E-commerce workers who kept China fed during the coronavirus pandemic, making their billionaire bosses even richer, are so unhappy with their pay and treatment that one just set himself on fire in protest.
Dec 18 (Reuters) - Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp has rolled out a beta version of its desktop app that features voice and video calls for the first time, according to a report by tech blog WABetaInfo.
An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early Thursday, completing another chapter in China's effort to become a space superpower.
OPPO, the world's leading smart device manufacturers and innovators, has recently unveiled the OPPO Reno4* in Lebanon, a device that further confirms the brand’s mission to offer consumers a smarter and better life.
Google services, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, were restored for most users on Monday, following a global outage that affected thousands.
Massive outage hits Google services worldwide
Apple Inc on Tuesday unveiled AirPods Max, its next-generation over-ear headphones priced at $549.
Chinese state media say the country’s lunar probe has lifted off from the moon with a cargo of lunar samples on the first stage of its return to Earth.
A single Powerball ticket sold in Maryland is the winner of an estimated $731.1 million jackpot, the first to get the top prize in months.
A devoted dog has spent days waiting outside a hospital in northern Turkey where her sick owner was receiving treatment.
The United States under President Joe Biden intends to join the COVAX vaccine facility that aims to deliver vaccines to poor countries, his chief medical...
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is likely to protect against a more infectious variant of the virus, which was discovered in Britain and...
The state of Lebanon’s wine industry has previously been assessed to be in dire straits thanks to the current depth of crises facing the country.
Egypt's tourism sector is eying a gradual recovery after revenues plunged by nearly 70% to $4 billion in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the tourism...
Europe faces significant disruption to air transport as a growing number of countries bans flights from Britain due to fears over a new coronavirus strain,...
Norway became the first country in the world where electric cars accounted for more than 50 percent of new registrations in 2020, according to figures...
The chief executive of Volkswagen , the world's largest vehicle maker by sales, expects autonomous vehicles to be ready for sale between 2025 and 2030, he...
China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon's surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported.
A rocket heading for the moon to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades blasted off from China on Tuesday in the latest milestone for Beijing's...
Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will transfer control of the @POTUS account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan. 20, the social media companies said on...
SpaceX’s newly launched capsule with four astronauts arrived Monday at the International Space Station, their new home until spring.
A Tunisian startup is developing a 3D-printed bionic hand, hoping the affordable and solar-powered prosthetic will help amputees and other disabled people...
Facebook Monday acknowledged glitches in enforcing its policy on removing misleading political advertising for the US election after a report revealed banned...
Saudi Arabia is planning an 8 billion riyals ($2.1 billion) boost for its space program by 2030 under an economic diversification plan that aims to attract...
Dubai is introducing a facial recognition system on public transport to beef up security, officials said Sunday, as the emirate prepares to host the global...
Saudi Arabia launched Wednesday a national artificial intelligence strategy aimed at making it a global leader in the field as it seeks to diversify its...
As automation and online work gain ground, organizers of the annual Davos forum are projecting employers will split work equally between machines and people...
After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the...
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts successfully reached the International Space Station after blasting off from the...
A much-hyped network upgrade called "5G" means different things to different people.
Apple's four new iPhones announced Tuesday will be 5G capable of connecting to the fast new wireless networks which are being upgraded worldwide.
Apple Inc on Tuesday launched its next-generation iPhone 12, with faster 5G connectivity that the California company hopes will spur consumers to trade in...
Facebook is banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources if they search for information about the...
Supreme Court justices discussed restaurant menus, computer keyboards, songs and even the periodic table Wednesday in trying to resolve a copyright dispute...
Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes, the all-consuming monsters that lurk in the...
Cormeilles-en-Vexin, France, Sept 30, 2020 (AFP) - "Flying taxis" will start taking off from an aerodrome north of Paris as soon as next June, operators said,...
A Dutch start-up has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus, instead of wood, which it says can convert a decomposing human body into key...
Facebook is launching a new initiative this week to encourage Americans to vote in the upcoming presidential election, the latest effort by the social network...