The Partition in 1947, following India's independence from British rule, triggered one of the biggest forced migrations in history, uprooting more than 12 million people and killing more than one million.

TikTok won a last-minute reprieve as a US federal judge halted enforcement of a politically charged ban ordered by the Trump administration on downloads of the popular video app, hours before it was set to take effect.

Hostile and hateful remarks are thick on the ground on social networks in spite of persistent efforts by Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and YouTube to tone them down. Now researchers at the OpenWeb platform have turned to artificial intelligence to moderate internet users’ comments before they are even posted.

Epic Games will strive anew Monday to convince a judge that its hit title Fortnite should be restored to Apple's App Store, despite sidestepping the tech titan's standard commission on transactions.

Known for its short-form videos popular with teens, TikTok has become a global social media sensation, and at the same time has found itself at the heart of a geopolitical war between the United States and China.

Facebook said Friday it struck a deal in which Apple agreed to temporarily forgo its cut of revenue from paid events at the leading social network to help pandemic-hit performers earn money during the pandemic.

Both assure customers of safety of credit card information, and are investigating incidents further.

Can a small American aerospace company get to Venus before NASA returns to our superheated planetary neighbor? That's what Peter Beck, the CEO of Rocket Lab, is hoping as he sets his sights on launching a low-cost probe in 2023.

Alphabet on Friday announced moves to address sexual misconduct at Google and its other operating divisions, putting in place changes worked out to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders.

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.