Twitter unveils ‘official’ label for top accounts
Twitter on Wednesday unveiled a new gray “official” label for certain accounts as it revamps the highly influential platform following…
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Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11,000 staff
Facebook owner Meta will lay off more than 11,000 of its staff in “the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history”, boss Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday
Uganda and Zimbabwe launch first nano-satellites
Uganda and Zimbabwe have launched first nano-satellites into space in a bid to help collect data to monitor disasters, boost agriculture and enhance mineral mapping
China imposes Covid lockdown on 600,000 people around iPhone plant
Chinese authorities imposed lockdowns on 600,000 people in the area surrounding the world’s largest iPhone factory after workers fled to avoid a coronavirus outbreak
Elon Musk takes control of Twitter, fires executives
Elon Musk took control of Twitter in a deal that puts one of the leading platforms for global discourse in the hands of the world’s richest man
Elon Musk: I bought Twitter to help humanity, whom I love
Closing in on his Twitter megadeal, Elon Musk said Thursday his goal is to enable “healthy” debate of ideas and counter the tendency of social media to splinter into partisan “echo chambers.”
WhatsApp restored after users reported problems sending and receiving messages worldwide
Meta on Tuesday said it had resolved a major WhatsApp outage that prevented many of the billions of users of its popular service from connecting or sending messages
Safaricom officially starts its operations in Ethiopia
Kenyan telecommunications giant Safaricom has launched its network in Ethiopia, becoming the first private company in one of Africa’s largest markets
Ebola Uganda: Majaribio ya chanjo kuanza ‘hivi karibuni’
Chanjo kadhaa ziko katika hatua mbalimbali za utengenezaji dhidi ya virusi hivi, mbili kati ya hizo zinaweza kuanza majaribio ya kliniki nchini Uganda katika wiki zijazo
North Korea fires ballistic missile over Japan
As a result Tokyo was prompted to activate its missile alert system and issue a rare warning for people to take shelter.
