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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...

Computers trained to spot fake online profiles

Researchers have trained computers to spot social media users who pose as somebody else - a practice known as catfishing.They say their algorithms can...

Ghanaian tech exec leaves Apple for Uber

One of Silicon Valley's top black female executives, Bozoma Saint John, has left tech giant Apple to join ride-hailing service Uber.Ms Saint John, who...

How IS wages its social media war

The Islamic State militant group (IS) is fighting on many fronts against those seeking to defeat it. One of those fronts is a digital...

Tech leaders defy Trump on climate deal

The biggest US tech firms are rallying behind the 2015 Paris climate agreement, despite President Trump's decision to leave it.Mr Trump's move has been...

New Mac Pro hardware details will delight you

Apple is set to update a number of Mac machines at next week’s Worldwide Developer Conference. The details have been reported by French site Consmac,...

Microsoft’s Skype draws inspiration from Snapchat in big redesign

You can add Skype to the growing list of services copying features straight from Snapchat.The Microsoft Corp  communications service on Thursday announced a major...

Uber fires engineer amid fight with Google

Uber has fired the engineer accused of stealing secrets from Google-owner Alphabet after he failed to assist with an investigation related to the lawsuit.Anthony...

Mark Zuckerberg finally gets his Harvard degree – 12 years after dropping out

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg features in a long line of university dropouts who became millionaires after founding technology companies - Bill Gates and Steve...

Nokia 3310 sparks wave of nostalgia as it goes on sale

The rebooted Nokia 3310 has gone on sale, nearly 17 years after the original made its debut.The phone, which has a two megapixel camera...

Ghana to get first spaceship launch pad in Africa

Ghana is set to become the first country in Africa to get a Spaceship Launch pad, following a partnership deal between KESHE Foundation Ghana...