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Zoom suffers temporary crash worldwide
Videoconferencing platform – Zoom – experienced worldwide outages Monday morning, coinciding with the first day of…
35% tax rebate: Buhari approves one year extension for prepaid meters
President Muhammadu Buhari has given approval for a one-year extension of the 35 per cent import…
Apple becomes first US company to hit $2trn in market value
Apple, on Wednesday, became the first United States company to reach $2 trillion in market value…
Prices of data, telecom services to crash, says FG
Prices of data and telecommunication services are expected to crash by 40 percent following steps…
50 journalists lose job to robots at Microsoft
About 50 journalists working with Microsoft are set to lose their jobs, as the American multinational…
Smokers at greatest risk of contracting severe coronavirus
A new study said smokers and former smokers, face twice the risk of contracting severe cases…
COVID-19: UNIBEN researchers produce ‘clinically tested’ ventilator
A group of researchers at the University of Benin (UNIBEN) have produced a clinically tested ventilator…
Facebook to remove deepfake videos in run-up to 2020 US election
Facebook Inc said it would remove deepfakes and other manipulated videos from its platform if they…
NASA tracks swarm of asteroids zooming toward earth at breakneck speed
NASA’s asteroid tracking system, on Tuesday, confirmed that several asteroids zooming towards planet Earth at breakneck…
Mathematicians deploy 500,000 computers, one million hours to solve 64-year-old Maths riddle
Two mathematicians have used a global network of 500,000 computers to solve a centuries-old math puzzle.…
WhatsApp’s big role in Nigeria’s 2019 elections
There is growing concern about the potential for the message and media sharing platform, WhatsApp, to…
India launches bid to put spacecraft on the moon
India launched a bid to become a leading space power Monday, sending up a rocket to…
Google cuts ties with Huawei
US internet giant Google, whose Android mobile operating system powers most of the world’s smartphones, said…
Facebook unveils revamped app focused on privacy, small groups
Facebook said it would begin delivering a revamped app Tuesday as the embattled social network embarks…
South Korea rolls out world’s first superfast 5G mobile network
South Korea launches the world’s first fully-fledged 5G mobile networks Friday, a transformational leap that already…
Judge recommends partial ban on iPhone imports to US
A US trade judge ruled on Tuesday that Apple had violated a Qualcomm chipmaker patent and…
Internet turns 30 this month, inventor rues hijack by crooks
Thirty years ago this month, a young British software engineer working at a lab near Geneva…
Nigeria slow… ranks 105th in mobile Internet speed
Nigeria ranked 105th in mobile Internet download speed as of December 2018, down two places from…