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Chinese Schools Embed Tracking Chips In Students' Uniforms To Monitor Truancy

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Chinese deployment of technological solutions solves the problem of truancy and skipping classes by school students in China, using "intelligent uniforms." Chinese students now wear school https://is.gd/FxjiGj

Sudanese Government Shuts Down Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp And Instagram Due To Protests

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Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and WhatsApp have been shutdown as a result of the ongoing protests in Sudan. The protests which has been on for over two weeks in major cities of Sudan, killing at https://is.gd/WKEB9F

12 Astounding Security Technologies in 2018

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  By checking the smell Over the past twenty years, computer mainframes have become smartphones that fit into your pockets although, they are much more powerful, but there are ways to https://www.techquery.ng/featured/12-astounding-security-technologies-in-2018/

12 Astounding Security Technologies in 2018

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  By checking the smell Over the past twenty years, computer mainframes have become smartphones that fit into your pockets although, they are much more powerful, but there are ways to https://www.techquery.ng/featured/12-astounding-security-technologies-in-2018/

Meet Your Digital Food Scale That Multitasks With Ease

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Having good cooking skills without the DEVICE/S that fulfils all your cooking needs is like saying "you can have a good security border without a wall." How's that possible. Devices that have all https://is.gd/yeNoEu

Facial Recognition Technology Being Tested On Christmas Shoppers In London

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As shopping for the Christmas is really picking up, the crime rate is equally on the increase. Hence the live facial recognition deployment scheduled for the 17th and 18th of December by the https://is.gd/ih3YRO

Google To Build A New Campus In New York City Worth Over $1 Billion

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Today Google is boosting its presence in New York City by investing over $1 billion in capital improvements to establish its new campus, Google Hudson, of over 1.7 million square foot. It made it https://is.gd/7SCuuU

Taylor Swift Facial Recognition System Secretly Recorded Stalkers' Faces at the California's Rose Bowl Concert

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Taylor Swift facial recognition system secretly recorded stalkers faces at California's Rose Bowl concert held in May. Taylor's facial recognition system was built into a kiosk that displayed https://is.gd/WzfS1C

How to Get Well with Google's Digital Wellbeing App

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Technology in itself is not a bad tool but abusive measures introduced to it has made it somewhat bad and unhealthy for users. The digital world has unconsciously become an integral part of life, https://is.gd/T0eaC5

The Geneva Motor Show Is On, Turns Your Imaginations Into Reality.

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The Geneva motor show has just begun, here beauty and the beast are combined to form elegance and performance. The show is to run from 8-18 March 2018. It features contests, premieres https://is.gd/S5vwri

SpaceX Just Had Its 50th Falcon 9 Rocket Launch, Carrying Satellite To Boost Broadband In Africa And Europe.

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For SpaceX, the launch of another Falcon 9 on the 6th of March is a major milestone for the company: “Falcon 9 flight 50 launches tonight, carrying Hispasat for Spain. At 6 metric tons and almost t https://is.gd/9oPln9

Kenyan Msurvey Launches In Nigeria, Promises Customer Retainership Through Feedbacks.

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How do you evaluate your services? How do know if you are delivering top-notch products and services to your customers? How do you know if your product/service has driven home the joy and https://is.gd/bOair2

Mark Zuckerberg, A Victim Of Governments’ Distrust.

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Cambridge Analytica’s stealing of 50 million Facebook users’ data is no longer news, the news now is that all Governments want to see Mark Zuckerberg, the man that supposedly let the thieves in. https://is.gd/2wRNPJ

Now You Can Identify Fake, Photoshopped Or Manipulated Images And Their Sources, Using The TinEye Platform.

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A lot of fake and crappy things happen these days especially in the era of social media. How do you verify if an image being shared widely is real or not? How do you tell if your photo was a https://is.gd/AEtU9p

Tech Mogul, Bill Gates And Others Grace Dangote Daughter's Wedding

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If you think tech guys only build products, then rethink, because somewhere in Nigeria they are gathered for a big ceremony, alongside other billionaires. We mean the wedding ceremony of https://is.gd/4Tk0Ta

Buyers To Start Receiving Their Preordered Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ Today

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Samsung has started shipping preordered Galaxy S9/S9+ today. The company made the statement on its website. The company launched the product a few weeks back, described the product as the best https://is.gd/Bdhp0w

Rihanna Just Made Snapchat lose Over $1billion

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Following a recent snapchat ad: "Would you rather: slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown?" Rihanna and others expressed their wrath over the incident on social media. The snapchat ad used to promote https://is.gd/SKIHhj

Creating, Remembering And Storing Passwords Have Come To An End With The Everykey Device.

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How do you feel, when you cannot get instant access to your account simply because you forgot your password? How are you able to manage several passwords to your websites and other accounts without https://is.gd/5r4Nqi

Spotify Launches Live In South Africa.

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What does music mean to you? For some, it could mean a form of entertainment that puts sounds together in a way that people like, find interesting or dance to. And for others it could mean that https://is.gd/JvSpjy

MIT Redesigns 4,500 Year Old Technology For Preserving Vegetables Without Electricity.

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Going by the importance and nutritional value of vegetables, it therefore remains necessary to improve its security world wide. Vegetables are rich sources of many nutrients , such as Vitamin C, https://is.gd/KKQQrv

How To Expose And Correct Duplicates Using Excel

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Handling duplicates can be very tasking, most especially when you have a large database to deal with. Data duplication can set your budget spinning, introducing irregularities, inconsistencies, https://is.gd/geKXeT

Tech Mogul, Bill gates, Advises Nigeria's Leaders To Invests More In Its People.

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Bill Gates who was in Nigeria a few weeks back to grace Dangote daughter's wedding felt the warm reception of Nigerians as it was confirmed on his twitter handle: I was excited to visit Nigeria https://www.techquery.ng/featured/tech-mogul-bill-gates-advises-nigerias-leaders-to-invests-more-in-its-people/

Elon Musk Deletes Tesla And SpaceX’s Facebook Pages After Whatsapp Founder And Others Dared Him To Try It.

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Musk says he doesn’t even know if facebook exists, and deletes Tesla and SpaceX’s accounts afterwards. The founder was responding to tweets on Friday, and specifically was responding to a tweet by Br https://is.gd/amolep

Dropbox Share Price Hits $29 At First Day Of Trading

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Dropbox, a file-sharing platform went IPO at $21 per share but suddenly saw a surge of about 40% in its share price. The company, Dropbox, listed as “DBX”, with 36million shares at $21, amounting to https://is.gd/J5XVVd

Teleology Holdings Buys Over Nigeria's Fourth Largest Mobile Telecommunications Carrier, 9mobile, for $500m.

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The preferred bidder, Teleology Holdings, meets deadline to buy over 9mobile with a non-refundable deposit of $50m (fifty million dollars) on the stipulated date, 22 March 2018. Meanwhile, Smile https://is.gd/SVJ2PX

Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes And Lays Out Strategy To Protect Users Data

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Facebook CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has apologized for the Cambridge Analytica data breach. He made the apology on CNN last night: "We let the community down and I feel really bad and I'm https://is.gd/3f7HZX

Facebook Confesses That Up To 80 Million Users Information Was Compromised To Cambridge Analytica.

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Facebook confesses that up to 87 million people's information mostly in the U.S were improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica. Prior to now, it was known that 50 million users' data were https://is.gd/9bCCxQ

Snapchat Just Stepped Up Their Game: Adds New Robust Features.

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Snap chat just stepped up their game by adding new robust features to its platform to enhance users activities. The added features include a new group video chat feature that accommodates up to https://www.techquery.ng/featured/snapchat-just-stepped-up-their-game-adds-new-robust-features/

Intel Just Released The First Ever Intel Core i9 Processor For Laptops.

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Intel has just unveiled the first ever intel core i9 processor for laptops at a global event in Beijing. The powerful 8th Gen Intel Core i9 processor is the highest performance laptop processor https://www.techquery.ng/featured/intel-just-released-the-first-ever-intel-core-i9-processor-for-laptops/

Google Starts Blocking Fake And Unlicensed Android Devices From Accessing Its Apps And Services

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Google’s action seems to say enough is enough, the fact that Android is an open source Operating System(OS) doesn’t mean it should be rubbished. Android is an open source OS, so companies pick it https://www.techquery.ng/featured/google-starts-blocking-fake-and-unlicensed-android-devices-from-accessing-its-apps-and-services/

China’s Space Station To Crash To Earth, Possibly, April 1st.

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April fool’s day may have a big visitor: China’s space station, Tiangiong-1, which was launched 2011, has been decreasing in orbit radius, and the European Space Agency, ESA, has said on its Twitter https://www.techquery.ng/featured/chinas-space-station-to-crash-to-earth-possibly-april-1st/

China’s Space Station, Tiangiong-1, Crashes Into Earth On April 1st.

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This is not April fool, the Chinese out-of-control Space Station has finally fire-balled into the Earth’s atmosphere. Chinese Space authorities announced on their website that the space lab r https://www.techquery.ng/featured/chinas-space-station-tiangiong-1-crashes-into-earth-on-april-1st/

Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Testifies Before Senate

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Facebook CEO has finally appeared before Senate, testifying before the Senate committees on commerce and judiciary. Zuckerberg was invited by the Senate because of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in https://www.techquery.ng/featured/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-testifies-before-senate/

Alibaba’s Jack Ma Advises Against Killing Facebook Because Of Its Problems.

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Unlike other big entrepreneurs, Jack Ma believes Facebook will overcome its present challenges. Jack Ma, who is currently China’s richest man, founder and chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd( the p https://www.techquery.ng/featured/alibabas-jack-ma-advises-against-killing-facebook-because-of-its-problems/

Vodacom Bags Award For Internet Of Things Technology Deployment In Africa

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Vodacom, a leading African communications company, earns Frost & Sullivan's Technology award for its Narrow-Band Internet of Things (NB IoT) Technology Deployment. The London based company, https://www.techquery.ng/featured/vodacom-bags-award-for-internet-of-things-technology-deployment-in-africa/

Backpage.com And Affiliated Websites Have Been Seized.

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One of the world's largest classified ads company Backpage.com, has been seized and disabled by the federal government (US). Backpage.com did not go down alone but with all affiliated websites. https://www.techquery.ng/featured/backpage-com-and-affiliated-websites-have-been-seized/

Tecno Launches A Smart Phone With Super Camera

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Tecno Mobile, a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer has just launched two super sleek phones at the same time; the Techno Camon X and Tecno Camon X Pro. The event took place in Lagos, Nigeria during https://www.techquery.ng/featured/tecno-launches-a-smart-phone-with-super-camera/

Funny Video Shows What Happened When Nigerians Saw A Driverless Car On Their Street For The First Time.

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One may ask, how did they notice it? Well, they did, as a crowd gathered around a slowly moving, white-painted vehicle without a driver inside. Everybody turned paparazzi immediately and attributed https://www.techquery.ng/featured/funny-video-shows-what-happened-when-nigerians-saw-a-driverless-car-on-their-street-for-the-first-time/

Google Go released In Africa To Overcome Slow Internet Speed By 40%

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Google just added another item to its line of "Go" products, this time it is the Google Go app. Designed to overcome Africa’s greatest challenge to internet adoption: data. With about 90 million p https://www.techquery.ng/featured/google-go-released-in-africa-to-overcome-slow-internet-speed-by-40/

How To Check If Cambridge Analytica Stole Your Facebook Profile And Other Data.

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Facebook has fulfilled its promise to let you know if your account was compromised by Cambridge Analytica data breach. You can do this by visiting this Facebook Help Center page. It will tell you https://www.techquery.ng/featured/how-to-check-if-cambridge-analytica-stole-your-facebook-profile-and-other-data/

Instagram Gradually losing its uniqueness

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A couple days ago, Instagram launched its voice messaging feature which allows users to send each other audio messages up to one minute in private and group chats. According to Instagram on its https://is.gd/S8Zovg

The U.S Just Destroyed Telecoms Equipments And Phone Maker ZTE, Will Their Dry Bones Rise Again?

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On Monday the U.S. Department of Commerce banned American companies from selling components and software to Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE Corp for seven years after breaking an agreement https://www.techquery.ng/featured/the-u-s-just-destroyed-telecoms-equipments-and-phone-maker-zte-will-their-dry-bones-rise-again/

The FCC’s $40m Hammer On T-Mobile Is About Something Trivial But Vital.

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For making callers’ phones to ring when actually calls never got connected you will pay $40m, FCC tells T-Mobile. T-Mobile, an American telecoms giant, admitted to have played ringing sounds “ https://www.techquery.ng/featured/the-fccs-40m-hammer-on-t-mobile-is-about-something-trivial-but-vital/

Techcrunch Lands In Nigeria And Ghana This Week

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Techcrunch is in Nigeria and Ghana this week to check out startups that are gaining roots with innovative solutions for their society. This startups are prepared for their global startup https://www.techquery.ng/featured/techcrunch-lands-in-nigeria-and-ghana-this-week/

Russia Is Hacking Routers, Switches And Firewalls world Over, Says U.S And Britain

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Russian Cyber Army has laid ambush on unsuspecting routers, switches, firewalls and other networking equipment used by Governments and private organizations all over the world. No country is left https://www.techquery.ng/featured/russia-is-hacking-routers-switches-and-firewalls-world-over-says-u-s-and-britain/

Two Americans Invent wood-burning stove That Charges Phones using Fire.

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This stove does not only eliminate smokiness but also charges your phone using fire. The Campstove2 is a unique type of stove that prepares your food, reducing smoke by 90%, charges your devices https://www.techquery.ng/featured/two-americans-invent-wood-burning-stove-that-charges-phones-using-fire/

Gmail's New Design Means Business

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The proposed New Gmail's design has just come to fruition with new security and intelligent features. According to the press release today by David Thacker, VP Product Management, G Suite; he https://www.techquery.ng/featured/gmails-new-design-means-business/

Rap Superstar Kanye West Praises Elon Musk: "I Really Love My Tesla...Thank You Elon"

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Kanye West, the popular rapper got back on social media after deleting both his Twitter and Instagram accounts sometime last year. Few weeks after his comeback, the rap superstar Kanye https://www.techquery.ng/featured/rap-superstar-kanye-west-praises-elon-musk-i-really-love-my-tesla-thank-you-elon/

The Ellie UV Sterilizing Pod Kills Germs In Just 60 Seconds

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You can’t deny the fact that microorganisms exist in your environment. You may not see them with your naked eyes but feel their impacts in diverse ways causing harm to your general health s https://www.techquery.ng/featured/the-ellie-uv-sterilizing-pod-kills-germs-in-just-60-seconds/