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It’s the most powerful street-legal car ever to come out of Italy. And when your competitors include Ferrari and Lamborghini, that’s some badge of honour. It may even be the most powerful road car ever, although when you’re dealing with hypercars (the noun supercar is no longer sufficient) it’s a …

SpaceX’s new Dragon capsule successfully docked on the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA and SpaceX confirmed during a live broadcast of the mission. “We can confirm hard capture is complete,” NASA said. The announcement was met with applause at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The docking began …

Two former Facebook content moderators have joined a lawsuit against the tech giant, alleging they suffered psychological trauma and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder caused by reviewing violent images on the social network. The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, alleges that Facebook violated California law by failing to provide thousands …

For mobile phone users, who have the urge to read WhatsApp messages as soon as they receive them but don’t want to seem too eager or to be seen doing it at all, there is a way to bypass the unwanted exposure. In addition to the trick of turning on …

  MD Global, the Finnish company that owns the rights to use the Nokia brand for mobile phones, has launched a smartphone with an array of five camera lenses on the rear – two 12 megapixel color sensors and three 12 megapixel monochrome sensors – designed to appeal to camera …

Samsung is celebrating a decade of Galaxy S phones with the launch of three new phones. The Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, and Galaxy S10e are now official. And yes, you read that right — Samsung has three new smartphones. On paper, all of them meet the standard for a “flagship” …

Tech giant Microsoft said Wednesday it had detected hacker “attacks” ahead of European Parliament and national elections in the EU, in a warning to civil society groups, politicians and campaigns. The firm said a group it calls Strontium was behind the attacks, known to security firms and government agencies as …

Google’s latest 3D rendered maps of four Taiwanese cities have inadvertently revealed the locations of key missile defense locations on the self-governing island, including a previously-secret Patriot missile base. Now, Taipei is rushing to push the tech giant to blur the maps over those sites. In 2012, Google Maps announced …

The mobile network industry has called for a new European security testing scheme to check the safety of 5G equipment before it is deployed. Several countries have stopped individual companies supplying equipment for their next-generation networks, citing security concerns. Chinese giants Huawei and ZTE have both faced intense scrutiny. The …

  With the February 20 launch for the Samsung Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10 Plus, and Galaxy S10E fast approaching, we haven’t been short on leaks and rumors to keep us going until the big day – and today there are more leaked images to pore over. Courtesy of seasoned tipster …

Samsung is set to announce a host of new products later this month, including a range of Galaxy S10 smartphones, Galaxy Buds earphones and a Galaxy smartwatch. All of the devices have been leaked, meaning little mystery still surrounds the 20 February event. What is less known is what the …

Toyota has officially launched Kinto, a company first revealed late last year that will manage a car subscription program and other mobility services in Japan, including the sale and purchase of used vehicles as well as automotive repair and inspection. Kinto is jointly funded by Toyota Financial Services, a wholly …

Apple said it has fixed a privacy flaw in its group video chat software and that it plans to improve how it handles reports of software bugs after a teenager and his mother tried for days to warn the iPhone maker of the bug. Apple said on Monday it would …

A new study from Stanford and NYU finds logging off causes ‘small but significant improvements in wellbeing’ Despite all the scandals of the past year, here we are, still on Facebook, a couple of billion of us spending about an hour a day in its iron grip. Now a new …

On Monday, Twitter and other social networking sites lit up with anxious Apple users after the news site 9to5Mac reported on a strange glitch in the company’s iPhones. The issue: It turns out that an iPhone user can call another iPhone user and listen in on that person’s conversations through …

One only has to look at past events to know that nation-state hacking has become an increasing concern for governments worldwide. In 2018, hackers from China targeted universities and the Lowy Institute in Australia, to steal intellectual property and information. In 2015, Ukraine’s power grid was compromised by the Black …

Facebook is working to allow cross-messaging between Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Each service will continue to operate as a standalone app, but according to the Times, Facebook is rebuilding the underlying infrastructure so that people who might use only one of Facebook’s properties could communicate with others within the …