Technology

RUSSIAN hackers targeted this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo with the aim of disrupting them, UK officials said.

WHEN Apple unveils its new iPhones, expect it to make a big deal of the fact they're the first handsets in the world to be powered by a new type of chip.

MICROSOFT  has told staff that they will have the option of working from home permanently with manager approval.

IF you have more than 100 followers on Twitter in Lesotho then you could be classed as an Internet broadcaster and have to register with the authorities, according to a proposal being considered.

Huawei has failed to adequately tackle security flaws in equipment used in the UK's telecoms networks despite previous complaints, an official report says.

POPULAR real-time flight-tracking website Flightradar24 was hit by a cyber-attack that knocked out access to its services for hours.

TikTok has avoided a government-ordered block on new downloads in the US after a judge issued a temporary injunction.

TWITTER is investigating after users discovered its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to black ones.

TWITTER has automatically activated extra account protection for politicians and key figures in the forthcoming US election.

MICROSOFT has said that its offer to buy the US operations of hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok has been rejected, paving the way for Oracle to make a last-minute bid.

GOOGLE says it has wiped out its entire carbon footprint by investing in "high-quality carbon offsets".

One of the clear takeaways from Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold2 5G is that this is a product made by a company at the top of its game. The phone is not only a major improvement on the original model, it’s also a good phone. 

Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testified for two days before the US competition czar this week as part of an ongoing investigation into the company's practices.

TikTok is preparing to mount a legal challenge as early as Monday to President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app and its Chinese parent ByteDance, according to people familiar with the…

Twitter has approached TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to express an interest in buying its US operations, according to sources.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has seen his personal wealth rise to $100bn (£76bn) after the launch of a new short-form video feature.

President Donald Trump has announced he is banning the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok in the US.

The coronavirus crisis might be causing widespread economic upheaval around the world, but the world's biggest tech firms are thriving.

ZIMBABWE’S telecommunication firms have been given a new lease of life after their regulator granted them the authority to charge tariffs that are reflective of their cost of service delivery.

MORE than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others, two former employees said, making it hard to defend against the…

A showdown between the US government and the four big tech giants - Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google - is set to be postponed.

BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk’s SpaceX is looking to raise new capital at a valuation of about $44 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Google will invest $10bn (£7.93bn) in India in the next five to seven years, the chief executive of its parent company Alphabet Inc has announced.

The UK government is preparing to change course over the role of Huawei in its 5G telecoms network.

AS the ads boycott grows, Mark Zuckerberg shows no sign of backing down.