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Snapchat faced a worldwide outage for at least four hours, prompting a flood of complaints on rival mobile application Twitter a day before posting its third quarterly earnings as a public company.

EU privacy regulators have rapped WhatsApp on the knuckles for not resolving their concerns over the messaging service's sharing of user data with parent company Facebook, a year after they first issued a warning.

Britain said WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption communication services allows paedophiles and organised crime groups to operate beyond the reach of the law.

Apple Inc today rolled out its much-anticipated iPhone X, a redesigned product of glass and stainless steel with an edge-to-edge display that Chief Executive Tim Cook called "the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone."

New Zealanders chatted for more than 8 billion minutes on their cellphones last year — nearly four times the amount they did a decade ago.

A brain training computer game developed by British neuroscientists has been shown to improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of dementia and could help such patients avert some symptoms of cognitive decline.

HMD Global has revealed the first three Nokia smartphones to hit Australian shelves, each crafted from a single block of aluminium, with a starting cost of $259.

Apple Inc is expected to announce plans next week to make its Siri voice assistant work with a larger variety of apps, as the technology company looks to counter the runaway success of Amazon.com Inc's competing Alexa service.