Twitter has finally introduced a like button on their platform, however it came at the expense of the button for favouriting a tweet- thus making it not as popular as they probably expected.
Favouriting a tweet has always been on the platform since the beginning, and as many people have noted, was a great way to bookmark a tweet for reading at a later date.
NASA had earlier revealed that they had a huge announcement to make on Monday, and folks who tuned in had an interesting revelation to digest.
Images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has shown that liquid, salty water can be found on the surface of the planet. It has been known for a while that Mars had some water at its poles; in its atmosphere, and below its surface.
You ever see a post from the guy who irritates you so much that you wished there was a little dislike button right next to the like button for you to dislike him into oblivion.
Well you still cannot do that.
Well since the damage being caused to our ears by loud music is quite momentous, it’s about time somebody came up with some new technology.
A new kind of headphone, designed by the delightfully named Studio Banana Things, beams its contents straight into your skull. These save you from ear damage, whilst also keeping the ears available to pick up sounds from your surroundings.
Well, there’s a correlation nobody saw coming.
A new study, published in the journal Dermatologica Sinica, makes the claim that men who lose their hair circa age 30, generally have a lower sperm count. The study sought to look into a very popular urban legend, that bald men are very virile.
Some traverse the world not contributing anything and living by authority, others try to find out as much as they can to debunk said authorities.
Researchers working in South Africa have discovered within the cave system known as Rising Star, located within South Africa’s famous Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, fossils of what is believed to be a now extinct species of human who lived between two to three million years ago; homo naledi.
A new study by South African scientists has found that the popular refrain that homos*xuality is ‘un-african’ is wrong, as there’s no evidence to support the fact and it is present in almost every human society.
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) commissioned the study, and came out with the findings. The purpose was to devise a way of convincing African regimes to be more lenient towards LGBTQ people, and science is a pretty good way of arriving at the right answers.
We know too little science in this country. At this point there’s no excuse, when we’re living in the greatest age of information in the history of man.
Carl Sagan wrote and starred in the first docu-series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The series, which tackles the history of the cosmos and man in a way that appealed to even the layman, was successful and inspired the latest reboot by one of Sagan’s protégés, Neil Degraase Tyson.
The biggest problem with our line of thinking is that we are always waiting for someone to come and save us, we’ll never do anything to attempt to arrest our terrible conditions.
It is why we still continue to export most of our biggest resources in their raw forms at cheap prices, and then spend a fortune to buy the refined end product. We have too little focus on science, technology, and industry on this continent.
Technology is always on the move—and the United Kingdom which has seen increase in electric cars over the last few years is set to test out roads that charge electric cars while they are the move…
Pretty awesome…right?
The trial for this is set to take place later this year—and full details will be revealed once a contractor has been appointed.
According to UK’s Transport Minister-Andrew Jones “the government is already committing £500 million over the next five years to keep Britain at the forefront of this technology.”
The Minister added that, “Vehicle technologies are advancing at an ever increasing pace and we’re committed to supporting the growth of ultra-low emissions vehicles on England’s motorways and major A roads,” Mike Wilson, Highways England’s chief highways engineer.”
Gradually we’re creeping up as a species to previously unimagined heights. The next big barrier for the human race to surmount is that of productive artificial intelligence (A.I)
AI is pretty much present in most of our future apocalyptic movies, maybe we’re se they’ll probably cause our demise one day in this real world.
It’s these kinds of innovation we need, from people genuinely interested in advancing the condition of the human race. We have very few of those here in Ghana. A Nigerian born American scientist, Samuel Achilefu, has won the 2014 Louis Award for creating a special brand of glasses that can help doctors view cancerous cells. … Read more
CEO of WhatsApp-Jan Koum has stated today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain that WhatsApp which was bought by Facebook last week for $19 billion is set to add voice calling within few months in a bid to take on phone firms.
Jan Koum said, ‘We are going to introduce voice in WhatsApp in the second quarter of this year..I think we have the best voice product out there.We use the least amount of bandwidth.’
The social networking site-Facebook which took the world by storm, ending the life of Hi5, Bebo and several others is 10 years today…
It is unbelievable how time fly and how big the platform has become. What is even more surprising is how the platform has become part of our daily lives—-and I know so many people cannot go a day without logging on.
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Facebook, the founder/CEO-Mark Zuckerberg had the below message to share…
Today is Facebook’s 10th anniversary.
It’s been an amazing journey so far, and I’m so grateful to be a part of it. It’s rare to be able to touch so many people’s lives, and I try to remind myself to make the most of every day and have the biggest impact I can.
People often ask if I always knew that Facebook would become what it is today. No way.
I remember getting pizza with my friends one night in college shortly after opening Facebook. I told them I was excited to help connect our school community, but one day someone needed to connect the whole world.
I always thought this was important — giving people the power to share and stay connected, empowering people to build their own communities themselves.
I’ve several friends who are actively selling and buying mobile phones online through various classified websites and I am told business is booming for this enterprise.
Being able to post free ads in Ghana via some of the popular classified websites no matter where you find yourself in the country (provided you have internet connection) means thousands of being are spending nothing to list their mobile phones for sale—which are seen by millions of others.
In fact, it is not only those who reside in Ghana who have brought attention to the online sale of mobile phones in Ghana. Several Ghanaians living abroad have active accounts on many of these classified websites where they list recently released mobile phones for sale.
