Category: Technology

 The Australian government and telecoms giant Telstra are buying a Pacific telecoms company in a joint venture. The movie is being viewed as a political block to China’s influence in the region. Telstra called the A$2.1 billion deal a “unique and very attractive commercial opportunity to boost our presence in the region”. Digicel Pacific employs […]

Netflix subscriptions picked up in the third quarter of 2021 as non-English language shows continued to be the streaming platform’s best performers. The US company added 4.4 million users in the three months to 30 September, more than double the previous quarter. Korean TV series Squid Game was the company’s biggest hit, with a viewership […]

Apple has taken down one of the world’s most popular Quran apps in China, following a request from officials. Quran Majeed is available across the world on the App Store – and has nearly 150,000 reviews. It is used by mullion of Muslims. It’s understood that the app was removed for hosting illegal religious texts. […]

AMD warned last week that its chips are experiencing performance issues in Windows 11, and now Microsoft’s first update to its new OS has reportedly made the problem worse. TechPowerUp reports that it’s seeing much higher latency, which means worse performance, following the Windows 11 update going live yesterday. AMD and Microsoft found two issues […]

Cyber-attacks which see hackers get inside computer networks and lock the owners out until they pay a ransom present “the most immediate danger” to UK businesses in cyber-space, warned the head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Lindy Cameron said her agency, an arm of GCHQ, and the National Crime Agency had assessed that […]

Artificial Intelligence can tell whether it is going to rain in the next hours, suggests research. Scientists at Google-owned London AI lab DeepMind and the University of Exeter partnered with the Met Office to build the so-called nowcasting system. Traditional methods use complex equations and often forecast for only between six hours and two weeks’ […]

“Voter registration for #LGE2021 continues online at https://registertovote.elections.org.za until midnight on Monday, September 20. Voters’ roll closes with a proclamation on this day. But hurry, register asap to avoid disappointment. #evervoicetogether” said a tweet from the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) as the voter registration centres were closing on Sunday. Some users of the […]

The future of technology is in the challenges that we face presently, and that’s exactly what a group of grade 7 Reddford House learners did when they created the Covid K9 robot at an international robotics competition. The Inter-Reddford team, as they would like to be known, made it to the top five spots at […]

TikTok is under investigation by The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) – its lead regulator in the EU – over two privacy-related issues. The watchdog is looking into its processing of children’s personal data and whether TikTok is in line with EU laws about transferring personal data to other countries such as China. TikTok said […]

Cryptocurrency Litecoin saw a sudden surge in price on Monday over a press release about Walmart accepting it for payment – which turned out to be fake. The release, published through a legitimate press channel, claimed that Walmart would accept the currency through all its digital stores. Walmart later told US media outlets the announcement […]