TECHNOLOGY

US offers $10m bounty for Colonial Pipeline hackers

The United States government has offered a bounty of up to $10million (£7.4m) for information about the hacking group known as DarkSide.

Instagram post previews to return on Twitter

Instagram has brought back support for Twitter card previews after removing the feature nine years ago.

Now, when users share an Instagram link…

EA says NFTs are part of the future of games industry

Game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) has told investors that collectible NFTs are "an important part of the future of our industry".

NFTs have…

Facebooks metaverse plans labelled as dystopian and a bad idea

One of Facebook's earliest investors has labelled the social media giant's plans for a metaverse as "dystopian".

Meta, as Facebook is now known,…

Tesla opens its chargers to other electric cars

Tesla is opening up its charging networks to other electric cars for the first time.

The company has more than 25,000 "supercharger" locations,…

Netflix launches first games on smartphones

Netflix is launching its first games worldwide as it seeks to break into the game subscription market.

Starting Tuesday, the company will roll…

Microsoft launches Loop an Office app for helping workers stay on top of projects

Microsoft said at its online-only Ignite conference on Tuesday that it will release a new Office application called Loop that people can use to…

A Singapore start-up raked in almost $3 million in sales in 2 months — all through Facebook

In September 2020, the three co-founders of Singapore-based Mdada, a social commerce start-up, did their first Facebook livestream to sell…