Any politician that does not know how to use the social media channels to influence the views and decisions of Nigerians should forget about making an...
Twitter apologized for the way it responded to Rochelle Ritchie, a former congressional press secretary, when she first alerted it about an apparent threat made against...
When Android creator Andy Rubin left Google in 2014, he was hailed as a hero who changed the mobile landscape forever. While he may well have...
Cathay Pacific has been hacked and some 9.4 million customers may have had their most personal data stolen, the airline has warned. The breach included passport...
The governments of Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates have both signed an accord on the development of solar energy and artificial intelligence. Reports say the...
A group of scientists have through a study revealed that planet Mars is likely to have more oxygen to support human life than earlier thought. Salty...
Uber has joined a growing list of companies keen on using drones for delivery. It wants to integrate the technology into UberEats, its meal-delivery service, and...
On Saturday, The New York Times published a report detailing Saudi Arabia’s efforts to combat dissent on platforms like Twitter, such as slain US journalist Jamal...
A Chinese city has plans to build what it is describing as an “artificial moon” and bright enough to possibly replace the need for street lights....
Following a long string of scandals and controversies, some Facebook investors believe the company would be better off without Mark Zuckerberg as its chairman. On Wednesday,...
Social media giants YouTube is struggling to get back online after a global outage. The site has been down since approximately 6 p.m. on Tuesday and...
Facebook on Thursday announced it has removed hundreds of pages and accounts as the company cracks down on spam. The move comes at a time when...
Google has delivered further evidence that AI could become a valuable ally in detecting cancer. The company’s researchers have developed a deep learning tool that can...
A woman employed as a moderator for Facebook has sued the company for mental trauma. The woman, Selena Scola, who monitored content on Facebook, alleged that...
Facebook has said it will not provide protection for victims of identity fraud in its latest data breach. Facebook had said on Friday that 14 million...
In what appears to be a major breakthrough in reproductive science, Chinese researchers have delivered 29 healthy mouse from two same-sex mice. The researchers announced the...
Handset maker, Apple has taken 300 computer chip engineers from a British semiconductor maker, Dialog. Apple added the workers to its team after striking a deal...
Online giant, Amazon has abandoned an algorithm that was being tested as a recruitment tool because it was sexist. According to a Reuters report, the artificial...
Stanbic IBTC Bank said it has deployed robots to drive various dimensions of its operations. This, according to the bank, was part of its efforts to...
Technology giants, Google is set to shut down its social network sites, Google+ after user data was left exposed. According to the company, a bug in...
Hope may be on the way for speedy diagnosis for Parkinson’s disease patients, as a Chinese tech giant, Tencent and London medical firm Medopad have teamed...
A report has claimed that China has been stealing data from Apple and Amazon, amongst other US companies and agencies. According to the report by Bloomberg,...
Facebook has added new tools in a bid to stop bullying and harassment on social media. The new tools and programs are meant to help users...
The future of electric cars is set to get a major boost, as top car makers, Mercedes and Audi showcase their all electric cars at this...
Scientists have created a tiny, soft robot with caterpillar-style legs that could be used to deliver drugs in the human body. Developed from research led by...
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton has called himself a “sell-out” for allowing Facebook to buy his company, adding that selling WhatsApp users’ privacy “to a larger benefit”...
Facebook is reportedly trying to steady its ship after it lost six key executives over the past year, following the departure of Instagram co-founders, Kevin Systrom...
Uber and Grab have been hit with combined fines of $9.5 million after their merger deal was found to have violated Singapore’s anti-competition laws. Grab acquired...
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt has predicted that the internet will split in two in the next decade, CNBC reports. Speaking at a private event in San...
An international team of researchers has successfully deployed a Zika virus vaccine to target and kill human glioblastoma brain cancer stem cells, which had been transplanted...
The state of California has been a pioneer when it comes to shaping policies to tackle everything from climate change to consumer privacy. Now it could...
If you so much as gather or store customer, supplier, or employee data, including sensitive information like payment details, you have a cyber-risk exposure. Your reputation...
The Bristol Airport in the UK has confirmed that it has been hit with a cyber attack after flight information displays at the airport have been...
Astronomers have finally found the last of the missing universe. It has been hiding since the mid-1990s, when researchers decided to inventory all the “ordinary” matter...
Starting Tuesday, Apple’s Safari browser will update to automatically block certain types of cookies that Facebook relies on to track users as they move across the...
New Mexico has sued Google, several online advertising firms and a maker of popular gaming apps, alleging that the companies allowed the unlawful collection of sensitive...
Scientists have been trying to create robots that can fly like insects and birds for a long time and have just succeeded in developing one after...
Google and Samsung each announced details today of a new partnership they’ve entered into to try and do something about the myriad advantages iMessage currently enjoys...
Russia on Wednesday reacted angrily to a report that it suspects US astronauts of deliberately drilling a hole on the International Space Station, one of the...
The hacking group behind the theft of 380,000 customers’ details from BA has been linked to a similar heist from Ticketmaster. Threat researcher Yonathan Klijnsma of...
The US government has charged and sanctioned a North Korean man who took part in 2017’s global WannaCry ransomware attack and in a cyberattack on Sony...
The Pentagon’s research agency DARPA announced today it will be spending $2 billion on AI, the focus of which, according to CNN, will include “creating systems...
British Airways has suffered a data breach, with critical information on hundreds of thousands of its users being stolen by hackers. The company confirmed the breach,...
Facebook has hit back at BlackBerry with a lawsuit claiming that the company has stolen its voice messaging technology. This is coming months after BlackBerry sued...
When the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence holds its next hearing on Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it will hear from two of...
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Larry Page, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, have been invited to testify before committees on Capitol...
Google has made the astonishing revelation that in 2017 it took down an average of “100 ads a second” for violating company policies. Of those, some...
Nigeria and China are expected to sign $328 million agreement on the National Information and Communication Technology Infrastructure Backbone Phase 11 (NICTIB 11), presidential spokesman, Garba...
Over 3,000 young inventors are gearing up for the third edition of the Young Inventors Tech Expo, set to be staged in Lagos. According to Mike...
The FBI wants to use artificial intelligence to identify hardened criminals who have obscured their fingerprints by burning or cutting them. For decades this practice has...