Technology

A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed federal and state antitrust complaints against Facebook Inc (FB.O) that sought to force the social media company to sell Instagram and WhatsApp, saying the federal complaint was “legally insufficient.” Facebook shares rose more than ...

  A Philippines web designer has in respect for his profession, named his son HTML. In a Facebook post, the newborn was introduced as Hypertext Mark-up Language Rayo Pascual – or HTML for short. The child’s father Mac Pascual, a ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has taken delivery of the first ever Nigeria-made cellphone called ITF Mobile.   The product was presented to him by Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, just before commencement of the week’s Federal Executive ...

A proud father has taken to social media to celebrate his young son who he claimed built a personal computer all by himself. The dad with Twitter handle @ImJustErnest took to the micro-blogging platform to reveal that he is proud ...

  Nigerian lady, Intissar Bashir Kurfi used sachet water commonly known as pure water nylons to make interlocking tiles, and accolades are streaming in for her on social media. The 29-year-old founder of Ifrique Design, said she engages students in ...

The lander carrying China’s first Mars rover has touched down on the red planet, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) confirmed on Saturday morning. It is the first time China has landed a probe on a planet other than Earth ...

South Korea on Friday unveiled a prototype of its first fighter jet, a highly symbolic moment in its decades-long quest for a combat plane of its own. The gray jet, named KF-21 Boramae, was showcased at a rollout ceremony held ...

                A man identified as Engineer Kabir, has been hailed for building motorcycles from scratch. The different motorcycles, manufactured by Kabir, were shared online, eliciting praises from social media users. In one of ...

  On Thursday, Facebook-owned popular messaging app WhatsApp has officially rolled out voice and video call support for its desktop app. In a tweet today, WhatsApp announced end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls for its desktop app version and also shared a link ...

  A US-based Sierra Leonean by the name of Hafiz Alhassan Kanu has created an app called Supfrica. The app, just like WhatsApp, has all the features that WhatsApp has. But one thing that it has that WhatsApp doesn’t is, ...

                  A twitter user has shared photos of a man who allegedly designed and built and helicopter. He calls him a FAN of the Army and said he made this for them. ...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Friday unveiled the first electric car to be assembled in Nigeria.   The car was assembled in Nigeria by the Stallion Group Automobile Factory in Ojo area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Gbenga Akosile, Chief ...

                                  A South-African woman has become a social media sensation after photos of her constructing an extension to her house went viral.   The ...

The Tesla CEO’s net worth increased to a staggering $115 billion this week after the electric car company’s stock increased by 12% on Monday.   The 49-year-old has now overtaken Mark Zuckerberg to become number three on the list of ...

Chinese consumers could boycott Apple if the United States bans WeChat, China’s foreign ministry spokesman warned Friday, as the clock ticks down on a US order to block the popular social app.   US President Donald Trump this month announced ...

The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, has launched a contactless digital hand-cleaning machine that uses sensor to monitor body temperature, dispenses hand sanitizer, detergent and water.   Inspecting the equipment produced by the institution’s faculty of Engineering, the Vice-Chancellor of ...

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, says his administration is installing closed-circuit televisions in the southern part of the state as part of efforts to strengthen security forces and restore calm in the crisis-torn communities.   The governor made this known ...

Two US astronauts have undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and were expected to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday afternoon, ending a historic mission testing human spaceflight operations for SpaceX hardware. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken ...

The first five Rafale fighter jets bought from France in a multi-billion-dollar deal landed in India on Wednesday and the defence minister used their arrival to launch a veiled warning to neighbouring China over territorial tensions. A water-cannon guard of ...

A blood test can detect signs of cancer four years before symptoms appear, an “exciting” new study led by Chinese researchers found. The non-invasive blood test, called PanSeer, detects cancer in 95 percent of individuals who have no symptoms but ...

A U.K School has hired a 10-year old Nigerian tech genius as its new coding instructor. One remarkable young Nigerian girl managed to defy the odds and was recently hired by a school in the United Kingdom to teach others ...

A Nigerian man, Muhammad Abdul Modibo, has shown how creative he is by  converting an old Volkswagen Beetle vehicle into a Rolls Royce replica. The photo was shared in a tweet by Africa Facts Zone. Twitter users have praised the ...

  Facial recognition is one of the fastest-growing technologies in the world. Facial recognition is a biometric technology used to identify or authenticate faces by digitally mapping a person’s facial features. While the novel technology offers some noteworthy benefits, it ...

  First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that its mobile banking application, FirstMobile has been upgraded with new and improved features to promote safe and convenient Mobile Banking experience for customers. The bank in statement said the mobile banking ...

NASA wants you to help put the loo in lunar, so it’s offering $35,000 in prizes to design a toilet that can be used on the moon. The space agency has set an ambitious goal of sending astronauts back to ...