French-owned Group Vivendi Africa (GVA), the parent company of CanalBox, is preparing to launch high-speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) internet services in Ghana, beginning with Accra and Kumasi.
The move marks the company’s entry into i…
Born from a desire to make boats go faster, today the hydrofoil is being revived as a cleaner form of water transport by helping boats rise above the waves.
It would have made an unusual sight in 1860s France – a rowing boat ris…
The year was 1965.
On a Sunday in Jaunti, a small village on Delhi's outskirts, a hardened Indian farmer stretched out his hand to a visiting farm scientist.
"Dr sahib, we will take up your seed," he said.
The scientist was MS S…
Adobe said on Tuesday that it is launching the latest iteration of its image generation model, Firefly Image 5. The company is also adding more features to the Firefly website, support for more third-party models, and the ability to genera…
Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan believes that AI assistants will finally allow us to shorten our workweek. Speaking onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Monday, Yuan discussed his videoconferencing product’s embrace of AI, w…
Hidden away in a lab in north-west London three black metal robotic hands move eerily on an engineering work bench. No claws, or pincers, but four fingers and a thumb opening and closing slowly, with joints in all the right places.
"W…
AI Cloud Protect safeguards AI models, workloads, and agentic AI applications from the latest cyber threats
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cybersecurity solutions, today announced …
Tech firms battling for supremacy in artificial intelligence are out to transform how people search the web, challenging the dominance of the Chrome browser at the heart of Google’s empire.
Chatbots that started out as AI-powered assist…
A few minutes into using ChatGPT Atlas, the new internet browser from OpenAI, I ran into quite a big road block.
This isn't like Google Chrome, which is used by roughly 60% of people. It's all built around a chatbot you're meant to ta…
An app designed to help people remember and summarise information from medical appointments using artificial intelligence (AI) has launched.
Created by Oxford-based company Aide Health, the Mirror app records appointments and gives a …
OpenAI launched an AI-powered web browser called ChatGPT Atlas this week, which makes me wonder: Is it finally time to ditch Safari?
That news was on our minds as Max Zeff, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed the browser landscape — including …
You can barely scroll through social media at the moment without seeing deepfake videos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
Platforms, such as Open AI's Sora, have gone viral due to their ability to make hyper-realistic v…
When you cross into Loudoun County, Virginia, one of the first things you notice is the hum - that's the sound of 199 data centres whirring in the background.
Few people have heard of this inconspicuous part of northern Virginia, whic…
Samsung Electronics unveiled Galaxy XR, introducing a new category of AI-native devices designed to deliver immersive experiences in a form factor optimized for multimodal AI.
As the first product built on the new Android XR platform de…
If culture is the people of a nation expressing themselves, then cybersecurity is the army that protects its ability to do that. In the modern, digital economy, the one cannot exist without the other.
Creativity is culture at the indivi…
Meta is bringing its AI-powered photo and video editing tools directly to Instagram Stories, allowing users to enter text prompts to add or remove things in photos and videos or even change it completely.
While Meta has already offer…
Microsoft released a new batch of features for its AI assistant Thursday, including an ambitious project that builds artificial intelligence directly into one of its most central products. More than a simple extension, the Copilot Mode in …
Apple may have to allow rivals to operate their own app stores on iPhones in the UK, after a ruling from the competition regulator.
This would be a significant change to Apple's infamous "closed system" where apps can only be download…
In the northern Danish city of Aalborg, the firm MyDefence makes equipment that jams and repels drones.
"We've had a big surge of interest," says chief executive, Dan Hermansen.
He says that up until early October his company was m…
Only four bottles of Asahi Super Dry beer are left on the shelves of Ben Thai, a cosy restaurant in the Tokyo suburb of Sengawacho.
Its owner, Sakaolath Sugizaki, expects to get a few more soon, but she says her supplier is keeping th…
YouTube has paid more than $8 billion to the music industry in the 12 months between July 2024 and July 2025, the company announced on Thursday.
“Today’s $8 billion payout is a testament to the fact that the twin engine of ads and subsc…
Ford Motor has put its gas and hybrid F-150 and F-Series Super Duty trucks at the top of the production priority line as it attempts to recover from losses connected to a fire at a critical aluminum supplier’s factory.
The automaker’s a…
Gabriela Cibils is on a mission – to help turn Paraguay into the Silicon Valley of South America.
When she was growing up in the landlocked country, nestled between Brazil and Argentina, she says the nation "wasn't super tech focused"…
India has long been a centre for outsourced IT support, with cities like Bangalore or Chennai being traditional hubs for such work.
But in recent years firms have been moving that work into much more remote areas, where costs for staf…
OpenAI announced on Thursday it has acquired Software Applications, Inc., the makers of an AI-powered natural language interface for Mac computers called Sky.
The software product, which had not been released to the public, is designed …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has apologised to customers impacted by Monday's massive outage, after it knocked some of the world's largest platforms offline.
Snapchat, Reddit and Lloyds Bank were among more than 1,000 sites and services …
An overlooked technology for nearly 50 years, the first liquid air energy storage facility is finally set to power up in 2026. It's hoping to compete with grid-scale lithium batteries and hydro to store clean power, and reduce the need…
Celebrities, professional sports stars and wealthy gamblers sat at a table hoping to win big in a game of Texas Hold 'Em.
But they didn't know it was nearly impossible. They were "fishes" allegedly being targeted by the mafia in an el…
OpenAI unveiled its AI browser, ChatGPT Atlas, during a livestream on Tuesday. There are other AI browsers such as The Browser Company’s Dia, Opera’s Neon, Perplexity’s Comet, and General Catalyst-backed Strawberry. OpenAI’s launch is nota…
Snapchat is making its new “Imagine Lens,” the company’s first open prompt image-generation AI Lens, available to all users for free. The Lens was initially launched in September but only for paid subscribers. With the Lens, users can edit…
Controversial dating safety apps, Tea and TeaOnHer, have been pulled from the Apple App Store. The apps’ removal was first spotted by the app store intelligence provider Appfigures, which told TechCrunch the two apps were removed from the …
The Security Challenge: Trust and Boundaries Breaking Down
Cybersecurity fundamentally relies on trust and boundaries. Traditional computing maintains clear boundaries: apps run in isolation, websites can't access each other's data, use…
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it’s developing AI-powered smart glasses for its delivery drivers. The idea behind the glasses is to give delivery drivers a hands-free experience that reduces the need to keep looking between their phone…
South Africa’s business leaders, technology experts, and SAP partners gathered in Johannesburg today to explore how cloud, data, and AI innovations are reshaping the enterprise landscape and unlocking new growth opportunities for business…
In a major boost to digital education in the Atwima Mponua District in the Ashanti Region, Cargill Ghana has inaugurated a fully refurbished and equipped Information and Communication Technology (ICT) laboratory for a cluster of basic sc…
Beginning the next academic year [2025/2026], all students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) will undertake a one-credit course in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mrs Rita A…
YouTube has added a new Shorts feature that makes it easier to manage how much time you’re spending watching videos. Mobile users can now set a customizable daily limit that restricts how long they can scroll Shorts feeds, aiming to help…
OpenAI’s next move in its battle against Google is an AI-powered web browser dubbed ChatGPT Atlas. The company announced it in a livestreamed demo after teasing it earlier on Tuesday with a mysterious video of browser tabs on a white scr…
Amazon is reportedly leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers. Citing interviews and internal strategy documents, The New York Times reports that Amazon is hoping its …
Africa is defined by momentum and opportunity, which means technology has to work with change, not against it.
There remains an uncomfortable truth about technology investment – rigidity costs more than it saves. All-in-one systems, lon…
Twenty startups have been named semi-finalists in the MEST Africa Challenge (MAC) 2025, announced today by MEST Africa (www.Meltwater.org) in partnership with Absa, highlighting the continent’s most promising ventures in FinTech an…
Africa Tech Festival (https://AfricaTechFestival.com/), the continent’s most influential technology event, has announced new additions to its 2025 speaker line-up. This expanded line-up reinforces the Festival’s reputation as the p…
As part of our Amazon Prime Big Deal Days coverage earlier this month, I was tasked with spotting notable discounts happening at Walmart. My favorite was the $600 off deal on Lenovo’s Legion 5 gaming laptop, which has a 15.1-inch 2,560 x…
Creative design giant Adobe is beefing up the products it offers businesses to include custom generative AI models.
Adobe launched Adobe AI Foundry on Monday, a new offering that allows enterprises to work with the company to build cust…
Oura announced on Monday that it’s launching a new redesigned app experience and a “Cumulative Stress” feature. The company also shared that it’s pursuing FDA clearance for blood pressure features that give users a likelihood assessment of…
New data indicates that use of Meta AI’s mobile app for iOS and Android has seen a significant increase. According to a new analysis from market intelligence provider Similarweb, the app’s daily active users across both platforms jumped to…
X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles that will allow Premium subscribers to request and purchase usernames. The marketplace will offer both free and paid options for requesting or acquiring eligible handles. Rare handles cou…
Recent Kaspersky (www.Kaspersky.co.za) research entitled “Cybersecurity in the workplace: Employee knowledge and behaviour” has found that 81,7% of professionals surveyed in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa (META) region say tha…
On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, ty…
Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform. The move will likely affect WhatsApp-based assistants of companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Khosla Ventures-backed Lu…
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