March 10, 2021
Russia blames Google outage on data centre fire
Russian authorities have blamed problems accessing Google and YouTube on a fire at a data centre in Strasbourg. The country's media watchdog Roskomnadzor tweeted that the disruption was due to the incident. The data centre belongs to French cloud…
March 9, 2021
Amazon’s Bezos plans to spend US$10b by 2030 on climate change
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos plans to spend the US$10 billion he invested in the Bezos Earth Fund by 2030, the fund's new CEO said Tuesday. Since Bezos announced the fund in February 2020, little has been revealed about how it would be used to combat the…
March 3, 2021
Amazon changes app logo that ‘resembles Hitler’
Amazon has quickly changed its main shopping-app logo, after commentators said the recent redesign made it look like Adolf Hitler. Launched in January, the icon depicts a strip of blue tape over an Amazon "smile" logo.But some observers said it…
February 26, 2021
Twitter unveils ‘super follow’ feature
Twitter has announced plans for a new "super follow" feature which will enable account holders to charge for exclusive additional content. This could take the form of extra tweets, joining a community group or receiving a newsletter, the firm said.…
February 23, 2021
WhatsApp to switch off messages for all who reject new terms
WhatsApp users who do not accept its updated terms and conditions by the 15 May deadline will be unable to receive or send messages until they do so. Their account will be listed as "inactive". And inactive accounts can be deleted after 120 days.…
October 3, 2020
Europe’s central bank moves toward introducing digital euro
FRANKFURT, Germany -- With consumers increasingly using cashless ways to buy things, the European Central Bank on Friday took a step closer to issuing a digital version of the euro currency shared by 19 countries, saying it had to be ready to launch…
May 31, 2020
Twitter is now in completely uncharted waters
(CNN Business) There is no turning back for Twitter now. The only way out is through. When Twitter slapped a warning label on one of President Donald Trump's tweets Friday for "glorifying violence," it was almost certain that the move — a first for…
May 31, 2020
Zuckerberg finally explains why Facebook is doing nothing about Trump’s posts
(CNN Business) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained Friday night why his company would take no action on posts in which President Trump threatened "looting" in Minneapolis would lead to "shooting." That explanation came roughly 16 hours after…
October 28, 2019
The wearable cyborgs that use brain waves to power up your muscles
Tokyo (CNN) - Kristen Sorensen was 55 when she became paralyzed from the neck down last year. "It came out of nowhere," says Sorensen. "I'd been fine and exercising every day, but it just started with tingling in my fingertips then progressed."…
June 5, 2019
Apple leaves iTunes behind as it harmonises software
Apple on Monday announced enhanced privacy features as it harmonised software across its line-up of devices, while dropping its ground-breaking iTunes store as it gears up for new kinds of digital content. Apple chief Tim Cook and other executives…