Teens between the ages of 13 and 18 can participate in a Google Play contest launching this week. The teens are required to submit ideas for a mobile game for Google Play’s 2020 Change the Game Design Challenge, an ongoing initiative aimed at building a more inclusive future through gaming…
Author: Oluwasegun Olukotun
A new report from Check Point Research has shown that hackers have registered domains posing as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet-related URLs. More people are using these videoconferencing services during the COVID-19 pandemic. The domains could be used to pose as official links, potentially tricking people into downloading malware…
Streaming service Quibi has had a lackluster start to life which the founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has attributed to the Coronavirus pandemic. He said, “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus. “Everything. But we own it.” Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman rolled Quibi out at CES in January, leaning on…
Spotify is rolling out a feature that will allow premium users to share playing sessions with neighbors and anyone within their immediate vicinity. The new feature named Group Session is rolling out in beta today and only works between premium users. How it works: A host can share a scannable…
Intel is currently working in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine to develop artificial intelligence models that can detect brain tumors. IntelLabs principal engineer, Jason Martin in a statement said, “A.I. shows great promise for the early detection of brain tumors, but it will require more…
The next Bitcoin halving will take place in the early hours of Tuesday, 12 May 2020 and there is tremendous international interest in what the halving will mean given that two previous halvings lead to dramatic price increases. Luno’s chief executive, Marcus Swanepoel, predicts, “Bitcoin will return to its all-time…
It looks likely that Microsoft Outlook will be getting a text prediction feature similar to Gmail’s Smart Compose. The text predictions will allow Outlook.com and Outlook on the web to write emails for people using predictive tech that offers up suggestions while you type. A support document reveals that Outlook…
Samsung has announced plans to launch a Samsung Pay debit card this summer. The company made this know in a blog post by Sang Ahn, the vice president, and general manager of Samsung Pay in North America. The electronics giant will launch the card, which will be backed by a…
American ride-hailing company Uber recorded a loss of $2.9 billion in the first quarter of 2020, its biggest loss in three quarters. The company also posted $3.54 billion in revenue. It also recorded a 3 percent fall in gross bookings, while bookings in its Uber Eats division were up more…
Facebook software development kit (SDK) caused a lot of launching problems for many Ios apps for over an hour on Wednesday evening. Subsequently, these apps crashed for hundreds of thousands of users. Users on both Twitter and GitHub stated that the new software development kit, or SDK, caused a range…
Spotify now has 130 million paid subscribers despite initial worries that the Coronavirus could affect people’s listening pattern. The music streaming service disclosed it gained six million subscribers in the first quarter of 2020. Spotify also said that the figures fell into the higher end of what had been predicted…
Nigerian fintech platform Okra has secured a $1mn pre-seed fundraise from TLcom Capital, strengthening its push to build the infrastructure for Africa’s next wave of fintech innovation. With the first API in Africa to retrieve real-time financial data from a bank account to any web or mobile app, Okra’s new…
American video game publisher Activision today announced the Call of Duty: Mobile World Championship 2020 tournament. The tournament is a lengthy esport game that promises more than $1 million in total prizes, which include both cash and in-game cosmetics. For the schedule of the tournament, there will be online qualifiers…
Online learning platform Coursera has announced the Coursera Workforce Recovery Initiative to help governments worldwide, provide unemployed workers who lost their jobs due to the Coronavirus, with free access to 3,800 online courses. The initiative’s goal is to help impacted workers develop the knowledge and skills to become re-employed. You…
Even though it recently hit the headlines for security and privacy issues, Zoom has revealed that it has now surpassed 300 million daily users. The increase is a 50 percent leap from the 200 million reported earlier this month. Zoom did not specify whether the figures represent daily meeting participants,…
Following the #COVID19InnovationChallenge virtual Demo Day, held by Ventures Platform, MTN has joined Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and Lagos State Science and Research Innovation Council (LASRIC) in supporting the seven start-ups who are currently building solutions and platforms to mitigate the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The…
Twitter is set to begin a clampdown on “unverified claims” that could incite the destruction of essential infrastructure or stir up a wave of panic. The company decided to make some amendments in its policies following a series of attacks on mobile phone towers in the UK, fuelled by the…
Carbon, Nigeria’s foremost digital financial services company, has partnered with AXA Mansard, a leading provider of insurance products and services, to launch a range of healthcare benefits for its regular customers. As part of the new program, customers that save a minimum of N3,000 monthly with Carbon will qualify for…
Zoom is rolling out a new Zoom 5.0 update to address some of the many complaints that Zoom has faced lately. One of the features of the new update is that there is now a security icon that arranges together some of Zoom’s security features. You can use it to…
YouTube has announced a ban on any coronavirus-related content that negates the World Health Organization (WHO) advice. The online video sharing platform says it will pull off anything it deems “medically unsubstantiated”. Chief executive Susan Wojcicki said the media giant wanted to stamp out “misinformation on the platform”. YouTube had…