..
Microsoft announced it selected Fortude as the first Sri Lankan grant recipient of its AI for Accessibility program, which funds organizations that use artificial intelligence to empower people with disabilities. MORE..
After testing a beta version in India, WhatsApp has launched in-app payments in Brazil, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. MORE..
Twitter said Friday it had deleted more than 170,000 accounts linked to a Chinese government disinformation campaign that targeted Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement and sought to discredit the United States. MORE..
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Tuesday that he stood by his decision not to challenge inflammatory posts by U.S. President Donald Trump, refusing to give ground a day after staff members staged a rare public protest. MORE..
US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have docked with, and entered, the International Space Station (ISS). MORE..
The websites of two government entities have suffered a cyber attack this morning (30), says the Cyber Security Centre of Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF). MORE..
A SpaceX rocket is ready to boost two NASA astronauts into orbit Wednesday, the first launch of Americans from the U.S. in nearly a decade. MORE..
Windows 10 users need to be aware of a new threat which can let hackers completely take over their machines and execute commands remotely. MORE..
Facebook Inc is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. MORE..
The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from global chipmakers, in an action ramping up tensions with China. MORE..
Facebook Inc.’s lack of a serious response to signs of abuse on its platform in Sri Lanka may have helped stoke deadly violence in the country in 2018, according to an investigation of the social network’s operations there. MORE..
Facebook Inc’s new content oversight board will include a former prime minister, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and several constitutional law experts and rights advocates among its first 20 members, the company announced on Wednesday. MORE..
WhatsApp is getting a chatbot to connect the messaging app’s millions of users with more than 80 fact-checking organizations across the globe. MORE..
Coronavirus has forced humans to adapt and change their lifestyle, the pandemic has now forced software of the tech giants to adapt to the present scenario. MORE..
The Pentagon has officially released three short videos showing “unidentified aerial phenomena” that had previously been released by a private company. MORE..