It began in February with a tweet by pop star Rihanna that sparked widespread condemnation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s handling of massive farmer protests near the capital, souring an already troubled relationship between the government and Twitter. Moving to contain the backlash, officials hit Twitter with multiple injunctions to block hundreds of tweets […]
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Toyota plans to hire more people and invest heavily in its subsidiary Woven Planet to work on mobility technology so the Japanese automaker stays competitive amid the global shift to using artificial intelligence and robotics in everyday driving. “Toyota’s traditional strength in hardware is something we never want to lose. To make safe mobility we […]
Popular MENA-based streaming service Anghami, announced on Wednesday six new telco partnerships and offers across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Anghami currently boasts over 30 partnerships within the first half of 2021. Choucri Khairallah, Anghami’s Vice President of Business Development spoke to the press about the new updates that will transform Anghami as […]
The agency in charge of Ireland’s cyber security is to get an increased budget and a major staff increase, the Government announced today. The expansion would bring the strength of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) from 25 to 45 within 18 months, with a further promise to increase it to 70 within five years. […]
Instagram announced on Tuesday a security feature that would enable its users to help recover their hacked accounts. The Facebook owned platform revealed the new tool called “Security Checkup” in a blog post to guide its users, whose accounts may have been hacked, through the steps needed to secure them. Users through this feature will undergo four major steps: after checking their login activity, they will be asked to review their profile information, followed by a confirmation […]
Ethiopia’s liberalization of its telecommunications sector is in full swing, as the state-run Ethio Telecom reported an 18.4 percent rise in full year revenue as of end of June to $1.29 billion, the telco’s CEO Frehiwot Tamiru told reporters on Tuesday. The provider’s ballooning revenue streams were followed by a 22 percent hike in subscribers […]
For 21 years, the software company Kaseya labored in relative obscurity — at least until cybercriminals exploited it in early July for a massive ransomware attack that snarled businesses around the world and escalated U.S.-Russia diplomatic tensions. But it turns out that the recent hack wasn’t the first major cybersecurity problem to hit the Miami-based […]
Apple has launched on Tuesday MagSafe wireless battery for its iPhone 12 lineup at the price of $99, the company announced on its website. The new battery will work with all four of the phones in the iPhone 12 family —iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Mini, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max. The MagSafe battery pack attaches magnetically to the back of one of the iPhone 12 models, […]
Tech experts in China who find a weakness in computer security would be required to tell the government and couldn’t sell that knowledge under rules further tightening the Communist Party’s control over information. The rules would ban private sector experts who find “zero day,” or previously unknown security weaknesses, and sell the information to police, […]
Electrify America, an electric vehicle charging network funded with money paid by Volkswagen as punishment for its emissions cheating scandal, says it plans to more than double its number of charging stations throughout the United States and Canada. The expansion will include 1,800 fast-charging stations and 10,000 individual chargers to be installed by 2025 and […]