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An Optometrist at the Christian Eye Centre in Cape Coast, Dr Emmanuel Ekow Ampiah, has cautioned the public against excessive use of mobile phone devices to avoid the dry eye syndrome.

A few years ago fighting over what television station to watch as a family was common in most Ghanaian homes; mothers, fathers and their children had to compromise on what TV programme the family could watch together.

Global Azure Bootcamp is a one-day world-wide event, driven by Microsoft Azure experts and community enthusiasts, to help developers new to Microsoft Azure as well as experienced developers, to learn and share knowledge.

MTN, a leading African telecommunications provider with Wageningen University (WU) in the Netherlands and Prodapt, has announced that they are harnessing IBM Internet of Things (IoT) technology as part of the MTN Connected Wildlife Solution.

The solution will help predict threats and combat the poaching of endangered rhinos at Welgevonden Game Reserve in South Africa, with the intent to expand the solution to other reserves in future.

Facebook is adding new standards that will keep advertising off fake news videos and objectionable content, moves that have become essential as the company starts to put ads inside videos and articles, instead of separately on the news feed.

Carolyn Everson, the company’s vice-president of marketing solutions, said the moves were in reaction to advertiser fears about being paired with content that wouldn’t reflect well on their brands.

Facebook is adding new standards that will keep advertising off fake news videos and objectionable content, moves that have become essential as the company starts to put ads inside videos and articles, instead of separately on the news feed.

Carolyn Everson, the company’s vice-president of marketing solutions, said the moves were in reaction to advertiser fears about being paired with content that wouldn’t reflect well on their brands.

Google will retire the company's Google Drive software, a client used to sync files between local devices and Google's cloud, on March 12th, 2018 for all customers.

Customers who run Google Drive currently may continue to do so, but the software will no longer be supported from December 11th, 2017 on, and will be shut down completely on March 12th, 2018.

Despite the number of people banking online, financial institutions are still under pressure to offer Wi-Fi access at regional branches. Not only does this enhance the customer experience but in a market where mobile connectivity is not ubiquitous, it is also vital to the provisioning of banking solutions.

When my father turned on the radio set for the 6 a.m. news on a local language speaking station, I was awake. I listened to the headlines. I admired the pronunciation of words by the newscasters. At the latter part of the news in detail, I was struck by a debate from the Parliament of Ghana.  

This was on Friday, July 7, 2017. We have frequently talked about drivers and to some extent passengers fastening their seat belts which have become ‘trivial’.  Private and public transport drivers are my focus in this article. I think the issue has to be discussed again. Regular punitive measures should be taken to ensure its adherence.

We all know what an automatic transmission is, basically—very basically, at least—so I'm not going to bore you with the details of how it converts power from your engine into power at the wheels. But you should know that the process involves plenty of hydraulic fluid, as well as gears and clutches.

If you don't know why your car’s transmission is slipping, I just might have the answer, though you may not want to hear what I have to say.

By now, I am convinced that you have heard of M-Pesa, the popular and often-cited mobile banking system that has become Africa's innovation calling card. But do you know about the Ushahidicrowdsourcing app, also from M-Pesa's birthplace, Kenya? Built to digitally map demographic events, it is used across the world.

How Facebook censors what its users see has been revealed by internal documents, the Guardian newspaper says.

It said the manuals revealed the criteria used to judge if posts were too violent, sexual, racist, hateful or supported terrorism.

A cyber-attack that has hit 150 countries since Friday should be treated by governments around the world as a "wake-up call", Microsoft says.

It blamed governments for storing data on software vulnerabilities which could then be accessed by hackers.

When a car excites you, it breaks your heart to leave it behind in the showroom because your pocket or bank account is speaking the ‘can’t buy’ language.

The feel, the look and the features become indelible, coming up in your dreams and thoughts.

Hashtags have become a ubiquitous identity feature on social media platforms, especially on Twitter. Other platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Google Plus, YouTube and Tumblr also use hashtags to organise their content. Social media users are very much conversant with the word(s) which are prefixed with the hash (#) sign.

WhatsApp is testing a system which would allow businesses to talk directly to users, Reuters reported, signalling the firm finally devised plans on how to monetise its popular messaging app. The tests are being conducted with companies which are part of the Y Combinator startup incubator. One revenue model will be to charge businesses which want to contact customers.

Researchers at IT security firm ESET discovered 13 apps which steal Instagram credentials on Google Play, placing up to 1.5 million users who installed the apps at risk. The malicious apps were phishing for Instagram credentials and sending them to a remote server. While they appear to have originated in Turkey, some used English localisation to target Instagram users worldwide.

More car manufacturers than ever are targeting the super-rich, developing even faster "hypercars" that cost well over a million dollars apiece, or offering bespoke tailoring and customization of vehicles that can rack up similar price tags.

Facebook is taking new measures to curb the spread of fake news on its huge and influential social network, focusing on the "worst of the worst" offenders.

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