Month: October 2022
WhatsApp outage
The app, which offers end-to-end encryption for messages, is a popular method of group communication for social, work and parenting activities. The messaging platform WhatsApp has come back online after an outage that affected users around the world. Meta, which owns WhatsApp, said the problem had been fixed but did not give a reason for
Airbnb low booking
Airbnb has dominated the vacation rental industry for more than a decade. Recently, there have been several stories of travellers finding hidden cameras in their Airbnb rental, raising questions about the safety of the platform. In February, a Texas woman posted a video of a small camera she’d found plugged into the wall in her
Curing hair loss
Future research could open the door to developing fresh treatments for hair loss disorders, such as male pattern baldness. Baldness and other forms of hair loss affects both men and women. Science has moved a step closer to reversing hair loss after hair cells were generated in a lab. Researchers grew fully mature follicles with
biohacking and external life
Some transhumanist such as James Miller believes that bio-transformative technologies may soon allow us to live forever. There’s only one problem: now that he’s in his mid-50s he’s afraid he might die just before this brave new world becomes possible. Most biohackers hope anti-ageing technology will be a means of delaying age-related diseases, but for
artificial intelligence chatbots
AI-based concepts have slipped into our everyday lives and the division between science fiction, blue sky thinking and billion-dollar start-ups is fast and There was a time when the idea of artificial intelligence was confined to the world of distant research labs and little-known technology whizzes. Do you think that artificial intelligence chatbots become our
Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline controversy
In September, the European Union waded into the controversy surrounding the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop), and called for it to be halted, citing human rights abuses and concern for the environment and the climate which was dismissed by the Ugandan and Tanzanian governments which see the pipeline as vital to turbo-charge their economies.
Tiktok “Tracking” American Citizens
TikTok has denied a report that a China-based team at its parent company ByteDance planned to use the app to track the locations of US citizens. The developers of apps have come under scrutiny from authorities around the world, especially over the data of military and intelligence personnel. The US business magazine, which cited documents
Xi Jinping’s power
Xi Jinping walked onto the stage first on October 23rd, leading the new seven-member Standing Committee. He had made it clear that he intended to break recent retirement norms and stay on as general secretary of the party and head of the armed forces. He was duly granted a third five-year term in both positions
Starlink satellites to be put in Iran
White House In Talks With Musk About Putting Starlink On The Ground In Iran despite reported national security concerns. White house sees spaceX starlink satellites internet as a possible to internet crackdown instituted by the Iranian government over the september 16, 2022 death of the 22 year old woman who was in police custody after
Twitter Stock Down 4%
Twitter shares fell Friday by four percent (4%) after it was reported about increased scrutiny from the federal government into its pending sale to Elon Musk, dropping to nearly their lowest level since Musk said earlier this month he would move ahead with his 44 billion acquisition. Bided administration is mulling placing Elon Musk business