TECHNOLOGY

Two men have been arrested for their part in an alleged plan to hack into Microsoft’s network. A 22-year-old from Sleaford and a 25-year-old from Bracknell were detained by police on Thursday. It is believed that the men were involved in repeated attempts to infiltrate the Microsoft network between January and March this year. Both were charged under the UK’s ...

Telecom giant, MTN Ghana says the vision for the group is to lead the delivery of a new digital world by delivering a new digital revolution to Ghanaians Speaking at an Editors Forum held in Ho, the Volta Regional capital, Corporate Services Executive, Cynthia Lumor said the company is committing more resources to expand its infrastructure to make it robust ...

Uber boss Travis Kalanick has resigned as chief executive after pressure from shareholders, according to media reports. Mr Kalanick will remain on the board of the firm, however, the New York Times said. His resignation comes after a review of practices at the firm and scandals including complaints of sexual harassment. Last week he said he was taking an indefinite ...

A global survey of experts in machine learning suggests it will be 120 years before all human jobs are automated. In 45 years’ time, though, half of jobs currently filled by humans will have been taken over by an artificial intelligence system, results indicate. The report, When will AI exceed human performance?, says AI will reshape transport, health, science and ...

US President Donald Trump has called North Korea a “brutal regime” after the death of a US student who had been jailed there for more than 15 months. North Korea returned Otto Warmbier, 22, to the US last week, saying he had been in a coma for a year and that it was acting on humanitarian grounds. His parents said ...

Humanity, since Adam, has been faced with a lot of threats. From the moment man ceased to live in the Garden of Eden to the days of the Great Flood during Noah’s time to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and many others, man has had no peace. Let’s get modern a bit – the Holocaust, World Wars I and ...

MTN Ghana as part of its ‘21 days Y’ello Care’ programme has donated over 2,000 books to some seven schools in Accra at the Kwashieman Cluster of Schools. The ‘Y’ello Care’ initiative is an annual staff volunteer programme that involves community services that runs across the MTN Group footprint from June 1 to June 21. It was instituted 10 years ...

Elon Musk has revealed his vision for what a SpaceX city on Mars would look like, saying he wants people to believe setting up a colony on the Red Planet will be possible within our lifetimes. The founder of SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) has discussed the possibility of creating a human settlement on Mars for several years. The company ...

Samsung left millions of its customers exposed to malicious activity after failing to renew the domain of an app that came pre-installed on its smartphones, according to a report. Anyone with an older Samsung device probably has the app S Suggest. The stock application was used to suggest other popular Android apps to users. The Korean mobile giant appears to ...

The Pirate Bay can be held liable for copyright infringement, which could signal “the end” of the platform, according to a European Court of Justice ruling. The ruling is part of a long-running dispute between the platform and Dutch anti-piracy group Stichting Brein. Stichting Brein wants two Dutch ISPs to block access to the site.The judgement could have a knock-on ...