A ten year old Finnish hacker called Jani has received a $10,000 reward from Facebook, the parent company of Instagram, for discovering a security bug on the photo sharing site and informing them of it.
Jani found a way to delete comments of other users due to the bug he found.
It is perhaps the biggest taboo when in the company of others, certainly nigh unforgivable on an aircraft- but it turns out farting might not be as bad as we make it out to be.
A study carried out by researchers at Exeter University in England discovered that hydrogen sulphide, which is produced in the human body during break-up of food in the gut- actually has some benefits on the cellular level that might help in battling diseases.
I’m guessing this is one of those research findings Otabil would tell his followers to dismiss out of hand.
The brain is a complex network that is constantly in use, but obviously not everyone uses theirs in the same way.
It’s kind of a party line in Ghana, and across most of the fundamentalist Christian world, to deny the validity of the scientific theory of evolution. For some reason, we have convinced ourselves that if evolution is true, the bible must be wrong, which actually is not the case.
It’s a position that relies on distortions and misinterpretations of the overwhelming scientific evidence for the theory, and some of it comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding of the word theory as used in science. For comparison, gravity is a theory.
Today is the 29th of February, the rarest date in the Universe. It occurs just once every four years.
A lot of people do not know why we need to give February an extra date every four years. And for those who know, some do not even understand why.
The problem with the like button has always been how you utilise it to express support, especially on a sad post. It seems kind of psychopathic to ‘like’ someone’s post announcing the death of their mom.
So Facebook have been working on a new range of emotional reactions to posts for their users, and it is finally being piloted around the world.
Whoever said scientists cannot beef? B.o.B vs Neil Tyson is thousand times more fun than Kanye running off his mouth at a woman he used to date.
B.o.B has hogged some attention recently with his ridiculous claim that the Earth is flat, and that we have all been deceived by the most massive conspiracy in the history of man.
To those Ghanaian kids wondering, yes, we have eight planets. Don’t worry, they told me it was nine too.
Pluto, everyone’s favourite little brother, is a dwarf planet. But no worries, two researchers have come forward with a theory of another ninth planet, so your cognitive dissonance does not have to be too strong.
The free messaging app-WhatsApp has broke down—leaving several users hanging, unable to send or receive messages.
With the New Year at the corner for most countries where WhatsApp is popularly, this is a great inconvenience as many people rely on the messaging system to reach out to their loved ones.
The real cause of the outage is unknown— the mobile messaging application reportedly began experiencing issues with its service in parts of Europe after it went down shortly after 4.30pm.
A court in Sao Paulo state has ordered for the suspension of the popular messaging app-WhatsApp in Brazil—for failure of the bosses of WhatsApp to comply with a court order.
WhatsApp which is currently owned by Facebook has refused to cooperate in a criminal proceeding as it has ignored a court order to release certain needed data.
Facebook’s CEO and Founder-Mark Zuckerberg took to his facebook page to say:
“Tonight, a Brazilian judge blocked WhatsApp for more than 100 million people who rely on it in her country.
We are working hard to get this block reversed. Until then, Facebook Messenger is still active and you can use it to communicate instead.
This is a sad day for Brazil. Until today, Brazil has been an ally in creating an open internet. Brazilians have always been among the most passionate in sharing their voice online.
As the end of the year approaches, several end of year list are released, looking at the year in review. For the ordinary man, it’s a great way to reminisce over what the year was about.
Google is the world’s biggest and most used search engine, and its use has become almost a natural part of life. In fact the term Google has become a verb to describe the action of searching, and there can be no greater compliment to be paid to the tech firm.
The website of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), knust.edu.gh– has been hacked by a Moroccan hacking squad.
The group is describing themselves as the Moroccan Mujahideen team. The site takedown occurred around 1900 GMT Tuesday, and despite numerous reports the site has not been restored, it remains down as at the time of this report.
As progress hits the human race and technology takes over more and more, everything is moving online- either you are in virtual reality, or things are becoming impersonal.
Very soon, we would probably have a kind of machine to wipe our a** after doing the business.
Whilst Google works non-stop to get us to the point of self driven cars, the stories we keep hearing about this technology always seems to be on the lighter side.
There once was a story of the google car getting into an altercation with another test self drive car. And now, it has been pulled over for being too slow.
I am on a train from London to Luton and I am able to work, using my iPhone’s EE’s 4G as a hotspot. While in Ghana, I wrote almost all my articles in traffic: hooked on Surfline’s 4G mobile device while my friend did the driving. I found it interesting and refreshing that such a … Read more
