TECHNOLOGY

A crypto-currency called Ripple has become the second most valuable virtual cash system. Over the weekend the value of the digital currency hit more than $100bn (£74bn) according to some market monitors. This valuation is higher than another popular crypto-cash system called Ethereum. Each Ripple coin is now worth about $2.34 – far higher than the half a US cent ...

An American YouTube star has prompted a barrage of criticism after he posted a video which showed the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan. The video showed Logan Paul and friends at the Aokigahara forest at the base of Mount Fuji, known to be a frequent site of suicides. Going in to film the “haunted” forest, they come ...

Russian scientists have restored communications with an Angolan satellite days after they lost contact with it. Launched on 26 December in Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Angosat-1 will boost mobile and net communications in Angola as well as broadcast radio and TV shows. Soon after launch, Russian ground control staff said they were no longer receiving data from the spacecraft. ...

A few days ago Angola sent a satellite into space. A first for the country that joins the list of African nations that are embarking on space exploration. Soon after the take-off of the AngoSat-1 communications satellite which cost $300 million, the Russian ground control staff said they had lost contact with it. On December 26, the Russian space corporation ...

Tencent Holdings’ WeChat, China’s most popular messenger app, on Tuesday denied storing users’ chat histories, after a top businessman was quoted in media reports as saying he believed Tencent was monitoring everyone’s account. “WeChat does not store any users’ chat history. That is only stored in users’ mobiles, computers and other terminals,” WeChat said in a post on the social ...

Activists in Ethiopia are making use of social media platforms – Twitter/Facebook in a campaign for the release of persons under detention or in jail for supposedly political reasons. With the hashtag #FreeAllPrisonersOfConscience different Twitter users shared photos of persons ranging from journalists, politicians, religious preachers and activists. The forum also offered a number of people who had faced detention ...

James Howells says the driver is now buried deep below thousands of tonnes of rubbish on a landfill site in Newport An IT worker says he accidentally threw away a computer hard drive full of Bitcoin now worth more than £74 million. James Howells says the drive is now buried deep below thousands of tonnes of rubbish on a landfill ...

The South Korean government has become the latest to try and control the digital currency Bitcoin prices slumped dramatically today as the South Korean government announced new regulations to try and halt the wild speculation that is engulfing the cryptocurrency. South Korea is following in the footsteps of China and Vietnam; two countries which have already imposed measures to try ...

The national coordinator of the Central African Backbone (CAB) project Yves-Didier Miehakanda has confirmed that works for optical fibre interconnection between Congo and Gabon are completed, reports Ecofin. Miehakanda also indicated that the project will be commissioned at the end of December in the presence of the ministers of digital economy of both nations, .a source reports The project involved ...

Reports indicate that authorities in Ethiopia have restricted access to social media in the wake of renewed clashes that have led to deaths in the Oromia region. A popular news portal, Addis Standard, said access to regular internet was impossible in the affected areas which included the capital, Addis Ababa. According to the portal, the restriction “came amidst increasing reports ...