Despite the country's notoriously complex business climate, taxi and home-delivery firm Yassir has millions of users and is expanding across Africa.

Ever since fried-chicken chain KFC's sold-out campaign four years ago, many companies have tried to harness crypto payments before abandoning their efforts, Tesla and Dell among them.

Twitter's newest board member and largest stakeholder Elon Musk tweeted Saturday to ask if the social media network was "dying" and to call out users such as singer Justin Bieber, who are widely followed but rarely post.

The first fully private mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Florida with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space.

Explainable AI is on the rise for accurate results about consumers’ decisions, but some experts are concerned that it will do the opposite.

But when Kisten, a Black South African adopted by white parents, arrived home puppy in tow, her mother showed her a message on the neighbourhood WhatsApp group that warned residents about a Black woman seen running after a dog.

The war in Ukraine has rapidly positioned TikTok as the number one source of misinformation thanks to its gigantic number of users and minimal filtering of content.

Elon Musk will join Twitter's board of directors a day after the Tesla boss bought a major stake in the company and became its largest shareholder.

The island has been hit by nearly 27,000 small tremors as of Tuesday and there are fears the activity could herald a volcanic eruption for the first time since 1808, or a powerful earthquake.

After NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February last year, its two microphones started recording, allowing scientists to hear what it is like on the Red Planet for the first time.

The newly discovered star, called "Earendel," is so far away its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, when the universe was seven percent its current age.

Facebook disputed the report, which was published Thursday, saying that it "vastly overstated what this bug was because ultimately it had no meaningful, long-term impact on problematic content," according to Joe Osborne, a spokesman for parent company Meta.

More than half of the world's websites use Google Analytics to help their owners understand the behaviour of users.

A Russian court banned Facebook and Instagram as "extremist", part of sweeping efforts by Moscow to crack down on social media during the conflict in Ukraine.

The Telegram messaging app has become a go-to platform since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite concerns over its data security and defenses against misinformation. 

Mark Vande Hei is due to fly to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule with cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov on March 30 after 355 days in space, a new US record.

Heart-rending videos of artillery strikes are being served up alongside funny snippets such as bomb-shelter cooking tips and invasion misinformation as the war in Ukraine plays out on TikTok.

According to Dmitry Rogozin, the sanctions, some of which predate Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, could disrupt the operation of Russian spacecraft servicing the ISS. 

The policy decision from Facebook and Instagram's parent company Meta on Thursday said the platforms would now allow statements like "death to Russian invaders" but not credible threats against civilians.

The short message service, or SMS, is deemed a relic from the past for some, but many still use it on a daily basis.

"Something's not quite right, and we're looking into it. Thanks for your reports!" the company wrote on Twitter.

TikTok announced it is suspending the posting of all video content from Russia in order to keep its employees safe and comply with the country's new "fake news" regulations.

In the age of Covid, Jordanian mechanical engineer Saliba Taimeh came up with a device to sterilise everyday surface with UV rays with the help of TechWorks.

The impact would have taken place at 7:25 am Eastern Time (1225 GMT), on the far side of the Moon, said the astronomer Bill Gray, who was the first to predict the collision.

Twitter's new chief Parag Agrawal said it will reopen offices globally this month but let people work remotely if they wish.

After getting snarled up in German red tape, US electric car pioneer Tesla got the final go-ahead from authorities Friday.

Tech firms from Facebook to TikTok and Microsoft moved to curb the reach of Russian state-linked news outlets, which stand accused of pushing misinformation about its invasion of Ukraine.

The launch of the Rosalind Franklin rover, whose mission is to drill into Martian soil to seek out signs of life, was originally planned for 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 and technical delays.

Services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have a unique power because of their global reach and ubiquity, but they are profit-motivated companies so a stridently principled stand can be bad for business.

The outpost was the subject of a menacing Twitter thread by Russian space agency head Dmitry Rogozin, who warned Thursday that US sanctions could "destroy our cooperation" and said the research platform would plummet to the Earth without his nation's help.