NASA’s asteroid tracking system, on Tuesday, confirmed that several asteroids zooming towards planet Earth at breakneck…
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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…
Nigerian students shine at world robotics competition
Nigerian teenagers, who flew the country’s flag at the 2018 First Global Robotic Olympiad (GRO) in…
MIT computer model predicts end of the world in 2040
An apocalyptic computer model developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have predicted the end of…
Facebook suspends 200 apps over data misuse
Facebook Inc has so far suspended around 200 apps in the first stage of its review…
With WhatsApp update, you can regain deleted files
Concerns have been raised about the new update of WhatsApp, which allows users to access videos…
Twitter suspends one million accounts for promoting terrorism
Twitter said Thursday it has suspended over one million accounts for “promotion of terrorism” since 2015,…
World reknowned physicist, Stephen Hawking dies at 76
Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books…
Artificial Intelligence, bigger threat to civilization than nuclear weapons- Elon Musk
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer (CEO), Tesla and SpaceX, has said the development of intelligent…
Facebook announces major changes
Facebook plans major changes to news feed from media and businesses to focus on personal interactions,…
Beware: Security flaws put phones, computers as risk
Security researchers have disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal…
Google pulls YouTube from Amazon devices, as tech spat escalates
A rare public spat in the technology industry escalated when Google said it would block…