Subaru will launch its first-ever plug-in hybrid later this year, with a little assistance from Toyota.

The 2019 Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid will use Toyota tech to push Subaru into new realms of fuel efficiency, while minimizing the investment the smaller Japanese automaker needs to make in a new powertrain.

The new vehicle is named Crosstrek Hybrid despite actually being a plug-in hybrid. Chrysler did the same thing with its Pacifica Hybrid minivan, and it’s possible that the naming scheme will cause confusion in both cases.

Scientists have discovered a way to embed hidden information in ordinary text by imperceptibly changing, or perturbing, the shapes of fonts in text.

The method called FontCode, creates font perturbations, using them to encode a message that can later be decoded to recover the message.

It works with most fonts and, unlike other text and document methods that hide embedded information, works with most document types, even maintaining the hidden information when the document is printed on paper or converted to another file type.

Two engineering students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Taofeek Afeez and Alayande Abiola, have emerged winners of the 2018 Imagine Cup National Finals.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Imagine Cup which started in 2003 is an annual competition sponsored by Microsoft Corporation in which it brings together student-developers to help resolve some world’s toughest challenges.

It is considered the “Olympics of technology” by computer science and engineering students, and is one of the top competitions related to technology and software design.

Nigeria is set to host Indo-Africa ICT Expo 2018 on the 22 and 23 May 2018 in Lagos State. The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Nagabhushna Reddy disclosed this in a joint press briefing with the Nigerian Minister of Communications, Dr. Adebayo Shittu, in Abuja.

Uber appointed a new boss Jamie Heywood, for its UK business on Monday, as the taxi-hailing app fights to keep its drivers on the streets of London, its most important European market.

Uber said Heywood would join as Uber’s new regional general manager for northern and eastern Europe from Amazon next month, a remit which covers 110,000 drivers in 12 countries including Britain.

“Jamie’s leadership will... be crucial as we implement major changes across Europe including more safety features, improvements for drivers and a new approach to partnering with cities,” Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, regional general manager of Uber in Europe, the Middle East & Africa, said in a statement.

Shares in Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) dipped slightly on Friday but trading activity surged after a 50:1 stock split aimed at making it easier for retail investors to buy into the South Korean technology giant.

The shares were trading at 52,200 won ($48.50), down 1.5 percent from the basis price of 53,000 won per share, which Korea Exchange said was calculated by dividing the shares' last pre-split closing price by 50. The benchmark KOSPI .KS11 was down 0.6 percent.

Analysts said trading volumes jumped as more investors traded, and attributed the slightly weaker share price to broad concerns about slowing memory chip market conditions since Samsung Electronics share trading was halted after April 27.