Data compiled by Atlas VPN reveals there have been nearly 404 million malware infections during the last 30 days worldwide, which makes over 10 million cases per day. More than 64% of the malicious attacks were targeting educational inst…
Samsung brings new, innovative features found on its flagship Galaxy S20 series to the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Note10 series through a software update(1) starting from March. Users will be able to capture content with the latest Galaxy camer…
Popular video-sharing platform TikTok continues to grow at a high rate globally based on the number of new app downloads. Data gathered by Learnbonds.com indicates that during the first quarter of 2020, the platform recorded an all-time hi…
New Test Results Prove XLERATORs with HEPA Filtration System Remove 99.999 Percent of Viruses from the Airstream
Proper Hand Hygiene Top Defense Against Spread of Germs
Both the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease …
• Quanergy’s Flow Management™ Platform anonymously tracks people flows and measures the distance between individuals to ensure safe social distancing measures
• The platform provides integration with thermal cameras to identify and trac…
Microsoft says more than 10 million people now subscribe to Xbox Game Pass, its subscription service offering access to a growing selection of PC and Xbox Games. The service launched in 2017 with more than 100 Xbox games for $9.99 per mont…
Twitter usage spiked to 166 million daily users in the first quarter of 2020, as more people flocked to the site to keep up with news on the coronavirus pandemic. The usage growth is the largest Twitter has ever reported year-over-year, up…
TikTok, the widely popular video sharing app developed by one of the world’s most valued startups (ByteDance), continues to grow rapidly despite suspicion from the U.S. as more people look for ways to keep themselves entertained amid the …
Google’s Chrome Web Store is the biggest catalog of browser extensions around, but as with any successful chunk of the internet, more things on offer to install means more scammers and spammers trying to sneak their trash into the mix or…
San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech startup Flutterwave has launched Flutterwave Store, a portal for African merchants to create digital shops to sell online.
The product is less Amazon and more eBay — with no inventory or warehouse…
Face ID was a great idea — until large swathes of the world were forced to wear face masks, rendering it largely useless.
Apple has apparently heard our pain.
Users are reporting a subtle new feature in the latest developer version …
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new camera board that should dramatically improve the photographic capabilities available to the popular DIY computer’s enthusiasts and hobbyists. It’s called the High Quality Camera, and it’s …
Video conferencing provider Zoom said on Thursday it had mistakenly published a blog last week that put its daily users at 300 million people when the figure instead referred to the number of meeting participants.
The Zoom blog from Apr…
Global smartphone production is expected to slump a record 16.5% to 287 million phones in the June quarter from a year earlier as the coronavirus pandemic muzzles demand, TrendForce said here despite supply chains resuming after weeks of s…
The quarantine lockdown is driving a record number of users to Facebook’s products. On a conference call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed a number of new metrics highlighting a significant bump in Facebook usage during the broader quarantin…
Africa is facing new conversations around whether to remain on-premise or move to the cloud
Security, risk, data loss, and legislation. These are the primary concerns listed by organisations and government institutions when asked why th…
TECNO CAMON 15 Premier is equipped with 64 MP SONY cameras and trademarked TAIVOS™ technology
Recently, Michael Christopher Brown post several photos and a Vlog on his Instagram and shared his experience on TECNO CAMON 15 (TECNO-mobile.…
Millions of people in the UK will soon be asked to track their movements to limit the spread of coronavirus.
The government is deploying 18,000 people to trace the contacts of those infected, and the wider public will be asked to get in…
Social-media companies are failing to clamp down on scammers selling people's personal details through their platforms, an investigation from consumer watchdog Which? has shown.
It found 50 profiles, pages and groups on Facebook, Twitte…
The technology giants of Silicon Valley are among the few winners from the global pandemic. Their share prices are holding up or even surging ahead as investors bet they will come out of the crisis even stronger.
But Covid-19 has also s…
The social media platform TikTok and the philanthropic Gates Foundation donated $10 million each on Wednesday to the vaccine alliance GAVI to help fund efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.
GAVI said the funds would be used…
MFA Integration with Duo Security Meant to Simplify and Strengthen Identity and Access Management and Enable Zero Trust for PeopleSoft
Appsian [1], the global leader in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data security, has announced an …
In the current market, 48MP cameras that utilize pixel binning and algorithms to process the extra sensory data for better photos are the norm, however, the recently launched TECNO CAMON 15 series are equipped with 64MP SONY camera as the …
For the most part, you can no longer use Twitter as it was originally built to be used: over text message.
Last week, Twitter turned off the ability to receive SMS messages containing the text of new tweets. The feature was disabled in …
Tesla is rolling out a software update to some of its newest cars that will allow them to see and respond to traffic lights and stop signs, a feature that CEO Elon Musk has teased for years.
The update is available only to owners of Tes…
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia and B2B agtech startup Twiga Foods are partnering to deliver produce in Kenya using adaptive measures during COVID-19.
Jumia offers online goods and services verticals in 11 countries and became th…
Major U.S. wireless firms said on Monday they will extend a commitment through June 30 not to cancel service or charge late fees to customers who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
In March, the Federal Communications Commi…
While Shopify is best-known for powering the online stores of more than 1 million businesses, the company is launching a consumer shopping app of its own today, simply called Shop.
The app is actually an update and rebrand of Arrive, an…
A new Nigerian fintech venture, Okra, has racked up a unique mix of accomplishments in less than a year.
The Lagos based API developer created a product that generates revenues from both payment startups and established financial insti…
Jaguar Land Rover is scaling up production of NHS-approved face visors
New tooling, developed by WHS plastics, could produce as many as 14,000 visors each week
The process is being industrialised to create more visors for…
UPSTREAM IDENTIFIES ROGUE APPS THAT TRY TO STEAL MONEY FROM ADVERTISERS AND CONSUMERS
Secure-D [1] from Upstream [2] detected 1.69 million malware-infected android devices in South Africa last year. Within many popular apps, Malware is…
Kaspersky, a global cyber security company, shed some light on the challenges that modern parents can face while interacting in a digital space
In current times, during the Coronavirus pandemic, people have to stay home with their famil…
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is delaying the production ramp-up of its flagship iPhones coming later this year by about a month as the coronavirus pandemic has weakened global consumer demand and disrupted manufacturing across Asia, the Wall Street …
Microsoft founder Bill Gates spoke to the Financial Times (via Fast Company) about how the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has shifted “almost entirely” to working on addressing COVID-19, in the interest of making the post imp…
Lockdown has seen opera singers belt out arias from their balconies and families recreate entire musicals in their living rooms.
Pop stars like Chris Martin and Gary Barlow have set up intimate jamming sessions while Radiohead is stream…
Israel's Supreme Court has banned its intelligence agency from tracing the phone location of those infected with Covid-19, until new laws are passed.
The Shin Bet internal security service had been given emergency powers in March to use…
A security problem in Microsoft Teams meant cyber-attacks could be initiated via funny Gif images, researchers have revealed.
Like many chat apps, Teams lets colleagues send each other whimsical animated Gif images.
But CyberArk rese…
WhatsApp says it has seen a drop of 70% in "highly forwarded" messages - the kind that may spread misinformation about the coronavirus.
The World Health Organization has said the spread of fake news about the outbreak is an "info-demic"…
PARALLEL WIRELESS HELPS TO DELIVER ON GHANA INVESTMENT FUND FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS (GIFEC) CONNECTIVITY VISION ACROSS GHANA
GIFEC is set to enable deployment of 2,000 OpenRAN sites
Parallel Wireless, Inc., the leading U.S.-bas…
Canon launches Canon Connected - a free to access content hub featuring educational and inspiring videos for photography enthusiasts
Develop new skills and techniques during these unprecedented times
Canon Europe (Canon-Europe.com) t…
LG’s new flagship phone, the Velvet, will be revealed in full on May 7th. The company posted a teaser video clip to its Korean YouTube channel evoking raindrops and a catwalk — a reference to the phone’s unusual camera layout and suppose…
A new iOS text bug has been discovered that causes iPhones to crash. The flaw involves several characters from the Sindhi language that cause iOS to lock up and an iPhone to crash. The character string has been circulating this week on Dis…
Own a classic Porsche? Who doesn’t? The German automaker today unveiled a line of head units designed to replicate the vintage look while still featuring modern connectivity such as Bluetooth, DAB+, and Apple CarPlay.
These radios are…
Instacart’s aggressive hiring spree is continuing due to COVID-19 shelter in place orders. Today, the company announced it is adding 250,000 more shoppers to meet consumer demand, and to help the company return to “one-hour and same-day d…
Oil prices rose on Friday, bringing an end to another week of losses that featured the U.S. contract plunging to minus $40 a barrel, as global production cuts could not keep pace with the collapse in demand caused by the coronavirus pandem…
More than 12 million players logged in for Fortnite's concert featuring Travis Scott, with reviewers calling it "stunning" and "spectacular".
It included a skyscraper-sized version of Scott teleporting across the landscape as he perform…
Ms. Vera Songwe echoed this point during a virtual high-level policy dialogue on ‘leveraging technology in assisting African countries in the fight against COVID-19’
Dealing with the health and economic challenges of COVID-19 has made o…
GSMA Calls for Applications to Develop Digital Access Solutions in Africa and Asia
The GSMA today opened applications for the Innovation Fund for Mobile Internet Adoption and Digital Inclusion. The Innovation Fund aims to increase mobil…
The new continent daily Africa Intelligence aims to continue to provide its trademark understanding of the workings of power within each African state
Africa Intelligence (AfricaIntelligence.com) becomes the leading digital daily to off…
While some U.S. investors might have taken comfort from China’s rebound, we still find ourselves in the early innings of this period of uncertainty.
Some epidemiologists have estimated that COVID-19 cases will peak in April, but PitchBo…