BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk’s acquisition of a 9.2% share in Twitter is just the latest development in fairytale story of the South African’s journey from being the impoverished son of a poor emerald miner, to being the richest men in the world. “Elon’s father Errol once said that the family had so much money, they couldn’t… Read more »
HAUNTED by the spectre of an advert for website building and hosting company Squarespace stalking his every internet move, from site to site, video to video, one local has committed to buying a domain and building a website he has no use for if it’ll mean he never has to see the ad again. “I… Read more »
FOUND guilty of defrauding investors, former Silicon Valley high flier and Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes faces actual regular people time in prison but lawyers representing the 37-year-old have asked for a special dispensation. “Elizabeth has been found guilty of fraudulently claiming her invention, which did not work at all, was going to change the world… Read more »
IRELAND has become the premier location for the world’s leading tech companies to plonk a data centre in, but is this a good thing for the country? WWN weighs up the pros and cons: Pro: There will be some work for builders who would otherwise face unemployment in Ireland as there is no other demand… Read more »
IT’S a novel idea, and who knows if it will ever take off, but billionaire tech bro Elon Musk is going for it anyway; he’s about to pay tax. Known as something of a trailblazer, Musk will make the unprecedented step of actually paying tax he owes on his vast wealth after he set up… Read more »
IT’S hard when a friend’s addiction gets so bad that you have to intervene, whether it’s drug abuse, alcohol issues, gambling, or being a ‘very online person’. But rest assured, even if your internet-obsessed pals don’t thank you for your intervention straight away, they will in the long run. Here’s a quick guide to help… Read more »
RUMOURS in tech circles suggest Facebook is planning a name change imminently. Sources well placed within the trusted circle of the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg have leaked a number of the names being reconsidered in a rebrand that if successful, will make the public forget about the 1,345 weekly scandals englufing the social network. While… Read more »
TIRELESSLY working around the clock in one of the most demanding jobs in the world, independent fact checkers used by Facebook have been forced to remove a post from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg who countered claims by whistleblower Frances Haugen. “We don’t put money before safety,” Zuckerberg said in a status which has seen his… Read more »
HAVING being kept away from her main source of confidence draining, soul eroding habit of needlessly comparing herself to friends and complete strangers, relieved local woman Aoife Grainger successfully loaded up her Instagram app after a brief worldwide outage lasting several hours. “I couldn’t cope, I had this nice calm sense that maybe I was… Read more »
THERE has been significant and widespread panic throughout the world as Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram were successfully brought back online, meaning the brief respite from non-stop division, propelled by a hate-loving algorithms, is over. The outage which saw Facebook offline for 7 hours was initially put down to Mark Zuckerberg finally finding the only successful… Read more »