Science and Technology
Search and rescue crews sort through the debris of a destroyed building [Carl Court/Getty Images] The death toll in the worst typhoon to hit Japan in decades climbed to 66 on Tuesday as rescuers slogged through mud and debris in an increasingly grim search for the missing. Thousands of homes remained without power or water. […]
October 11, 2019 Facebook has included Kenya in a list of 10 African countries in a project that aims at ensuring false stories are not posted on its platform. Feedback from the Facebook community is one of many signals Facebook uses to raise potentially false stories to fact-checkers for review. Local articles will be fact-checked […]
Despite being blacklisted by the US Commerce Department in May, Huawei’s revenues accelerated in the first half of this year, growing 23.2 percent [File: Kacper Pempel/Reuters] The United States Commerce Department has received more than 130 applications from companies for licenses to sell US goods to China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, three sources said, nearly […]
Sworn-in. DR Congo’s newly inaugurated president Felix Tshisekedi raises an official plaque of the presidency after he took an oath of office in Kinshasa on January 24, 2019. AFP PHOTO The Democratic Republic of Congo announced a coalition government Monday, seven months after the inauguration of new President Felix Tshisekedi. “The government is finally here. […]
FILE – A man uses his smartphone outside of a shop selling Huawei products at a shopping mall in Beijing, May 29, 2019. By VOA Huawei remained the No. 2 global smartphone vendor in the past quarter despite tough U.S. sanctions imposed on the Chinese technology giant, market trackers said Wednesday. The Chinese firm managed […]
Google is working with universities and start-ups in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa to enhance AI development regionally, he said. AFP PHOTO By AFP “There’s a clear opportunity for companies like Facebook and Google to really go in and put a pole in the sand,” said Daniel Ives, a technology researcher at GBH Insights […]
SEOUL, Telecom giant Samsung Electronics on Friday released the Galaxy S10 5G, the world’s first available smartphone with built-in fifth-generation communications, as South Korea seeks to build a lead in the transformative technology. On Wednesday the South became the first country to launch nationwide 5G services, with three superfast networks going live offering data speeds […]
In the latest action, Facebook said it removed 513 pages, groups and accounts tied to Iran and operating in Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Kashmir, Kazakhstan and various areas of the Middle East and North Africa. Earlier this month, Facebook said it blocked online manipulation efforts in Britain and Romania from users seeking to spread […]
By Reuters Apple Inc, in a surprise move on Monday, launched a new 10.5-inch iPad Air and updated its iPad Mini ahead of a March 25 event where it is expected to launch a television and video service. So far in its annual March event, Apple has been making announcements related upgrades for its product […]
Analysts and investors have wanted Alphabet ( GOOGL – Get Report ) /Google to disclose more details about the size and performance of YouTube to get a better handle on its growth and overall impact on Google’s financials. Now at least a handful of analysts are predicting, or at least hoping, that Alphabet will finally […]