Schools and universities across the United States are split on whether to open for the fall semester, thanks to the ongoing pandemic. Albion College, a small liberal arts school in Michigan, said in June it would allow its nearly 1,500 students to return to campus for the new academic year Read more…
By now you’ve probably heard that under pressure from the current administration, TikTok owner ByteDance is putting the viral video service up for sale, and surprisingly a couple of big name enterprise companies are interested. These organizations are better known for the kind of tech that would bore the average Read more…
Lucid Motors said Wednesday that its upcoming all-electric Air sedan will have fast-charging capability that will let owners add 300 miles of range to the battery in 20 minutes and a home-charging unit that will allow owners to send energy from their car to their home. Lucid said it is Read more…
Arizona-based high-altitude balloon startup World View has a new partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to help the latter collect data to help it deepen its study of the Earth’s stratosphere, the second layer of the Earth’s atmosphere that spans between 4.3 and 12 miles above the Read more…
Twitter has given its biannual transparency reports a new home with today’s launch of the Twitter Transparency Center, which the company says was designed to make the reporting more easily understood and accessible. The launch was timed alongside the belated release of Twitter’s latest transparency report covering the second half Read more…
Max Levchin needs little introduction in the world of tech. As an entrepreneur, he’s been the co-founder of PayPal (now public), Slide (acquired by Google) and Affirm (reportedly about to go public), some of the hottest startups to have come out of Silicon Valley. And as an investor, he’s applied Read more…
A good brand is hard to kill. Over the past several years, the smartphone space has seen a resurgence of once-mighty mobile brands making a comeback with various degrees of success. HMD’s Nokia phones are probably the best and most successful example, but even Palm had a brief moment in Read more…
Ankhi Das, a top Facebook executive in India, has filed a criminal complaint against a journalist who she alleges attempted to defame her in a public Facebook post and made “sexually coloured remarks.” A review of the journalist Awesh Tiwari’s post, written in Hindi (the most widely spoken language in Read more…
A former Apple engineer says the modified iPod secretly recorded data using hidden extra hardware inside. Source: BBC
President Akufo-Addo has cut sod for the construction of a Gold Processing Plant at Aboso in the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal Assembly of the Western Region. The Plant, which would be managed by the Yellow Tails Limited is expected to create more jobs for the teeming youth in the Municipality and also Read more…
Award-winning rapper Sakordie born Michael Owusu Addo has hinted of releasing a book about his life titled’The Highest’. On Twitter Tuesday, the rapper posted a picture of his book with the caption “About that time!! My first Book ‘The Highes’ Will be out soon.” About that time!! My first Book Read more…
The popular music streaming service could not play any songs for more than an hour. Source: BBC
The session one of the 11th Edition of a Master Training Programme (MTP) to promote the African Cashew Value Chain commenced on Monday in Sunyani. The five-day programme scheduled to end on Friday, August 21 is under the auspices of the Competitive Cashew initiative/the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit Read more…
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) says it is working towards attaining 90 per cent of the votes in its stronghold, the Ashanti Region, in this year’s elections. The party is also bent on winning all 47 parliamentary seats in the region. General Secretary, John Boadu, said they will focus Read more…
One of the most consistent pieces of advice from health organizations about COVID-19 has been that everyone do their utmost to limit contact with people who may have been exposed to the novel coronavirus that causes the disease. That’s difficult in a hospital setting, where medical professionals regularly have to Read more…
The United States is currently in the middle of an affordable housing crisis that’s putting the nation’s most economically insecure citizens at risk of becoming homeless even as a pandemic continues to spread across the country. But one Atlanta startup called PadSplit is using the same model that Airbnb created Read more…
Minister of Education Matthew Opoku Prempeh has articulated the need to imbibe digital skills into students if education is to see a boost among the youth across Africa. According to him, the quest to improve on essential life skills is critical, and securing and preparing children is possible with the Read more…
Britney Spears has asked a court not to return her father to a role that gave him control over many aspects of her life and career. Jamie Spears has been his daughter’s legal conservator for 12 years, due to concerns around her mental health. He temporarily stepped aside from the Read more…
A dozen squatters at Lartebiorkorshie Town Council in the Ablekuma Municipal District have been displaced following a fire outbreak in the area on Wednesday. The fire which allegedly started around 1 am destroyed three kiosks and a hand full of wooden structures used as shelters by the squatters. Although the extent Read more…
Josh Mendelsohn, the former Bloomberg digital campaign advisor and venture studio founder, thinks that cash constrained government agencies from the local to the federal level aren’t using technology effectively enough to meet the challenges they face. That’s why the founder of Engine and former managing director of Hattery launched Hangar Read more…