Wearables

New cryptography aims to protect users of wearable Internet gadgets

Worried about hackers posting your Fitbit data to the dark web, revealing those average 4-minute kilometre runs you've been humblebragging about to be more like 4:25, 4:30?

Internet

Some 73% of US adults have fallen for online scams. How to avoid them

Online scammers continue to dupe a majority of American adults as they infiltrate virtual calendars and security systems meant to defend you against the poaching of personal information.

Video games

Preview: ‘Denshattack!’ turns train riding into a Tony Hawk-style adventure

On long trips, the landscape outside becomes a playground for the imagination. Mountains look like slumbering dinosaurs. The distance between street lights take on a rhythm.

Video games

Impressions: ‘Grounded 2’ expanded depth shows more bug-fighting potential

When friends love a game, you learn about it through osmosis. They discuss the campaign's challenges, its failings and the reasons they keep on playing despite the frustrations. That's how I absorbed everything about 'Grounded' before wholeheartedly jumping in.

Operating systems

Opinion: Would you like to try iOS 26 early?

Did you know you can download and install the new iOS 26 ahead of this fall's launch, if your phone can handle it?

Internet

Dirty fighters: keyboard warriors resorting to insults over ideas

Play the ball, not the man: the old saying, telling footballers to eschew cynical fouling, has been reapplied as a warning against personal attacks or ad hominems for almost as long as it has been used with reference to the so-called Beautiful Game.

Video games

Preview: ‘Pragmata’ has an unconventional twist to the sci-fi shooter

When Hugh Williams wakes up and discovers a child named Diana, everything seems a bit off. He's in a full space suit, and this strange child who has just healed him is walking around barefoot in a facility called the Cradle.

Video games

Preview: ‘Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds’ offers twist to kart racing

Although Mario is the biggest name in kart racing, it's not the only game in town.

Technology

China’s Xiaomi is betting big on electric cars

Xiaomi may not be a household name in the US, but in China its products are everywhere. Already one of the world's top mobile phone manufacturers, the technology company also makes everything from toothbrushes to watches – even mattresses. Now it's betting big on electric vehicles, having already succeeded where even Apple failed.

AI

Tesla to integrate Deepseek, Doubao AI voice controls in China

Tesla Inc plans to introduce in-car voice assistant functions powered by Deepseek and Bytedance Ltd's Doubao artificial intelligence as it aims to catch local rivals who offer similar features.

Gadgets

Apple expands India push with new store in Bangalore next month

Apple Inc will open a new store in India's southern tech hub of Bangalore early next month, ramping up its push into a key growth market.

Smartphones

Japan city proposes two-hour daily smartphone limit

A Japanese city will urge all smartphone users to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school under a proposed ordinance that includes no penalties.

Video games

'Hell is Us' looks to break mould of big-budget gaming

Developer Jonathan Jacques-Belletete has taken a gamble on forthcoming game Hell Is Us, hoping to ape the budget success of indie hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to tangle with industry heavyweights.

Console

Sony raises the price of the PlayStation 5 in the US

Sony has raised the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles being sold in the United States by US$50.

Video games

German intelligence uses spy video game to attract talent at Gamescom

The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has turned to video games to attract new talent, unveiling a spy-themed title at Cologne's computer games fair Gamescom.

Console

Microsoft re-joins handheld gaming fight against Nintendo's Switch

The record launch in June for the Nintendo Switch 2, a game console that can be played at home or on the go, heralds a new portable race that Microsoft aims to win with a handheld version of its Xbox.

AI

Google: One AI prompt uses as much energy as nine seconds of TV

A single text prompt to Google's artificial intelligence (AI) software, Gemini, consumes roughly as much electricity as just under nine seconds of television, the company said on Aug 21.

Internet

Weaponising the feed: Inside Kenya's online war against activists

When software developer Rose Njeri created a pro-democracy tool to help Kenyans object to a contested finance bill, she was thrown in jail and targeted by an online smear campaign.

Technology

Apple boosts subscription price for TV+ to $12.99

(Reuters) -Apple will raise the price of streaming service Apple TV+ by $3 starting Thursday, following a similar move by Comcast-owned NBCUniversal's Peacock.

Technology

Thoma Bravo to buy Dayforce in $12.3 billion deal

(Reuters) -HR software provider Dayforce said on Thursday buyout firm Thoma Bravo will take it private in a $12.3 billion deal, including debt.