Author: Francis Muli

YouTube is adding an indicator that will show when a creator goes live on the platform. According to Chief Product Officer Neil Mohan, the channel creator’s profile picture will show a ring with the word ‘Live’ around it. This will indicate that the creator is livestreaming, and you can join the session by tapping on it. The new feature will help users find live content on the platform. “Really focused making it easier for users to find livestreams on @YouTube so we’re rolling out the Live rings feature on mobile! @YouTubeCreators streaming live will now have a ring around the…

Twenty Kenyan start-ups have been chosen to participate in a British Council program supported by the Foreign Commonwealth Office to help the country’s fashion industry flourish. The startups are: 1V1 Garments, BOGUK, Tiger Tail Twister, Iliki Resort Wear, Mariam Couture, Luxaltra, Nairobi ApparelDistrict, Vazi Maridadi, Muni Designs, Peni Mbili, TUG, Wangari Mathenge , At Odds , Olisa Kenya , SIANNA , DIRO , Nikech Amor , Kolakisa , Oqkra and Bour and Metamorphisized. The companies are part of the second cohort of Creative DNA, a program that was launched in 2020 to help local fashion designers build skills, expertise, and global networks. The initiative is designed to demonstrate that fashion is a viable career…

Former US President Donald Trump’s social media network, Truth Social is rolling out to Apple users starting Monday. According to the network’s chief product officer listed as Billy B, The app which had been rolled out to Beta testers will be rolled out starting Monday. “We’re currently set for release in the Apple App store for Monday Feb. 21,” he responded to a series of questions from the early users. Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the venture behind Truth Social, will join a growing portfolio of technology companies positioning themselves as champions of free speech in the hopes of…

Audio-streaming apps have become popular among music and podcast lovers worldwide. Unlike the former days when users purely relied on radio to determine the kind of music to listen to, the apps have made it possible for users to find their favourite artists and play the kind of music they enjoy listening to. Below is a list of various audio streaming apps where you can access audio content in Kenya Mdundo Launched in 2013, Mdundo has worked with over 100,000 artists across Africa and some of the biggest record labels in the world. It also champions the legal consumption of music. Since it was rolled out to Kenya, Mdundo has become one of the leading music streaming…

In the last 24 hours, 29 people have tested positive from Covid-19, from a sample size of 5,547 tested in the last 24 hours. The positivity rate is now at 0.5%. The number of confirmed positive cases is now 322,669 and cumulative tests so far conducted are 3,327,872 4 patients have recovered from the disease, all of them from the various health facilities countrywide. This brings the total number of recoveries to 303,010. Raed: Covid-19 Update: Over 7 Million Kenyans Fully Vaccinated Out of these, 250,158 are from the Home-Based Care and Isolation program, while 52,852 are from various health facilities…

Shimon hayut, popular known as Simon Leviev or the Tinder Swindler has finally broken his silence just a few weeks after the Netflix documentary exposing him as a con went viral. Speaking for the first time in a yet to be released interview with the Inside Edition Leviev denied that he was a con, and accused Netflix of making up a movie about him, insisting that he was “a perfect gentleman”. In the documentary aired on the video-streaming app, the Israeli national uses popular dating site Tinder to meet women who he later swindles of hundreds of thousands of dollars.…

A woman in Diani is among a number of hoteliers counting their losses after their property was demolished on Friday. In a video that has since gone viral, the Caucasian lady is seen complaining about the demolition, terming it illegal. “I can’t tell you what is happening. They have fake orders which are not related to us. They don’t have any order relating to us or property 48,” a woman who identified herself as the owner of the hotel told journalists. A Diani based hotelier is complaining of losses caused by a forced demolition and eviction allegedly by SK Macharia…

A Kajiado court has fined a man Sh3 million with the alternative of a five year jail term for dealing in game meat without a permit. William Muya Mwangew was apprehended after KWS officers found him dealing game meat in Saina estate in Kajiado on 2nd June, 2021. Kajiado Senior Resident Magistrate Becky Cheloti found the 28 year oldan guilty of possession of 10kg game meat worth about Sh20,000. The meat is believed to be that of a grant gazelle. Mwange, who is a first time offender, was given 14 days to appeal the ruling. Read: Jubilee Financier Mary Wambui Surrenders…

A research team consisting of University of Nairobi scholar Bitange Ndemo, Professors Sharifah Sekalala from Warwick Law School and Pamela Andanda from the University of Witwatersrand has been awarded a €1.4 million (Sh180 million) grant to aid in the study of regulations surrounding the collection and migration of health data from Africa. The research is dubbed “There is no app for this! Regulating the migration of health apps in Sub-Saharan Africa.” The grant was awarded under the Mobility – Global Medicine and Health Research Programme. Read: Healthcare Providers Mount Pressure On NHIF To Halt Proposed Changes In New Contracts The trio…

Police are hunting for a gang of armed assailants who robbed a businessman on Friday. The robbers are said to have stolen Sh1.9 million from the man in Nairobi’s Upper hill area. According to reports, the assailants intercepted the victim’s car along Upper hill road, next to the UAP old Mutual building. They then broke in and stole the cash before fleeing. The businessman was left unharmed during the midmorning incident that was captured on CCTV. Read: DCI Cautions Public over New Trend of Crime in the Car Hire Business The man who requested anonymity, recounted the ordeal, saying he was…

Twitter has rolled out a new feature allowing users to pin messages in the inbox. The feature allows users to keep and access their favourite conversations easily in their DMs (Direct Messages) as they are placed on top of all other messages. To pin a message, Twitter says the users should press and hold on the conversation. On the iOS app, you can swipe a message to the side to reveal a pin, which you can tap to transfer the conversation to a new “Pinned chats” section at the top of your DM inbox. Users can pin up to six…

Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 11 series flagship phones on Thursday in Kenya. There are three devices in this series; The Redmi Note 11 Pro 4G, the Redmi note 11S and the Redmi Note 11. The Redmi Note 11 and Note 11S come with an 6.43″ AMOLED dot display while the Redmi Note 11S features a bigger 6.67″ AMOLED Dot display. The Redmi Note 11 and Redmi Note 11S come in variants with memories of of 6GB RAM+64GB ROM, 6GB+128GB and 8GB+128GB while Redmi Note 11 comes in variants of 4GB+64GB, 4GB+128GB and 6GB+128GB. The Redmi Note 11 is equipped…

Video streaming has become a common practice on all platforms. Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter have all made the feature prominent as more people live stream and upload video content. YouTube already allows users to download and save videos to watch later. A user might want to share interesting videos they find on Facebook to their contacts or on other platforms, but It is still not possible to download a video directly from Facebook. The only available option on the app is to share it directly on your timeline. However, it is possible to download Facebook videos to your Android…

Social media app Twitter, is one of the most popular platforms in the country. It is preferred by corporate organizations who use it to address the public and market their products, politicians who issue statements and settle scores amongst each other on the platform and individuals who use it for networking and chitchat. Twitter has birthed careers for some individuals including the now world famous Elsa Majimbo who started sharing her comedy on the platform catching the eye of international stars. The platform is also used to push different agendas, including getting companies to tow the line. Kenyans on Twitter…

Google is following in Apple’s tracks in securing users’ data privacy by restricting advertisers from tracking users activity on Android phones. The company had revealed plans to restrict data tracking on the chrome browser, and is now extending the same to apps on Android through a Privacy Sandbox Project. Rival Apple already requires app developers to obtain permission from users before their devices are tracked. Apps including diet and fitness to mobile games must all ask for permission. According to Flurry Analytics, about three-quarters of iOS users opt out of being tracked. This has sent shockwaves through the multibillion-dollar targeted…