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China says it is investigating its largest social media platforms - Weibo, WeChat and Baidu Tieba - for alleged violations of cyber security laws.

The NHS has finally agreed to fund a controversial HIV prevention treatment from September following a High Court battle over who would pay for the drug.

A 140 million-year-old bloom bearing a striking resemblance to a water lily was the mother (and father) of every flowering plant living today, scientists believe.

The British computer expert who stopped the WannaCry ransomware attack that wreaked havoc around the world and hit NHS computers has been detained by the FBI in Las Vegas, according to reports.

Cyber-thieves have made at least $25m (£19m) from ransomware in the last two years, suggests research by Google.

As part of efforts to assist in tackling graduate unemployment in the country and develop local content, GNPC-Technip Engineering Services Limited(GTES), a subsidiary of TechnipFMC, welcomed its sixth batch of Interns into the company.

An innovator and lecturer at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) at Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region, Dr Mark Amoo Boateng is seeking a $300,000 grant to enable him to develop a program to monitor the country’s ocean systems.

A 19-year-old Ghanaian University student Gabriel Opare has built a new search engine to rival Google and Youtube.

When it comes to communication on social media platforms, animated GIF images are perhaps as important as emojis.

Retail drone delivery seems to have been on the cards for years now. But how realistic is the prospect of drones flying autonomously through the sky and dropping off parcels direct to your doorstep?

Coordinator of a new Ghanaian satellite project, Dr. Richard Damoah has said Ghana’s first satellite launched into space provides an avenue for the fight against illegal mining.

European Union regulators slapped Google with a record €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion) antitrust fine on Tuesday, the latest broadside fired at big American tech companies doing business in the region.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the company’s new mission on Thursday.

Google says it is stepping up its efforts to identify and remove videos related to terrorism and violent extremist content, particularly on its YouTube platform.

Apple's iOS 11 mobile operating system will not be available for the iPhone 5 and 5C or the iPad 4 when it is released in the autumn.

Adding abiraterone to hormone therapy at the start of treatment for prostate cancer improves survival by 37 per cent, according to the results of one of the largest ever clinical trials for prostate cancer presented at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Six years ago, it was the first major tech company with a voice assistant.

With the rise of LG, Hitachi among others in the home electronics appliances market, some who only knew of Panasonic only as a TV manufacturer have possibly thought it had been long kicked out of business.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg features in a long line of university dropouts who became millionaires after founding technology companies - Bill Gates and Steve Jobs among them.

Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone vendor, is all set to launch the successor to the Mi Note 2, dubbed - Mi Note 3 later this year.

Google is planning to track billions of credit and debit card sales to compare online ad clicks with money spent offline.

Today the largest social media platform on earth with over one billion users, Facebook, epitomizes everything that one hears over folktales of the American Dream.  

A massive ransomware campaign appears to have infected a number of organisations around the world.

Every organization conducts its activities everyday deliberately avoiding internal as well as external threats to it business.

The man who created what is believed to be the world's largest website dealing in images of child sexual abuse has been sentenced to 30 years in jail.