Author: Chidi

HMD Global, the Finnish-based company that owns the rights to use Nokia’s brand on mobile phones, has announced its first smartphone dubbed the “Nokia 6”. The Nokia 6 is targeted for Chinese users in early 2017 and comes with a price tag of 1,699 yuan ($246). HMD explains the company’s decision…

Tennis superstar Serena Williams and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian are engaged. Ohanian popped the question while the two were vacationing in Rome. And Serena Williams announced her engagement to Ohanian earlier Thursday on her Reddit account, the user-generated news website he co-founded in 2005 with college roommate Steve Huffman. I came…

Remember Nokia, that company that used to dominate the mobile phone industry in the late 90’s and early 2000’s? The company that could do no wrong, until it of course did. Well, after a swirl of unconfirmed whispers and rumours, the Finland company is returning in 2017. The company lost…

MICROSOFT’S announcement this month has to be the biggest of the year. There are many in the PC manufacturing industry who see it as Christmas coming really early. For those who came in late, at its WinHEC hardware conference in Shenzhen recently, Microsoft made a major announcement which set tongues…

Consumer Reports reviews are in and the site refuses to recommend Apple’s latest MacBook Pro, for the first time. This is because the laptop’s battery life is horrible, so the MacBook skipped to be to be awarded a recommended ratings this year. The MacBook Pro exhibited “battery life results that were…

Facebook recently began testing a Live Audio streaming service that lets a select group of publishers broadcast audio messages on its popular social network, with plans to open it up to all of its users next year. The Live Audio service could bring content like podcasts into Facebook News Feeds…

The 2014 hit action movie ‘John Wick’ will be getting a sequel and we’ve been given a first peek at the trailer for its next year’s sequel, and it looks really good. John Wick: Chapter 2 is directed by Chad Stahelski, who co-directed the first film, screenwriter Derek Kolstad, who was also…

The anticipated title from Nintendo which received an unprecedented amount of publicity from Apple, ‘Super Mario Run’, just made its official début to the iPhone on December 15, worldwide. The famous plumber who has been a traditional platform classic for 31 years has finally made its official jump from consoles to…

Internet giant, Yahoo has taken out the record for the biggest cyber attack ever. The company revealed 1 billion of its user accounts recently got compromised, which surpassed a recent breach with 500 million accounts being from a single company, just three months ago. If you are a Yahoo user, you…

As of today, the Google driverless car is no more. Parent company, Alphabet announced a new business called Waymo, which stands for “A new way forward in mobility”. Instead of building its own cars, Waymo will install its technology on third-party vehicles. It is obvious Alphabet is competing with companies…

Samsung announced to be releasing a software update which will turn the remaining Note 7 out in the world into essentially a very expensive paper weight. This is happening after a global recall in September when the phone’s sudden burst of flames killed the line. A few Note 7 users decided that the…

The trailer for The Fate of the Furious aka Fast and Furious 8 has been released and it sure does look good, perhaps it could be worth seeing. The first full trailer gives us a good look at what the series will look like without a Paul Walker character in…

The first official trailer for the Spider-Man: Homecoming movie just debuted on Jimmy Kimmel Live tv show, right after yesterday’s teaser and it looks really amazing. We get to see the new Spidey suit developed by Tony Stark. Although the new suit is similar to what we got from Captain America:…

There are plenty rumours surrounding the Samsung Galaxy S8, thanks to SamMobile. The site has exclusively confirmed that the Galaxy S8 will not feature a 3.5mm headphone jack. Which mean users will instead need to use a USB C adaptor, just like the iPhone 7? This also means you won’t…

vTime is the first VR social network to hit the general public, which was formally launched late 2015 for Gear VR. The social VR app is known for connecting Samsung Gear VR and Google Cardboard users into their virtual world. Today the comapny behind the app announced support for iOS to…

Amazon is expanding its empire beyond the virtual space and into the real world. The online retail giant announced Amazon Go, a physical grocery store, where shoppers can just pick an item and basically just walk out of the store without so much as reaching for their wallet. All this…

SD cards users will soon be able to more accurately assess whether or not their purchase will be able to run applications as smoothly as if they were installed on integrated memory. With many portable devices designed to have their storage bolstered by external cards, it’s easy to forget that the…

Instagram just added a new feature to help users protect their privacy.  The app will now notify you when someone takes a screenshot of your messages, according to a report by The Verge. This feature only works for the recently added temporary direct messages. It is obvious Instagram copied this feature from Snapchat…

A report from the Wall Street Journal says we might see a curved screen on next year’s iPhone. With Apple testing more than ten different prototypes for the next iPhone. The report says Apple is asking parts suppliers to increase production of thinner OLED screens. Apple is also asking for prototypes…

We’re less than a month away from Disney’s latest standalone Star Wars film. Disney and Lucasfilm have released a new trailer titled “Trust” for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, as well as Jiang Wen and…