Technology

By Sean Keach IF you’re an Apple fan, there’s not much to dislike about the new iPhone 14. I’ve been using it for about five days and it looks great, works brilliantly, and has a few clever tricks up its sleeve. There are four iPhone models this year. Two are cheaper: iPhone 14 and 14 Plus. Two are pricier and more powerful: iPhone …

A former Twitter employee was found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia and releasing private user information of those who publicly criticized the country in exchange for large sums of money. Ahmad Abouammo, 44, used his position as an engineer at Twitter to access confidential data about users, their email addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses that can disclose their location, prosecutors claimed. He …

The mother of music executive, Michael Collins Ajereh, better known as Don Jazzy is dead. Don Jazzy took to Instagram, Friday night to announce the passing of his mother in an emotional post. According to him, she died on Friday morning after a battle with cancer. He wrote: “I lost my sweet mother this morning. The matriarch of our family. …

Elon Musk has announced the deal to buy Twitter for £34billion is off. A legal document stated: “Mr. Musk is terminating the Merger Agreement because Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of that Agreement”. Musk, who is worth an estimated £214billion, had promised that Twitter will continue to be a platform for free speech. He tweeted: “I hope that even …

Elon Musk sent Twitter’s stock on a rollercoaster ride early Friday as he claimed that his $44 billion deal to take over the site was “temporarily on hold” — then insisted hours later that he was “still committed” to the buyout.  “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” …

Elon Musk thinks the Russian government is out to get him — maybe kill him — and he’s exposing the threat he received that supports his theory. Elon Musk suggested he might die “under mysterious circumstances” in a cryptic tweet that appeared to be referring to a threat by the chief of Russia’s space agency. “If I die under mysterious circumstances, …

Twitter saw mass “organic” deactivations and huge fluctuations in follower numbers for some of the platform’s highest-profile users in the days after Elon Musk agreed to a $44 billion takeover deal of the social media giant. According to an NBC News report published Tuesday, the follower numbers for some of Twitter’s most-followed accounts, including former President Barack Obama, singers Katy Perry …

Twitter’s board has accepted a $44 billion (€39 billion) offer to sell the company to Elon Musk, handing control of the influential social media platform to the world’s richest man. “The Twitter Board conducted a thoughtful and comprehensive process to assess Elon’s proposal with a deliberate focus on value, certainty, and financing,” said Bret Taylor, Twitter chair, in a statement on Monday. He …

Tesla founder Elon Musk dissed Bill Gates‘ gut on Twitter today, posting a photo of the Microsoft mogul alongside Apple’s controversial pregnant man emoji ‘in case you need to kill a boner.’ Musk, the world’s richest person and chief executive of the American company, posted a follow-up image in response to the Friday post of six hooded figured captioned ‘shadow ban council reviewing Tweet.’ …

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), is currently being criticised over his “tweeting on WhatsApp,” comment. While addressing youths of the party at a rally held in Lagos at the weekend, Tinubu, who is a presidential aspirant, had said social media users could tweet on WhatsApp. “Do you know how many of you are tweeting …