Blog Post

Ritelink Blog > Articles by: Ubong Abasi

Facebook Might Have To Pay $20 Million For The ‘Meta’ Name

Last week, Facebook announced a rebranding in which they will be officially calling themselves “Meta” from now on. However, keep in mind that this is for Facebook’s parent company, and that the social media platform will continue to be called Facebook and other products like WhatsApp and Instagram will now be a subsidiary of Meta. That […]

Read More

Collapse Ikoyi building death toll rises to 36

Nine survivors have been reported as frantic families search rubble for loved ones The death toll from the collapse of a high-rise building in an upmarket area of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos has risen to 36, emergency services said on Thursday. The 21-storey building, on a construction site in the city’s Ikoyi neighbourhood — known […]

Read More

Meta is deleting a billion ‘faceprints’ and closing down Facebook’s facial recognition system

Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has announced a major shift for social networking, saying it will no longer use facial recognition to identify users in photographs. As well as closing down the facial recognition system, the company will also delete over a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates. Meta says that it is part of a “company-wide […]

Read More

‘Squid Game’ cryptocurrency collapses in a $3 million scam

Its creators may have made off with as much as $3.38 million. A cryptocurrency inspired by Squid Game successfully enticed enough investors to see its value soar to over $2,800… before its creators cashed out and vanished. The cryptocurrency called $SQUID, which wasn’t officially sanctioned by Netflix, launched in late October and rose up to 310,000 percent in […]

Read More

IGP Orders Immediate Probe Of Invasion Of Abuja Residence Of Justice Odili

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Bala, on Monday, ordered that detailed investigations be carried out immediately into the reported invasion of the Abuja residence of Justice Mary Odili by security agents last Friday. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Frank […]

Read More

Meet Nigerian-born Tyough Beetseh who help design the 2022 Range Rover

TY, as he is fondly called, was born in Makurdi. He is an Entrepreneur, Senior Management Consultant, and a seasoned global industry professional who has consulted for some of the world’s biggest organisations, delivering key projects for the likes of Jaguar Land Rover, BBC, EDF Energy, London 2012 Olympics, Department of Work and Pensions, United […]

Read More

Facebook Rebrands Itself As Meta

Following the rumors last week that Facebook was planning on rebranding themselves, sure enough, it looks like the rumors were true. During the company’s Connect 2021 conference, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be rebranded and will now be known as “Meta”. According to the announcement, “The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today’s […]

Read More