Funding for Kenyan startups dropped from $47.3 million in 2015 to $10.5 million in 2016. After a decade of optimism, buzz around Kenya’s tech potential has waned, as many startups failed to become profitable or went bankrupt. Optimism was fueled by successes like mobile-money service M-Pesa and crowdsourced reporting and mapping platform Ushahidi, both created in Kenya a decade ago. (more…)
"Hey dude, where's my car", I saw it in Davido's house. Never again and I say never again will you have to be the confused and frustrated car finder, courtesy of a new Google Maps feature that lets you save your parking location on a map. Originally launched as part of a Google Maps beta (and only on Android) in March 2017, the feature just went live on Android and iOS. (more…)
Goodnews developers, or what I call the people of copy and paste from the land of git. Facebook has completely rewritten React, its popular JavaScript library for building user interfaces. The company hasn’t previously talked much about React Fiber, as the project is called, but it has actually been working on it for a while. (more…)
HTC fans are you bored, wait do you guys even exit, I thought that apple, samsung, google and the other ones (blackberry) would have taken up the fandom and leaving no one to spare. But anyways the HTC One X10 is finally out! Yeah! Boy is this silence I hear? (more…)
You could be the most careful mobile user ever, but hackers can still steal your PINs and passwords simply by spying on your phone's motion sensors. A team of cyber researchers from the UK's Newcastle University have demonstrated how easy it is to steal a four-digit PIN by analyzing the way your phone tilts and moves as you type. You might think your phone's movements are random, but they apparently create distinct patterns. During their tests, they were able to crack four-digit PINs on the first guess 70 percent of the time and 100 percent of the PINs they us
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