Instagram’s Snapchat Stories clone, aptly named Instagram Stories, is now being used by 250 million users every day. Instagram revealed the new milestone Tuesday when it announced a minor update for its live video streaming feature, allowing users to share recordings of their concluded live streams via Stories. Instagram launched Stories as its answer to … Read more
A court in Algeria has sentenced a man to two years in prison for dangling his baby out of a window in order to attract “likes” on Facebook. The father posted a picture of himself holding the baby out of a window in a high-rise building with the caption: “1,000 likes or I will drop … Read more
A court in Algeria has sentenced a man to two years in prison for dangling his baby out of a window in order to attract “likes” on Facebook. The father posted a picture of himself holding the baby out of a window in a high-rise building with the caption: “1,000 likes or I will drop … Read more
The US Supreme Court on Monday unanimously struck down a North Carolina law that barred registered sex offenders from using social media. The suit in the nation’s highest court goes back to a seemingly insignificant event in April 2010, when a man named Lester Packingham learned that authorities had dropped court proceedings stemming from a … Read more
Google has unveiled four measures it will use to tackle the spread of terror-related material online. Among the measures it is deploying will be smarter software that can spot extremist material and greater use of human experts to vet content. It said terrorism was an “attack on open societies” and tackling its influence was a … Read more
British security officials believe that hackers in North Korea were behind the cyber-attack that crippled parts of the NHS and other organisations around the world last month, the BBC has learned. Security sources have told the BBC that the NCSC believes that a hacking group known as Lazarus launched the attack. The US Computer Emergency … Read more
A man who posted pictures on Facebook of the body of someone believed to have leapt to his death from the Grenfell Tower fire has been jailed for three months. Omega Mwaikambo, 43, posted one video and two pictures of the body bag with the man inside and then later five pictures of the victim’s face and body after … Read more
It appears clamouring by some lawyers, demanding amendment to an “archaic” rule banning lawyers from advertising on social media, cannot be met with ease as the Chief Justice nominee expresses distaste in their demand. Although processes to amend such rules are available, Justice Sophia Akuffo, a justice of the Supreme Court who has been nominated … Read more
The US singer-songwriter Katy Perry has become the first person to reach 100m followers on Twitter. The website posted a video compilation of her tweets since she joined in 2009 along with a message saying “Today, we #WITNESS history”. Witness is the name of Perry’s new album. The Canadian singer Justin Bieber has the second … Read more
Fresh off her $23million severance payment from her former employer Yahoo, ex-CEO Marissa Mayer joked on Wednesday that she’s looking forward to using Gmail again – only to backpedal and endorse Yahoo Mail after she said her remark was taken out of context. Mayer spoke at a tech conference in London one day after she … Read more
Fresh off her $23million severance payment from her former employer Yahoo, ex-CEO Marissa Mayer joked on Wednesday that she’s looking forward to using Gmail again – only to backpedal and endorse Yahoo Mail after she said her remark was taken out of context. Mayer spoke at a tech conference in London one day after she … Read more
Facebook’s artificial intelligence researchers announced Wednesday they had broken new ground by giving automated programs or ‘bots’ the ability to negotiate, and make compromises. The new technology pushes forward the ability to create bots ‘that can reason, converse and negotiate, all key steps in building a personalized digital assistant,’ said researchers Mike Lewis and Dhruv … Read more
Three Chinese men were detained in Thailand on Tuesday after police discovered they were running a ‘click farm’ from a house near the Cambodian border to generate likes for Chinese products on social media. The trio was arrested on Sunday after police raided their rental home and discovered a rack of some 500 smart phones … Read more
Virtual reality experiences and action packed new games topped the bill when Sony unveiled what it has in store for E3 2017. The company focused on blockbuster favourites and new titles for the PlayStation 4 (PS4) as it defended its crown as the top selling new generation console at a press conference held last night. There was … Read more
Sony has teased a string of new games for its PSVR virtual reality headset hardware prior to the E3 video games show in Los Angeles. VR content for role-playing adventure Skyrim was shown, as was a new first-person horror title, The Inpatient. A virtual reality fishing simulator for Final Fantasy – Monster of the Deep … Read more
Sony on Monday showed off rich, action-packed new PlayStation 4 video games, some for virtual reality, as it defended its crown as the top-selling new-generation console. The company focused on blockbuster games and intriguing new titles for PS4 at a press event on the eve of the opening of the major Electronic Entertainment Expo here. … Read more
Leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has attempted to lure the party’s founder, Jerry John Rawlings, to soften his stance as a special ceremony was organised on Saturday with the former president in attendance. Although the day was not the birthday of the NDC founder, the hierarchy of the party thought it wise … Read more
The Xbox One X, dubbed the world’s most powerful games console, has been unveiled by Microsoft at E3 in Los Angeles. Costing $499 (£449), Microsoft’s new compact but powerful console is also set to be the world’s most expensive console when it is released on November 7. Code-named Project Scorpio, the rival of the PlayStation … Read more
After having his account deactivated by Facebook because of verification of his name, Kwame A Plus has returned to Facebook not as A Plus but as Kwame Asare Obeng. The social media influencer’s first post on the social media platform after he got his account back read “I am back, I don’t accept friend requests … Read more
Microsoft on Sunday unveiled Xbox One X — billing it as the most powerful video console ever made, and escalating a battle with market king PlayStation 4. The $499-addition to the lineup was built with the muscle for seamless play on ultra-high definition 4K televisions and will be available worldwide on November 7, according to … Read more