TECH NEWS

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | In a landmark ruling, a Swiss court has fined a man for “liking” comments on Facebook accusing an animal rights activist of being a “racist” and an “anti-Semite”. In the first case of its kind in Switzerland, the Zurich district court on Monday faulted a …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | More than a century after a colonial railway gave birth to modern Kenya, the country is betting on a new Chinese-built route to cement its position as the gateway to East Africa. The $3.2 billion (2.8 billion euro) railway linking Nairobi with the port city …

After years of intermittent, mainly soft window tinting, the practice is getting bolder and the shades of tint darker. If the earlier shades were lighter; allowing in more than 70% light, the current trend is for darker shades; sometimes letting in about only 5% light. We will not go into …

San Francisco, United States | AFP | Google is testing a way to tie online ads to brick-and-mortar store purchases, a move whetting marketing appetites while fueling privacy worries. A product currently described as a “store sales measurement solution” was unveiled at a marketing conference this month in San Francisco …

  Seoul, South Korea | AFP |  North Korea test-fired a missile Monday into Japan’s maritime economic zone — the latest in a series of provocative launches that have ratcheted up tensions over its nuclear weapons ambitions. It was the North’s third ballistic missile test in as many weeks and …

London, United Kingdom | AFP |  Thousands of travellers faced further chaos on Sunday as British Airways cancelled around 60 flights from London’s Heathrow Airport following an IT system failure. Around one quarter of Sunday’s flights set to depart from London’s major hub before 4.00 pm (1500 GMT) were cancelled …

Uganda Breweries Limited has secured partnership rights to market their premium alcohol brands on the popular online marketing internet site, Jumia. “….of course you know very well the economy has not been doing well and some of our brands have been negatively affected,” UBL’s marketing manager in charge of spirits, …

Washington, United States | AFP |  Thirteen years after dropping out of Harvard University to work on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday finally got his degree — well, sort of. Zuckerberg returned to the university where he launched what would become the world’s biggest social network, and basked in the …

Someone hit by a vehicle traveling at 80kms has a three times higher risk of dying than at 50Kms By Margaret Chan and Michael Bloomberg We can save so many lives around the world if we just slow down. Each year, more than 1.25 million people – many of them …

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | AFP |  The renewable energy sector employed 9.8 million people worldwide in 2016, marking a sharp increase from 2012, the Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency said on Wednesday. In its “Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2017”, IRENA says the sector employed …