The Trump administration said Friday it would not back down from a plan to ban new US downloads of the popular video-sharing app TikTok, setting up a court showdown ahead of a Sunday deadline.

Critics of Facebook Inc , including the organizers of an advertising boycott against the company, on Friday launched their own oversight board to review the company's content moderation practices.

Netmarble said it has launched BTS Universe Story in 173 countries, a storytelling game featuring 3D-scanned avatars of RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook.

Google has removed images from its Street View that allowed users to virtually walk on Australia's Uluru, a sacred Aboriginal site closed to tourists since last year. 

Google is updating its free mapping service this week with color-coding that maps out areas infected with COVID-19 cases.

A group of Apple Inc's critics have joined a nonprofit group that plans to advocate for legal and regulatory action to challenge the iPhone maker's App Store practices.

Amazon on Thursday unveiled Luna streaming video game service, challenging Microsoft and Google in the fast-growing segment.

Once a premier industry event, Tokyo Game Show has been increasingly overshadowed by global competitors in recent years. But as the pandemic forces it online, some see a chance for reinvention.

The British government on Thursday finally launches its troubled smartphone app to help track the coronavirus in England and Wales -- four months behind schedule and with cases once again surging.

The organizers of the Mobile World Congress said they were postponing next year's event to late June to make it possible to convene safely despite the coronavirus pandemic.

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 nutrients for plants.

Social gaming giant Zynga kicked off its global launch of a free puzzle game based on the beloved wizarding world of Harry Potter.

TikTok proposed an alliance with nine other social media platforms to work collectively and rapidly to remove suicide content, following an incident this month when a man killed himself on Facebook.

Astronauts on the International Space Station carried out an "avoidance maneuver" to ensure they would not be hit by a piece of debris, urging better management of objects in Earth's orbit.

A French consumer advocacy group said that it had filed a "planned obsolescence" claim against Nintendo's Switch console, saying the Japanese giant knew some controllers were failing too quickly.

TikTok has apologized for suppressing LGBT+ content in the past, with a director telling British lawmakers on Tuesday that the company now removed LGBT+ images only when required to do so by law enforcement agencies.

Social media giant Twitter said on Monday it would investigate its image-cropping function that users complained favored white faces over black.

ByteDance-owned short-video app TikTok said on Tuesday it removed over 104 million videos from its platform globally in the first half of the year for violating guidelines or terms of service.

Google Indonesia has celebrated the inauguration of Benyamin Sueb Park in East Jakarta with a doodle.

NASA on Monday revealed its latest plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024, and estimated the cost of meeting that deadline at US$28 billion, $16 billion of which would be spent on the lunar landing module.

Microsoft's deal to buy ZeniMax Media and its game studios for US$7.5 billion bodes well for its Xbox consoles and could shift the competitive landscape in an industry shifting to online play.

A new study that analyzed the coronavirus outbreak in Brazil has found a link between the spread of the virus and past outbreaks of dengue fever that suggests exposure to the mosquito-transmitted illness may provide some level of immunity against COVID-19.

Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also frequented by camels, buffalo and elephants bigger than any species seen today

Washington's crackdown on WeChat will disrupt communications between millions of people in the United States and their friends, families and business partners in China.

A driver who allegedly set his car to autopilot and then took a nap as it broke the speed limit on a rural Canadian highway has been charged with dangerous driving.

US President Donald Trump said he supports a deal that will allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States, after threatening to ban the Chinese-owned app in August.

The upcoming release of a ninth generation of games consoles by Sony and Microsoft is set to be a sales slam dunk with consumers seeking entertainment during pandemic confinement, but could it also be their swan song as the habits of gamers change?

If humans sound like Minnie Mouse after inhaling helium, would an alligator squeak on the gas used to float balloons?

Since July, TikTok users have braced for a threatened ban of the ultra-popular short-form video app in the United States, with some opening accounts on rival platforms and encouraging friends to do the same.

Samsung Electronics announced that the company has officially launched the Galaxy Z Fold 2 in overseas markets.