Microsoft’s latest privacy policy says vendors listen to voice data

By Reuters,

Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it updated its privacy policy to let customers know that it had been collecting voice data of its users with the help...

facebook , microsoft

You can now video call up to 8 people with Google Duo

By Dennis Musau,

Google's video calling service, Google Duo, has updated the number of participants supported in a video call to 8. Through a product update publish...

Facebook Messenger , FaceTime , Google , Skype , whatsapp

UN calls cyclone Idai one of southern hemisphere’s worst storms

By VOA,

Cyclone Idai may be one of the worst weather disasters ever recorded in the southern hemisphere, U.N. experts say, with Mozambique suffering the brunt...

Cyclone Idai

Political fallout uncertain as shutdown moves into month 2

By VOA,

As the partial shutdown of the U.S. government goes into a second month, neither side can be sure about the long-term political fallout. Public opi...

Political fallout , Washington

Microsoft search engine Bing is blocked in China

By CNN,

Microsoft's Bing search engine has hit a wall in China. "We've confirmed that Bing is currently inaccessible in China and are engaged to determine ...

Bing , blocked , china

Early surge of Democratic contenders for 2020

By VOA,

Several Democrats have taken steps in recent days to get an early jump on the 2020 presidential race. Democrats expect a large field of candidates ...

Democrat Elizabeth Warren , democratic

5 signs your relationship is unhealthy and how to improve it

By House Call Daktari,

Yes I know I had promised to address the big issue of ED (erectile dysfunction) but my writing team just wanted to go with the love theme as tomorrow ...

unhealthy relationships , Valentine's Day

Meet the engineer from Ghana behind NASA’s robotic arm for Mars

By CNN,

Standing at the porch of his house in Ghana, as a young boy, Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu was fascinated by the planes that flew in and out of the airport. B...

Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu , Ghana Robotic Academy , InSight's robotic arm , Instrument Deployment Systems , World Robotics Olympiad and Robofest

Young women build Kyrgyzstan’s first satellite

By VOA,

Reaching for the stars will no longer be impossible for girls and young women in Kyrgyzstan, who aim to build and launch the country's first satellite...

Kyrgyzstan , NASA , Satellite

Maria Brunhelner bags Sports Personality Award

By Agencies,

Kenyan swimmer Maria Brunhelner has been feted as the sports personality for the month of July 2018. The German-based swimmer won the award, admini...

Kenyan swimmer , Maria Brunhelner , Sports Journalists Association of Kenya(SJAK) , Sports Personality

Africans fear new trend of hiking taxes on calls, data

By Reuters,

The brisk business Julius Kirya did from his cash transfer kiosk in the Ugandan capital has slowed right down with a new tax on mobile money. Many ...

mobile money , Safaricom , uganda social media tax

Bobi Wine: Museveni is drunk with power

By Vincent Maruga,

Ugandan MP Bobi Wine is still on the quest for liberation of his country he said during an exclusive interview on Citizen TV. Speaking on the JKL s...

Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi , Museveni , uganda

Masked gunmen round up Zimbabwe opposition leaders in secret crackdown

By CNN,

The six masked gunmen arrived in an unmarked pickup truck at a modest house in Highfield West, a suburb in Zimbabwe's capital Harare. It was just b...

Human Rights Watch , MDC Youth Happymore Chidziva , President Emmerson Mnangagwa , Zimbabwe post election chaos

Why Japan men are ‘rented’ for as low as Ksh.900

By CNN,

"Unless you have interesting input coming into you all the time, you will psychologically die." "You learn by seeing through other people's eyes." ...

japan men rented

Ugandans react to new ‘dictatorial’ social media tax

By Ian Omondi,

As of July 1, 2018, Ugandans are officially required to pay tax in order to access various social media platforms, and most of them have not taken the...

President Yoweri Museveni , Social media tax , Uganda parliament

Inside Miguna’s head-scratching interview with Jeff Koinange

By Benjamin Muriuki,

Controversial politician Miguna Miguna’s Wednesday night interview on Citizen TV’s Jeff Koinange Live show was a tough one to put it mildly; and a...

cliff ombeta , Jeff Koinange , JKL , miguna miguna , Mike Sonko

Uhuru Kenyatta in London to push for more investment

By Rachel Ombaka,

President Uhuru Kenyatta will officially open business at the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday. His Communication Secretary Manoah Esipisu said the...

london stock exchange , Manoah Esipisu , uhuru Kenyatta in London

The life and times of Yvonne Wamalwa

By Ian Omondi,

Yvonne Wamalwa, the widow of former Vice President the late Michael Kijana Wamalwa is dead. According to a source in the family, Yvonne died early ...

Kijana Wamalwa widow , Yvonne Wamalwa wedding , Yvonne Wamlwa dead

India’s top court bans Islamic instant divorce

By AFP,

India's top court on Tuesday banned a controversial Islamic practice that allows men to divorce their wives instantly, ending a long tradition that m...

India , talaka , talaq

Should pregnant mothers hang up their cell phones?

By Reuters,

Children whose mothers were frequent cell phone users during pregnancy were more likely than those of less frequent users to be hyperactive, a new stu...