Meta, The New Parent Company for Facebook

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 Olusola

Facebook gets a new parent company called Meta. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Whatsapp.

Meta is a technological company that helps people connect, find communities and grow businesses. Meta will move further into the 3D and Virtual reality world. The company will try to make people’s connectivity much more immersive.

According to the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta will venture into immersive (virtual reality) gaming, fitness, commerce, social connection, education and entertainment.

The company will be trading under a new stock name called MVRS on December 1st.

Colin Powell dies at the age of 84

October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 Olusola

General Colin Luther Powell, a former secretary of state of the United States has died.He was aged 84 years. He was one of the highest ranking black American officials in the United States Government.

He was secretary of state under George W. BUSH. from 2001-2005. Before then he served as chairman, joint chief of staff (1989-1993) and United States National Security Advisor. (1987-1989).

Colin Powel was a four star general of the US army , the result of his 35 years in military service.

He is regarded as one of America’s great leaders. The only dent to his career was his open support and justification for Iraq which was later found to be wrong.

Colin Powell had blood cancer and was being treated for it but died from complications of COVID-19

WhatsApp releases new update that fully encrypts its messaging system

October 14, 2021October 15, 2021 Olusola

WhatsApp has released a new update that will fully encrypts its messaging system. Last time out whatsapp encrypted person to person messages. This new latest update will encrypt chats history that have been stored in the cloud be it iCloud or Google drive.

What this means is that anyone who gains unauthorized access into your phone won’t be able to gain access to your whatsapp old chat history stored in the cloud.

Recall that whatsapp had long encrypted messages between users in its app. This last update fully encrypts the system, providing little or no backdoor for security agents.

Facebook Chooses Profit over Safety, says Whisleblower

October 5, 2021October 5, 2021 Olusola

Frances Haugen, former Facebook product manager, the whistleblower says Facebook is prioritizing profit over the safety of its users.

She claims that the company promotes harmful and misleading content to keep views engaged. She told the US Senate that the company has a lot of information at its disposal to analyze content and promote only those that are beneficial to people but it doing very little in this regard.

She is asking the Senate to regulate but not ban Facebook.

‘Shocking evidence’ has she implies, have been submitted to the senate to back up her claims.Recall that yesterday Facebook and all its associated sites were completely down for over 5 hours. People were left stranded. It is reported that the company has lost over 7bn dollars because of that incident alone. Their Stocks also fell by 5 percent.

Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp and Instagram are down

October 4, 2021October 4, 2021 Olusola

Today Monday 4th of October 2021, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger are not accessible. It occured around 4pm Nigerian Monday, 4th October, 2021 and its 9pm now and these apps are still off.

The management have reported in their Twitter handle that they are working to restore normalcy.

Over 3 billion people worldwide use these services and it must be very frustrating now.

Car Manufacturing; How the New Mercedes C class is made

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Olusola

The car manufacturing process is developing year on year. Several years ago it was done manually. Nowadays it is drifting towards a full automatic car manufacturing process. This article will briefly describe how the new Mercedes C class is manufactured.

The skeletal body of the Mercedes is made from weatherproof steel. This steel which comes in flat rolls are cut into various sizes and pressed moulded into the required shapes and body parts by heavy robotic machines.

The body frame parts are then transported to the assembly point where again, robotic machines assemble the car body frame, riveting, screwing or welding the parts to one another.