Chinese tech giant Tencent said Thursday it will launch a real-name identification system in its hit mobile video game "Honour of Kings" to enforce playtime restrictions on underage players.
Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said Tuesday, as authorities rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe.
The bodies of 10 miners have been pulled from a flooded mine in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, state media reported Saturday, adding two more remain trapped underground.
A gas leak in northern China has killed 10 people and left three injured, state media said on Friday.
Ten Chadian soldiers were killed while attacking a base of the Boko Haram Islamist group in the Lake Chad region, the province's secretary-general told AFP on Saturday.
A UN panel said Friday it was more certain than ever that humans were causing global warming and predicted temperatures would rise by 0.3 to 4.8 degrees Celsius (0.5-8.6 degrees Fahrenheit) this century.
Loral Space & Communications today announced that its Loral Orion satellites have been renamed to reflect their inclusion in the fleet of satellites managed by Loral Skynet.
Every morning Paul Horowitz checks his e-mail to see if he has any messages from E.T.
For the first time, scientists have been able to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two, thousands of miles apart in India and France.
Iran on Saturday played down French President Nicolas Sarkozy's warning this week that it risked being attacked by Israel because of its controversial nuclear programme.
Tehran ridiculed an international conference on the jihadist threat that opened in Paris on Monday, insisting the Islamic State cannot be defeated without the support of its ally Damascus.
Iran's foreign ministry on Monday denied the Islamic republic had any Revolutionary Guards in Syria, affirming that media reports quoting the head of the Guards saying that had been published out of context.
Iran and Russia signed a $25 billion deal to build nuclear power plants in the Islamic republic, Iranian state media reported Friday, just hours ahead of the likely return of sweeping UN sanctions on Iran.
Across the globe, data servers are humming, consuming both megawatts and precious natural resources to bring life to our digital world.
The first launch attempt of a homemade rocket built by two Danes failed on Sunday because of a technical glitch, according to Danish media.
The EU will reveal Wednesday which of the world's tech behemoths face stronger curbs from next year under a law that will shake up how major players like Apple and Meta do business online.
