Technology

Waving your hand to pay after shopping at a store, or simply placing your mobile phone on the checkout counter could seem strange - at least to a number of people in Nigeria. But it is possible and in fact, already standard practice in…

A British computer scientist known as the “Godfather of AI” has quit Google and expressed regret over parts of his life’s work as he fears that the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to killer robots that are smarter than…

Several stories surfaced this week stating that Zagadat Capital, the investment company run by Nigerian businessman and musician Ajibade Oluwatosin, better known by his stage as Mr Eazi, had obtained a windfall as a result of the sale…

The absence of cross-device texting has always been a hindrance for WhatsApp. The option to send and receive synchronised messages across various devices is now being rolled out by the messaging app. There has been much speculation…

Prosperity for the continent was a key component of the crypto promise for Africa. That assurance was kept. The peer-to-peer lending marketplace Paxful asserted that its research revealed that by 2021, Africa was leading "global…

Celebrities and owners of high-profile Twitter accounts have insisted they will not pay for the blue verified check marks that have reappeared on their profiles. Many public figures have distanced themselves from verification on…

The fact that the platform is now alerting all advertisers that they must sign up to either Twitter Blue or Verification for Organisations in order to continue running advertisements in the app suggests that Elon Musk will aim to…

One of the few remaining relics from the time before Elon Musk became the owner of Twitter, the legacy blue checkmarks, appear to have been officially retired. The free blue checks Twitter provided to journalists, celebrities, and…

A new round of layoffs has begun at Meta (previously Facebook), and employees with technical expertise are receiving severance messages from all across the world. Several Meta employees posted their ordeal on LinkedIn, claiming they…

In July 2021, Facebook agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of users who claimed that the social media giant had violated their privacy rights. The lawsuit alleged that Facebook's use of…

A Memorandum of Understanding between Covenant University and OBTranslate paves the way for the two institutions to work together on a variety of research and development projects. The two parties' Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)…

Twitter chief executive Elon Musk plans to develop a new generative artificial intelligence platform to challenge Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. The platform, which the billionaire calls TruthGPT, would become a…

SpaceX will launch its Starship rocket system for the first time today, but Elon Musk is tempering expectations. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued Elon Musk's company with a licence to put its most powerful rocket…

The rush to implement the best AI capabilities in web search has intensified. Google is struggling as a result of the recent introduction of Bing, which is powered by ChatGPT. Even Samsung is now thinking about switching its Galaxy…

Elon Musk appears to be advancing his feud with newsletter service Substack by announcing he's turning Twitter into his very own version of the upstart, complete with the ability for users to monetize their followers and offer them…