Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has reportedly unfollowed the accounts of President Trump and President-elect Joe Biden on his social media platform. Dorsey also stopped following Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and Ivanka Trump’s account, according to the Twitter account @BigTechAlert, which monitors activity of tech leaders. Since Nov. 17, Trump has lost 368,743
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Internet of Things (IoT) devices continue to permeate into our daily lives, and as remote working and other pandemic-related causes have pushed to the fore, much of the workforce is working from unsecured personal devices, surrounded by them too. The newfound explosion of IoT applications means the surfacing of new data
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Google has released a new app called blob Opera—a machine learning application that allows songwriters of all skill levels to compose songs—operas or otherwise—performed onscreen by four singing "blobs." In announcing the new app on its website, Google suggests such compositions might just be the perfect holiday present. The app
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The Federal Government has approved 173 centres and 30 state government institutions for the National Identity Number enrolment across Nigeria. This was contained in a public notice on the website of the National Identity Management Commission titled, ‘Approved Data Capturing Agents (Digital Identity Ecosystem)’ on Wednesday. The Nigerian Communications Commission had recently
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Some Nigerians have disputed the Federal Government (FG’s) claim that it has reduced the cost of internet data by 50 per cent in the year 2020. The assertion was made by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, when in a statement claimed that “based on
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Recently, some Google Maps users in Nigeria complained about having problems navigating on the app. Apparently, there are two different complaints: one is a missing ‘Start’ button following a request for directions, and the other is not getting directions for saved addresses except you type in the address. For either
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The Federal Government has charged private and public entities that use radio frequency spectrum or operate radio-communications equipment without government permission to regularise their operations by applying to the ministry to obtain appropriate authorisation to avoid sanctions and/or possible prosecution. According to the Federal Government, in a check carried out, of
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Criminals taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic are turning to a new email scamming technique. Scammers are exploiting auto-forwarding rules to boost the success rate of so-called Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks, the FBI said in a statement. This allows cybercriminals to better conceal their scamming activities, the FBI said, adding that scammers are
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The Nigerian broadcast regulator has a lot on its plate including issues arising from its Broadcast Code of Conduct and the delayed DTT roll-out. Director-General Professor Armstrong Idachaba speak on the state Of Industry I spent some time over the last six months talking to broadcasters in Nigeria, particularly State broadcasters,
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A person's secret impulse to take a risk can be spotted simply by the way they move a cursor across a computer screen, a new study shows. In computerised gambling experiments, US participants had a choice of either clicking on a 'safe' option or a 'risky' option as they built up
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