SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s cyber watchdog said on Wednesday it had deleted more than 7 million pieces of online information as well as 9,382 mobile apps, and it criticized tech giant Tencent’s (0700.HK) news app for spreading “vulgar information”. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a statement on its website the action was part of a clean-up of …

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies wants a quick resolution of the case of its former finance chief Meng Wanzhou, who is accused of violating U.S. sanctions on Iran and has been detained in Canada, its chairman said on Tuesday. The United States has told Canada it will request Meng’s extradition, but has not said when it will do …

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – A Chinese scientist who created what he said were the world’s first “gene-edited” babies evaded oversight and broke ethical boundaries in a quest for fame and fortune, state media said on Monday, as his former university said he had been fired. He Jiankui said in November that he used a gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 to …

But it’s still happening only every million or few million years. Giant rocks from space are falling from the sky more than they used to, but don’t worry. For the past 290 million years, large asteroids have been crashing into Earth more than twice as often as they did in the previous 700 million years, according to a new study …

Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) customer referral incentive plan will end on Feb. 1, the electric carmaker’s Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted on Thursday, citing costs. Musk tweet here that the referral program is ending because “it’s adding too much cost to the cars, especially Model 3”. The billionaire in the past few months has been pushing for cost-cutting initiatives to boost the …

Shares of Snap Inc fell 9 percent in early trading on Wednesday after Tim Stone became the second finance chief to leave the Snapchat operator in a year since a much-criticized redesign. Stone joined the owner of Snapchat last May after spending two decades with Amazon.com Inc, replacing Andrew Vollero, who was responsible for taking Snap public in 2017. Several …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is wary of giving “fintech” firms such as OnDeck Capital Inc (ONDK.N) or Kabbage Inc. access to the country’s financial infrastructure, putting the central bank at odds with other regulators looking to bring them into the fold. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) …

Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died, according to a family spokesman. He died peacefully at his home in the British university city of Cambridge in the early hours of Wednesday. He was 76. Considered by many to be the world’s greatest …

BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO) said on Thursday it has won the right to sell tools for encrypting phone calls and text messages to the U.S. federal government, garnering an endorsement from the National Security Agency for the products. The company said it received the endorsement from the NSA’s National Information Assurance Partnership, or NIAP, which reviews commercial technology products to see …

BlackBerry Ltd.’s comeback streak continued this week on the stock market, indicating investors have finally dialled into the former smartphone titan’s shift to software with a focus on security and the automotive industry. Sentiment from investors and analysts alike hovered around lukewarm as BlackBerry underwent a three-year transition from a mobile phone producer – it officially gave up on designing …