In its quarterly earnings report unveiled Tuesday, Netflix claimed that The Witcher and 6 Underground — both released in December — have turned out to be among its most popular TV series and movies, respectively. The Henry Cavill-starrer fantasy series was watched by 76 million Netflix subscribers in the first ...

WhatsApp has finally received a highly anticipated feature – a native dark mode. Yes, the heavily leaked dark mode in WhatsApp, whose traces began popping up in the app’s interface and code months ago, is now finally available in all its glory to users. WhatsApp’s native dark mode is simply ...

Uber is in the Middle East to stay, buys main rival Uber acquires Middle East ride-hailing service Careem in $3.1 billion deal. In the second of a two-part series to start 2020, we asked five experts to share the tech trends they see influencing the Middle East over the next ...

Facial recognition tech needs immediate regulation, says privacy watchdog UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office challenges the interpretation of a court ruling that gave the green light for using facial recognition on the public. The vast majority of Australians are concerned about the use of biometric technologies to confirm their identity, according ...

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, today announced the launch of Anbox Cloud, a new platform that allows enterprises to run Android in the cloud. On Anbox Cloud, Android becomes the guest operating system that runs containerized applications. This opens up a range of use cases, ranging ...

Consumers downloaded a record 204 billion apps in 2019, up 6% from 2018 and up 45% since 2016, and spent $120 billion on apps, subscriptions and other in-app spending in the past year. The average mobile user, meanwhile, is spending 3.7 hours per day using apps. This data and more ...

Owners of an iPhone XS: Is it worth upgrading to the iPhone 11 Pro? Apple just announced the first iPhone with a Pro name. But is it really that much better than the iPhone XS? Apple for the first time is offering customers refurbished iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max ...

Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, today announced the launch of Anbox Cloud, a new platform that allows enterprises to run Android in the cloud. On Anbox Cloud, Android becomes the guest operating system that runs containerized applications. This opens up a range of use cases, ranging ...

Image: ACCC The Australian Competition Commission (ACCC) has said in its Communications Market Report for 2018-19 that users of mobiles in Australia are turning away from using voice, as fixed-line users have for some time. Usage of voice peaked in the financial year to June 2017, with 82 billion voice ...

Gaming company Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against five individuals for operating four DDoS-for-hire (DDoS booter) services that were used to launch DDoS attacks on Rainbow Six Siege multiplayer servers. The legal complaint, filed last week, is the culmination of a months-long process that started back in September last year. ...