Technology
Elon Musk Buys 9.2% Stake In Twitter, Microblogging App’s Shares Rise By 26%
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…
Read More »Zuckerberg Loses $7 Billion In Hours As Facebook Plunges
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.…
Read More »Data Of 1.5 Billion Facebook Users On Sale At Hacker Forum
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…
Read More »SHOCKING: 8-year old Brazilian girl named world’s youngest astronomer
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…
Read More »What You Should Know About Your Phone’s IMEI Number
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…
Read More »FG Releases Important Info On 5G Deployment In Nigeria
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…
Read More »List of Smart Phones WhatsApp Will Stop Working On From November
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…
Read More »Elon Musk’s Tesla Now Worth $630 Billion
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…
Read More »WhatsApp to be used on non-mobile devices
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…
Read More »Nigeria To Deploy Robots, Artificial Intelligence To Combat Insecurity (See how)
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…
Read More »TikTok boss, Zhang Yiming, resigns at age 38 with a net worth of $44bn to spend his time “reading and daydreaming”
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…
Read More »Nigerian Banks, MTN Dispute over USSD, Airtime Fees
There were strong indications last night that some commercial banks may have yanked off their USSD, airtime purchase, and other online services from MTN network because of the disagreement between the financial institutions and the telecommunication company on the amount to be charged. THISDAY gathered that the bank Chief Executive…
Read More »A Tech Expert Becomes a Billionaire in 24 Hours
Forbes has declared ex-google worker, Dave Girouard as the most recent tech master to turn into an extremely rich person. He is presently worth of $1.3billion. This comes after his organization’s offers expanded by an incredible 89% on a solitary day exchanging to make him a tycoon inside 24 hours.…
Read More »WhatsApp, Instagram, And Facebook Messenger Suffer Downtime
WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook messenger suffered a downtime at around 19:00 on Friday, according to the tech monitoring website Downdetector. The three platforms; owned by Mark Zuckerberg stopped connecting, leaving millions of users in panic. Following downdetector.com, which tracks service outages, 90% of Whatsapp users could not connect to their…
Read More »WhatsApp iOS update will stop working on these iPhones
While WhatsApp is about to stop working for a few users in a few months who don’t comply with its upcoming privacy policy changes, iPhone users also are certain a rude awakening with the app dropping support for older models in its latest beta update. WhatsApp beta 2.21.50.11 has landed…
Read More »Apple Releases New iOS, tvOS, WatchOS and MacOS
Apple is releasing all-new developer betas for iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, tvOS 14.5, and macOS Big Sur 11.3. They are the fourth developer betas for each, so there isn’t much in terms of new features since the last ones, but if you’re testing them out, they’re worth installing…
Read More »Google to Face Suit After Snooping on ‘Incognito’ Browsing
Google failed to kill a lawsuit alleging that it secretly scoops up troves of internet data even if users browse in “Incognito” mode to keep their search activity private. The consumers who filed the case as a class action alleged that even when they turn off data collection in Chrome;…
Read More »BITCOIN UPSURGE AND HOW TO BENEFIT FROM IT
The cryptocurrency market is once again gaining traction following the recent increase in the value of Bitcoin (BTC). Various speculations exist as to regarding the upsurge, but the most agreeable reason is the growing rate of adoption by institutional investors across the globe. Bitcoin was indeed the currency of choice…
Read More »What Every User Thinks and Feel About the Web
THE WEB The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://www.example.com/), which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the Internet. (Wikipedia). THE USER The user, on…
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