The Pirate Bay has been raided by Swedish police and shut down — possibly forever, according to its co-founder Peter Sunde. According t...
Dating apps prove factor in HIV rise among adolescents
More adolescents are killed by HIV/Aids around the world than by anything else, apart from road traffic accidents.
Obafemi Awolowo University set to host Social Media Conference
Social media Conference is an event propelled by a vision to establish proper Social Media Schools/Institutions in Nigeria, so as to enc...
Are fitness trackers a passing fad?
It is always going to be hard to keep people engaged with maintaining increased activity, let alone use wearable devices to track it. De...
Google Ads Will Now Let Users Try Out Games Before Installing Them
Google's recently unveiled app streaming feature, which allows users to access apps without needing to download and install them fir...
TAG Heuer Ramping Up Production To Meet High Demand For Its $1,500 Android Wear Smartwatch
TAG Heuer apparently saw high demand for its first Android Wear smartwatch and has to ramp up production in order to keep up.
Google Play Now Allows Partial Payments Through Store Credit
Good news for Android users, the Google Play Store finally allows split payments!
WhatsApp Android Update Adds A Ton Of New Emojis
Android-device owners are benefitting from a slew of updates. Close on the heels of the announcement that Nexus devices running stock A...
Mark Zuckerberg Answers Critics Of His Move To Give Away 99 Percent Of His Facebook Shares
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan's announcement of giving up 99 percent of their personal shares of th...
Google Drive iOS Update Adds 3D Touch Functions
Google is making its Google Drive app easier to use. As a part of its update for iOS 9, Google Drive users can use the 3D Touch function...
Apple Could Benefit From Sluggish Smartphone Sales
Is the smartphone market in trouble? According to Wired, Apple may get a chance to boost its customer base at the cost of the Android ma...
‘STOPit’ Is The Anti-Cyberbullying App That Lets Parents Protect Their Kids
Cyberbullying is a serious problem. Seventy percent of students report seeing bullying online, one in four admit to being cyberbullied m...
Will this be the most scenic Apple Store in the world?
Windy City surely has a good thing coming for all its Apple fans. The rumors seem very believable and the fact that Fosters and Partners...
It’s Okay To Be Too Early. Just Don’t Die
Time flies. Not many will remember when what would become iROKOtv was merely an interesting breakout Nigerian YouTube channel called Nol...
Zimbabwe’s Hypercube Is Shutting Down. What Does This Mean For Africa’s Tech Hubs?
In a post on their Facebook , the Hypercube Technology Trust, which manages the Hypercube Hub , a coworking space for tech entrepreneu...
Monument Valley, The Best Mobile Game Of All Time, Is Now Free To Play
Monument Valley, the puzzle-adventure game, is now available for free download on iOS and Android.
Andela is accepting applications for its Fellow Class XIII in Nigeria
If you have a passion for technology, improving the lives of fellow citizens and of helping to improve the lives of all Africans, then...
Google is prepping to release a new data saver feature on Chrome for Android to users on slow connections
Google in a bid to better the load time of mobile web pages, has been opening up few of its attempts at solving that to early testers. A...
Will Artificial Intelligence Do Great Harm Or Great Good?
This interview with Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College is brought to you by General Elect...
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla welcome their daughter, pledge to give away 99% of their Facebook shares
Hours ago, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced that his wife, the medical doctor Priscilla Chan, has given birth to their...
Chinese-owned Vertu vows to keep making luxury phones in the UK
It's been a little over a week since Vertu announced that it is now under full ownership of Hong Kong's Godin Holdings. Which, as...
Dropbox Now Lets IOS Users Edit PDF Files On The Go
Dropbox now lets iOS users edit PDF files in their Dropbox account. Android users will have to wait till next year for the feature.
Lipisha And Bitpesa Sue Safaricom For Cutting Off Their Access To M-Pesa Platform
Lipisha is a Kenyan company that uses various platforms to automate mobile payments, allowing businesses to collect, process and integra...
Google Maps In Nigeria Now Displays Real Time Traffic Data
Google Maps in Nigeria has added a feature that shows traffic conditions in real time. These conditions are represented by three colour c...
You Can Now See Multiple Points Of View Within A Snapchat Story With Story Explorer
Snapchat has debuted a new feature in its app that offers users multiple points of view when it comes to stories. The feature, called St...
Tech meets fashion: TAG Heuer Launches New Luxury Smartwatch
Luxury Swiss watchmaker, TAG Heuer has introduced its first luxury smartwatch to the market and caused a stir. Named the Connected watch...
Angani co-founders officially fired
Though hundreds of Angani clients are still offline, the firm has announced it has revived 95% of all their operations following a syste...
Why Artificial Intelligence Usually Has A Female Voice
Siri, Cortana and Google Now have a lot more in common than just the same job description. For one, their default voice is female.
Bye Bye Beats: Apple Music Is In Full Swing
On Thursday, Apple announced it will shut down its Beats Music service, and cancel all user subscriptions, come November 30. Beats user...
Twitter is looking to let you do more than 'like' tweets
Twitter has been slowly pulling from the likes of Instagram and Facebook to turn Favs into Likes and stars into hearts, and emojis might...
This tech could give your car or smartphone night vision capabilities
A breakthrough developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may just be able to shrink down night vision techno...
Tangerine Dream: how an award-winning movie was shot on an iPhone 5S
Back in 2007, SMS Sugar Man was the first feature-length film shot on a mobile phone. The handset used was a Sony Ericsson W900i. Since ...
The next major Windows 10 update could arrive this week
Microsoft has reportedly signed off on a new update to Windows 10, and that build could arrive as early as this week for Windows Inside...
NCC extends MTN’s operating licenses
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the renewal, and consequent extension of the tenure of MTN’s operating spectru...
MainOne and Microsoft present data center and cloud solutions
In light of the current economic challenges facing businesses in emerging markets, MainOne and Microsoft have called for the adoption of...
Twitter Is Removing the ‘Favorite’ Icon
Reports at this time put it that Twitter is removing ‘favorites’ to replace it with ‘likes’ just like your Facebook status option. Accor...
Ever sent an email that you wished you hadn’t! Then unSend.it!
No matter how careful you are with emails it is always possible to make the mistake of sending an email to the wrong person or a messag...
The 10 Most-Pirated Movies
Last week, just one new flick appeared on TorrentFreak's most-pirated movie list. It was Momentum, a South African action movie that...
Tablet shipments slump
Sales of tablets have continued to fall in the third quarter of this year – that’s the fourth quarter in a row showing a decline.
Nintendo announces first mobile game
We’ve got good news and bad news. Let’s start with the good news. Nintendo CEO Kimishima finally announced some details about their up...
Bike-riding robot turns heads at Tokyo motor event
Reports coming in from the Tokyo Motor Show 2015 indicated that one of the scene-stealers at this year's event has been a motorcycle...
Great News, The Titanfall franchise is coming to your smartphone
In a day that's seen the reveal of Nintendo's first smartphone game, it's been announced that Respawn, creator of Titanfall,...
Can the iPad Pro save Apple's slumping tablets?
Apple's latest financial results are pretty much what everybody expected: while Google goes around trying to organise all the world...
Seedstars World Unveils Finalists For Seedstars Dar Es Salaam
Seedstars World has unveiled the finalists for the Tanzanian leg of its startup competition which will take place on November 5, 2015 at...
Welcome to the 3D Printing Revolution
Imagine a world where you can create anything you want, just by pressing a ‘print’ button or icon. What would you print? Would you, like...
Apple TV is getting Siri support for Apple Music
The Apple TV box arriving retail stores in few hours from now is already shipping to customers who earlier preordered the device. And in...
Samsung Posts 29 Percent Profit Increase For Q3, Launches $10B Share Buyback
Samsung's earnings report for the third quarter of 2015 reveals that its sales have reached $45.1 billion which is a 9 percent i...
HTC One A9 For Verizon Will Be Released In December
When HTC announced its latest One A9 smartphone, Verizon was absent from the list of supported carriers at launch. HTC has just updated ...
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