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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has met with tech billionaire Elon Musk in New York to discuss potential investment opportunities, the presidency has announced. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 79th UN General Assembly, where Mr Ramaphosa had earlier addressed US and South African businesses and visited the New York Stock Exchange. […]

In a ground breaking legal development, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), an academic medical centre, has halted all In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) treatments in the wake of a state supreme court ruling that categorizes embryos as babies. The decision has sent shockwaves through the medical community and raised profound questions about the future […]

US regulators approved a roughly 4 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over its investigation into the social media company’s handling of user data, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday. The FTC has been investigating allegations that Facebook inappropriately shared information belonging to 87 million users with the now-defunct British political consulting […]

Facebook is to launch a cryptocurrency next year – backed by the likes of Mastercard, Visa and PayPal – which will allow people to move money from their smartphone. The currency is known as Libra, which the social network says it has “no special role” in governing and will manage the reserve equally with a […]

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all experiencing issues this morning for users worldwide. All three networks are not loading, showing instead a message that the site cannot be reached. The issue is thought to be impacting both mobile and desktop users, as well as those attempting to access Facebook Messenger. The three platforms are all […]

Microsoft’s Edge browser is coming out soon with a Google Chromium-powered revamp and an online leak showed all the features. The Verge reported the leak Sunday on various online forums and sharing sites. A public preview is expected soon, but so far only media outlets have gotten a look at the Edge’s new open source-powered browser.  Chrome extension […]

Facebook has said a “server configuration change” was to blame for outage of its services, which took down the Facebook social media service, its Messenger and WhatsApp apps, Instagram, and Oculus. Millions of people were impacted by the outage yesterday, which had users taking to Twitter (and our tips inbox) to vent their frustration or […]

Apple is the best private sector firm to work for in the UK, according to a new survey. Research by the Indeed recruitment weebsit found a diverse range of companies in the top 20 of their annual poll. Kitche The top 20 are: 1. Apple 2. Wren Kitchens 3. GlaxoSmithKline 4. Homeserve 5. Rolls-Royce 6. […]

Bill Gates childhood friends was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and gave more than $2bn over the course of his life Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. announced that he died in Seattle at 65 years old. It is with deep sadness that we announce the death […]

A 26-year-old Nigerian, credited for building the world’s first gaming robot, Silas Adekunle, has become the highest paid in the field of robotic engineering.Adekunle achieved the feat after signing a new deal with the world’s reputable software manufacturers, Apple Inc.The robotics engineer was also named as “Someone to Watch in 2018” by the Black Hedge […]