Twitter or any other social media site can be the source of misinformation or the spread of half-truths. This is very true with articles that have catchy headlines that may not necessarily tell the whole story until you read that particular article. With such titles, most users may end up retweeting very fast without actually reading the contents of the article. To address this, Twitter has announced that it is experimenting with a new feature that will prompt users to actually read the story before it is retweeted. This will go along way in ensuring people don’t just rely on…
Author: Alvin Wanjala
Alvin Wanjala
Alvin Wanjala has been writing about technology for over 2 years(and counting). He writes about different topics in the consumer tech space. He loves streaming music, programming, and gaming during downtimes.
Samsung is a household name when it comes to the TV and smartphone market. The company has recently unveiled its Crystal UHD TVs in the Kenyan market. Well, these aren’t cheap but what lies under the hood makes up for that. The TVs are powered by a 4K Crystal Processor and with its power able to deliver better pictures. The 4K crystal processor masters the display color, optimizes high contrast ratio, and also HDR. “Samsung TV has been constantly paving the path for technological innovations by offering consumers a new TV experience and a future for global TV industry. This…
Facebook is launching a way for business owners on Facebook to keep in touch with their customers directly from the consumer faced Messenger app. This will help cut slack of switching between two apps for the Facebook business community. Business owners can respond to customer messages easily now by toggling between their personal and business accounts inside Messenger. Facebook say it’s done research and found that over 90% of Facebook business admins already use Messenger to chat with friends and family. Plus, having multiple apps for almost the same thing didn’t go well with majority of business owners. Putting the…
Twitter has been very secretive when it comes to account verification and for long they’ve had internal rules on what determines the qualifications. Typically any account with “public interest” would get the blue checkmark. However, they have been past concerns on the whole issue and that lead the company to pause verification of accounts for a while pulling down the public submission form. But now it seems the company wants to bring back verification – in full – and this time clearer and easier to access for everyone. App reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, recently tweeted developments of a new…
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Huawei Y7p is receiving EMUI 10-based Android 10 update in Kenya, reports Techweez. The update is massive weighing 3.12 GB which is not surprising since it’s a major Android update. Huawei Y7p, started selling in Kenya in April and although it doesn’t ship with Google apps its amazing to know that Huawei is committed to provide updates – with or without Google Mobile Services. This should maybe clear out some skepticism around newer Google-less Huawei phones. The EMUI 10 update is version 10.10.112 and ships with a bunch of new features. Most importantly is the included April 2020 Security patch.…
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