The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said on Thursday in Calabar that Nigeria was gradually moving toward technological independence.

Google has launched its new Smartphone’s, Pixel 2 and the Pixel 2 XL phones at an event in San Francisco, United States of America. The new phones, that compete with the recently announced iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus, are successor to the last year's Pixel phones. Google revealed that new phone comes with updated hardware and a camera that has been rated by DxO as the best phone camera ever with 98 points, beating the Apple iPhone 8 Plus that has 94 points.

The European Union has launched a fresh crackdown against tech giants Amazon and Apple over tax avoidance.

Google has launched its first pair of wireless headphones featuring real-time language translation from Google Translate.

Yahoo now says all 3 billion of the accounts it had in 2013 were affected by a massive hack which was previously estimated to be about 1 billion accounts. Yahoo's hack is worse than previously thought, after the tech firm expanded the scope of its massive data breach this week.

Google Monday announced new steps to help struggling news organizations, including an end to a longstanding “first click free” policy to generate fresh revenues for publishers hurt by the shift from print to digital.