The largest illegal dark web marketplace in the world has been taken offline this week in an international police operation that involved Europol, officials from the US and the UK's National Crime Agency. The dark web marketplace, also known as DarkMarket, had almost 500,000 users, it had more than 2,400 sellers and they had facilitated over 320,000 transactions.

Samsung's Galaxy S21 lineup, presented during company's first virtual Unpacked event of the year at CES 2021, includes the vanilla Galaxy S21, a plus model that provides largely the same internals in a larger package and the Ultra that has a strong claim for the throne of the ultimate cameraphone.  

Google said it had completed its $2.1 billion deal to acquire the wearable device maker Fitbit, Reuters reported. The deal had sparkled some concerns over Google market positioning and the access of private health data of users intended for focused adverts.

Yes, we know - the title says it all! First, lets turn the clock back two years to 2019, when the foldable hype was at a fever pitch. Samsung kicked things off with an early look at its Galaxy Fold, followed a few days later by Huawei's Mate X. Motorola capped off the year with the Razr. Things were supposed to ramp up in 2020, with more foldables coming, and this forecast turned out to be true. But the early activity at this year's weirdest CES suggests we may be notice far more breakthroughs and mind-blowing concepts in the smartphone industry.

Investigators of the SolarWinds massive hacking attack have identified spying tools previously used by Moscow-related hackers, Reuters reported quoting sources involved in the investigation.

CES, the world’s largest tech show, is quite something to behold. Or it would be if you could actually behold it in person. Almost inconceivably, the industry extravaganza spans the entire Las Vegas Convention Center, the nearby Sands Expo and a dozen or more hotels up and down the Strip. As WSJ best describes it, it is like a Disneyland for tech. This year, you can also see it all - however, only from the little screen through which you see pretty much everything else these days.

Worldwide school lockdowns due to Covid-19 pandemic spiked the value of game developers. The popular game platform Roblox which is focused mainly on children managed to raise $520 m private capital which rose the overall value of the firm to 29,5 billion dollars. That is a seven-fold increase compared to February, 2020, BBC reported.

Facebook has introduced major design changes of the social network platform in a bid to improve the interaction between users and promote policy of followers to replace the popular Like approach.

Samsung is set to lead the charge of 2021's releases with the presentation of its flagship smartphone lineup, the Galaxy S21, confirmed to happen at its virtual event launch on 14 January. The Galaxy S21 has been hyping up the public in the past weeks, particularly towards the end of 2020 with its specs and teaser looks that were shared.

The software giant Microsoft Corp confirmed that it had found malicious software in its systems related to a hacking campaign admitted by US, adding a top technology target to a growing list of attacked government agencies.