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The list of African achievers included five start-ups built by Ghanaians, made right here in Ghana to solve everyday Ghanaian problems. Social Media giants Facebook, has celebrated the achievements of African software developers in an annual conference in the city of San Jose, California. The list of African achievers included five start-ups built by Ghanaians, made right here in Ghana to solve everyday Ghanaian problems. They include Asoriba, an online church management platform, mPedigree, which has built a system that uses your mobile phone to be used to detect counterfeit and Rancard, a mobile solutions company. The rest are Esoko, which connects farmers with businesses and NGOs and mPharma, which has built a system to helps poor people accesses high quality but expensive drugs. “ We’re partnering with many African developers to launch products that not only meet the needs of their local markets, but which are also ready for the world stage, ”  says Emeka Afigbo, Facebook’s H...

One of the founding fathers of the internet, Robert Taylor, has died. While working at the Pentagon in the 1960s, he instigated the creation of Arpanet – a computer network that initially linked together four US research centres, and later evolved into the internet. At Xerox, he later oversaw the first computer with desktop-inspired icons and a word processor that formed the basis of Microsoft Word. Mr Taylor died at home aged 85. His family told the Los Angeles Times that he had suffered from Parkinson’s disease among other ailments. Mr Taylor studied psychology at university, but worked as an engineer at several aircraft companies and Nasa before joining the US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Project Agency (Arpa) in 1965. At the time, Arpa funded most of the country’s computer systems research. In his role as the director of the organisation’s Information Processing Techniques Office, Mr Taylor wanted to address the fact different institutions ...

Who said the smart wearable technology was going away any time soon? Oops! In your face. The Apple Watch, Samsung Gear Watch brand and fitness bands might have taken over the market since wearable technology became a thing. However, it’s time to push over because the real big boss is in town. OK! Slow down. Not everyone of it will have to be big because not everyone is big. Oops did it again. Ladies and gentlemen, mostly gentlemen, I present to you a SMART CONDOM dubbed the i.Con Smart Condom. Iconic, aint it? Now, this is not a full condom like you’re used to. This is a ring that fits over your condom and wait for it … tracks your sex activity. Lol. There’s no hiding now, is there? According to the inventors, the smart condom is in its final stages of testing (won’t we all love to be lab rats now) and is not yet available on the market but will be released for public use in 2017. Here are all the things the i.Con which is set to cost in the region of 340 Ghana Cedis can record: Cal...

News of a potential re-launch for the iconic Nokia 3310 took the world by storm earlier this month, and the likelihood of a resurrection is growing stronger by the day. Fresh leaks have shed more light on the capabilities of the heavily tipped 2017 version of the handset, which is expected to go on sale for €59 (£50). According to Chinese site Vtech, the new Nokia 3310 will feature a colour screen, rather than the monochrome 84 x 84 display of old. It won’t be particularly sharp, in order to avoid sapping battery life, but the splash of colour should make old favourite Snake a little more compelling to play. It won’t run Android, unlike the other handsets that HMD Global, which owns the rights to the Nokia brand, plans to unveil at MWC 2017 this weekend, and will be marketed as a feature phone. The launch of the Nokia 3310 will be held on February 26 in Barcelona. The new 3310 is also expected to be available in a range of new colours, including red, green and yellow, and will be slimm...

In it Mark expresses his plans to make the world a better place by connecting everything in meaningful ways. He seeks to answer the question he lays out at the start: Are we building the world we all want? He worries about the spread of fake news, and the tendency for people to read headlines and not the whole article. “While we have more work to do on information diversity and misinformation, I am even more focused on the impact of sensationalism and polarization, and the idea of building common understanding,” he wrote. Facebook will use more AI to achieve their goals including safety. He also pushed back against the criticism of globalisation. “Facebook stands for bringing us closer together and building a global community. When we began, this idea was not controversial. Every year, the world got more connected and this was seen as a positive trend. Yet now, across the world there are people left behind by globalization, and movements for withdrawing from global con...

This sort of thing is straight out of your run-of-the-mill sci-fi or cop TV show where the protagonist asks the lab tech to zoom way into a photo and then "enhance" it. While this isn't as crystal clear as the fake stuff is in the television shows, Google Brain is capable of taking an 8x8 pixelated image and "add" details that would have been impossible to see before. The future of the work being done by Google Brain is still unknown but there may be a day in the not-so-distant-future where your real-life police department is zooming and enhancing an image of something that was originally too blurry to make out.

One of the most interestingrumored features of the Galaxy S8 is a Samsung-owned virtual assistant. After all, previous Galaxy S generations always had access to Google’s Google Now voice-based assistant, but Samsung is going to do things a little differently this year. And the company accidentally confirmed that its virtual assistant is indeed in the works. Samsung put on its website images that indicate Bixby will support Samsung Pay payments. Bixby is what the virtual assistant will be called, according to previous leaks that include trademark applications from Samsung. Bixby is based on the technology developed by Viv, a company that Samsung acquired a few months ago. Viv was founded by two of the people who created Siri for the iPhone a few years ago.

The Finnish company Nokia got the whole tech community excited after announcing that it will soon back to the smartphone world and very soon Nokia will present up to five new Android smartphones in 2017. The return of the Nokia into the smartphone world is news that arrived in 2016 and pleased many users who want to see this iconic logo again but running Android, not Windows Phone. It seems that the company whose sales rights now belong to HMD has on its roadmap to launch new handsets during 2017, taking advantage of the unique setting that is the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the biggest fair of the world phone. A few days ago the leaked images appeared in the wild are the possible Nokia P, a high-end or flagship device manufactured by HMD that would have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, 6GB of RAM and a 23 Megapixel camera with Zeiss lens. Earlier we also informed you about the possible price of new Nokia Android smartphones and now heard reports that say that Nokia will no...