Google and Facebook have announced that their employees will be able to continue working from home for the rest of the year.Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, disclosed this at a company-wide meeting on Thursday that employees who need to return to the office will start being able to do so from July with enhanced safety…
Social Media Under Fire Over New Zealand Attack
The role of social media in the deadly attack carried out in two mosques in New Zealand has come under focus as Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand disclosed on Tuesday that her government would investigate the role social media played in the deadly attack. The Prime Minister’s decision follows a video of Friday’s attack…
Rulers Who Feast in the Morning
By CHINAZO-BERTRAND OKEOMAH Every great leader obeys a law called the law of delayed gratification. Simply put, the law expects one to shift enjoyment of certain benefits to the future if such act will make the future better. Thus anything we do today that puts our future in jeopardy is a breach of the…
Microsoft Embraces ‘Middle Finger’ Emoji
Microsoft has dared to go where Apple and Google have so far feared to tread, becoming the first big consumer OS vendor to add the “middle finger” emoji to its software platform. Flipping the bird in emoji form has been around since the middle of last year, and rolled out as part of the Unicode…
Google To Shutdown Buttercoin
Google Ventures and Y Combinator backed bitcoin exchange startup Buttercoin, is shutting down this month, after failing to raise new investment. According to a note on buttercoin website, the company states that it will be turning off its service on Friday, April 10, 2015 and asked its users to move their bitcoins to another service…
Google Launches Twitter Takeover Bid
There are reports that Google may launch a takeover bid for Twitter, the micro-blogging site whose share value is now put at $1bn. Google was identified as one of the two companies, believed to have contacted Twitter with “serious” interest. The micro-blogging site has reportedly hired Goldman Sachs as an adviser to spurn the advances.…
Google Reinvents Mobile Smartphones
United States Internet giants, Google, is trying to reinvent mobile smartphones that slots together piece by piece like lego, as most phone makers are making sleeker handsets. Google, aims to challenge its rival Apple’s thin iPhones product with the Google Ara project, giving knowledgeable smartphone builders the option to build their phone themselves. The Ara…
World’s Top Scientists Caution Against Artificial Intelligence
Top artificial intelligence experts from different parts of the world have signed an open letter calling for researchers to be cautious and avoid potential dangers of Artificial intelligence, AI. AI is a highly technical and specialised field where machines and softwares are made to simulate and exhibit human intelligence or even go beyond. Experts said…
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