Month: April 2017

Report suggests victims are now paying about $1,000 (£775) to recover scrambled data.
Source: BBC Tech

The classic BlackBerry smartphone, including physical keyboard, is given a 2017 makeover.
Source: BBC Tech

Up to £112,000 is being offered for information about drones that disrupted flights at a Chinese airport.
Source: BBC Tech

Agricool is using former shipping containers to grow strawberries in Paris.
Source: BBC Tech

Uber launched in Egypt two years ago, and is now one of the company’s fastest growing markets.
Source: BBC Tech

The plan to roll back Obama-era rules may set off a fierce fight over how to regulate internet traffic in the US.
Source: BBC Tech

App-based guides for games like Fifa targeted more than 500,000 users with malware, a cyber-security company says.
Source: BBC Tech

Previously, the firm had allowed the government access to the data when investigating potential terrorist plots.
Source: BBC Tech

A woman in Wisconsin said she suffered second-degree burns when her fitness tracker exploded.
Source: BBC Tech

More people than ever are regular users of the message-in-brief platform, but it is still losing money.
Source: BBC Tech