Technology

Over 2 million WhatsApp accounts blocked for breaking new rules. These accounts were blocked in just one month for sending a “high and abnormal rate of messages”. WhatsApp has blocked about two (2) million accounts users breaking a little-known...

WhatsApp: Share info with Facebook or lose the account. The notice gives an overview of the main three updates, covering how WhatsApp processes user data, how businesses can use Facebook-hosted services to store and manage their WhatsApp chats, and...

FG extends deadline for telecommunication companies to block sim cards. The Federal Government of Nigeria has extended the deadline issued to telecommunication companies to block sim cards without the owner’s National Identification Number (NIN). Last week, the Nigerian Communications Commission...

U.S. app stores to ban TikTok and WeChat starting from this Sunday. In a press release on Friday, September 18, the department stated: ‘In response to President Trump’s Executive Orders signed August 6, 2020, the Department of Commerce (Commerce)...

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's neuroscience startup Neuralink unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months late Friday, showing off an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the...

Airtel Africa Plc said it is almost fully ready for the implementation of the 5G network. Chief Executive Officer, Raghunath Mandava, disclosed this during the telecoms company’s recently-held Q1 2020 earnings call. The transcript of the earnings call was...

Posted at 17:4817:48 'Perfect launch' Lori Glaze, Nasa's Planetary Science Division director, shares a video of children around the world who helped with Nasa's "countdown to Mars" campaign. Deputy project manager Matt Wallace is next. He describes today, like Bridenstine, as a...

Trump threatens to shut down Twitter. Trump vowed to review a law that has long protected Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet’s Google from being responsible for the material posted by their users. United States of America president, Donald Trump has...

WhatsApp gets powerful new security boost. Governments led by the U.S., U.K. and Australia are battling the industry to open up “warrant-proof” encryption to law enforcement agencies. The industry argues this will weaken security for all users around the...

Boeing announced sweeping cost-cutting measures Wednesday after reporting a first-quarter loss of $641 million following the hit to the airline business from the coronavirus pandemic. The aerospace giant plans to reduce its workforce by 10 percent through a combination...