Twilio’s annual customer conference was supposed to happen in May, but like everyone else who had live events scheduled for this year, it ran smack-dab into COVID-19 and was forced to cancel. That left the company wondering how to reimagine the event online. It began an RFP process to find Read more…
Officers will be told on Wednesday they can install the app to personal but not work smartphones. Source: BBC
The tech giant launches a palm scanner for secure payments and other biometric checks. Source: BBC
A bug in the game Counter Strike: Global Offensive has led to several bans – and more could follow Source: BBC
In the middle of a pandemic when customers are often wearing plastic gloves to stores alongside their face masks, Amazon’s physical retail team is introducing a new biometric device that will allow shoppers to pay at Amazon Go stores using their palm. The company on Tuesday introduced its purportedly “contactless” Read more…
Some die-hard fans of highlife legend, Daddy Lumba, on Tuesday, celebrated the musician’s birthday with the crew of Hitz FM. The group, led by the host of Asempa FM’s Girls Girls show, Nana Adjoa Silky, stated that the singer has not only inspired them but brought smiles to their faces with Read more…
The authorities in Guinea have cordoned off the home of one of the leaders of the opposition National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC), the party has said. The FNDC says in a Facebook post that the access to the home of its national coordinator, Abdourahamane Sano, has Read more…
When people ponder the investment opportunity around collectibles, they probably think about things like wine auctions, sales of very expensive, old cars or baseball cards, or maybe a pocket watch that made an unlikely appearance on an antiques TV show, hoping that their piece of treasured tat might one day Read more…
Cameroonian midfielder Marcel Wamba Kepdep has been arrested in Mauritius after he tried to illegally obtain a Mauritian passport. The 27-year-old has been playing for Mauritian side Roche-Bois Bolton City and was hoping to travel to Europe with the documents. Kepdep remains in police custody after his provisional indictment in Read more…
The game relied on Flash, which will no longer be supported by Facebook after December. Source: BBC
Ghana’s cocoa regulator – Cocobod has signed the 1.3 billion dollar annual syndication loan for the purchase of 900,000 metric tonnes of cocoa for the 2020-2021 cocoa crop season. The syndication loan was raised from 28 banks including 4 local banks – Ecobank, SGSSB, ABSA, and Stanbic banks. The signing Read more…
The John Mahama 2020 Campaign Team has debunked publications that some money was shared by the party’s flagbearer on Monday. “The public must disregard the false, misleading and malicious publications claiming that Mr John Dramani Mahama, the Presidential Candidate of the NDC, shared money to his supporters on Monday, when Read more…
Zuleyka Strasner didn’t set out to become an advocate for zero-waste consumption. The former manager of partner operations at Felicis Ventures had initially pursued a career in politics in the UK before a move to San Francisco with her husband. It was on their honeymoon on a small island in Read more…
A Nigerian senator has been fined $130,000 (£100,000) and told to apologise to a woman he physically assaulted in a sex toy shop last year. A high court in the capital, Abuja, found that the assault by Senator Elisha Abbo was ‘’inhuman and degrading” and violated the fundamental rights of Read more…
Rolling funds, the rise of solo capitalists, crowd syndicates, and team-based seed funds all scream one thing in unison: venture capital is growing and getting unbundled at the same time. While the asset class remains largely exclusive and skewed white and male, innovation does have the potential to usher in Read more…
Axis Security launched last year with the idea of helping customers to enable contractors and third parties to remotely access a company’s systems in a safe way, but when the pandemic hit, they saw another use case, one which had been on their road map: helping keep systems secure when Read more…
Disney+ is the latest streaming service to introduce a way for friends and family to watch movies and TV together while in different locations. With the pandemic closing movie theaters and making any kind of indoor socializing pretty risky, the Netflix Party Chrome extension has become the main way I watch Read more…
Foldable phones have had…quite the journey over the last few years. The second time appears to have been the charm for the Galaxy Fold, with a far more robust design than the first generation. And now Motorola’s hoping for similar luck with a revamped version of the Razr. The Lenovo Read more…
Cube.js, an open-source company that is building a data platform to help developers by analytical application for both internal and external users, today announced that it has raised a $6.2 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Previous investors Eniac Ventures, Betaworks, Innovation Endeavors and Slack Fund also participated, Read more…
Chip designer Arm today announced the launch of a new set of solutions for autonomous systems for both automotive and industrial use cases. These include the Arm Cortex-A78AE high-performance CPU, the Mali-G78AE GPU and Arm Mali-C71AE image signal processor. What makes all three of these chips stand out is that Read more…