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Ride-hailing app Uber is introducing new features to its app ahead of the holiday season. The company is introducing live location sharing feature which can help the rider as well as the driver of an Uber to easily find one another. Uber is targeting the upcoming holiday season with its new set of features.

A German regulator has banned the sale of smartwatches aimed at children, describing them as spying devices.

Bitcoin surged on Monday, recovering more than $1,000 after losing almost a third of its value in less than four days as traders bought back into the volatile cryptocurrency.

YouTube is to restrict the availability of videos showing children's characters in violent or sexual scenes if they are reported by viewers.

Sean Parker, Facebook’s founding president has unloaded his worries and criticisms of the network, saying he had no idea what he was doing at the time of its creation.

The University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) has developed an information system that will alert the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to fire outbreaks for prompt response.

Twitter plans to increase the number of characters in tweets from 140 to 280 for the majority of users.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to step back into the years-long feud over patents between the world’s top smartphone makers, declining to hear Samsung’s (005930.KS) appeal of a lower court ruling that reinstated a jury award of about $120 million in favor of Apple(AAPL.O).

Afghanistan has sparked an outcry after it moved to block WhatsApp and Telegram messaging services.

Thousands of people formed queues outside stores in London, Tokyo, Sydney and around the world on Friday as eager buyers tried to get their hands on Apple’s most expensive smartphone to date, the hotly anticipated £999 iPhone X.

Twitter has published a new version of its rules, which it says will clarify its policies and how it enforces them.

Ghana and Rwanda would soon constitute a joint team to facilitate the process of using Information Communication Technology (ICT) to speed up the ongoing public sector reforms in Ghana.

Profits of the global social network giant – Facebook skyrocketed during the third quarter of the year. This was as a result of a massive rise in revenue during the period which exceeded $10 billion.

Bitcoin climbed to a new all-time high of $6,450 on Wednesday, boosted by bets the cryptocurrency could enter the financial mainstream after the world’s largest derivatives exchange operator said on Tuesday it would launch bitcoin futures.

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Apple has reportedly fired one of its engineers after his daughter posted a video of the iPhone X before the official launch.

WhatsApp and Facebook will be scrutinised by a data protection taskforce, after they were accused of "non-compliance" with regulations.

A new strain of ransomware nicknamed "Bad Rabbit" has been found spreading in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere.

Agents at the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been unable to extract data from nearly 7,000 mobile devices they have tried to access, the agency's director has said.

President Akufo- Addo launched the much anticipated National Digital Address System, Wednesday 18 October to ease the location problem in the country and boost emergency delivery services in the country.

Twitter Inc plans to toughen its rules on online sexual harassment and impose stronger penalties for misconduct, according to an email it sent to a group of safety advocates, academics and researchers that helps the social media service set its policies.

An app that encourages teens to be nice to each other has been acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed fee.

North Korean hackers targeted a British television company making a drama about the country, it has emerged.

Samsung Electronics chief executive Kwon Oh-Hyun has resigned citing an "unprecedented crisis".

A simulation laboratory to bolster research has been inaugurated at the College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

Microsoft appears to have abandoned its smartphone operating system ambitions.

A fresh case of Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) new iPhone popping open due to a swollen battery has been reported in state media in China, the world’s biggest smartphone market where the U.S. firm is seeking to revive faltering sales.

The Russian defence ministry has drafted a law to ban social media posts by professional soldiers and other military personnel on security grounds.

Snapchat is displaying virtual sculptures by the artist Jeff Koons at nine locations across the world.