Gamers in the US under the age of 21 might soon be unable to purchase in-game loot boxes of their favorite video game. Chris Lee, a Hawaiian representative in the...
More than 4000 sites were briefly made into cryptocurrency miners after a popular website plugin was hacked. More worryingly, several of the affected sites were actually owned by the US...
The organisers of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics have confirmed that the games were subject to a cyberattack during the opening ceremony. However, the committee has declined to reveal the source...
Facebook appears to testing a new 'downvote' button for comments. Curiously, there doesn't seem to be the option to downvote entire posts; as the social media giant is using system as...
Gabe Newell, founder of Valve, recently went on record to quash a rumour that Microsoft has expressed interest in acquiring his company and its digital distribution platform, Steam. The rumour...
Alphabet has opened a new cybersecurity company called Chronicle. Formerly part of the innovative X division, the new company will be focused on detecting threats by using an enormous amount...
Google’s upcoming Android Oreo 8.1 update will give Android users a new feature that allows them to check out the network speed – on top of the network strength –...
Google will be rolling out Chrome support for the Better Ads Standards within the next couple of months; a move that may affect a large number of websites. For the...
Spotify has announced that it is in the process of share-swapping with Tencent's entertainment arm. In essence, the two companies will be investing in each other for minority shareholder status....
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) earlier today has posted a notice to remind consumers not to obtain digital terrestrial TV (DTTV) or IPTV apparatus that don’t come with...
A demonstration by Samsung and Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI has shown the potential of 5G connectivity. The two ran a network trial from a moving train; achieving peak transfer speeds of...
Twitter has introduced a new light version of its service that minimises data usage. Twitter Lite is web-based, and has an install size of less than 1MB. Not too dissimilar...
