Science & Technology

A new drug that contains the herpes virus could be the key to treating advanced stage skin cancer, research has revealed. The drug is a genetically modified strain of the sexually transmitted infection and is injected directly into…

After successfully pioneering its anti-fake news project in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Cameroon and Senegal, Facebook says it has expanded its Third-Party Fact-Checking Programme to 10 additional African countries. Kojo Boakye,…

Russian state scientists are alarmed by the mass death of bee colonies in the country, with uncontrolled pesticide use believed to be the cause. “The problem is that we do not produce our own pesticides,” Yelena Saltykova of the…

Gaming Giant Sony has announced that the PlayStation 5 is going to launch globally at the end of next year. The games console will come with a new controller that uses enhanced vibration technology. It will feature a solid-state…

President Sahle-Work Zewde on Monday disclosed that Ethiopia's first-ever satellite would be launched into space this December with the support of the Chinese government. Zewde disclosed this while addressing the new parliamentary…

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts, pages and groups from its social network platforms that the company says were involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour. The tech giant said it removed a total of 443 Facebook and 125…

As Nigeria celebrates 59th Independence anniversary, an indigenous company says  it is intensifying efforts to begin assembling of solar cars by 2020. Mr Moses Onaja, Chief Executive Officer, Sun Energy Community Development Initiative…

HMD Global on Thursday announced the launch of Nokia 7.2 in India. Set to go on sale on September 23, Nokia 7.2 will be available via Nokia.com and Flipkart at a starting price of Rs 18,599 for the 4GB, 64GB variant. The top-end model…

Apple’s new iPhone 11 is now up for pre-orders in India across Flipkart, Amazon India, and Paytm Mall. Apple’s top-end model iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max are also available for pre-booking. Apple is making sure its new iPhones…

Seven-year-old 2019 World Robot Olympiad (WRO) joint champion Brendon Ikem has said that he aimed to be the best Artificial Intelligent (AI) developer in the world. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ikem, emerged champion…

Upon entering the world, a newborn let out a loud, distinct cry — a sign of health and vigour. It’s a cry that new parents will quickly become used to in the coming days and weeks. But if you look closely, you’ll see that a newborn’s cry is…

The chemical, known as NDMA, was formerly used in making rocket fuel. U.S. health officials have found low levels of a potentially cancer-causing chemical in a popular heartburn drug. On Friday (Sept. 13), the U.S. Food and Drug…

There’s a lost continent hidden below southern Europe. And researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of it yet. The lost continent “Greater Adria” emerged about 240 million years ago, after it broke off from…

A boy in California died from a rare "brain-eating" amoeba infection after swimming in a hot spring, according to a new report. In October 2018, the boy swam in a natural freshwater pool in an area known as Hot Ditch, a popular…

Scientists have for the first time found a planet outside of our solar system that's home to water, in a major breakthrough in the search for habitable worlds. Water vapour has been discovered on a 'super-Earth' 110 light-years away…

Apple unveiled its iPhone 11 models Tuesday with a price cut for the most basic models while also laying out plans for streaming and gaming services as it bids to weather the slump in the global smartphone market. At an Apple media…

Two mathematicians, Andrew Booker and Andrew Sutherland have used a global network of 500,000 computers to solve a centuries-old math puzzle. The question, which goes back to at least 1955 and may have been pondered by Greek thinkers…

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is still hopeful about re-establishing contact with its Vikram moon lander after it fell silent on Saturday. ISRO chairman K Sivan said the efforts to re-establish the contact will be kept…

India lost contact with its unmanned spacecraft just before it was due to land on the Moon on Saturday, in a blow to the country’s ambitious low-cost lunar program. India had hoped to become the fourth country, after the United States,…

Yahoo’s global email service is experiencing a fault making it impossible for users to send and receive messages or make use of their webmail accounts. In the UK, the problem has also affected BT, Sky and TalkTalk’s email accounts,…

Google said Friday it was banning online ads for unproven medical treatments including most stem cell and gene therapy. “This new policy will prohibit ads selling treatments that have no established biomedical or scientific basis,”…

Google agreed Wednesday to pay $170 million to settle charges that it illegally collected and shared data from children on its YouTube video service, deal critics said was too soft on the internet giant. The settlement with the Federal…

Mobile-Tech giant Apple is offering a million dollars to anyone who can hack an iPhone. The reward which sounds too good to be true is an expansion of the company’s giant bug bounty program. The bug bounty program previously offered…

A Russian naval research team has discovered five islands in the Franz Josef Land archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, state media reported on Tuesday. The islands vary in size from 900 to 54,500 square metres, Russia’s Northern Fleet said…

Facebook has banned conservative news outlet and US President Donald Trump supporter The Epoch Times from buying ads on its platform for violating its policies. The Epoch Times spent 2 million dollars on Facebook ads supporting Trump…

Facebook has launched its “Developers Circles’’ in Benin, Edo, a platform that allows people who are technologically inclined to engage with experts, learn new technology and collaborate with developers to build tech products.…

The University of Lagos has attracted at least   N5 billion from international agencies in the last year to drive research activities. Prof. Dixon Akinleye, Chairman, Sub Committee (Abstract), made the disclosure at a news conference…

Some MacBook Pro laptops are being banned on flights in the United States amid Apple’s recent statements saying that batteries in several units pose fire risks, Bloomberg reported. The US Federal Aviation Administration …

After five years of development, China’s official digital currency “can now be said to be ready”, says Mu Changchun, deputy director at the Payment and Settlement Department of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC). Speaking at the China…

Chinese telecom giant Huawei unveiled its own operating system on Friday, as it faces the threat of losing access to Android systems amid escalating US-China trade tensions. Richard Yu, the head of Huawei’s consumer business, told a…