Nowadays, the dominant camera technology is the 4k video format, while most of the video hosting services such as YouTube and Instagram are already supporting the ability to upload 4K video… Read More

MercadoLibre is an eCommerce company with headquarter in Buenos Aires, Argentina, dubbed the “eBay of Latin America”, because of its dominant position in the Latin America’… Read More

Sketch2Code is part of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, the Custom Vision and Computer Vision APIs used for object detection, which uses trained models to detect HTML objects, then employ… Read More

How best to start the New Year than looking back at Nigerian technology startups to meet their Waterloo in 2019, and see if perhaps there are some lessons for those still holding on to the g… Read More

Mozilla research project offshoot, WebAssembly was first announced in mid 2015 as a low-level programming language for in-browser client-side scripting, designed to be faster to parse and ex… Read More

The world's first pidgin-to-English machine translation model has been developed by the duo of Nigerian AI engineers, Kelechi Ogueji and Orevaoghene Ahia, who are both colleagues at InstaDee… Read More

Twitter following discovery of a hack that allowed users to tweet multiple GIFs by converting a GIF into an animated PNG (APNGs) has put a stop to the use of APNGs citing some performance is… Read More

While the increasing technologically focused world has made working remotely very much the norm in advanced economies, with such jobs as programming and web development, the favorites for re… Read More

The examination period can be stressful for lots of students all over the world, irrespective of grades. And most certainly, no one is 100 percent guaranteed of getting a good score. But it… Read More

Google has announced Project Connected Home over IP, in partnership with Apple, Amazon, and the Zigbee Alliance, with the aim to establish a new standard to enable IP-based cross-platform co… Read More

Hidden Cobra, also known as Lazarus Group, is a North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group that's notorious for WannaCry ransomware, which had the ability to spread automatically across large… Read More

Microsoft's adoption of the Blink rendering engine forked from WebKit, used by Google Chrome and also Opera browser, is perhaps the company's biggest move to improve Edge's market share and… Read More

Google was forced to halt the roll-out of Chrome 79, the latest version of its hugely popular web browser due to issues regarding a bug affecting Android WebView, which is wiping device&rsqu&hell…Read More

Mozilla's recently released Firefox 71, comes with Native MP3 Decoding for Windows, MacOS and Linux; which followed the expiry of the patents for the long-outdated lossy compression MP3 audi… Read More

The search giants AI virtual assistant, Google Assistant is bundled into Android phones, also on other Google products like Google Home, making it easier to search by voice and converse with… Read More

The decades old mobile technology standard, USSD remains relevant today, even more than it was back in the days. Anyone using a mobile phone can't escape dialing *123# to either check airtim… Read More

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform that integrates with Office 365 subscription productivity suite, including Office and Skype, and supported extensions for third-party products. Wh… Read More

Apple has released iOS 13.3 for iPhone, with the long-awaited support for USB, NFC, and Lightning FIDO2-compliant security keys in Safari browser.While FIDO2 is a WebAuthN browser API standa… Read More

Linux systems have been reported to be susceptible to a flaw that could allow hackers to gain control of the machine through any nearby devices' WiFi signals.The report was credited to Nico… Read More

The end of the Year is around the corner, so it behooves us to scour the Web to bring to you the best technology predictions for 2020, even as the New Year promises a lot of surprises.The ma… Read More

Apple's strict privacy stance, especially on the tracking of its iPhone users, has received a hit following the controversy about the iPhone 11 Pro tracking of users' location even when not… Read More

Microsoft is currently working on new ‘memory safe’ programming language, which is internally referred to as “Safe Infrastructure Programming” based on Rust language… Read More

The malicious activities connected with the Avast and AVG browser extensions has resulted the removal from Firefox Add-on store until the concerned companies are able to resolve the issue.Ac… Read More

Before now, to transfer your media files from the Facebook platform, you are required to "Download Your Information" first, which then enable you to access a secure copy of the data shared w… Read More

The move to replace SMS with RCS messaging standard by leading mobile carriers may have hit a brick wall, as its making mobile users vulnerable to call interception, text-based attacks, lo… Read More

Microsoft's Windows 10 updates naming format usually follows the sequence of numbers representing year (yy) and the month (mm) of the release - as in 2020's first-half release should transla… Read More

Google has identified several state-sponsored hacking attempts on its users, which as reported by the company's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), over 90 percent of users targeted were in form of… Read More

Google had earlier announced that it will bring the voice assistant to G Suite in April, now the company is rolling out the capabilities to allow users manage their Calendar schedules using… Read More

MTN Nigeria has commenced its 5G network trial, making the country the second to do so in Africa, which follows after a successful launch of C-band 5G trial in South Africa, earlier in the m… Read More

FIDO2 is made up of WebAuthN browser API standard and the FIDO CTAP (Client to Authenticator Protocol), which builds on the previous project by the FIDO alliance for Universal Two Factor (U2… Read More

Mozilla has released a list of connected devices that it deems “Privacy Not Included” gadgets based on creepiness and their lacking of basic security standards.While the report i… Read More

Intel’s oneAPI project has been unveiled to deliver unified programming model that simplify application development across multi-architectural computing systems.The oneAPI will help… Read More

Google has confirmed collecting Healthcare Data in a controversy that was fueled by The Washington Post report that the NIH (National Institutes of Health) stopped the company from posting o… Read More

Google had always been a staunch supporter on improving the speed of websites, with such technologies as Service Workers, of which the company was a party in the draft specifying how Service… Read More

Microsoft's release of the digital assistant on third-party platforms was heralded as great move to bring users to its ecosystem, but now there are plans to remove the Cortana app from And… Read More

Pipka, the newly discovered web skimming script can remove every trace from host website after execution, making it almost impossible to detect.The research team from Visa’s Payment Fr… Read More

The proliferation of smartphone has massively impacted on the business environment in Nigeria, with several mobile payment platforms jostling for the consumers' wallet. Whether making paym… Read More

Microsoft has unified the Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) with Intune unified endpoint management (UEM) platform, which combination is now known as Endpoint Manager, with users able to acc… Read More

Delegated Credentials for TLS, is the technical specifications for new cryptographic protocol announced by Mozilla, in conjunction with Cloudflare, Facebook, and some other members of IETF c… Read More

Google has entered into partnership with some mobile security companies, which it calls ‘App Defense Alliance‘ to help in early detection of malicious apps targeting its mobile s… Read More

Microsoft had earlier offered a glimpse of the virtual assistant, Cortana in the workplace, now the company has fully targeted it for duties in its growing portfolio of productivity tools… Read More

Microsoft's web-based version of its Code Editor, Visual Studio Online, which was previously in a private testing with select developers, has now been opened to the public.The new online edi… Read More

NFC works with Android Beam, which service allows Android devices to send images, videos, and other files, or even apps, to another nearby device using Near-Field Communication radio waves… Read More

Google has issued a warning to Chrome users to urgently upgrade their browser, with Chrome 78.0.3904.87 release, containing a patch for two highly severe vulnerabilities, one of which is a… Read More

Google has touted Site Isolation in Chrome 77 on desktop as capable of defending against significantly stronger attacks; even in scenario where the renderer process is compromised, such as U… Read More

Opera Software has launched a new platform for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Oleads that will help them to leverage on web presence to increase awareness about their business and ramp… Read More

Google always accompany Chrome updates with release notes aimed at highlighting the upcoming changes, additions, enhancements and modifications, especially for enterprises that are planned f… Read More

EdTech is now commonplace in the world of education, and with each passing year, educators have come to embrace more of EdTech tools for use in the classroom. Educators who haven't embraced… Read More

The Rich Communications Services (RCS), a robust messaging standard comes as an upgrade to SMS and MMS, bringing features found in third-party services like WhatsApp to basic text messaging… Read More

Google had earlier promised the ability to search for items on Google Drive directly from the browser, and now, with Chrome 78, the feature will be rolling out to G Suite customers to search… Read More

Mozilla has gone all out against social media trackers, with Firefox 70 blocking all cross-site tracking cookies from social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter; also allowing… Read More

Google uses the build tool called Blaze internally for automated building and testing of software; and the company later released it as an open-source project with the name Bazel, which is a… Read More

Opera 65 Beta released on October 17 supports DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) protocol, which feature helps to encrypt DNS traffic, and increase users' privacy and security by protecting against eavesd… Read More

Bike hailing business is gaining a huge traction in Lagos, as Nigeria's commercial nerve center with a population of over 20 million people is notorious for traffic congestion. And how best… Read More

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Tamper Protection, a security addition designed to protect Microsoft ATP customers against unauthorized changes to their security settin… Read More

Google introduced 'Site Isolation' in Chrome for desktop in 2018, which feature brings additional line of defense by ensuring that the pages from different websites are opened in different s… Read More

Facebook introduced the "Data Abuse Bounty" program as a reward system last year, which anyone that reports valid incidence of its apps collecting users' data in violation of its data polici… Read More

Mozilla has disabled the execution of inline JavaScripts on Firefox as a defense against code injection attacks, by implementing strict Content Security Policies (CSP) that ensure all script… Read More

There is a zero-day vulnerability affecting a component that comes inbuilt with Apple's software, iTunes and iCloud for Windows, which exploitation causes it to evade detection by antivirus… Read More

Facebook launched Workplace in 2016, as a collaboration platform that offer standard chat functions and the ability to share files, including photos and videos, also voice clips, between emp… Read More

The modern camera offerings with many megapixels, not withstanding, you'd still need a nifty image resize tool to bring out the exact copy of image required for professional image processes… Read More

Opera Software has hopped unto the browser tracking protection bandwagon with Opera 64 bringing the open-source EasyPrivacy Tracking Protection support to bolster privacy.While EasyPrivacy i… Read More

Microsoft has commenced the testing of Phone app for Windows 10 with Windows Insiders, which feature is to allow users to make phone calls right on their PCs without the use of mobile phone… Read More

The earlier reported flaw in Signal Messenger that allowed just anyone, including malicious actors to initiate an auto-connect call without the receiver's interaction, has now been fixed.Whi… Read More

Mozilla and Google have scheduled to implement DNS-over-HTTPS protocol on their respective browsers, with Firefox already rolling out the feature and for Chrome, it has been scheduled to rol… Read More

Google has released a web-based password checker as part of its efforts to help identify when a user's login details is compromised, and thus alert the affected individual.While Google had e… Read More

The leading social network, Facebook is under pressure from the UK, US and Australia governments to create backdoor into its encrypted messaging systems to allow the governments access to… Read More

Dropbox, the San Francisco-based Cloud Storage company, has launched a new collaboration tool dubbed Spaces, that will enable co-workers to share a variety of documents within an organizatio… Read More

The emergence of malvertising campaigns is a growing concern in online marketing, that even heavy-weights like Google are still grappling with it. And there is a recent case of exploitation… Read More

Microsoft has rolled out its Windows Virtual Desktop service globally with capabilities like multi-session for Windows 10 and support for the Windows Server Remote Desktop Services, among ot… Read More

Microsoft has been actively working to thwart phishing in Outlook, which is a growing online security concern, that led to many recent compromises involving big companies who are now devotin… Read More

Google in collaboration with Jigsaw, have released a large dataset of visual deepfakes, which has been incorporated into the Technical University of Munich and University Federico II of Napl… Read More

Microsoft advisory had disclosed the RCE vulnerability that leverages the way IE’s scripting engine stores data, which could result to memory corruption, allowing attackers to run arbi… Read More

The world's most popular operating system, Android is 11 today, though with a mixture of ups and downs, the operating system has beaten all odds mostly because there wasn’t any strong… Read More

Google is currently testing the "Incognito mode" for Google Maps on Android which feature will hide the users data whenever they choose to access the maps without tracking them.While this co… Read More

Google has made it possible for web searchers to find specific or "key moments" from videos in search results, which feature will come handy for those looking for a particular scene in lon… Read More

While Oracle first introduced Commercial Relation Database for Linux way back in 1998; the company just recently announced a fully automated cloud OS, dubbed Oracle Autonomous Linux.Oracle A… Read More

The Linux malware, Skidmap is fully capable of mining cryptocurrency through the creation of malicious LKM (loadable kernel modules) to stay undetected, by overwriting and modifying the kern… Read More

Opera GX is a game-centric web browser developed by Opera Software AS, which was first announced on June 11, and now released as the world’s first gaming browser.The browser is disting… Read More

The iPhone lockscreen bypass bug that was reported by a security researcher, Jose Rodriguez has gone unpatched as Apple is prepping to release the newest version of its mobile OS next week.W… Read More

Google announced plans to implement DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in the next version of its browser, Chrome 78 with users given the option of choosing the corresponding DoH server to use for DNS r… Read More

Mozilla announced plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) by default in the Firefox browser, starting with US users this month. But the news was received with lots of criticism, as most secur… Read More

Cloud Dataproc is a fully managed cloud service for running Apache Spark and Hadoop clusters in a simpler, and more cost-efficient manner, by reducing operational hours, and you paying on… Read More

Mozilla has progressed in its effort to thwart network snoopers by encrypting connections to the web servers that host websites, using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), the combination of the network… Read More

Lilu (Lilocked) ransomware was first discovered by a ransomware note uploaded on ID Ransomware, a portal for identifying new ransomware based on the demand specified in the ransomware note.N… Read More

The cybersecurity researchers at Avast have disclosed that about 29 models of GPS tracking devices used in keeping tabs on children manufactured by Chinese companies, come with a number of v… Read More

Twitter has temporarily disabled the 'Tweet via SMS' feature after it was reportedly abused by hackers to compromise the company's CEO, Jack Dorsey's Twitter account, whereby a series of twe… Read More

Mozilla has been at the forefront in fight against websites that track users online activities, which tracking is only beneficial to advertisers who target specific users, despite that it in… Read More

Google has released the latest iteration of its renowned mobile OS, Android 10, breaking from the decade old norm of naming it after sweet delicacies, as the Internet giant is done with fanc… Read More

Hangouts, which originally launched with Google+ social network, is a messaging system that allows for collaboration between workers, with offerings like video chats and voice call, in addit… Read More

Google is grappling with the outbreak of data-abusive apps on its platforms, with instances like the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which affected the Facebook app, whereby users data were sol… Read More

Microsoft's removal of its hold on patents to the exFAT file system, through the Open Invention Network (OIN), has made it available on the Linux kernel for use by the open source community… Read More

Getnamenecklace.com is a specialist jewelry store for connoisseurs with great taste for fashionable and gorgeously customized jewelry collections.While the online store prides itself as the… Read More

Facebook had after several testing released a privacy tool, called 'Off-Facebook Activity' to allow users to have more control over their data and also be able to choose which specific parts… Read More

Google has made proposal for a set of open standards on privacy, dubbed Privacy Sandbox, that will fundamentally prevent profiling of users and still support Free and Open Internet for dig… Read More

Microsoft's open source code editor, Visual Studio Code was adjudged as one of the best text editors for programming, and the bringing of the Visual Studio Code as a Snap, to cater for the o… Read More

Apple's browser engine, WebKit has announced a new tracking prevention policy which is aimed at bolstering privacy on the Safari browser and thus help to protect users on Apple's ecosystem.W… Read More

While Spotify boasts of millions of songs available for streaming, you can only download and listen to it on the platform as Spotify songs are protected by DRM, and that limits how users cou… Read More

The Firefox Password Manager is intended to help keep all users' passwords in one place, so that they can log in automatically onto websites, or find their saved passwords easily; but to ens… Read More

The renown Kaspersky security solution has been reported to be flawed with how it runs remotely-hosted JavaScript file in the source code of every website a user visits in its processes of m… Read More