Marcus Rashford: Footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign to provide free meals for children over half term has been turned into an interactive Google Map. Joe Freeman has so far been manually inputting each individual venue offering to help provide food. He is using tweets by Marcus Rashford, who is sharing messages from local businesses which have […] The post Marcus Rashford: Free meal tweets made into Google map appeared first on TECH EMPIRE CORPORATION ..read more

The historic collection of a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday was almost too successful.Some of the sample is leaking into space, according to Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson during a NASA press conference Friday.”The big concern now is that particles are […] The post NASA successfully collected a sample from asteroid Bennu, but some of it is leaking into space appeared first on TECH EMPIRE CORPORATION ..read more

YouTube has become the latest social media giant to announce a sweeping crack down on content linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory. The company said it would ban material targeting a person or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify violence, such as QAnon. Twitter and Facebook have already taken similar steps to root out QAnon. The QAnon movement alleges US President Donald Trump is battling a cabal of elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles. The FBI last year issued a warning about “conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists” and designated QAnon a potential do ..read more

INSTAGRAM TARGETING RULE BREAKING INLUENCERS Instagram says it will do more to catch influencers who fail to disclose when they have been paid for their posts. It follows an investigation by a UK watchdog which found the platform was failing to protect consumers from being misled. Instagram will also report users who inadequately label their posts to the businesses whose products they endorse. In the UK, social-media stars have to make clear if they are being paid by a company to promote its business. They often do this by including the hashtag ‘#ad’ in such posts. ‘I’m sick of influence ..read more

Twitter has updated a policy which led it to block people from sharing a link to a story from the New York Post about Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. The Hacked Materials policy initially blocked Twitter users from sharing content that had been acquired as a result of a hack. Twitter’s Vijaya Gadde has now said posts will be flagged as containing hacked material, rather than blocked. However material shared directly by hackers will still be removed. The article contained screenshots of emails allegedly sent and received by Hunter Biden, presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son. It also contai ..read more

paystack and stripe PayStack, a Nigerian fintech startup, has been acquired by global fintech giant Stripe, in the biggest M&A deal in Nigerian tech and one of the biggest in Nigerian corporate history. Paystack was founded in 2016 by Ezra Olubi and Shola Akinlade. This was disclosed in a press release seen by Nairametrics. The statement read in part: “In order to help grow Africa’s online GDP, Stripe has entered into an agreement to acquire Paystack, a technology company based in Lagos that makes it easy for organizations of all sizes to collect payments from around the world. online and ..read more

(Business in Cameroon) – The new digital collection system for customs duties on mobile phones and tablets in Cameroon may not be operational from October 15 as announced by the government. According to a source at the heart of the matter, the telephone companies have not yet connected to the technical platform that carries the collection solution. It was reportedly developed by Arintech, an entity still unknown until the recent revelation of its name by the authorities. This connection is nevertheless essential. In order to function, the system needs to be linked to the databases of all the t ..read more

I cant really say for sure if thats a thing, phone tax levied on phone customers, yeah yeah we all know taxes are levied during the cost of production but am not sure i have ever heard more taxes paid after the phone has been bought and more that the tax levied is up to 30% of the price of the phone. thats so outrageous and the government is killing us. what better way to make money this days by the cameroon government than to increase or create new taxes. this days, the youths around the world are more digitized and whats the best way to be digitized on the move other than a good smart phone ..read more

US election with trump US election with trump. Twitter has said it will not allow any of its users – including candidates – to claim victory prematurely in the forthcoming US election and its also reported any tweets claiming victory before a clear projection would have a warning label added. The move follows a similar decision from Facebook last month. Twitter will also temporarily change the way retweets work – prompting users to “quote tweet” and add their own thoughts before spreading a message. If users do not add anything, it will appear as a normal retweet. “Though this adds ..read more

CLICK AND SUBSCRIBE TO WATCH RELATED VIDEOS A law firm used by A-list stars including Rod Stewart, Lil Nas X and Robert De Niro has been hacked. The website for Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks is down and hackers claim to have 756 gigabytes of data including contracts and personal emails. A screenshot allegedly of a Madonna contract has been released, and the criminals are demanding payment. The New York law firm says it has notified its clients and is working with cyber-security experts. It’s not known what sum the hackers are demanding and whether the law firm is negotiating with them. Im ..read more