Ground sensors and satellites will be deployed in a new bid to keep the ancient Roman city of Pompeii from crumbling following a series of recent collapses at the sprawling and long-neglected site near Naples. Italian aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica…
Author: Adewale Ade
The United States on Thursday denied it used its overseas aid agency to mount a covert operation on social media to incite unrest against Cuba’s communist leaders. But the US Agency for International Development (USAID) did say it had created a Twitter…
Space technicians were preparing Thursday for the launch of the first satellite in an ambitious European project to monitor Earth for climate change, pollution and deforestation and help disaster relief. Sentinel-1A, a satellite designed to scan the…
NEWARK — Let the games begin. The Rodney Mason Mentoring Baseball camp is hosting its first meeting at Weequahic Park on Saturday. The camp, founded in 2011, teaches kids and young adults between the ages of 6 and 24 the fundamentals of baseball just…
Mark your calendars, folks; Apple has set the date for its next Worldwide Developers Conference. According to CNET, WWDC will take place June 2-6, 2014, at Moscone West in San Francisco. Developers or those who simply want to attend can sign up for…
Stevie Wonder will top the bill at this year’s Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, with other headliners including Pharrell Williams, Damon Albarn and Massive Attack, organisers said on Thursday. The festival team said that bringing soul icon Stevie…
Family, friends and fans of Marvin Gaye came together Wednesday to pay joyful hommage to the late Motown legend and native Washingtonian on what would have been his 75th birthday. Gaye was shot and killed by his father on the eve of his 45th birthday…
A Nigerian court on Thursday said intelligence agents broke the law when they seized the passport of ousted central bank governor Lamido Sanusi and ordered the government to pay damages and publicly apologise. Sanusi was suspended on February 20, less…
Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey could make his first appearance since December in Sunday’s Premier League game at Champions League qualification rivals Everton, manager Arsene Wenger revealed on Thursday. “Aaron and Nacho Monreal are back training with…
Today was the first day of Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco, and the company announced the long-awaited return of the Start Menu Windows 8.1’s forthcoming Update 1. That’s not all: Microsoft also announced “Universal Windows apps…
Ethiopian running legend Kenenisa Bekele says he is in shape and hopeful for a win ahead of his hotly-awaited marathon debut on the streets of Paris on Sunday. The double world recorder holder in 5,000 and 10,000m will be the star draw at the Paris…
English Premier League giants Chelsea, which financially backs Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem, have been accused of trying to fix the Dutch league. Former Vitesse owner, Merab Jordania, claimed in the daily De Telegraaf that Chelsea do not want the Dutch…
Five new cases of the deadly Ebola virus have been recorded in Guinea in the past 24 hours, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The total number of suspected and confirmed cases of one of the deadliest viruses known to man has risen to 127…
Finally ending months of speculation, Amazon has unveiled its own media-streaming device, Amazon Fire TV. Armed with 2GB of RAM, a quad-core processor, and a dedicated GPU, the Fire TV box is a teeny-tiny rectangle that’s poised to be your all-in-…
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors joined Guangzhou Evergrande at the top of their AFC Champions League group after a superb strike gave the 10-man Korean side a 1-0 win over the defending champions Wednesday. Guangzhou entered the Group G match at the Jeonju World…
England prop Joe Marler has signed a new contract with Harlequins that will keep him at Twickenham Stoop until 2016, the Premiership club announced Wednesday. A product of the Quins academy, Marler is set to make his 100th appearance for the London…
Project Tango, an effort from Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Group (ATAP) to imbue a smartphone with the ability to build complex, accurate 3D models of the physical world, has the potential to change the interactions between humans and…
Back in January I wrote a post asking Google to give users the ability to customize the navigation box with Google products they want to see, in the order they want to see them. Well, today, I clicked on the navigation box and to my great surprise…
Turkey’s top constitutional court ruled on Wednesday that the government’s ban on the online messaging service Twitter violated rights, local media reported. The court ordered that the ban must be lifted, sending a statement both to the country’s telecommunications…
Italian police on Wednesday arrested 24 alleged separatists for terrorism after thwarting a bizarre plan to take over St Mark’s Square in Venice armed with guns and a rudimentary “tank” made from a digger. Police said they had arrested activists from…