A study conducted earlier this year suggests that if you own an iPhone, you can consider yourself rich. The research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that 69.1 percent of people who own an iPhone are predictive of having a high income. Hol’up hol’up….before you start shouting I’m rich I’m rich! May I point out that this study logically, and without any doubt doesn’t include those with a smashed screen. Neither did…

Leading up to the mid-term elections, the war room will operate 24 hours, 7 days of the week. The people in the room are supported by 20,000 Facebook employees across the globe, hired to work on safety and security. The teams include threat intelligence, data science, engineering, research, operations, legal, policy, communications, and representatives from WhatsApp and Instagram. The space is built to contain about 20 people and their computers. There are a bunch of…

“I am heartbroken by the passing of one of my oldest and dearest friends, Paul Allen,” Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in a statement Monday. “Paul was a true partner and dear friend. Personal computing would not have existed without him.” Monday saw the death of Paul Allen, Microsoft’s co-founder. He was an investor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Two weeks ago, Allen disclosed on Twitter that cancer, for which he was successfully treated nine years ago,…

Facebook tries its hand on hardware with PORTAL. We all knew it was a matter of time before Facebook creates its own hardware. Unlike feeds, texts chats and likes, video is the real aspect of the company’s social platform that can justify a standalone device. The device comes with Facebook messenger and it uses Artificial Intelligence to recognize people in a frame and automatically zooms on their face as they move around. Portal reportedly features…

For Google, a lot has changed in 20 years. With the way Google’s popular products looked 20 years back, they could have taken home the award for bad product design without contest. A journey back to what their popular products looked like, in pictures; Google.com Google.com — the website and search engine, which represented all Google had to offer in the beginning — began as a research project called BackRub, the brainchild of Stanford Ph.D. students Larry Page and…

Microsoft at an event on Tuesday announced that it has started to roll out the next big update to Windows 10. This update has one big feature: An App, known as ‘Your Phone’. It lets you read your iPhone/Android phone’s text messages and photos from your Windows 10 PC. One amazing thing about this App is that it works over WiFi, so you do not need to have your phone plugged into your computer to…

And as English Language burns, Merriam-Webster has added 300 new words to its Scrabble dictionary. Now you have more words to play the game “SCRABBLE has been a game night staple for 70 years, and we’re excited to bring the game into its next decade with hundreds of current words like facepalm and emoji,” says Jonathan Berkowitz, President, Hasbro Brands. “Additions like these will add a new layer of fun to game night, making gameplay…

Good Programmers write software that works, Great Programmers write software that works exceedingly well. Writing software that works exceedingly well rarely happens on a first try. It is said that the best software usually, is written three times. Why? First, you write the software to prove to yourself (or a client) that the solution is possible. The second time, you make it work. The third time, you make it work right. Imagine, taking a snapshot…

9 things in Tech you need to know today. President Donald Trump’s campaign manager has called Google “a threat to the Republic” after a leaked video emerged showing company executives lamenting Trump’s 2016 victory. Republicans are of the view that, the video is indicative of bias in Google’s search result. During its annual event in Cupertino, Apple announced its biggest iPhone to date. The $1,100 iPhone XS Max. Apple unveiled an updated version of the…

Okay, scrap the word “seamlessly”, like the topic suggests. There is actually nothing seamless about dealing with any of the Government Parastatals anywhere in Nigeria. But, if you follow the guidelines and directions I gave below, it would help you save a bit of your time and money. Yellow Card is an international certificate of vaccination (ICV). The World Health Organization (WHO) mandates that every traveler must take the yellow fever vaccine. Every country has…