TECHNOLOGY

Amazon may be bringing its futuristic ‘no queue’ grocery store to the U.K. after the online retail giant filed several trademark applications for Amazon Go, the app that allows consumers to bypass checkouts when they shop. The slogan “No Queue, no checkout. (No, seriously.)” was trademarked with the U.K. Intellectual Property Office Friday, hinting the company is ready to expand ...

As the leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, Huawei Technologies has launched the 2017 edition of their flagship Corporate Social Responsibility initiative, Seeds for the Future in Ghana at a short ceremony at with the Ministry of Communications. This year’s edition will see 15 top university students travel to China to be trained in Beijing and Shenzhen, ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The body of an Indian climber was spotted on Mount Everest on Monday, the fourth fatality on the mountain during a busy and tragic weekend on the world’s highest peak. Sherpa rescuers spotted the body of Indian climber Ravi Kumar, but it was impossible to retrieve the body, said Thupden Sherpa of Arun Treks and Expedition. ...

Businesses in Ghana have been advised to invest in quality software to protect them from potential cyber-attacks. This comes in the wake of the WannaCry ransomware attack which affected over 10,000 organizations and 200,000 individuals in over 150 countries last weekend. A cyber-security expert and an ethical-hacker, Dr. Peter Tobin charged corporate organizations using “free and cheap software that you ...

The Mac and iOS software developer Panic has had the source code for several of its apps stolen. Panic founder Steven Frank admitted in a blog post that it happened after he downloaded an infected copy of the video encoding tool Handbrake. He said there was no sign that any customer data was accessed and that Panic’s web server was ...

Members of the Committed Drivers Association have called on government to ban Uber, a location based app that makes hiring an on-demand private driver easy. In an interview with Ekourba Gyasi on Atinka AM Drive, Chairman for the Committed Drivers Association, Charles Danso argued that there are road traffic regulations available to persons running taxi services in the country but ...

Raiders stole £86,000 from a cash machine attached to a Tesco branch while the shop was open. Burglars broke into the ATM next to the Express store in St Mary’s Street, Southampton, on Sunday afternoon. They entered through the store’s roof, police said, and would have needed to make several trips. Two men carrying large blue bags were seen running ...

If you follow tech news often, you’ll be more than aware of the promise offered by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Often, though, it feels like a far-away goal. It will get there, but right now it’s primitive. At Google’s annual developer conference, held this week near its Mountain View headquarters, the company showed off some of the best ...

The ex-chairman and founder of Fox News Roger Ailes has died aged 77, his family says. A statement from his wife Elizabeth said she was “profoundly sad and heartbroken”, calling him a “patriot”. Mr Ailes ran Fox News for two decades and is credited with transforming it into arguably the most powerful voice in conservative media. But he stepped down ...

Google, Convergence Partners, International Finance Corporation (IFC), and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (Mitsui) signed an agreement to invest in CSquared, a broadband infrastructure company focused on building wholesale metro fibre optic networks and enabling internet access in Africa. CSquared will operate as an independent company headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya with cumulative capital commitments up to $100 million. CSquared has operational ...