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Google has taken search results to a new level by allowing you to play games with search results. The company has recently announced that you can now play solitaire, tic-tac-toe, and flip a coin right inside your search results.

Scientists have discovered a planet that appears to be similar to Earth circling the star closest to the sun, potentially a major step in the quest to find out if life exists elsewhere in the universe, new research shows.

The world's first self-driving taxis have picked up passengers in Singapore. Select members of the public began hailing free rides on Thursday through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup.

See that picture up above of the lightning bolt runner as he overtakes his adversaries. Happy 30th birthday to @usainbolt!

Marc Marquez scored a momentous podium finish in today’s Czech GP, which saw fellow Honda rider Cal Crutchlow making history as the first British racer to win a premier-class Grand Prix in 35 years (since Barry Sheene won the 500cc race in the 1981 Swedish Grand Prix).

Facebook has identified the Loeries Awards as a veritable platform for celebrating young and creative Africans and has announced that it will work with the advertising schools across South Africa to further develop the budding talents.

Benefits of MTN missed call Alert *You can keep track of your missed calls. *You are always informed when a number you could not reach becomes available on the network. *It works even while you’re abroad.

Google has decided to pull out support for its Chrome browser packaged apps for Linux, Mac and Windows over the next two years. For those who do not know what Chrome apps are, they include – Google Drive, Google Store, Calendar, Google news, Google Docs, Sheets, and more.

Silver Star Auto Limited (SSAL) has launched a range of rebranded Mercedes-Benz SUVs at the Silver Star Tower, Airport city in Accra, at the weekend.

Adobe’s Flash Player has been an integral part of web browsing, that helps provides production of animations, games, etc, but often leads to an unstable browser experience and performance issues. It is not too uncommon to have a flash player crash on you when trying to load multimedia content on your browser; sometimes it reloads, and other times you are forced to kill the link.

Russian antitrust officials fined Google $6.8 million on Thursday, a relatively small penalty that nevertheless represents the latest in a growing list of global regulatory problems for the American search giant.

Netizens can now ping US President Barack Obama on Facebook just like they do to friends as the White House tries to stay in touch with people and keep up with the changing times using a Messenger bot.

Cimcor Inc’s latest international partnership brings CimTrak to the forefront of security needs for Nigerian organizations. Listed as #75 on Cybersecurity Ventures 2016 top 500 list, Cimcor continues to expand its global presence with newest partner Tenece Professional Services Limited, who has recently partnered to resell Cimcor’s flagship software product CimTrak, which monitors critical network device configurations for changes and provides immediate alerting should a change be detected.

Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has announced that enforcement of the speed limiters on commercial vehicles operating in the country will commence nationwide on 1st October 2016.

Facebook on Thursday announced a new version of its Ad Preferences, which will allow users to “control their advertising experience” on which ads they don’t want to see on their feed.

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has been launched in India at Rs 59,900 and will go on sale on September 2. The Note7 is being bundled with the Jio 4GSIM preview offer in India, which will offer voice, data, and SMS free for 90 days.

Facebook collects less than the 5% of the US$500bn spent on advertising each year. To achieve the deepest, darkest dreams of Mark Zuckerberg, the company must become the first one that dominates both the kind of precision ads that built Google and the emotional ads that made TV the world’s dominant marketing force.

The Ebonyi command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) on Wednesday reiterated its resolve to ensure that road crashes were reduced in the state.

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Using anti-filtering software affects connectivity speeds and it is not clear if using it would be feasible when playing Pokémon Go. The decision on filtering, however, does not rest solely in the government’s hands. Other institutions that act independently of Hassan Rouhani’s administration, such as the judiciary, also carry a great deal of weight. Mana Neyestani, a prominent Iranian cartoonist, reacted to the ban by drawing a cartoondepicting a Pokémon Go character fleeing from the Iranian morality police. One Iranian user joked on Twitterthat it was difficult to focus on streets in Iran because “you have to both look around to hunt Pokémon and also watch not being hunted yourself by the morality police”. #--theguardian.com

A senior judicial official, Abdolsamad Khorramabadi, said last week that the augmented realitygame posed a security dilemma and that the country’s intelligence apparatus approved of the ban. “There are many problems with the game and security-wise, it can create problems for the country and our people,” Tasnim, a semi-official news agency quoted him as saying. Iran’s tech-savvy young peoplequickly embraced the game, which has become a global phenomenon since its release last month. Officials had previously hinted that they may allow the game to function in Iran on condition that its data servers would be transferred inside the country and that certain locations would be excluded. That request appears to have fallen on deaf ears. Internet filtering is rife in Iran, but it has not stopped millions of users accessing blocked apps and websites. Iranians use anti-filtering software to bypass state restrictions and have proved extremely resilient, often migrating in their millions from ...

Iran has become the first country to ban the Pokémon Gomobile game, citing security concerns about the game’s use of location-based virtual reality technology. “Any game that wants to operate nationwide in Iranneeds to obtain permission from the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance, and the Pokémon Go app has not yet requested such a permission,” the semi-official Isna news agency quoted Abolhasan Firouzabadi, the head of Iran’s supreme council of virtual space, as saying. #--theguardian

Facebook is hosting “Facebook for Developers workshop” for Nigerian engineers, product managers and partners in Lagos on August 31, 2016 to help them build better applications and monetise them more effectively.

4G is coming, people! Visafone, the CDMA operator MTN Nigeria recently acquired, has begun the test-run of its Fourth Generation Long Term Evolution (4G LTE) internet technology service.

Globacom, Nigeria’s data grandmasters, has again beaten other operators to the top position in the new internet subscribers’ acquisition segment in June.

At least 54 people were killed on Monday in the restive Pakistani city of Quetta when an explosion, apparently caused by a suicide bomber, struck a hospital where dozens of lawyers had gathered to condemn the killing of a prominent colleague.

In an ideal world, there would be no need to recharge our electronic devices. Alas, in reality, our devices still pack a battery that is hardly able to last an entire day. Most of us carry chargers or power banks as a solution for this problem. But power banks are restricted in terms of capacity and chargers are restricted by access to charging points.

The iPhone 7 is expected to launch in early September this year, possibly accompanied by the iPhone 7 Plus. Here we round up all the latest news on the iPhone 7 release date, price and features ahead of its official launch. Apple iPhone 7: at a glance *.iPhone 7 release date expected to be 16 September *.Could be accompanied by iPhone 7 Plus/Pro *.iPhone 7 on sale in the UK one week after launch *.Predicted UK price from £540 #--itpro

The next version of the Apple Watch—the first hardware update to Apple's wearable—is expected to keep the same form factor and thickness it has now, according to the reliable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo ( via Mac Rumors). So what will be different? Kuo expects: • a faster processor built by TSMC • a GPS chip • a barometer to track altitude • better waterproofing • a higher capacity battery The Apple Watch 2 is expected to launch this fall, perhaps alongside the iPhone 7, which is expected to be announced next month. #--fastcompany

Mark Zuckerberg isn't the kind of person to shy away from excellence and innovation. By now, this fact should be abundantly clear.

Subscribers on Airtel and Etisalat Nigeria network on Sunday commended the telecommunications companies for their reduced call tariffs.

So you've just ran out of Incense, PokeBalls or maybe Lures and you are far away from a PokeStop. Nothing is far worse than spotting a rare Nearby Pokemon and you can do nothing about due to shortage of ammo or in "Pokemon GO's" case, items.

Nigeria’s minister of communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu has revealed that the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari saved telecommunications giant, MTN from bankruptcy.