Thu 23 July 2026: The European Commission fined Google €890 million ($1.02 billion) on Thursday for breaching the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) through self-preferencing in search results and restrictions imposed on app developers. The commission imposed a €460 million (about $525 million) fine after finding that Google favored its own shopping, hotel, transport, and […]
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Thu 23 July 2026: The play symbol is one of the world’s most recognisable icons. Across languages, writing systems, and cultures, a single right-pointing triangle is widely understood as “start”. Yet there’s nothing about this simple geometric icon that inherently suggests the start of something. So why does it carry this meaning? The emergence of […]
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Wed 22 July 2026: It’s Saturday night and you’ve downloaded a new food delivery app. You’ve scanned the menus, picked some Mexican dishes, placed your order and are now tracking the delivery. But your food never comes – and you never expected it to. It sounds ridiculous if you’ve never tried it, but this viral […]
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Tue 21 July 2026: As Australia’s ban on under-16-year-olds having certain social media accounts kicks in this week, debate on whether it’s a good idea or even legal rages on – both at home and overseas. Yet barely acknowledged in this debate is what happens when a child doesn’t have an account, yet their entire childhood is still documented online. […]
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Mon 20 July 2026: Walk into a shop, board a plane, log into your bank, or scroll through your social media feed, and chances are you might be asked to scan your face. Facial recognition and other kinds of face-based biometric technology are becoming an increasingly common form of identification. The technology is promoted as […]
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Mon 20 July 2026: China’s humanoid robotics sector is advancing rapidly and gaining an edge in key parts of the embodied artificial intelligence (AI) value chain, industry leaders said at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on Saturday. Humanoid robots demonstrated their capabilities on the second day of the conference, climbing tall walls and performing […]
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Sun 19 July 2026: The United Kingdom has proposed an overnight social media curfew for older teenagers as part of the government’s latest push to protect minors from digital harm, though users will be permitted to bypass the restrictions. The Labour administration announced the plans on Wednesday, outlining a six-hour default lockout from midnight to […]
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Sat 18 July 2026: Kenya’s official presidential website was hacked on Saturday, with attackers replacing its homepage with a message targeting President William Ruto and demanding a ransom of five Bitcoins. The breach affected the official presidency website, president.go.ke, where the hackers posted a cryptocurrency wallet address and warned that unspecified information would be released […]
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Sat 18 July 2026: Apple has overtaken chipmaker Nvidia to become the world’s most valuable company, as investor concerns grow due to market pressures driven by artificial intelligence. Apple is now worth $4.88 trillion compared with Nvidia’s $4.86 trillion, following a 3.5 percent decline in Nvidia’s market value. The milestone marks the first time the Cupertino, California-based iPhone […]
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Fri 17 July 2026: Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a lawsuit against a South Carolina man who was arrested earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors, alleging that he misused the company’s AI tool to create sexually explicit content involving a child. The lawsuit, filed in a Texas federal court on Tuesday, alleges […]
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