Britain's Prince Harry on Thursday praised Australia's "epic" leadership on curbing harmful social media use for teens, as his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, spoke of a decade of online abuse.
Flanked by a gaggle of smartphone-wielding onlookers, Irish farmer Joe Phelan ushered two alpacas down the corridor of a local nursing home as beaming residents waited their turn to pet them.
The United States has sent a team of election observers to Romania ahead of a presidential election rerun, a senior U.S. official said on Friday, amid criticism in Washington of a decision to cancel the initial 2024 ballot.
Coco Gauff said she is excited and a little nervous to meet fellow U.S. flag bearer LeBron James for the first time when the pair carry the Stars and Stripes on a boat down the Seine at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday.
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Friday he wanted it known that he had no plans to commit suicide in prison, as he issued a message of support to his followers on the eve of protests the authorities say are illegal.
TikTok owner ByteDance said on Tuesday it is not shutting its virtual reality (VR) business Pico and remains committed to the industry for the long term, after reports that the Chinese company plans to gradually wind down the brand.
Amazon (AMZN.O) and Apple (AAPL.O) are the world's most valuable brands but Chinese brands are rising up the leaders list and are more valuable than Europe's top brands, according to a global ranking by Kantar’s BrandZ.
European Commission Vice President Vera Jourova on Tuesday urged Alphabet's Google, Microsoft , Meta Platforms and TikTok to do more to tackle what she called Russia's "multi-million euro weapon of mass manipulation" ahead of elections in Europe.
SoftBank Group Corp is planning a fresh round of layoffs at its Vision Fund investment arm, two people familiar with the matter said, the latest cost-cutting move at the Japanese conglomerate.
The new Pew report also found that two-thirds of teens said they had used an A.I. chatbot. By Catherine Pearson Most American teenagers use YouTube and TikTok daily, according to a report released ...
A video of UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak using the side surface of a hammer end during a visit to a jewellery studio is circulating online without the context that the jeweller seen with Sunak in the excerpt from a longer video had instructed him to do so.
An Indian court on Thursday declined to lift a freeze on Xiaomi Corp's $676 million worth of assets, even as the Chinese smartphone group said this enforcement action had "effectively halted" its operations in its key Indian market.
Top British athletes will soon have a new weapon in the fight against online abuse after UK Sport signed a 300,000 pound ($400,170.00) deal to provide AI-based protection across social media.
A video of British singer Adele carrying a Mexican flag during a performance in Las Vegas has been mislabeled online, with some saying it shows her holding a Palestinian flag.
Russia said it had fined Apple $12 million for alleged abuse of its dominance in the mobile applications market, in the latest dispute between Moscow and a Western technology firm.
Singapore technology giant Sea on Tuesday reported its first ever quarterly profit, beating regional tech firms like GoTo and Grab to the punch. The almost $1 billion swing from a fourth-quarter loss in 2021 to a $423 million profit in the final three months of last year is largely down to cost cuts.
A group of German centre-left Social Democrats has joined their conservative coalition partners in calling for restrictions on social media access for children, proposing a formal ban for those under 14.
Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings' mobile game "Dungeon and Fighter" was the top-selling app on Apple's App Store in China this week, surpassing the company's existing flagship games after it spent years looking for a new marquee title.
Investors have a common understanding that coal is the dirtiest energy source. But when it comes to exit paths for the fossil fuel, miners do not see eye to eye. UK-listed Anglo American’s earnings on Thursday showed EBITDA in the $50 billion group’s metallurgical coal division tripled to over $2.7 billion in 2022. That comes days after $22 billion Canadian mining peer Teck Resources said it would spin off its equivalent division, integral to the production of steel, into a new $11.5 billion entity. With “met coal” constituting a fifth of Anglo’s overall EBITDA, investors may wonder whether boss Duncan Wanblad will follow Teck’s step.
Meta , the company behind social media giants Facebook and Instagram, has launched its new microblogging platform Threads.
Post-Brexit Britain has yet to offer a happy home to its insurers. Despite hopes that the government could slash red tape and relax regulatory constraints after leaving the European Union, UK insurers are still haunted by a discount to European peers, bogged down by the country’s sluggish economy. That’s doubly true for $19 billion Legal & General .