Facebook said Saturday it would block the livestream of a Frenchman suffering from an incurable condition who wanted to broadcast his death on the social media platform. Earlier, Alain Cocq announced that he was now refusing all food, drink and medicine after President Emmanuel Macron turned down his request for euthanasia. Cocq, 57, who suffers […]

Qualcomm is ramping up its effort to put 5G mobile phones within reach of billions of people and backing new connected laptops aimed at the growing number of people working at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The US chipmaker on Thursday unveiled a 5G-ready version of its Snapdragon 4 chips that will run on […]

India has banned another set of 118 apps from China’s technology giants, including Tencent’s wildly popular game PUBG Mobile Lite, the country’s search engine leader Baidu and online payments giant Ant Group’s platform Alipay, as tensions escalated on the nations’ disputed border. The apps are “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India” as well as […]

Facebook has threatened to block Australians from sharing news articles if lawmakers there approve a proposal to make it pay news outlets for their content. In a blog post dated Monday, the social-media titan indicated it will “reluctantly” stop users and publishers from sharing local and international news on Facebook and Instagram rather than negotiate […]

A 5G-covered road for testing self-driving cars was formally opened in Baohe District of Hefei City, east China’s Anhui Province on Thursday, welcoming the first batch of passengers. The 4.4-km-long ring road will be open to both self-driving vehicles and ordinary vehicles. Construction on the road started in August 2019 and has since achieved 5G […]

China is planning a sweeping set of new government policies to develop its domestic semiconductor industry and counter Trump administration restrictions, conferring the same kind of priority on the effort it accorded to building its atomic capability, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Beijing is preparing broad support for so-called third-generation semiconductors for […]

A 16-year-old boy may have played a key role in the unprecedented hack that caused chaos on Twitter in July, a new report says. Authorities believe the Massachusetts teen helped execute some of the most complex pieces of the July 15 hack that took over the Twitter accounts of Kanye West, Elon Musk and several […]

Apple’s long-awaited 5G iPhone will reportedly make its debut this October. The tech juggernaut will launch four new iPhone models at its annual fall keynote, as well as a new Apple Watch, iPad and HomePod, according to Bloomberg. The 5G technology in the new phones will allow them to access a wireless network that promises […]

The hotly-anticipated sale of TikTok to an American company is reportedly on hold as parties try to figure out if the app’s secret sauce algorithm will be included in the deal. The mega-popular video app was expected to be acquired as soon as this week, likely by a tag team of Microsoft and Walmart or […]

Brand-building and marketing communication company, Nitro 121, has advised corporate organisations in the country to adopt the Responsibility, Integrity, Gusto, Harmony and Transparency, RIGHT, model to deliver services in order to fully harness the full potentials in the Nigerian business environment.

Carrier-neutral data centre operator, Rack Centre, has announced a $100m expansion programme that will increase its capacity to a total net white space of 6,000 square metres and allow for 13Mw of IT power capacity in its Lagos campus.

By Prince Osuagwu As part of its measures to excite Nigerians, e-commerce platform for fairly used cars, Betacar, has said it is giving any customer who purchases car from its platform this month one-month worth of fuel. Betacar is a company that offers an integrated approach to used car buying. It allows customers to search […]

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor Global software giant, Microsoft says the post-COVID-19 economy will be a hybrid one, considering that it will come with different needs and certainly new challenges in terms of skills. The company said while the COVID-19 boosts digital transformation it also means the entire industries should upskill and reskill, The COVID-19 […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke The Director-General, National Information Technology Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi   says the  COVID – 19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented demand for digital technology solutions. According to him, the new normal has also brought with it, new opportunities and possibilities to unlock digitalization. For him, this is the time Africa needs to […]

By Juliet Umeh With the increase in growth of digital payment transactions in Nigeria rising to 10.3 trillion in January 2020, according to the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System, NIBBS, a Technology Company, Capricorn Digital Limited, owners of Baxi, has kicked-off a campaign to deepen financial inclusion to at least 70 percent of Nigerian communities. According […]