OPIC’s President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield is in Nairobi for the 2015 Global Entrepreneur Summit, and signed the OPIC mandate today alongside Antony Cook, Microsoft’s Head of Legal and Corporate Affairs for the Middle East and Africa, who served as a witness to the mandate between OPIC and Mawingu. … [Read more...]
Twitter Could Stop a Terrorist Attack Near You ?
Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity, according to industry and government officials. … [Read more...]
NEC Invests in XON to Accelerate Regional African Growth
NEC Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, has invested in XON, the sub-Sahara African ICT group. … [Read more...]
Vertical YouTube Videos Now Tolerable on Android
Vertical videos are among the most hated things on the Internet. But Google is making them more bearable by presenting them full screen on Android devices. The YouTube app previously showed vertical videos with two large black bars on either side of the screen. … [Read more...]
Bionic Eye Helps 80 Year-Old Man See Again
Restoring eyesight by means of a bionic eye implant is not the stuff of science fiction. Ray Flynn, an 80 year-old man from the UK, is the newest affected person to have his vision partially restored by way of a bionic eye implant, in line with the BBC. … [Read more...]
Microsoft’s Latest Mail App Strips Out Everything You Hate in Email
The staff behind Microsoft Outlook has a brand new email app that makes it so much simpler to disregard your inbox. Send, launched on iOS Wednesday, is an email app that takes an immediate messaging-style strategy to your inbox by stripping out virtually each facet. … [Read more...]
Live Instagram Thread Screen An Engineering Work of Art
There’s something axiomatic in our need to take what was once analog, make it digital and then make it analog again. It was all I could think as I stared, transfixed, at a giant, analog-screen comprised of 6,400 spools of colored fabric, which were aligning themselves into the simulacrum of an Instagram photo I’d posted moments before. … [Read more...]
Sony’s Phone Arm Is Working on Drones
Sony is teaming up with with a robotics company it's already invested in, and it's looking to get on board with that whole drone thing. ZMP (which aims to make the "robot of everything") develops automated driving technologies -- although they've stuck to solid ground until now. … [Read more...]