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Blood test could detect breast cancer five years before clinical signs

Russian hacking group masquerades as Iranian spy network

China’s Xiaomi plans to launch more than 10 5G phones next year

Rwanda opens ‘first entirely homemade’ smartphone factory in Africa

Mobile data must never expire – Communication Minister directs telcos

Homeland Security’s new biometric database can identify people through scars, tattoos and even their voice – as well as store fingerprint and facial recognition data

Africa’s favorite smartphone maker is now worth $4 billion

Do NOT update your iPhone software! Apple releases iOS 13 operating system that can still expose your contact details without the need for a passcode, FaceID or TouchID – despite being warned weeks ago

Lucara finds another big diamond at its Karowe mine in Botswana

American Express takes a swipe at marine plastic pollution and teams up with Parley for the Oceans to launch new green card.

Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro ‘triggering’ fear of holes

Audrey Esi Swatson, Ghana’s youngest female commercial pilot

PEG Africa raises $5m from ElectriFI to continue expansion in West Africa

A mini submarine, a giant slide and an outdoor cinema: Inside the world’s most incredible superyachts (and some you can rent for up to £900,000 a WEEK)

Can you grow a cell phone case?

Six ways to make your smartphone battery last longer

US names Nigerians in massive fraud investigation

What Mark Zuckerberg did 15 years ago!

Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants, will rely primarily on renewable energy

Why smartphones are no longer driving the search for ‘blue gold’

Is this the flying car of the future? Prototype hovers ten feet above the ground for one minute in unveiling by Japanese electronics giant NEC

Google to let rival search firms bid to be Android’s default in EEA

The vast swathes of plastic waste that have washed ashore on an uninhabited Pacific island 3,400 miles from civilisation

