Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, has developed a solar-powered electric 4×4 pick-up vehicle known as “aCar”. The environmentally-friendly vehicle, meant to carry passengers and goods, was inaugurated by the Chancellor, Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at the 51st congregation of KNUST, Kumasi,…

Buyers of automobile parts will enjoy relief on vehicle spare parts following the abolishment of the import duties on spare parts. The tax policy goes into effect this week after Parliament finally removed import duties on automobile spare parts to help reduce prices of vehicle spare parts in the country. This follows the successful passage…

A man based in Algeria has been sentenced to two years in prison after posting an image of him dangling a baby from a high rise building for Facebook “likes”. The man posted an image online of him holding the baby by the T-shirt out of a window with the caption “1000 likes or I…

  About 15 people were missing after a seven-storey building collapsed in a residential area of Nairobi, rescue services said on Tuesday, and the city’s governor appealed to its owner to come forward and provide architectural plans to help rescuers. Governor Evans Kidero, speaking at the scene of the collapse, said at least 30,000 to…

Africa’s economic growth is exploding like never before. But due to a demographic change on the continent the power supply system is not capable of expanding at an adequate rate. Today more than 600 million people don’t have any access to power on the African continent. These electricity struggles definitively constrain further economic development. The…

All three TV channels owned and operated by The Multimedia Group on the MultiTV Digibox are being interfered with. Joy News, Adom TV and Joy Prime first suffered interferences between the hours of 6 and 7pm Tuesday. This followed the airing of the promo of Manasseh Azure Awuni’s investigation involving the president. The three channels…

We have seen great leaps in digital technology in past the past five years. Smartphones, cloud computing, multi-touch tablets, these are all innovations that revolutionized the way we live and work. However, believe it or not, we are just getting started. Technology will get even better. In the future, we could live like how people…

Most people agree that our technology is getting smarter, but most don’t realize just how smart. Sure, they know their smart phones have GPS capability and their smart appliances are capable of improving efficiency, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. In reality, smart technology is around us every day. From surveillance cameras to…

One of Google’s self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month. There were no injuries. It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one. Google is to meet with California’s Department of Motor…

A Facebook executive has been arrested in Brazil after the firm failed to co-operate with court orders in a drug-trafficking case, police have said. According to reports, Facebook’s vice-president for Latin America, Diego Dzodan, was held for questioning in Sao Paulo on Tuesday. Court officials in the Brazilian state of Sergipe requested his arrest. Facebook…