Notorious whistle-blower Edward Snowden has helped design an open-source smartphone device that warns people when their phone's antennae are transmitting information. The goal is to protect people from being digitally spied on by alerting them when their phone is sending or receiving data without their knowledge or permission. (more…)
Two Nigerian siblings, 11 and 10 are pictured crying after their mother died in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe. The two children were among 150 migrants rescued from their overcrowded rubber boat off the coast of Libya while trying to cross the Mediterranean ocean into Italy by a Spanish NGO’s boat. More photos after the cut... (more…)
Gay activist Bisi Alimi took photos with Hollywood stars, NEYO, Jaden Smith and Neyo's girl, Crystal Renay at Claridges Hotel on Friday. More photos after the cut... (more…)
A Brazilian drug lord serving an eight-year prison sentence, spent his time behind bars in a 'VIP cell' - complete with a plasma television, a kitchen, wardrobes, conference room, air conditioning, tiled walls, furniture, and library - complete with a DVD collection that included all episodes of a television show about Pablo Escobar. (more…)
A Namibian schoolboy in the country’s Ohagwena Region has come up with a sim-less mobile phone that does not require airtime to make calls. The Grade 12 learner, Simon Petrus, a pupil at Abraham Iyambo Senior Secondary School created the phone using spares from a phone and television set, New Era reports. Complete with a light bulb, fan and charger socket, the handset functions off power supplied through a radiator and is able to make calls to anywhere through the use of radio frequencies. (more…)
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