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Focals by north Google confirmed yesterday via blog post that it has acquired Canadian smart glasses company North, which began life in 2012. The company didn’t reveal any details about the acquisition, which was first reported to be happening by The Globe and Mail , last week. Google’s SVP of Devices & Services Rick Osterloh, in the post cites North’s “strong technology foundation” as a key driver behind the deal. He also emphasizes Google’s existing work in building “ambient computing,” which is to say computing that fades into the background of a user’s life, as the strategic reasoning behind the acquisition. North will join Google’s existing team in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, where North is already based, and it will aid with the company’s “hardware efforts and ambient computing future,” according to Osterloh. North’s co- founders Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey and Aaron Grant said it would now be "winding down" support for its first-generatio...

Photo taken at Jinja city hall celebrations From a single city, created at independence in 1962, Ugandans in seven more towns wake up today Wednesday 01.07.2020 as city dwellers, as the government plan to create secondary cities took effect. The government elevated to cities the municipalities of Arua in the West Nile region, Gulu in the Central North, Mbale and Jinja in the East, Mbarara in the Midwest, Fort Portal in the West and Masaka in Central region. “The Uganda Vision 2040, the overarching 30-year national vision, identified creation of regional and strategic cities as one of the key drivers for the development agenda of the country’s long term aspirations and projections for the future,” said Raphael Magyezi, the Minister for Local Government. He spoke on Tuesday in Kampala as he announced guidelines for the operationalization of the cities. There will, however, be no major fanfare due to restrictions imposed for the containment of the coronavirus pandemic. Police...

From top clockwise Tik tok, Shareit, UC Browser, Weibo, ClubFactory and Likee The government of India banned Chinese mobile applications, including top social media platforms such as TikTok, Helo and WeChat, to counter the threat posed by these applications to the country’s “sovereignty and security,” it said in a press release late on Monday. They have been blocked amid rising tensions between India and China following clashes at the border two weeks ago.  The government said the applications are engaged in activities “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, security of state and public order.” The ban has been imposed under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act read with relevant provisions of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules 2009, it said. The government also cited complaints about data on Indian users being transferred abroad without authorization....