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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.

Microsoft has unveiled a new Surface laptop to compete with the Macbook Air.

General Electric Co (GE.N) said on Wednesday it is fixing a bug in software used to control the flow of electricity in a utility's power systems after researchers found that hackers could shut down parts of an electric grid.

Presently the leading online encyclopedia, Wikipedia is more or less a household name today when it comes to quick reference for organized information on about anything. Now the man behind that brand, is shifting his attention to a new area: news service.

The idea of smart phones, smart banking famously referred to as ‘internet banking’, among others has been one that could certainly be described as revolutionary.

One of the founding fathers of the internet, Robert Taylor, has died.

While working at the Pentagon in the 1960s, he instigated the creation of Arpanet - a computer network that initially linked together four US research centres, and later evolved into the internet.

An ICT social enterprise, Simon Mustard that teaches kids between the ages of 5 to 16 years old computerized tech related skills will be organising a coding boot camp this Easter.

Few issues have dominated the business and political environment in recent times like cyber-attacks or as many would consider it, cyber breaches. Stories of power cuts in Ukraine, the alleged US election data breaches by Russia, the WikiLeaks fiasco, and a similar claim of hack into Ghana’s Electoral Commission’s site at the heat of the December 2016 elections.

Spanish police have arrested a Russian programmer following US allegations of large-scale hacking.

U.S. pedestrian deaths rose sharply for the second year in a row in 2016, according to a study released on Thursday, a trend experts said mirrors increased driver cellphone use and distracted driving.

The organizers of two privacy campaigns say they plan to buy, then sell, the internet browsing histories of some of America's best-known politicians.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at curbing climate change.

Over the past couple of weeks, there have been intense battle in and out of courtrooms against what might well be regarded as one of the most controversial decisions in US Presidential history: a travel ban that shuts out eight countries tagged as potential threats to the United States national security.

Over the past one month, he has been at the fore-front of the resistance against President Trump’s travel ban by corporate leaders but the latest announcement to hand over the leadership of the transportation network giant - Uber after merely six months on the job, was “completely unexpected”.