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Cameroon athletes vanish from C'wealth Games

Team attache Simon Molombe said he did not expect them to return. Eight athletes from conflict-hit Cameroon - one-third of the central African country's 24-st...

Apple kills iPhone 8 functions after servicing

First off, the new red iPhone 8 and 8 Plus models have black fronts, as opposed to the white on the previous models. While the new update gives users ...

Mark Zuckerberg's personal data was given to Cambridge Analytica

On the topic of Europe's General Data Protection Regulation , Reuters reports that the European Union is now going even further, establishing a Social Medi...

Investor's Update on Nokia Oyj (ADR) (NYSE:NOK)

It runs the latest Android Oreo (Go edition), a version of Android for devices with 1GB RAM or less. Shaun Durandt, HMD Global General Manager, said as the va...

Apple MacOS pop-ups warn that forthcoming updates could disable 32-bit apps

The company has already stopped accepting any new apps that use 32-bit technology into its Mac App Store . As Apple says on a support page , "you may continue...

OnePlus 6 Teaser Reveals Its Similarities With The OnePlus 5T

However, the newest picture showing the OnePlus 6 is 100% accurate since it comes directly from the handset maker. The "slide to focus" functionality will l...

Nearly 3 million European Union citizens hit by Facebook data breach

Although the ability to automatically delete sent texts hadn't been previously available, Facebook says it now plans to make it available to all users. About a ...

Gmail is getting a cleaner UI, snooze feature, smart replies, and more

Google did confirm to The Verge that a redesign is indeed on the way, but said that it'll be a little while longer before it'll be ready to share more. This i...

FTC warns companies that using "warranty void if removed" stickers is illegal

Hyundai USA now insists "the use of Hyundai Genuine Parts is required to keep your Hyundai manufacturer's warranties and any extended warranties intact", w...

New 2018 Ford Focus officially revealed

Ford's director of product communications, Jay Ward, tweeted on the launch of the new Focus this morning: "It's here!" Final details of the new Ford Focus ...

Foster & Motley Inc. Has $16.41 Million Holdings in Microsoft Co. (MSFT)

The institutional investors in our database now own: 11.03 million shares, down from 11.04 million shares in 2017Q3. The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) has risen 1...

Yvonne Staples of The Staple Singers reportedly dies at 80

Singer Yvonne Staples poses for a portrait at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium on March 4, 2011. The family also became active in t...

Zuckerberg confirms Facebook is working with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation

In his written remarks, Zuckerberg called Facebook "an idealistic and optimistic company" and said: "We focused on all the good that connecting people can b...

Mark Zuckerberg's testimony continues with House committee

To be clear, we do allow people to take videos on their devices and share those, and videos have audio, so we do while you're taking a video, record that and us...

Fortnite's Port-a-Fort Will Give You Instant Protection in a Pickle

Epic Games has been treating us to a lot of new gadgets after the recent beefy content update, which saw the addition of Fortnite Battle Royale vending machine...

Microsoft releases source code for its 1990s File Manager

It is a quick and easy way to relive the drag and drop frenzy of Windows 3.0, without the associated blue-screens of death. Instead of using MS-DOS command li...

UK Giant ichthyosaur is one of the largest animals ever

The fossil remains of ichthyosaurs suggest that they lived throughout the Mesozoic era, 251 million years ago and up to 65 million years ago. But now, resea...

Chevrolet Camaro Unveiled With Turbo 1LE

Chevrolet has also upped excitement levels at the lower end of the range, with a Turbo 1LE model, which pairs the 205kW/400Nm 2-litre turbocharged entry engi...

5 things you should know — Ford Focus

The Focus hatchback will be offered in ST-Line trim - which has a suspension 10mm lower than the standard car's - and as an Active-badged near-crossover variant...

LawBreakers Dev Announces New Battle Royale Game… Releasing Tomorrow

Boss Key is nearly certainly one of the first of many, many developers that will try to capture some of the obviously huge market for battle royale games over ...

Ghost Recon Wildlands gets Splinter Cell's Sam Fisher from today onwards

According to Ubisoft, a new PvE mission will bring Sam Fisher and the Ghosts together to hunt down a common enemy. Fisher's infiltration mission can be played...

Uber Buys JUMP Bikes

Uber has big plans for Jump. Bicycles have become trendy because they offer affordable mobility while limiting traffic congestion and pollution. Cities have ...

ZTE's new concept phone has two notches and clear corners

ZTE is trying to get ahead of this whole notched display business by taking the design to the next logical step: two notches . ZTE has kept the specificatio...

Once out of Africa, early human migration was widespread

The revelation, portrayed in Nature Ecology and Evolution , is the most established straightforwardly dated Homo sapiens fossil outside of Africa and ...

Google kicks off construction on $600M Alabama data center

When these new projects become operational in 2019 and 2020, participating customers like us will be able to substitute a portion of our electricity bill with a...

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Deactivates Facebook Account Over Privacy Concerns

The firm traded information that had been gathered by scientists operating at Cambridge University with the Psychometrics Lab, same as how Cambridge Analytica ...

OnePlus 6 renders leak reveals three colors options and red alert slider

With no official confirmation yet, OnePlus could launch the new OnePlus 6 phone in the global market by the end of this month or may be early May. The glass...

Xiaomi Starts PCBA Manufacturing In India, Opens 3 New Plants

Handset maker Xiaomi on Monday hosted more than 50 of its global component suppliers here to showcase opportunities in India, a move that it believes can brin...

Facebook cuts ties with another data firm following data misuse scandal

Mark Zuckerberg's misuse of the data personal information of his faithful Black Facebook users requires that he establish a small $100 million-dollar fund to...

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on Today Show

Sandberg conceded Facebook was guilty of a "10 out of 10" breach of their users" trust when it came to data privacy and that bosses should have acted "two and...

CWG 2018: Manu Bhaker wins gold, Heena Sindu bags silver

Bhaker set the tempo when she recorded 101.5 at the end of first stage, leaving the others to play catch up for the rest of the finals. In the 2018 Internationa...

Ubisoft Opening New Winnipeg Studio Comprised Of AAA Dev Teams

The new studio will join offices already in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax - as well as in 18 other countries around the world. Ubisoft is plannin...

IPhones with curved screens and touchless gestures coming in 2-3 years

The report specifically cites that Apple is testing an iPhone display capable of detecting gestures from finger movements without actually touching the di...

Telugu Artist Sri Reddy Strips, Demands Justice For Not Getting Work

Reddy, in all her despair, said that she could not find any other means to gather the attention of authorities and make her point heard loud and clear. Sri Redd...

Nokia 9 To Sport A Monstrous Triple Camera System

We had earlier reported that the Finnish company had planned a launch event on April 4 to unveil the Nokia 7 Plus along with the Nokia 6 (2018 ) and the ...