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India Police arrest four for Game of Thrones leak

Indian police have arrested four people suspected of leaking an episode of the hugely popular TV show Game of Thrones before it was aired. Three...

American city approves delivery robot pilot program

A resolution adopted unanimously this morning at a meeting of the Austin City Council will allow the deployment of personal delivery robotic devices, or...

Facebook to start hiding friends who post too much from your news feed

Facebook is due to start hiding posts from people who spam users' news feed with clickbait, sensationalised and misinformative articles. In a statement, the social media giant...

8 secret android functions 90% of users don’t know about

There probably isn’t a person now who hasn’t got an absolutely indispensable smartphone in their pocket. However, despite this fact, there aren’t many people out there who...

Kenya polls: Social media, messaging rules to tame chaos

The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) has drafted guidelines which will restrict the use of social media on political messaging before and after...

Whatsapp finds new uses in conflict zones

New tool relies on WhatsApp to detect, verify and log attacks on health facilities and workers. These days, the word on the street in war-torn...

Facebook promises new fake news measures

Facebook is to step up its efforts to fight fake news by sending more suspected hoax stories to fact-checkers and publishing their findings online. It...

IPhone glitter cases recalled over reports of burns

A range of liquid-filled iPhone cases is being recalled after reports of skin irritation and chemical burns associated with the products. The cases, some of...

Apple shares sail to record high on healthy iPhone sales

Apple Inc on Tuesday delivered surprisingly strong fiscal third-quarter earnings and signaled that its upcoming 10th-anniversary phone is on schedule, driving the stock up...

Facebook shuts down robots after they speak new language

Facebook has shut down two artificial intelligences that appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood. The two chatbots...

Ghanaian Bozoma Saint John is Uber’s new brand manager

Uber’s first chief brand manager, Bozoma Saint John, has a lot of work to do restoring the shine to the ride hailing company that...

Robot cracks open safe live on stage

Using a cheap robot, a team of hackers has cracked open a leading-brand combination safe, live on stage in Las Vegas. The team from SparkFun...

Ghana’s satellite launch to build capabilities in space science

Dr George Owusu Essegbey, Director of the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), says launch...

UG student builds video streaming website

A Level 300 student of the University of Ghana (UG) Legon, Gabriel Opare, has joined the global start up boom and founded a video...

Apple faces $506m patent dispute payout

A US judge has ordered Apple to pay more than half a billion dollars to a university after the tech firm failed to abide...

Microsoft signals end of Paint program

Microsoft’s graphics program Paint has been included in a list of Windows 10 features that will be either removed or no longer developed. Paint has...

Benin, Liberia lead Africa in ranking at maiden global robotics competition

Benin and Liberia were ranked highest among the 40 African countries that participated in the just ended FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition held in...

Ghanaian, 19, builds search engine to rival YouTube

A 19-year-old Ghanaian University student Gabriel Opare has built a new search engine to rival Google and Youtube. According to Opare, his new search engine,...

Check out Samsung's very wide computer monitor

When I first tried an ultrawide monitor in 2016, I was hooked because of its applications in both gaming and productivity. Ultrawide monitors are a...

New diagnostic technology to end TB in Ghana by 2030

Ghana aims to end Tuberculosis (TB) and it related lung diseases by 2030, with the introduction of a new sophisticated diagnostic technology known as...

Facebook shuts down 'legal pot shops'

Facebook has shut down pages offering marijuana for sale in Alaska, angering the businesses that run them, who say they were licensed to sell...

Human poo transformed into clean fuel for Kenya's urban poor

A truck-load of human poo collected around Nakuru, a town in Kenya’s Rift Valley is emptied on to drying beds by workers from the...

Tech boss attacks 'whiners' in angry email

The co-founder of a Silicon Valley investment firm said it is "not my job to make you all feel good" in a long email...

RED’s modular Hydrogen One phone looks even crazier in its patent application

Last week we learned that RED, a company best known for making high-quality digital cinema cameras, is going to dip into the smartphone market...

Qualcomm seeks Apple iPhone sales ban

Qualcomm, the world’s biggest producer of mobile phone chips, has appealed for the sale of some iPhones in the US to be blocked. It claims...

Tesla's value drops $12 billion ahead of Model 3 rollout

Heading into a day that should be cause for celebration, with Tesla Inc.’s first Model 3 sedan rolling off the assembly line, Elon Musk’s...

The 10 commandments of social media

Social media is a beautiful place but some habits of certain people can make it a really ugly place to be. Be it Facebook,...

Ashesi student builds ‘trotro’ transit system

A student at Ashesi University has developed a transit application to streamline travel on Ghana’s chaotic minibus transportation services, referred to locally as trotrto. Andrew...

Facebook fights U.S. gag order

Facebook Inc  is challenging a gag order from a U.S. court that is preventing the company from talking about three government search warrants that...

Ghana to work faster ahead of roadmap for nuclear power generation

Director-General of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), Professor Benjamin Jabez Nyarko, has assured Ghanaians of his outfit’s commitment to work ahead of the...

5 technologies will define our lives in the future

There is no gainsaying that technology is now a major part of our life. Some of these techs are playing significant roles in our...

Facebook gets tough… Deletes 66,000 hate posts

Facebook has recently been flooded with disturbing videos and other hate filled content, but the firm has revealed it is making great strides to...

Google hit with record $2.7bn fine

Google has been fined 2.42bn euros ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by promoting its...

WhatsApp rises as a force in news media

WhatsApp is becoming one of the prevailing ways people discover and discuss news, according to a study.But use of the messaging app appears to...

Sold: Apple’s first computer fetches $355K

Apple's first computer -- the Apple-1 Personal Computer built in 1976 -- was auctioned off for $355,000 last week.Christie's New York sold the computer to...

Bowing to drivers, Uber finally adds tips

In what could amount to a rare piece of good publicity, ride-sharing service Uber has added in-app tipping.Drivers in Seattle, Houston and Minneapolis will...

Apple poaches top Sony TV executives to boost video content

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has hired two long-time Sony Pictures Television executives to expand the iPhone maker's push into original television programming, plunging deeper into...

Facebook acts on terrorist content

Facebook has announced details of steps it is taking to remove terrorist-related content.The move comes after growing pressure from governments for technology companies to do...

News websites ‘vulnerable to attack’

News and sports websites have some of the lowest levels of security adoption, a study has suggested.A team of cyber-security experts looked at the...

Galaxy Note 8 reportedly launching in late August

It might be time to circle late August on your calendar. Samsung might launch its Galaxy Note 8 in late August, according to The Korea Herald.Samsung has...