Technology

An employee of Facebook died by apparent suicide on Thursday morning, Menlo Park police reported and the company confirmed. “We were saddened to learn that one of our employees passed away at our Menlo Park headquarters earlier today,” a Facebook spokesperson is quoted to have told many Online media outlets. The employee, a male, was…

Twitter said Friday it has closed down thousands of accounts across the world for spreading fake news as well as pro-government propaganda, including in places like the United Arab Emirates, China and Spain. Accounts coming from China seeking to sow discord among protesters in Hong Kong were closed down, as were accounts amplifying a pro-Saudi…

It is not uncommon for people to forget to notify their banks whenever a personal information about them has changed. Bank users specifically tend to forget to inform their banks whenever they change or lose their phone numbers, even though this common mistake can be costly as it may grant unauthorized access to their bank accounts. A phone…

It has been over twenty-four hours of disaster for the internet, as most internet services including WhatsAPP, Facebook and Instagram have experienced glitches that has impacted millions of users worldwide. IT STARTED WITH CLOUDFLARE Yesterday at about 2:00 GMT CloudFlare, a popular reverse proxy that provides content delivery network (CDN)…

Facebook is set Tuesday to unveil a bid to bring cryptocurrency payments into the mainstream, reportedly with the endorsement of governments and financial giants. The world’s biggest social network is expected to outline details of a virtual currency launching next year that it hopes will avoid the rollercoaster volatility of “blockchain”…

Facebook’s WhatsApp on Tuesday urged users to upgrade to the latest version of its popular messaging app following a report that users could be vulnerable to having malicious spyware installed on phones without their knowledge. “WhatsApp encourages people to upgrade to the latest version of our app, as well as keep their mobile operating system…

The three social media platforms controlled by Facebook Inc. -Instagram, WhatsApp ­and Facebook (including Facebook Messenger) – have been down globally since Sunday morning. A site that monitors downtime of websites, Downdetector.com, indicates that Facebook and other social networks it controls were down since 6:30 a.m in many parts of the…

The global leader in fixed broadband wireless connectivity, InfiNet Wireless, has successfully delivered a comprehensive modern wireless system to enhance the security measures of the Puerto de Mamonal sea port in Cartagena, Columbia. The implementation of the InfiNet wireless system was due to the sensitive nature of the port’s operations and…

American multinational technology company, Apple, has added the new iPad Air to its lineup of iPads, while updating the iPad mini. After about three and a half years of not updating the iPad mini, the company finally revised the model. The iPad mini and iPad Air respectively feature 7.9 inch and 10.5 inch retina displays and both support the…

Facebook Inc on Thursday struggled to restore its services fully after a 17-hour partial outage made the world’s largest social network inaccessible to users across the globe, driving a wave of online complaints. The number of reports on the crowd-sourced Down Detector website, one of the internet’s most used sources of numbers on outages,…