ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry has offered to pay Rs 2 million to anyone with a 'winning idea' on how to get rid of police search points.
Imagine a world where you could control your electrical appliances from anywhere in the world, monitor your appliances' power consumption and make sure you know how much electricity your electronic devices are consuming--all with the tap of…
Twitter on Monday said it is rolling out a filter that will hide away unwanted direct messages, providing a new tool to stymie abuse.
Twitter users who receive direct messages from people they don't follow on the platform…
San Francisco - Facebook on Tuesday said facial recognition technology applied to photos at the social network will be an opt-in feature.
The change that began rolling out to users around the world came as the leading social network…
Working in secrecy for a year, the Telegram messaging service has a plan: to beat Facebook in the race to launch a cryptocurrency with its new project "Gram".
Little is known about Gram, but media reports say Russian-founded Telegram…
Australia's consumer watchdog has sued Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's Australian unit for allegedly misleading consumers by promoting water-resistant Galaxy smartphones as suitable to use in swimming pools and the surf.
AMSTERDAM - Alphabet Inc.’s Google said on Monday it will invest an additional 1 billion euros ($1.14 billion) to build data centers in the Netherlands, including a new facility in Middenmeer.
The company had previously said it is…
Facebook plans to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra next year as part of its wider efforts to expand beyond social networking into e-commerce and global payments.
Washington (AFP) - Google took in some $4.7 billion in revenue in 2018 from "crawling and scraping" news websites without paying publishers, according to an industry-sponsored study released Monday which was disputed by the tech giant and…
WASHINGTON: YouTube announced Wednesday it would ban videos promoting or glorifying racism and discrimination as well as those denying well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.
The…
LONDON (Reuters) - Huawei put uncertainty over the future of its devices business to one side on Tuesday with the launch of new Honor smartphones, in a confident display of the Chinese firm’s technology.
Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei on Tuesday shrugged off US attempts to block his company's global ambitions, saying the United States underestimates the telecom giant's strength.
Ren spoke to Chinese media days after President Donald…
Paris (AFP) - Hundreds of millions of smartphone users will be affected by Google's decision to sever its Android operating system ties with Chinese handset maker Huawei.
The decision, in the midst of a US trade war with China, means that…