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While participating at one of the company’s ‘Hack-a-thons,’ a Facebook engineer developed a ‘sympathize’ button for users to express condolences. Not all ideas presented at the Hack-a-thon are integrated into the platform, but Facebook isn’t ruling out implementing the sympathize button. Will this new feature be coming to a status near you?

  Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspend its five months-old strike, Daily Post reports. The Union arrived at the latest decision to suspends its strike after a marathon meeting held at the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Niger State on Monday. A source at the Presidency in Abuja said government had been

A bad night’s sleep is always likely to put you in a foul mood but studies show lack of rest can also leave you plagued with pain. Now experts believe that changing bedtime habits could be the key to healing a long-standing problem. A study has found that people who don’t get enough sleep are

  Living to the ripe old age of 500 might be a possibility if the science shown to extend worms’ lives can be applied to humans, scientists have said. U.S. researchers tweaked two genetic pathways in the tiny lab worm Caenorhabditis elegans and boosted the creature’s lifespan by a factor of five. The research raises

Confidence comes from within you. Confidence is also what you show on the outside despite, or to hide, what you feel inside. You may have the tools and skills to do anything you want in the world but without confidence nothing will be done. Okay, so we all know there are times when we may

  About seventeen African countries including Senegal, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, Angola, Zimbabwe, Cape Verde, Rwanda, Mauritius, South Africa, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Morocco are to benefit from Student Advantage programme just launched by the software giant  Microsoft. With student Advantage, qualifying institutions that subscribe to Office 365 ProPlus or Office Professional Plus

  A teacher accused of singing Let’s Talk About Sex to a 12-year-old girl has been banned from the classroom. Former Army radar technician Alec Munday was also alleged to have used inappropriate sexual language, causing distress to a child, and had inappropriate conversations with pupils while working as a teacher in north Wales. The

  Photo-sharing service Instagram unveiled a new feature Thursday that allows users to send images and messages privately, as the Facebook-owned company sought to bolster its appeal among younger consumers who are increasingly using mobile messaging applications. The new Instagram Direct feature allows users to send a photo or video to a single person or

There has been extensive study done on the development of the teenager’s brain in the last twenty years and some of the findings that have come out of this research is that teenagers should not drink because the damage alcohol does to the adolescent brain could have life-long lasting effects. These changes are most likely

  In 19th and mid-20th century, it was just a dream for anyone to fly in the space. This dream became true on 12th April 1961 when Yuri Gagarin of Soviet Union made his first flight to space. Till now a large number of astronomers have not only been to space, but have already explored moon