Elon Musk no longer joining Twitter board
Musk was named to join the Twitter board after buying a major stake in the firm and becoming its largest shareholder.
Category: Science & Tech
Faida ya kampuni ya chanjo ya BioNTech iliongezeka pakubwa mwaka wa 2021
Kampuni ya BioNTech iliyoko Mainz ilisema ilipata faida ya jumla ya euro bilioni 10.3 (dola bilioni 11.5) mwaka jana, kutoka euro milioni 15 mnamo 2020
TikTok expands max video length to 10 minutes, up from 3 minutes
“We’re always thinking about new ways to bring value to our community and enrich the TikTok experience. Last year, we introduced longer videos, giving our community more time to create and be entertained on TikTok,”
Moderna to build mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Kenya
“We all know the challenges that Kenya and the entire continent of Africa went through in the earlier stages of this pandemic that resulted in Africa being left behind. Not because of want but because of lack and Moderna has come to fill that space,”
Microsoft ‘suspends’ new sales of products, services in Russia
The news comes after Intel and Airbnb announced they were pausing business in Russia and Belarus on Thursday, joining the tech freeze-out of Moscow.
Trump’s new social media app begins slow rollout
“I think, by the end of March, we’re going to be fully operational — at least within the United States,”
Six African countries to receive mRNA vaccine technology in WHO project
“In the mid- to long-term, the best way to address health emergencies and reach universal health coverage is to significantly increase the capacity of all regions to manufacture the health products they need,”
First Woman to be ‘cured’ of HIV with stem cell blood cancer treatment, say US scientists
“This is now the third report of a cure in this setting, and the first in a woman living with HIV.
Sony Launches ‘Cheerios-shaped’ head phones
Sony has launched a new line of Cheerios-shaped wireless headphones for people who want to be able to hear the world around them while listening to music or podcasts.
Meta agrees to pay $90m in suit against Facebook for tracking users
The suit alleged the social media giant violated privacy guidelines by tracking its users’ visits to outside web pages that contained Facebook “like” buttons in order to better target ads.
