The Academy Award nominations for this year are out with Netflix getting the biggest share on the list. Netflix which was shut out at the Golden Globes Awards took home 24 Oscar nominations, mostly for movies like Marriage Story, The Two Popes, and The Irishman. American epic crime movie directed…
Author: Oluwasegun Olukotun
Mozilla is rolling out a voice assistant ‘Firefox Voice’ that enables users to surf the web with their voice. The voice assistant has the ability to recognize natural-language speech and has the features to do a lot more than just launching websites on command. Also, Firefox Voice is wired to…
Reddit updated its policies yesterday banning the impersonation of an individual or group in a misleading or deceptive manner. The change won’t affect deceitfully doctored videos alone but would take into account for penalties, simple lies made by people impersonating others online. The new policies expand upon the platform’s 2018…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Thursday (9th January 2020) hosted the Swedish Ambassador to ECOWAS, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria, His Excellency Carl Michael Grans at NCC Head Office. Discussions at the meeting focused on enhancing ICT capacity development and broadband penetration in Nigeria. Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, the Executive…
Upcoming American short-form mobile video platform Quibi has announced it will launch in the US on 6 April. Quibi strengthened by its $1bn (£763m) secured in funding has set to work some of Hollywood’s biggest names to make content for its mobile-only service. Each show will be 10 minutes or…
Twitter has announced it is adding a new setting for conversation participants right on the compose screen. Twitter’s director of product management, Suzanne Xie today made this known at a CES event. Xie explained that the new setting will offer four options: “Global, Group, Panel, and Statement.” Global lets anybody…
Video sharing platform TikTok has revised its community guidelines after it faced a storm of questioning on how it moderates content. The firm had endured criticism for pulling down posts, especially those political in nature. TikTok also assured its users that the guidelines will provide more details and clarity. The…
Google is currently showcasing the new feature for its Google Assistant on Android phones. The new feature makes it a more efficient super screen reader. When a user gives a prompt saying, “Hey Google, read this,” it will find the main text on whatever webpage or article you’re looking at…
Mercedes-Benz has taken car design out of this realm with its new Mercedes-Benz Vision AVTR. The eccentric car concept was inspired by the 2009 movie Avatar and also the Avatar director James Cameron had a role to play in the design. Currently being featured at CES 2020, the Mercedes-Benz Vision…
Sony has unveiled the PlayStation 5’s logo. This was done yesterday during the company’s CES 2020 press conference. The company also announced that it has sold over 5 million PlayStation VR headset since the device launched in October 2016. Sony during the press conference also said it has sold an…
The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy (HMCDE), Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami), has justified the necessity, appropriateness, and significance of the re-designation of the Federal Ministry of Communications as Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy (FMoCDE) in October 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari, as he recalled the…
American Manufacturing Company Kohler widely known for its plumbing products has put an Alexa enabled smart speaker in a showerhead. This is good news particularly to individuals who love to listen to tunes while having a shower in the morning. With this innovation, users will be enabled to cue up…
Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy S10 Lite and Note 10 Lite. The phones are budget versions of Samsung’s 2019 flagships. These Galaxy Lite models bring key premium features such as the latest camera technology, signature S Pen, immersive display and a long-lasting battery at an accessible price point. DJ…
WhatsApp has announced that the app will stop functioning on all phones running Microsoft Windows from Tuesday 31 December. Facebook, WhatsApp’s parent company had stopped users from being able to create WhatsApp accounts earlier in 2019. According to the company, the decision was made because Microsoft no longer actively develop…
Samsung will showcase a new artificial intelligence product named Neon at the annual consumer technologies event CES 2020. Neon, as reported, has nothing in common with the company’s A.I.-powered digital assistant Bixby. Little is known so far about Neon on the product’s social media pages. The pinned tweet for Neon’s…
YouTube has a new update that gives content creators more control over copyright claim disputes. The latest update allows creator to handle copyright disputes directly from their digital back-end workspace and gives them the option to trim out the claimed content in question. According to a Google product blog, The…
Twitter will no longer allow the use of animated PNG files (APNGs) on its platform. The decision comes after an attack on the Epilepsy Foundation’s Twitter account sent out similar animated images that could potentially cause seizures in photosensitive people. Twitter had discovered a bug that enables users to bypass…
Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space. The satellite was launched on 20 December 2019 with the financial support of China at a space station in the Asian country. Ethiopia had revealed its satellite plans in 2016 and took a step further by giving more details in the 3rd…
Boeing has announced that Dennis Muilenberg has stepped down from his role as the CEO of the company just a little more than one year after the first of two fatal crashes involving the company’s 737 Max aircraft. Though the company says Muilenburg resigned in its press release, it also…
Kenya’s Taz Technologies has raised USD1.9 Million series A round. The company is best known for developing and patenting the technology product known as MPost. Taz Technologies had in June this year raised an undisclosed amount of Pre-Series A funding from HAVAIC the Cape Town-based VC firm. The funding round…