New Facebook job-hunting features challenge LinkedIn

Facebook on Wednesday began letting businesses in the US or Canada post jobs and take applications from jobseekers, posing a challenge to Microsoft-owned LinkedIn.

The platform's users will be able to find help-wanted posts at business pages on Facebook or by looking in a new 'jobs' bookmark on the leading social network's mobile application.

"Businesses and people already use Facebook to fill and find jobs, so we're rolling out new features that allow job posting and application directly on Facebook," the California-based internet giant said in an online message.

Data guru Hans Rosling dies at 68

Data guru Hans Rosling, a Swedish public health expert famous for combating scientific ignorance with catchy YouTube videos in his mission to promote a "fact-based world", has died at the age of 68, his foundation announced.

Rosling, who described himself as an "edutainer", was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year ago and passed away on Tuesday surrounded by his family in Uppsala, Sweden, the Gapminder foundation said.

A professor of international health at Stockholm's Karolinska Institutet, in 2007 Rosling decided to "drop out" to devote his time to promoting "a fact-based world view by converting the international statistics into moving, interactive, understandable and enjoyable graphics".

Facebook, Google join drive against fake news in France

Giant Internet firms Facebook and Google joined forces with news organisations on Monday to launch new fact-checking tools designed to root out "fake news" stories in France ahead of the country's presidential election.

Social networks and news aggregators came under fire during the U.S. presidential vote when it became clear they had inadvertently fanned false news reports.

Facebook, said it would work with eight French news organisations, including news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), news channel BFM TV, and newspapers L'Express and Le Monde to minimise the risk that false news appeared on its platform.

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Nigeria’s manufacturing index declines in January

The Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) stood at 48.2 index points in January 2017, indicating a decline in the manufacturing sector during the review period.
The index averaged 45.2 in the last twelve months, and had grown in December 2016 after recording declines for 11 consecutive months.

The PMI is an indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector.
The January 2017 PMI report released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) tuesday, showed that 10 of the 16 sub-sectors surveyed recorded decline in the review month in the following order: primary metal; transportation equipment; paper products; electrical equipment; fabricated metal products; printing & related support activities; cement; furniture & related products; plastics & rubber products; and chemical & pharmaceutical products.

How to Subscribe to Airtel Unlimited Download Plan

If you are a heavy internet user or you download heavy files online, then Airtel night plan is the data plan for you. The best thing about this plan is that it’s also unlimited.

It’s a hard time in the country right now because of the recession. Not online has goods and commodities become expensive, data plans are too. Airtel night plan allows you to browse and download unlimitedly, meaning you can download and stream movies for as long as you like.

International Conference for Research, Innovation and Development for Africa to Hold in June

EAI International Conference for Research, Innovation and Development for Africa will hold in June 20–21, 2017 at Victoria Falls Zimbabwe.The Conference Theme is: “Moving Africa forward through Engineering, Technology and Innovation”. The conference seeks to bring together academics, researchers and industrialists across many disciplines, in particular those that have the most impact in Africa’s Development.

Most conferences on the continent have covered limited disciplines and therefore the opportunity has been lost sharing information, results and knowledge in a way which can solve the many contentious issues, most of which can be solved through a multidisciplinary approach. The Call for Papers will invite papers from areas of Electronics, Communications and Computer Systems, Energy and Power Systems, Multi-discipline approach to the solution of problems and application of innovation in industrial Production, Mining, Transportation, Engineering Education and participation of youth and women in Engineering and Technology.

Nokia, Vodafone and Telit collaborate to expand the IoT ecosystem

Nokia has deployed a fully integrated NB-IoT system at Vodafone’s ‘Open Lab’ in Dusseldorf, Germany using its radio access network and elements from its Cloud Packet Core solution. The system leverages IoT technology from Telit and will be used by device manufacturers and applications developers in trials of innovative products and solutions to expand the IoT ecosystem.

MTN increases voice and data traffic over festive season

MTN has optimised its network capacity and coverage to cater for increased voice and data traffic over the festive season.

MTN expects traffic on its network to peak during the next few days as people take a break from work and get to spend more time on social media platforms, stream and watch content on their devices and reconnect with friends and family.

BMW To open new Driving center in Munich

BMW has already staked its claim in the self-driving production timeline, with plans to release an autonomous electric car by 2021. To help meet that goal, the carmaker isopening a dedicated facilityaimed at developing connected and automated driving tech in Unterschleissheim, Germany near Munich. The facility is designed to begin operations in mid-2017, and will host more than 2,000 employees once it’s fully completed.

Apple to make Avaliable dual sim Phones

In what sounds like good news for Apple loyalists, the company has begun filing patents in the United States and China for a dual SIM phone and the ability to produce phones that support two SIM cards in one handset.

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LG to release the first ever household PROJECTOR

The LG ProBeam will be marketed asa compact consumer projector with professional performance when it goes on sale after its global debut at CES 2017 this January.Though LG has built a solid reputation for the quality of its high-end LED projectors, this new device is the first that it has built specifically for use in and around the average home.It tips the scales at just 2kg, so it's lighter than most notebook computers, and

WhatsApp Upcoming Update Will Bring AboutEdit and Revoke Message Features

A lot of improvement hav been brought to the messagingapp. The most recent would be the ability to screen received videos while downloading. Of course, not forgetting that WhatsApp now has video calls on board.Another update seem to be in the pipeline. And according toWaBetaInfo, WhatsApp will soon be introducing edit and unsend features. The video below was shared on twitter
by WaBeta Info.
WhatsApp beta for iOS 2.17.1.869: how revoking messages work. #hidden #whatsappbeta pic.twitter.com/pEfGfZO1gN— WABetaInfo (@WABetaInfo)
December 14, 2016

This should essentially come inhandy if you make a mistake by sending the wrong message to the wrong recipient.This shouldn’t be new though. BBM stillhas the featureon board. However, BBM terms it asretract. Gmail also hasthe unsend featureon board and that’s been in existence for over a year now.How WhatsApp Unsend Feature Works?I am guessing WhatsApp’s Unsend feature will work in same format as BBM retract. The image shared by WaBetaInfo sorta proves that. However, WhatsApp terms the unsend feature asRevoke.Simply tapping and holding a message displays options including the revoke option. When a message is revoked, the message is not only removed from the sender’s screen, but from also that of the recipient.
It’s not yet clear as to when this feature will be officially made available. However, it’d be available on iOS first and I can’t wait to give it a shot.

You Can Now Use Google Maps in Wi-Fi-Only Mode

Google started testing some features on Google Maps last month, and just on the 9th of august,

A Menstrual Cup you can wear during Sex

This product is called flex, a menstrual disc, while already having sold 150 million units, flex rather than the pad that sit on your underwear or the tampon that stay on your vaginal passage.

Microsoft, to buy Beam live streaming service

Microsoft Announces its acquisition of the life streaming service Beam,

AppsAfrica Awards 2016 opens for entry

The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards celebrate the best in mobile and tech from across Africa from over 200 entries across 21 countries, applications   for 2016 is now open.

iphone 7 to be released September 16

iphone 7 is to hit Apple retail stores from September 16

how Your Battery Status can be used to Track You Online

You can now add your battery status API as one of the ways you can be tracked online.

The attack takes advantage of the  HTML5 battery status  API,