September 28, 2025
Swiss voters narrowly approve plan for electronic ID cards
Swiss voters have narrowly approved a plan to introduce voluntary electronic identity cards. With all votes counted, 50.4% of those who voted said yes to the proposal, while 49.6% rejected it. The closeness of the ballot is a surprise. Opinion polls…
August 27, 2025
Cybercrime and cybersecurity awareness campaign to be rolled out across four OECS countries
Four member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are from Tuesday participating in a World Bank-funded initiative promoting digital transformation across nine-member sub-regional grouping. The awareness programme for…
July 24, 2025
Trump unveils AI plan
The Trump administration has unveiled a sweeping roadmap to develop artificial intelligence, pledging to boost US innovation while stripping away what it calls "bureaucratic red tape" and "ideological bias". The 28-page AI Action Plan outlines more…
July 17, 2025
Samsung boss cleared of fraud by South Korea’s top court
Samsung boss Lee Jae-yong has been cleared by South Korea's top court of fraud charges, concluding a years-long legal battle over his role in a 2015 merger deal. Lee, the grandson of Samsung's founder and the de facto head of the company since 2014,…
July 16, 2025
Grenada PM calls for the acceleration of the digital future of the region
Grenada’s Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell is calling on the Caribbean to take advantage of the existing environment to reimagine and accelerate the digital future of the region. “This gathering isn’t just a celebration of four decades of…
July 10, 2025
Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9 (Reuters) - OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated to launch in…
July 10, 2025
Nvidia’s stock market value hits $4 trillion on AI dominance
July 9 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) briefly reached a market capitalization of $4 trillion on Wednesday, making it the first company in the world to reach the milestone and solidifying its position as one of Wall Street's most-favored stocks. Shares…
July 9, 2025
Instagram wrongly accuses some users of breaching child sex abuse rules
Instagram users have told the BBC of the "extreme stress" of having their accounts banned after being wrongly accused by the platform of breaching its rules on child sexual exploitation. The BBC has been in touch with three people who were told by…
July 6, 2025
Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 more jobs as it invests in AI
Microsoft has confirmed that it will lay off as many as 9,000 workers, in the technology giant's latest wave of job cuts this year. The company said several divisions would be affected without specifying which ones but reports suggest that its Xbox…
June 30, 2025
Trump says he has ‘a group of very wealthy people’ to buy TikTok
President Donald Trump has said he has a buyer for TikTok, the video-sharing app that was banned in the US amid claims it posed a national security risk. In a Fox News interview, Trump said he had a group of "very wealthy people" willing to acquire…