A booster rocket developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX for its next-generation Starship spacecraft burst into flames during a ground-test firing in Texas. Things went south in a Monday, July 11, test in Texas where space company’s Super Heavy Booster 7 prototype exploded as seen in a livestream recorded by the website Nasa Spaceflight. “Yeah, actually…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has threatened to pull out of his deal to purchase Twitter as he accuses the social media giant of ‘resisting and thwarting’ his right to information about spam and fake accounts on the platform. Musk threatened to walk away from his $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter Inc if the social media…
The world’s richest man and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk on Friday, received approval from the federal government to launch his Starlink network in Nigeria. The SpaceX founder will now be competing with the likes of MTN, Airtel, and several others for Nigeria’s massive telecommunication market. The billionaire’s announcement revealed that after months of negotiation, his…
Elon Musk has threatened to pull the plug on the Twitter deal until the social media company shows proof of its spam account figures. The Tesla CEO, who last month offered $44billion for the tech platform, disputes their claims that bots represent around five percent of their users, believing the figures could be ‘much higher than 20 percent. The…
A Nigerian photographer has cashed out on Non-Fungible Tokens. In a Twitter post, Adewunmi Rasaq Babatunde revealed that he sold three of his photographs for the sum of N740,000. He sold the photographs at Non-Fungible Tokens, NFTs, on Opensea. The photographer said that each picture was sold at 0.15 ETH and when converted to Naira,…
Elon Musk, the world’s richest man has been praised for his acquisition of Twitter. Former boss and co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey said this in a Tweet while reacting to the $44 billion deal. Dorsey tweeted: “In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at…
Cyril Ilok has tendered his resignation at MTN Nigeria. Ilok resigned as the chief risk and compliance officer of the telecom giant. Uro Ukpanah, company secretary at MTN Nigeria, in a statement on Wednesday, said the resignation would be effective from September 30, 2022. “Ilok joined MTN Nigeria on November 4, 2002, as a Senior…
Vanguard Group has displaced the richest man in the world, Elon Musk as the largest shareholder on twitter. On Thursday, April 14, Vanguard Group increased its stake of 8.4 percent (67.2 million shares) in Twitter to 10.3 per cent (82.4 million shares), according to documents sent to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has offered to buy 100 per cent of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, stating that he wants it to be transformed into a private company. Musk’s offer price of $54.20 per share, which was disclosed in a regulatory filing on Thursday, April 14, represents a 38 per cent premium…
The news was announced in a regulatory statement on Monday, which led to the rise in shares during pre-market trading. Elon Musk The richest man in the world, Elon Musk has bought a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter. As a result of his purchase, shares of the social media giant soared by about 26% on…
Stock slide knocks his net worth down to $120.9 billion Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. A selloff sent the social-media…
Amid global outage of Facebook along with its associated platforms, the data of its over 1.5 Billion users are now being sold in the dark web. A report said the data are being sold on a Hacker Forum. Sputnik News reported that in late September, an announcement was posted on a hacking forum that claimed…
Her passion for astronomy has being glowing since she started learning how to walk. Today, at just 8 years old, Nicole Oliveira is named the world’s youngest astronomer while she’s now looking for asteroids as part of a NASA-affliated program. In addition to that, she’s attending international seminars and meeting with her country’s top space…
What is the IMEI number? The IMEI number is a unique identification number that allows the registration of any mobile device. The IMEI of a device thus enables a mobile telephone operator to identify it. With the IMEI number, the operator will be able to issue the authorization for the user to connect the phone…
A new update concerning the 5G network has been released by the federal government. Recall that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government on Wednesday approved the National Policy on fifth-generation (5G) networks for the country’s digital economy during the weekly Federal Executive Council. In a statement made available to newsmen on Friday, the Honourable Minister of…
WhatsApp will stop working in 43 smartphones by November, it has been revealed. As a result, the Facebook-owned platform has introduced a new feature to allow iPhone users to migrate chats to Android phones. Users of 43 different models of smartphones will soon be unable to use the popular instant messaging app WhatsApp. On November 1,…
One of the richest men in the world, Elon Musk is so happy right now. This comes after his company, Tesla earned a staggering $630billion after its quarterly profit surpassed $1billion for the first time. The financial milestone was announced on Monday, July 26. The Palo Alto, California, company earned $1.1billion, or $1.02 per share,…
WhatsApp has announced the launch of a trial aimed at freeing its users from smartphones. In a blog post on Wednesday, Facebook engineers said the new feature would allow for the hugely popular service to be used on multiple “non-phone” devices without needing to connect to the smartphone app. “With this new capability, you can…
Due to the high rate of insecurity in the country, the Senate on Wednesday disclosed that the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has established a center for artificial intelligence and robotics to deploy the use of robots and artificial intelligence in tackling criminal activities. The revelation came to the fore when the upper chamber…
One of the billionaire co-founders of TikTok is stepping down as CEO of ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok. Zhang Yiming, 38, said Thursday, May 20, that he will leave the role because he lacks managerial skills. He added that he preferred “reading and daydreaming” to running the tech giant. According to Bloomberg, he…
