In its latest move, Yandex is following in the footsteps of China’s Toutiao, a core product of Beijing-based company ByteDance. Toutiao has a video channel where bloggers can upload content and an algorithm recommends it to users.
Yande…
Facebook will follow Instagram by hiding the number of likes on users' posts during a trial in Australia.
From Friday, some Australian users will no longer be able to see the number of likes - or reactions - on another person's Facebook…
Amazon thinks the UK needs more computer engineers so it is setting up a programme to train children and adults to become computer scientists.
Doug Gurr, head of Amazon UK and global vice-president says that "Amazon Future Engineer" tra…
Amazon has announced that its virtual assistant Alexa will soon be able to mimic the voice of the actor Samuel L Jackson among other celebrities.
The firm intends to charge a fee for the feature, with each voice costing $0.99 (80p).
Th…
Facebook is creating an immersive environment called Horizon to tempt people into spending more time in virtual reality.
The VR app will be a mix of social places where users can mingle and chat, and other areas where they can play game…
New Jaguar Design Studio led by Design Director, Julian Thomson, opens at redeveloped Design and Engineering Centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire, UK
The studio is built around a ‘Heart Space’, putting people at the centre of the desig…
One of the UK’s most sustainable buildings
New facility is the next step in Destination Zero mission: zero emissions, zero accidents and zero congestion
13,000 highly skilled engineers and designers developing the Jaguar and Land R…
Mission Critical Technologies Africa, co-located with AfricaCom 2019
What will it take to deliver safety and security in the future city?
Co-located with AfricaCom, (12-14 November 2019), Mission Critical Technologies [2] Africa is a d…
If there’s one thing technology companies learned during the smartphone boom, it’s that getting people locked in early is the difference between success and failure.
Customers are simply unwilling, at least in any significant number, to…
Children are stumbling upon pornography online from as young as seven, a report has indicated.
The survey, from the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), suggested three-quarters of parents felt their child would not have seen po…
Google has released a database of 3,000 deepfakes - videos that use artificial intelligence to alter faces or to make people say things they never did.
The videos are of actors and use a variety of publicly available tools to alter thei…
Google turns 21 on Friday 27 September! The popular search engine is used by people right across the world and it's become a really important part of the internet for many.
To mark the special day, we've got 21 facts about the tech gian…
Toyota Motor plans to launch hydrogen fuel-cell car models with its China partners Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) and FAW Group [SASACJ.UL], as the Japanese automaker tries to boost its presence in the world’s biggest auto market.
Toy…
Alibaba Group and SAP today announced that SAP S/4HANA® Cloud and SAP® Cloud Platform are now available on Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group in China. Chinese enterprises can now easily adopt SAP’s world-leadin…
Siemens extends its Eskom Expo partnership to schools in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia
Siemens (Siemens.com) is committed to supporting and developing young, African innovators; Siemens extends its Eskom Expo partnership t…
Mario Kart Tour, Nintendo’s latest mobile game, is now available on iOS for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, as well as on Android devices. The game, like Nintendo’s other mobile releases, is free-to-play with in-app purchases (in-game cur…
Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd said on Wednesday it has developed a new chip that specializes in machine-learning tasks and which will be used to enhance services for its cloud computing division.
Called Hanguang 800, the company’s first se…
Bitcoin struggled on Wednesday to recover from the three-month lows it reached a day earlier, moves that traders blamed on a lukewarm reception for a futures product from the owner of the New York Stock Exchange.
Bitcoin, the biggest cr…
Three Instagram adverts for cosmetic fillers have been banned for suggesting that treatments could make them look like Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner.
The Advertising Standards Authority said the ads, which used pictures of the celebri…
Microsoft has warned Windows users to install an “emergency” out-of-band security patch.
The software giant said in an advisory that a security flaw in some versions of Internet Explorer could allow an attacker to remotely run malici…
Facebook says it will treat all posts by politicians as "newsworthy content" that should "be seen and heard".
The company said politicians would be exempt from its fact-checking scheme which is designed to reduce the spread of fake news…
The Tier III facility will be constructed on 4,047 sqm land area in Appolonia City
MainOne (www.MainOne.net) has announced the expansion of its data center brand, MDXi (www.MDX-i.com), into Accra Ghana, in line with its ongoing West Afr…
The EU's top court has ruled that Google does not have to apply the right to be forgotten globally.
It means the firm only needs to remove links from its search results in Europe - and not elsewhere - after receiving an appropriate requ…
In our series of letters from African writers, Nigerian novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani laments that internet scammers have become role models for many youths in her country.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the US has indic…
How do you attract the attention of a prince? Aside from being Meghan Markle, of course. One answer came recently in the form of Prince Harry’s backing of a new initiative designed to make offsetting the carbon from your airline flights a …
Google has launched a subscription service offering users access to more than 350 "completely unlocked" Android apps and games for a monthly fee.
All software provided via the Play Pass will be supplied without any ads or in-app charges…
As Samsung and Huawei double down on their foldable smartphone lineups, and other handset vendors try to hide the notch, Chinese giant Xiaomi today chalked out a different path altogether. The company unveiled the Mi Mix Alpha, a smartphon…
For the first time since 1947 an African President will take the helm of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Mr Eddy Njoroge, from Kenya will begin his two year term on 01 January 2020.
At the closing ceremony of …
Mobile operators, enterprises, cities and other key Internet of Things (IoT) market players gain access to a wealth of new IoT use cases by combining two unlicensed connectivity technologies, as illustrated in a new white paper released to…
iOS 13.0 has just arrived, but Apple is already bumping up the release date for its first big update: both iOS 13.1 and iPadOS will now be released on September 24th instead of the originally announced September 30th release date. The comp…
Right on the heels of the sleek, experimental Nex 3, Vivo has announced a new phone at the mid-to-high end of the market. The V17 Pro will serve as the company’s headline device in many of its regions, or for people who aren’t ready to g…
If you’re a Chrome user who likes to have 50 tabs open at a time, Google is making things way easier soon. Tab management in Chrome currently requires you to hover over each tab and wait for a description of the tab or to simply spot one v…
iOS 13 is now available to download, and if you’re reading this there’s a good chance you’ve already installed it. But if you haven’t, I encourage you to wait. You’ll need to turn off auto-updates in order to keep the install from ...autom…
Apple’s new iOS 13 update adds a new privacy measure that requires apps to get your consent in order to use your device’s Bluetooth. After installing the latest version of iOS, trust me when I say you’ll be surprised by the number of apps …
Google Assistant, the digital assistant from the global search giant, is available to users through their smartphones, laptops and smart speakers. Earlier this year, the company partnered with KaiOS to bring Assistant to some feature phon…
Google said today it is bringing its mobile payments app — Google Pay — to businesses in India as the Android-maker rushes to maintain its payments lead in one of its key overseas markets before its global rival Facebook sets off a simila…
If you’re one of the many who have just gotten Apple’s new iPhone 11, 11 Pro, or Pro Max, congratulations! You’re going to want to try out your snazzy new phone as soon as you open that box. But first, you need to get all of the apps and d…
Ahead of Advertising Week, Facebook is announcing the expansion of three interactive ad formats.
First, it says that poll ads (which you may already have seen in Instagram Stories) are moving to the main feed of the Facebook mobile app…
The newly unveiled smartphone is a tentative step toward independence from Google
We’ve known this day would come for a long time now. Over the past several months, however, it feels like it has arrived in slow motion. Seemingly legitim…
Twitter’s controversial “Hide Replies” feature, aimed at civilizing conversations on its platform, is launching today in the U.S. and Japan after earlier tests in Canada. The addition is one of the more radical changes to Twitter to date.…
SAP hosts executive roundtable in Lagos to showcase Intelligent Enterprise Benefits "Going from Thinking to Doing"
Members of the SAP West Africa team
Technology and thought leaders from top Nigerian companies gathered last week …
Google (GOOGL.O) will make an additional investment of 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) over the next two years to expand its European data centers, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in Finland.
The investment plan includes an additional…
Some of the world's largest firms including Amazon and Google have committed to big-spending green energy plans as calls for climate action increase.
Amazon has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2040 and Google said it would make record r…
Apple’s latest iPhone 11 range hit stores in China on Friday, with short queues of die-hard fans contrasting with the hundreds who camped out ahead of some previous launches.
The sales performance of the U.S. tech giant’s latest line-up…
An updated version of Microsoft’s Surface Pen, which is expected to be announced at the company’s annual fall hardware event on October 2nd, may come with wireless charging. An FCC filing for the stylus refers to a “charging coil,” point…
STATE OF YOUTH: The World’s First Borderless Digital “State” Launched To Lend a Voice To Millions of Young people, including African Youth
This KidsRights initiative, to be launched at the Nobel Peace World Summit on September 20-21, wi…
When Salesforce launched Force.com in 2007 as a place for developers to build applications on top of Salesforce, it was a pivotal moment for the concept of SaaS platforms. Since then, it’s been said that every enterprise SaaS company wants…
The BBC has created a "wellbeing" smartphone app called Own It aimed at children.
It monitors how young people interact with friends and family online and through messaging apps.
It uses AI to evaluate a child's mood so it can offer …
Huawei has launched its latest smartphones without many of the apps typically pre-installed on Android handsets.
The Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro both lack YouTube, Google Maps and Gmail among other software.
They also do not feature Goog…
Whether your phone is a hand-me-down you've been given, or you've managed to get your hands on a brand new device, there's no denying that smart phones are incredibly popular these days.
Smart phones are big business and mobile phone m…