Students create banana piano for Kazakhstan festival
Students participating in a technology festival in Kazakhstan came up with a creative musical instrument — a banana piano. The Go Creative! festival in Almaty, which bears the slogan “Interlaced: threads of innovation, interaction and inspiration that unite us,” featured an attention-grabbing exhibit from students who used fruit to make music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIHqRFF5VRE The video shows […]
Right-clicking in Gmail about to get whole lot more useful
Google is finally addressing one of the more annoying quirks of Gmail’s web interface by overhauling the right-click menu, adding a lot more options in the pop-up list that should make it way more useful. As updates go, it’s a pretty simple one: once the rollout hits your account, you’ll be presented with the above […]
Valentine's Day Tips
A little history you want to know about Valentine. Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine,is celebrated annually on February 14. Originating as a Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early saints named Valentinus, Valentine’s Day is recognized as a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of […]
US shutdown looms as border talks stall ahead of deadline
US congressional talks over a border security deal have stalled raising the chances of another government shutdown. Negotiators were hoping for a deal by Monday to give Congress time to pass legislation by Friday, when the federal funding agreement runs out. Divisions remain a limit on how many undocumented immigrants can be detained and funding […]
Nigeria election: Election office burnt down six days before polls
An office for Nigeria’s election commission has been burned down just six days before the country is due to vote in a general election.The fire in Plateau State has destroyed ballot boxes and voting slips. An electoral commission spokesperson called it a setback for the preparations for the election but is quoted in This Day […]
2019 Grammys: the complete list of winners
Does the world need the Grammy awards? Not according to Grammy-winner Drake, who the Recording Academy cut off during his spotlight moment at the 2019 awards, after he suggested the Grammys don’t matter as much as viral popularity. After winning Best Rap Song for “God’s Plan,” Drake used his winner’s speech to encourage musicians to […]
Australia PM seeks to block bill on sick asylum seekers
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison is campaigning to block a bill that would let sick asylum seekers in offshore centres get treatment in Australia.Mr Morrison said the bill would “take control from the government”, and “unleash a world of woe”. Australia has sent asylum seekers who arrive by boat to detention centres on the Pacific […]
Democrat Amy Klobuchar announces presidential bid
Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar has announced she is running for president in the 2020 election.Ms Klobuchar, a former prosecutor, said she was running for “everyone who wanted their work recognised”. She won praise for grilling Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and attorney general nominee William Barr during recent confirmation hearings.The 58-year-old enters an increasingly […]
Bouteflika seeks fifth term as Algeria's president
Algeria’s 81-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will seek a fifth term in April’s elections, he announced in a message published by state media.Mr Bouteflika has been in office for 20 years but has rarely been seen in public since he had a stroke in 2013. He insisted his “unwavering desire” to serve Algeria allowed him to […]
Update to iOS 12.1.4 to re-enable Group FaceTime
That nasty FaceTime bug is now a thing of the past. You can now download and update your iPhone and iPad to re-enable Group FaceTime again. iOS 12.1.4 is a bug fix release and doesn’t contain any new feature other than this one. Shortly after people found out that you could eavesdrop on somebody’s microphone […]
Deaths put e-scooters in spotlight
There are calls to re-examine the safety of electric scooters, following another death and a series of severe injuries in US cities. Irish exchange student Mark Sands, 21, died after a collision with an Uber car in Texas, in the early hours of Friday. A study by watchdog Consumer Reports suggested this month there had […]
Instagram vows to remove all graphic self-harm images from site
All graphic images of self-harm will be removed from Instagram, the head of the social media platform has told the BBC. The move comes after the father of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life in 2017, said Instagram had “helped kill” his daughter. Molly’s family found she had been viewing graphic images of […]
Skype can now blur the background during video calls
Thanks to the rise of WhatsApp and other free calling and messaging apps, Skype is no longer the go-to service it once was for many people. But the company just added a new feature which might raise its appeal among users. The Microsoft-owned service’s latest addition is a screen-blurring feature designed to obscure your messy […]
Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham: Run-ins assessed
With the Premier League title race on a knife-edge, whose run-in could define their season and see them lifting the trophy in May? Manchester City retook top spot on goal difference from Liverpool on Wednesday night after their 2-0 win at Everton, and while the Reds have a game in hand over last season’s league […]
