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  Elon Musk said China clearly disapproved of his decision to send SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service to Ukraine. The billionaire told Financial Times in a recent interview that Beijing asked for him to promise he wouldn't sell Starlink in China. In February — two days after Russia invaded Ukraine — Musk sent Ukraine a shipment of Starlink satellite internet dishes. It was the first of many shipments to the country that has helped Ukraine stay connected amid Russia's attacks and a hack on the satellite provider for its military. Early on, Ukraine officials and military leaders praised the move, with a US general saying Starlink "totally destroyed Putin's information campaign" and attempts to silence Ukraine President Zelenskyy. But recently, FT reported that Ukrainian forces have faced some outages of their Starlink devices on the frontlines in recent weeks. Roman Sinicyn, a co-ordinator at a foundation that donates Starlink systems to the Ukrainian ...

Google has spent well above $200m in Nigeria and across Africa in the last one year. The Director of Google Cloud Africa, Niral Patel, disclosed this to journalists during a round table online conversation after Google for Africa event on Wednesday. During the 2021’s Google for Africa, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai, disclosed a $1bn investment commitment to the continent across five years. While speaking to journalists, Patel, who stated he couldn’t disclose the exact amount the company had invested, said Google had invested well over 20 per cent of its commitment on the continent. At this year’s event, the firm revealed that its subsea cable, Equiano, would launch before the end of 2022. CHECK OUT OUR CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE

With the quantity of unbanked Nigerian grown-ups put at 60 million starting around 2021, most of the around 40 million that have ledgers are still underbanked as they have no admittance to credit and other monetary administrations. This is the reason the fintech and credit applications are overall heartily embraced by a huge number of Nigerians. With the arrangement of fast advances without security, credit applications are spanning the monetary consideration hole left by the customary banks in Nigeria. Despite the fact that there have been protests that the loan costs being charged by a portion of these are excessively high, it has not prevented numerous Nigerians from belittling them. As a matter of fact, going by the quantity of downloads of these applications, a portion of the computerized loaning stages currently have a greater number of clients on their applications than the enormous conventional banks in the country. While there are presently lots of advance applications giving ...

  Scammers have stolen $100 million in cryptocurrency from Binance, the world’s biggest exchange for cryptoassets, the firm said on Friday. Company chief Changpeng Zhao wrote on Twitter that “an exploit” in the system led to extra production of the exchange’s dedicated currency, adding: “The current impact estimate is around $100m.” “The issue is contained now. Your funds are safe. We apologise for the inconvenience and will provide further updates accordingly,” he wrote. It is among the biggest thefts in cryptocurrency history, although it is still dwarfed by the mammoth heist of more than $500 million from the Axie Infinity blockchain game earlier this year. Scammers are increasingly using weaknesses in “cross-chain bridges” — the means used by investors to move assets from one blockchain to another. Blockchains are digital ledgers that store details of transactions — the biggest is bitcoin but there are thousands of others. Changpeng Zhao wrote that the theft involved “an exploi...

Want to export your LinkedIn contacts to Gmail to stay in touch with your connections via emails? Here's how to do it. LinkedIn is the single largest purpose-built platform for building a professional network on the internet. However, strong professional relationships transcend a single platform. To give your career a boost, it's important to open multichannel communication lines with your LinkedIn contacts. A good way to do that is by exporting your LinkedIn contacts to Gmail. Why You Should Export Your LinkedIn Contacts to Gmail Why make efforts to open a new communication line on Gmail? Well, for starters, not all LinkedIn users actively use the platform. Although you can use LinkedIn to pitch your services to people, it may take a while to get going on business conversations or even get a response to your messages from potential business partners. Exporting your LinkedIn contacts to Gmail lets you fast-track conversations and increases the chance of your message...