Technology

A new WhatsApp scam is currently doing the rounds that is offering the rather unrealistic prospect of £250 worth of free vouchers from some of our biggest supermarkets. The scam, now picked up by Action […]

‘When is a planet not a planet?’ is a lot more than the beginning of a poor joke at a drunken astronomers’ Christmas party (but we laughed nonetheless). It is actually a serious question that […]

Twitter announced Tuesday it would double the limit for tweets to 280 characters, a bid to draw in more users and boost engagement at the social network. Giving users twice the space to voice their […]

Jennifer Smith doesn’t like the term “accident.” It implies too much chance and too little culpability. A “crash” killed her mother in 2008, she insists, when her car was broadsided by another vehicle while on […]

Apple made a few major changes to its iPhone lineup last month, but you probably missed one. There were the major announcements — an iPhone 8 and an iPhone X coming this fall — but […]

e recently passed a milestone in the history of human connectivity – people online now ​make up the majority​ of the world’s population. This has largely gone unnoticed, but it is an important moment and […]

WASHINGTON ― You cannot quit Facebook or Google. It’s not possible, unless you’re willing to avoid most of the internet entirely. The Silicon Valley giants, which are facing increasing criticism over their vast power over […]

Solar power was the fastest-growing source of new energy worldwide last year, outstripping the growth in all other forms of power generation for the first time and leading experts to hail a “new era”. Renewable […]

The rocket and car entrepreneur told an audience in Adelaide, Australia, that he would begin building the necessary ships to support the mission next year. He says he is refocusing his SpaceX company to work […]

Amazon and Google have clashed publicly after access to YouTube was pulled from one of the online retailer’s devices. On Tuesday, YouTube stopped working on Amazon’s Echo Show, a voice-controlled assistant with a screen that […]

There are now more people using Sina Weibo, the Chinese micro-blogging platform, than there are using Twitter. According to the Chinese company’s first quarter results, it has 340 million active monthly users, 30% up on […]

As the Telecom industry summons the tribe of telecommunications experts, organizations, ICT gurus, regulators, investors and governments to the city of Busan in South Korea expectations are high for conquering new frontiers. The telecoms industry […]

Twitter on Tuesday touted victories in the battle against tweets promoting extremist violence, saying it has been vanquishing those kinds of accounts before governments even ask. Twitter highlighted progress in its latest transparency report, noting […]

The current generation of kids is amazingly precocious. Their wide-eyed curiosity and seemingly insatiable desire to learn new things means that your child is probably active on social media at an early age. According to […]

After scouring the store for a new pair of sneakers, Paballo Molahlehi finally lands on the one that catches her attention. She stares at it excitedly, swooning over the fresh pair of purple Reeboks. “It’s […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will partner with the Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria (CAPDAN), to stem the growing tide of substandard device market in the country. Speaking during an inspection tour […]