Author: Smart Megwai

In 2019, Google replaced its “Express App” with Google Shopping to further consolidate its online shopping experiences. The company just announced that it is shutting down mobile apps for shopping on iOS and Android. Users can continue shopping using the website instead. Last Friday, April 9th 2021, programmers at Xda…

The 2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS is an all-new Electric Sedan car being manufactured in Germany. This car is the electric version of the Mercedes S-Class – the company’s flagship luxury sedan. Its body is nothing to be compared to any other sedan car in history. It has a sleek flowing silhouette…

Q Link Wireless is one of America’s fastest-growing Lifeline service providers. It currently offers low-cost mobile phone and data services to 2 million Americans, and now making sensitive account data available to anyone who knows a valid phone number on the carrier’s network. The company is a Mobile Virtual Network…

Employees at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, have reported that the company isn’t providing a safe working environment for those who face harassment. In an open letter signed by more than 500 employees, the workers have said they deserve the right to work in a place that is free from abusers. …

Elon Musk’s company, Neuralink, just released a YouTube video of a monkey navigating an on-screen cursor with its mind.  The 9-year-old macaque monkey, Pager, was wired up with chips six weeks before the video was shot. The video narrator explained that the Neuro links have the capacity to record from…

Google’s vision to make Gmail the “new home for work” gets better with the introduction of Chat messaging and group Rooms. These features, which rolled out in August 2020, to G Suite customers on Android and the web, are now available to personal Gmail accounts.  Google is integrating everything —…

Ikea again partners with Sonos. The company, whose partnership with Sonos started in 2017, is dedicated to enhance life by creating an atmosphere at home with great design, music and sound. Its very product with the sound company is the Symfonisk series table lamp and bookshelf, both having with Wi-Fi…

The Nintendo Switch Pro Controller is a valuable gaming resource. But it has hitches that make it unreliable and operate at a base level. The latest 8BitDo Controller gives every gamer more features for less money. Here’s why: It comes with a Bluetooth function, and works well with laptops and…

Since the disruption in USSD and some other services offered by Banks to MTN, the Telecom Giant has decided to explore other payment platforms. Punch News gave this report on April 3rd, stating that MTN subscribers can go ahead to recharge airtime via the following electronic payment platforms: · …

In April 2020, there were rumours that Google is working on its own chip for Pixel phones and Chromebooks. Recently, 9to5Google gave a report that the Tech Giant will launch this custom smartphone chip. It stated that the presumed Pixel 6 will be among the first devices to run on…

Effective from May 5th, Google will restrict apps (on Play Store) that can see all of the other apps you have installed. Unknown to users, apps installed on devices can reveal information such as dating preferences and political affiliations to developers. Therefore, Google is saying that for an app to…

April 14th is Sony’s next Xperia event. A look at the company’s YouTube banner, show that it is set to launch a new phone at 4:30 PM Japan Standard Time — that’s 3:30 AM EST or 12:30 AM PT — on the set date. Though the banner only creates anticipation,…

A Facebook Live video has revealed that the police have fatally shot a prisoner at the Oklahoma county detention centre. This prisoner was seen to have taken a Corrections Officer hostage. The centre’s Administrator, Greg Williams, confirmed this incident during a news conference on Saturday evening broadcast by KWTv news…

Amazon is currently facing a lawsuit over workers not receiving adequate lunch breaks. The case which was transferred to the US District court California, Northern District on March 26th, got its first filing in San Francisco County Superior Court in February.  Former employee, Lovenia Scott is alleging that Amazon denied…

The recent ban of the highly popular ClearURLs extension on the Google Chrome Web store has generated a lot of mixed reactions (mostly criticisms) on user forums like Reddit and Hacker News. The effect of this has generated counterintuitive measures on how the user can install the tool manually on…

There are many websites that have long URLs with extra variables whose function is to track your activities on the web. This can especially apply to links present in newsletters, to mention a few sites. The privacy of personal information and data is a constant task in the lives of…

Since Pat Gelsinger took over as Intel’s new CEO, he has brought changes into the organisation. On the 23rd of March 2021, he shared his vision for “IDM 2.0,” a major evolution of Intel’s integrated device manufacturing (IDM) model. Pat has announced the company’s plans to grow its product development,…

Caesar Sengupta, a senior Google executive, announced on Monday 22nd, 2021 that he was leaving the company. According to his post on LinkedIn, he said the reason is to venture out and start on a new mission. Since he joined Google in 2006, the General Manager & VP, Payments and…

Google, on Thursday, made it official that the ‘Live Caption’ is now available on its Chrome (Desktop) browser. This new feature, which is targeted at the Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, helps to generate captions for audio content played in real-time using the Chrome web browser. Google confirmed in a blog…

So Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram went down again. This happened for about 45 to 60 minutes and users were unable to interact using these platforms. If you’re reading this, it’s possible you also couldn’t access some of the features of WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger or Instagram on March 19th, 2021.  This…