All Things Technology

Recent findings by Researchers at University of Western Ontario will enable them to build a mind-reading computer that would lets us communicate with those in coma. The team were able to find answers as to how we could better communicate with coma patients by carrying out a study about what we are thinking.
They asked the participants to answer questions on a ''Yes'' or ''No'' response without speaking it, but only think their response.
They answered questions as shown in the scanner, and their response without speaking it.  Whereupon the researchers studied their brain activity as they give answers to the questions shown, and were able to translate the correct answers for each participant.
The team are now using this method to communicate with people in coma.

An anti-gay app made especially to help free people from the captive of homosexuality has been taken down by Apple from its app store. The app titled ''setting captives free'' was built by a non interdenominational ministry, after the founder Mike Cleveland,  a formal airline pilot was completely free from homosexuality.
Apple took down the app because so many gay users and groups started a petition to have the app pull down. From what I read, more than 150,000 homosexuals signed to pull down the app.

Finally, the little brother of the ''next big thing'', the Galaxy S4 has been launched today by Samsung. Samsung broke the news on its official blog that it has launched the Galaxy S4 Mini, which will arrive in black, brown or white editions.
“We appreciate the unprecedented demands for the Galaxy S4 that we aimed to provide users with life companion for a fuller, richer, and simpler life. And now, we want to give people more choices with the GALAXY S4, similar look & feel of GALAXY S4 for mor compact and practical usages,” wrote Samsung CEO JK Shin in an official statement. “The new GALAXY S4 mini provides consumers with a new way to enjoy the flagship GALAXY S4 experience.”
The S4 Mini is a 4.3-inch Android smartphone with 8MP front-facing camera and 1.9MP rear-facing camera. It also sport 8GB of internal storage, 1.5GB of RAM, and powered by a 1.7GHz dual-core processor.

Apple today launched a $229 16GB iPod touch with retina display. The new iPod touch looks very much like the 2012 iPod touch, but with a little difference in terms of screen size(4-inch),1,136-by-640 screen and dual-core A5 processor, comes in gray and camera(1.2 mega pixel). No rear-facing camera.
The new iPod touch plays all games and apps made just for the iPhone 5 and the 2012 iPod Touch

Tim Cook is of the opinion that people won't buy Google set of computer Glasses. In an interview hosted by AllthingsD with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the D11 conference on Tuesday night,The Apple CEO said people don't wear glasses for fashion, and as such.doesn't think people will buy the device.
He, however, think people will go for smart watches than Google Glass. Please the interview above...!

Facebook has decided to take a page out of Twitter's book by launching 'verified' pages to help users find the true identities of celebrities, Journalists, Government officials, businesses and profiles on the social network. The social media giant made the announcement today.
According to Facebook, verified accounts of profiles and pages will feature a blue check mark, a feature very similar to Twitter's verified pages.
Facebook said the move is to help users of the social network find the authentic accounts of Celebrities, Journalist, businesses, Government officials etc, as there are fake profiles and pages of these high profile people on the social network.

Finally, Huawei has announced price of its latest flagship device, the Ascend P6 before its official launch in London on June 18, and said the smartphone will be price at $300.
The Huawei Ascend P6 runs on Google's Android 'Jelly Bean' operating system, 4.7" 720p screen (312ppi), 2GB of RAM, an 8MP front camera and 32GB of internal storage.

If you think having 7 to 8 character passwords, will get your account secured, and makes it so difficult for hackers to find, then you need Think again. Those passwords are now the easiest to crack.

A team of hackers have successfully hack more than 14,800 random passwords of a list of 16,449 tech sites. According to them, the success rate for each hacker range from 62% to 90%. Wow! It took one hacker 60 minutes to cracked 16-character passwords;even hacked those

confusing passwords such as 'qeadzcwrsfxv1331'. They, however, gave us tips in order to get our accounts secured from hackers. They said it is imperative for every internet user to have more than 7 to 8 characters passwords, with upper and lower case. Also, do not use real names such as Jesus as passwords, these are
easily hacked.

A few weeks after Sony announced the Xperia Z , which is a
water-resistant and dust-proof smartphone, the firm is looking forward
to launch the Xperia Z gaming tablet in Cape Town, South Africa in two
months time.
The 10.1-inch gaming tablet is believe to be the slimmest Long Term
Evolution, LTE tablet out there. It is a waterproof tablet that is
very much like the Xperia Z smartphone.
The device, just as the Xperia Z smartphone, runs on a quad-core
Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset, comes with16GBs of storage, 2GBs of RAM,
Near Field Communication, NFC support, and a microSD slot.
Sony said the device will sale between R7000 and R10,000.

First introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the Ascend P6 is believe to be the world slimmest smartphone with its 6.18mm thickness. Its maker, Huawei has announced that the smartphone will be officially launch on June 18 this year.
The Huawei Ascend P6 runs on Google's Android 'Jelly Bean' operating system, 4.7" 720p screen (312ppi), 2GB of RAM, an 8MP front camera and 32GB of internal storage.

The Direct Data Vouchers cards come in different data bundles: 200MB(N1000), 500MB(N2000), 1.5GB(N4000). To subscribe, all you need do is, buy Direct Data Vouchers cards, scratch to reveal the 15 digits pin and you are done.
The telecom operator also added that these cards or E-pins are available at the firm partner outlets across the country.

Recent findings by five girls from a primary school in Denmark have proved that plant growth could be affected by WiFi signals. The five girls decided to carry out the experiment after noticing that when they slept with mobile phones near their heads in the night, they realized they could not focus on their studies the following day.

So in order to find out

Guys,  Guess we just have to wait until next year before we could lay our hands on Apple iWatch. The company recently announced that it will begin production of the iWatch in Q3 next year, and said it will launch towards the end of next year.
Check out the video to learn more...

Hey! have you watch the movie ''Iron Man''? I guess you love the way Tony Stark jumps from high attitudes without parachute. Soon, you would experience such feeling. A real-life Iron Man suit has been created by two firms, Solar System Express and Biomedical design company. The suit will allow individuals fall to earth without parachute.
Named the RL Mark V1 look very much like the suit used in the Iron Man movie, and comes with power gloves, set of goggles that work in a way similar to Google computer glasses, and movement gyros.


Individuals or astronauts who put on this suit, can fall from high-attitude without using parachute. The firms hoped to begin full production of the Iron Man suit in 2016, if after a successful test dive.

As the saying goes '' there is a time for war and a time for peace'', Microsoft and Google have decided to welcome peace. The two biggest technology firms in the world will teamed up to build YouTube app for windows phone 8.
Google revealed this on Friday that they will build a YouTube app for windows phone 8 that will meet YouTube terms of services. The YouTube app will come later next month.
Here's the joint statement by Google and Microsoft
Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time.
 What led to the disagreement was that, Microsoft developed a YouTube app for windows phone that allowed users to download videos via the app without running ads. Google got angry since the app does not meet YouTube terms of service, and shot down the app.

This is simply awesome! watch as French Cyclist Francos Gissy set a new land speed record of 263km/h on a rocket bicycle run by hydrogen peroxide

Researchers at Princeton University, led by Michael McAlpine  have successfully built the world first ''bionic ear'' that can pick up sounds 1 million times higher than the normal human ear. It was created with cells and nanoparticles, then added a small coil with bony process.
Watch the video below to learn more about it.


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Unbelievable! LEGO has unveiled the largest Lego in history, a 5 million bricks of LEGO x-wing.

Run by Computer Vision and Machine Learning, Google now makes it so easy to search for Google+ users to search for their own photos on Google.com, provided they have them all stored on the social network.
Google revealed this on Thursday in a blog post written by the company product Manager, Matthew Kulick that users of its social network, Google+ can now search and find their own photos on the search engine.

, the world largest online retailer announced today that the Kindle Fire HD and the Kindle
Fire HD 8.9 devices will not only be available in the US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Japan, but in 170 nations for pre-order. It also added that its App store is now available in 200 countries. Amazon also used the announcement to offer two of its popular apps , 'Fruit Ninja' and 'Cut the rope' for free on May 23 -24.
Consumers can pre-order their devices at starting today at $214 for the Kindle Fire HD and$284 for the Kindle Fire HD 8.9.
You can pre-order both device

Too bad, HTC first and Facebook smartphone, which come preloaded with ''Facebook home'' software will no longer go on sale in the UK as planned. From what I read, the decision not to 'never' launch the smartphone in the UK came from Facebook itself.
The reason is that,  after the phone went on sale in the US, sales were poor, and moreover the phone lacks some features. Facebook said it will add more customization features for the next couple of months.
Customers who had preordered the device will be informed about this shortly.
However, those wish to try Facebook Home can still do so if they have the supported devices for which Home can be downloaded from Google Play.

Samsung announced last week that Galaxy S4 will break its predecessors record of selling 10 million phones within a month. Samsung just announced that the Galaxy S4 has hit 10 million channel sales in 27 days, compared with the 50 days it took S3 to reach that figure.

Any Individual wearing Google set of computer Glasses always draws attention from the Public. They love to show-off their Google Glasses if they eventually own one.
Recently, Mashable decided to play a fast one on New Yorkers by sending popular Film maker and Comedian, Mark Malkoff onto the streets of New York City to make them believe he was wearing the real Google Glass. So do you think Mark can play a fast one on New Yorkers? let's watch the video.

Something our human eyes seem to do, without any prompting, is to pick out shapes and structures that resemble other shapes and structures. Called pareidolia, it's a form of pattern recognition -- and a good example is the way we often see a human face where only a random collection of shapes or shadows exists. This, it is now known, is the reason for the infamous face on Mars.
Our own Earth, as folded and rippled as it is, is also prone to this phenomenon when viewed from above: the , discovered on Google Earth in 2006, for example. But we're sure there are many more human-esque faces lurking in

We have seen people produce crazy videos dance steps like the ''Gangnam style'' and ''Harlem shake'', but we haven't witness any crazy photos yet.
Cat bearding is the new internet craze. It's an insane act! it involves cat owners sticking their chin to the bottom half of a cat face, and then strike a photo. Crazy right? But it could come in hand expecially if find you it so difficult cultivating a beard. See more photos after the jump break!

Finally the Xbox one has been unveiled by Microsoft yesterday. The new Xbox One is all in one Entertainment console: play games, music and watching TV. Guys, watch the New Xbox one in action!

Hello, are you an Android Developer and have all what it takes to build a great app? if yes, then you are on your way to pocket Samsung $800,000 Smart App Challenge 2013 for Galaxy smartphones.
Samsung made this known yesterday that its aimed at creating apps just for Samsung Galaxy smartphones. The contest runs from late June to August 3, and all Developers across the globe are cordially invited to participate in the challenge.

Samsung said the winner will go home with $200,000, while the runner-up with go with $100,000 and six of the remaining winners will receive $50,000 each. The winners of the challenge will be announce in December.
''Held for the second consecutive year, this challenge will determine the best GALAXY S4 apps that make use of the Samsung Chord SDK.
The 10 winning entries will receive $800,000 in total prizes and be eligible for investment evaluation from From what Samsung said ''Held for the second consecutive year, this challenge will determine the best GALAXY S4 apps that make use of the Samsung Chord SDK.
The 10 winning entries will receive $800,000 in total prizes and be eligible for investment evalutation from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation
as well as multiple marketing promotion'', Samsung said yesterday..

Just as Martin Lawrence said in a movie ''If, I was a thief, I would definitely know where and how to break into this building''.
Valentin Boanta is a Romanian computer specialist who is currently serving a five-year jail term after he was found guilty of supplying a gang of Romanian robbers  with gadgets with which they used to scan magnetic strip of  bank cards and used them to withdraw cash via ATM. But, he tuned a new leaf after he was cut. To my surprise, he said he became happy after he was caught.
While still serving his six year jail term, he thought of a way to help protect world's ATMs. He built his SRS, Secure Revolving System, which can help to protect cardholders against Skimmers.
Here's how the device works:
First, the cardholder insert the card into the SRS long edge. By this, Skimmers or any Skimming gadgets would find it so difficult to scan the magnetic strip at the back of the card.

You want to make an important call, but your cell phone battery is dead. What are you going to do? well, you have one option left: wait for hours before your cell phone battery is fully charged. But not anymore, a device that could charge your phone for 20 seconds has been invented by a teen.
18 year-old Eesha Khare of Saratoga, California won the Intel International Science and Engineering fair for building a device that could charge a cell phone for 20 seconds. Yes 20 seconds!
The Super-capacitor stored a lot of energy into a small space, charge the battery in seconds and holds that charge for a long time than ordinary batteries.
She showed us how the device works by using it to power an LED bulb. She said the device could fit into cell phone batteries, that means it could charge electronic portable devices.
She received the $50,000 prize money for wining Intel International Science and Engineering Fair

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When it comes to Samsung everything is different. Almost a year now when Apple launched its 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display that has 2,560x1,600 pixel resolution. But today Samsung announced at the Society for information Displays(SID) week in Vancouver a 13.3-inch WQXGA+ Notebook display with 3200x1800 pixel resolution, which has greater pixel resolution than the MacBook Pro and the ChromeBook pixel.
According to Samsung, the Notebook Display LCD can deliver up to30 percent greater power saving than most existing LCD tablet displays.

In an effort to raise funds for the comic relief charity, British Explorer Daniel Hughes made history when he makes the first ever live video call from a smartphone on Mount Everest's summit.
Hughes is hoping to raise one million Great British Pounds for the charity.


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Aston Martin today celebrate its 100th birthday, and to mark the celebration, the company announced the CC100 speedster concept car. The car was announced in recognition of the Aston Martin's DBR1 victory at the Le Mans in 1959.
The 1,200kg car can sprint at O-60mph in four seconds and a maximum speed of 180mph.
Surprisingly, the car has been sold to a wealthy client for Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds.

Hey guys, we just entered into a new week, How was last week? mine was great and I hope yours was the same as well.. Anyways, to kick-off my posts for this ''great'' new week, I really want to touch an issue that has been heating me up lately. It's phishing. These guys or websites have rendered many bankrupt due to the fact that these victims doesn't know to detect them. So, I decided to write on it.

What is phishing?
Phishing is a form of online identity theft in which fraudsters trick internet users into submitting personal information to illegitimate websites.
it is really very sad and regrettable that internet users are now victims of Phishing scam.They are not aware of the tricks use by

Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, is proposing to enact a law that will allow security officials in the country to have access to our private communications. According to what I read,It decided to propose the law because of the  present security situation in the country. Nevertheless, I personally believe such act is an infringement of fundamental human rights.
As Nigerians, we all know how security officials behave in this country. Give them one minute of liberty,and they turned everything up and down. Some of them might even trade with our identities.
What does this mean? it means if am making a phone call, everything I say is recorded by  an ''oga at the top'', thereby giving them access to do whatsoever they so desire with my info. It is that bad.

By the way, I heard NCC is also planing to ban Blackberry service in Nigeria. Hmmm! I rest my case. But I must not fail to write this, NCC whatever you do, please put the interest of Nigerians at heart.

Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse convertible set a new Guinness world record of fastest convertible car. This car has a supersonic speed of 254.04 miles per hour or 408.84 kilometers per hour.

From what I read, Yahoo is looking to acquire blogging platform, Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. The reports suggested that Tumblr is impress.. But, I personally,  believe Tumblr is not impress at all . I say this because, Tumblr is fast growing, in order words it receives around 120-170 million visitors monthly and also has ''important'' demographics which Yahoo doesn't.

Facebook and Twitter introduced tools to integrate their services with Google Glass, the computerized eyewear touted by the search provider as an alternative for Apple and Samsung's smartphones.

Mercedes has announced price of its 2014 C63 AMg Edition 507 for the UK market. The Edtion 507 will go on sale in July and will come in three variant: the Sedan will cost 66,960 Great British Pounds, while the Estate and Coupe will both sale at 68,000 Pounds respectively.

After six years, the Microsoft Chairman top the list of world richest men with a net worth of $72.7 billion. He displace Mexican mobile phone mogul Carlos slim yesterday. Gates earnings soared high as shares of Microsoft hit a five-year high.

Samsung Galaxy S4 is set to break its ''younger brother's'' record of selling 10 million phones in first 50 days, when it will sell 10 million phones next week. Thus, making it the fastest selling phone in the company history. The Company CEO Shin Jong-Kyun made it known to the Korea Times on Thursday.
Samsung Galaxy S4 is now available in 60 nations of the world, and comes with hands-free and voice recognition features. It was recently unveiled in Nigeria over the weekend and sells at N108,000.

Very funny,Oh my God!, who released that hot air on live TV I heard the sound. Could it be Smith or Champion? I suspect Smith. WOW!


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Nokia teamed up with Airtel Nigeria and Microsoft and launched its popular line of Lumia consumer  smartphones, the Lumia 720 and 520 phones into the Nigerian market yesterday, May 15, 2013. Consumers who buy the smartphones and recharge with N1000 are entitled to free 500MB of data to access the internet for the first six months, after which they can subscribe to any plan of their choice. Both smartphone runs on the Windows 8 operating system.

Price of the Lumia 720 and 520
Consumers can pick up their choice of Lumias from any Airtel or Nokia stores or Nokia authorize retailers across the country. The Lumia 520 will sell at N28,000 while the Lumia 720 is price at N49,000.
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Instead of having different versions of chat and video chat across all chat platforms, wouldn't it be convenient to bring them all in one place? Hangout gives you the best way to connect with the people you love or care about.
What this mean is that, you can chat with ten people at a time across different platforms on Google Hangout, when you switch from the current version of chat to Hangout.

Yesterday, at the Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco, Recon Instruments announced its new set of Goggles, the Recon Jet. The wearable computer glasses is best used by sporting enthusiastic,as it helps to monitor your fitness level, shows your health performance through an integrated heads-up-display and same time streaming video and music.
It has a