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HP ZBook 17 G6: A large power-packed mobile workstation

Over the years, laptops have become increasingly smaller, slimmer, lighter, and more mobile. These days you’ll find manufacturers boasting about how “impossibly thin” their devices are and how you can fit them into even smaller backpacks. Most consumer-based laptops are clocking with a 13″ to 15″ display, which seems to sell well. But the HP ZBook 17 […]

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Microsoft Windows 11 upgrade is free for Windows 10 users

After all the teasing, Microsoft officially unwrapped Windows 11 in a live-streamed presentation on Thursday. There were not a lot of surprises for those who have been paying attention to the leaks, particularly the spillage from the Windows 11 beta ISO image that began circulating last week. However, there were some welcome clarifications and nice user-centric details revealed during the presentation. […]

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How to remove malware from your computer

A concise guide to getting rid of malware infections If you’re here, then you have likely run into that very unfortunate circumstance where despite running an antivirus (well, hopefully), you’ve realized that malware is on your PC – or perhaps you merely suspect that’s the case. Either way, that’s obviously not a comfortable situation. Alternatively, you may […]

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John McAfee’s tumultuous life in tech and why it mattered

McAfee died in a Spanish prison cell at age 75. Hours after a Spanish court granted a request to have him extradited to the US, John McAfee was found dead in a Spanish prison cell on Wednesday. The Catalan Justice Department said 75-year-old McAfee took his own life. Details of McAfee’s passing are still emerging. McAfee […]

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John McAfee: antivirus entrepreneur found dead in Spanish prison

McAfee’s extradition to the US on tax charges had been approved hours earlier The antivirus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in his cell in Spain from an apparent suicide, hours after the country’s highest court approved his extradition to the United States, where he was wanted on tax-related criminal charges that carry a prison […]

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Facebook adds Shops to WhatsApp, among other e-commerce updates

Facebook is making it even easier to buy stuff while you scroll past photos of your high school lab partner’s dog. Yes, Instagram Shops and Facebook Marketplace are already displayed prominently on the apps’ bottom navigation tabs. But now, you can shop on WhatsApp too, along with other updates. Today on a Live Audio Room, CEO Mark […]

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You Can’t Prosecute Nigerians for Using Twitter, says ECOWAS Court

The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling on Tuesday, 22 “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the Plaintiffs […]

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CHINA ORDERS BANKS TO STOP HANDLING CRYPTOCURRENCY

Things are not looking good for Bitcoin right now. Chinese officials continued their crackdown on cryptocurrencies this week, the BBC reports, ordering banks to stop supporting any transactions involving the digital currencies. Unsurprisingly, the value of Bitcoin slumped yet again in light of the news, dropping below $30,000 for the first time since early January — back […]

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Access Bank to give out more digital loans

After giving N100 billion in loans to some four million beneficiaries, Access Bank Plc plans to surpass its 2020 record as the bank pushes out more digital loans. In furtherance of its digital loans plan, bank has launched the Diamond Business Advantage (DBA) Lite to address the challenges of accessing digital loans for youth entrepreneurs. […]

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