Google is opening up access to Bard, its conversational AI tool, to teens in most countries around the world. Teens who meet the minimum age requirement to manage their own Google Account will be able to access the chatbot in English, with…
With today's best phones like the iPhone 15 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra costing over $1,000, it's no surprise many of us are looking towards more affordable options. One of the most cost-effective ways to get a phone in yo…
Wattpad announced today “Premium Picks,” a new offering that gives Premium and Premium+ subscribers monthly access to five free Wattpad Originals — the recently launched freemium model where select authors can choose to monetize chapters.
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Pricepally, a Nigerian online grocery store for fresh produce and packaged food, has raised $1.3 million seed funding, backed by Samurai Incubate (a Japanese VC that also participated in the startup’s 2021 pre-seed round), SOSV, ELEA, Hi2 …
Japanese lunar technology company ispace will make its second attempt at putting a lander on the moon in the fourth quarter of 2024, just about two years after it launched its first failed mission, executives said Thursday.
ispace lau…
Deciding whether it's time to upgrade your phone can be challenging. That's especially true if you're eyeballing a phone as expensive as the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, which starts at $1,200 without a discount.
The answer largely depends…
What price privacy? End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app Signal has put out an interesting overview of the costs required to develop and maintain its pro-privacy systems which shield user data from tracking by default.
The blog pos…
Bluesky, the company building a decentralized alternative to Twitter/X, announced today it has hit 2 million users — up by another million since September, despite remaining an invite-only app. It also revealed its time frame regarding oth…
Today's top phones, such as the iPhone 15 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, have incredible cameras that can snag the sort of stunning photographs you'd normally expect to see coming from pro-level DSLRs. Even older or more affordable phon…
Apple plans to add support for the RCS standard on iOS next year, the iPhone-maker said Thursday in a major reversal that would resolve the widespread issue of compatibility in text messaging between iPhones and Android smartphones, but st…
Apple's iOS 17 software has been available to most iPhones since Sept. 18, but some people never got the update. That's because some older iPhone models were left out of the newest software upgrade, including those from 2017 or before. If …
Everything’s coming up Copilot — including Bing.
Today at Microsoft Ignite 2023, the company renamed Bing Chat, the AI-powered chatbot it launched on Bing earlier this year, to Copilot in Bing. Meanwhile, the premium, corporate-focused …
The Australian government recently set new packaging regulations after an official review found just 18% of plastic packaging is recycled, falling far short of a 70% target by 2025. Refilled, a Sydney-based startup, wants to help with its …
Ida is a relatively new French startup that wants to work with supermarkets and grocery stores to optimize new orders of fresh products, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish. The startup recently raised a $2.9 million (€2.7 m…
Copilot, Microsoft’s brand of generative AI technologies, promises to be a big moneymaker for the company, with one analyst predicting that it could generate $10 billion in annualized revenue by 2026. Despite a staggered and somewhat confu…
Approximately 80 % of homes in South Africa remain unserved by fast and affordable broadband internet. Fiber access is expensive and limited to affluent suburbs, perpetuating the digital divide. Moreover, micropayments are prohibitively ex…
As part of the Africa Cyber Defense Forum (ACDF), Kaspersky (www.Kaspersky.co.za) has today announced the opening of its first Transparency Center in the African region. The new center, located in Kigali, Rwanda, is opening as part of Kasp…
We live in a connected world, and these days, losing your cellphone signal doesn't just mean you can't check Instagram -- it could be a matter of life and death. Regardless of which type of phone you have or which cellular service pr…
Black Friday arrives the day after Thanksgiving. This year that means it falls on Nov. 24. It'll be a day filled with deals on items like headphones and air fryers, but with all the potential money flowing from customers to stores,…
Dell took a big swing last year when it introduced the radically designed XPS 13 Plus with its curious touchpad, keyboard and Function row. Dell is now out with the second version that keeps the unusual chassis unchanged, adding only an up…
Apple has had a very busy fall. The company has introduced a slew of new features and products, covering everything from a flurry of Apple hardware and software upgrades to brand-new Apple Watches, iPhones and Apple Pencils. Most recently,…
Apple released iOS 17.1.1 on Tuesday, about two weeks after the tech giant released iOS 17.1. The latest update doesn't include any new features, but it does fix a few issues and bugs that some iPhone users have experienced.
To download…
The $1,000 Motorola Razr Plus felt like a turning point for foldable phones when it launched in June 2023. Modern flip phones, such as the Razr and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, have always offered some level of convenience compared to standard p…
Samsung announced on Wednesday that it had its own answer to ChatGPT with Gauss, its generative AI model. Shortly after, the company followed up by teasing Galaxy AI, which it touts as bringing an AI experience to mobile devices.
Samsun…
Apple's iOS 17 was released on Sept. 18, shortly after the company held its "Wonderlust" event, where the tech giant announced the new iPhone 15 lineup, the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2. We put together this cheat sheet…
End-to-end encrypted messaging app, Signal, is getting closer to launching a much anticipated feature that will allow users to share only a username in order to connect with other users, rather than having to reveal the phone number linked…
Picsart, a photo-editing startup backed by SoftBank, is launching a new suite of AI-powered tools for businesses and individuals. The suite, called Picsart Ignite, includes 20 tools that are designed to make it easier for create ads, socia…
Apple released iOS 17.1.1 on Tuesday, about two weeks after the tech giant released iOS 17.1. This update doesn't include any new features, but it does fix a few issues and bugs some iPhone users have experienced.
To download the update…
The internet can be a really confusing place. As simple as it is to surf the web, it's the technology behind how it works that can sometimes be perplexing. And this technology changes quickly – often without warning. If you're not ca…
Earlier this year, GitLab unveiled Duo, a set of AI features that aim to help developers be more productive by summarizing issues and generating descriptions of epics and issues, as well as through code suggestions and vulnerability explan…
It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed.
Image corpora tends to be U.S.- and Western-centric, partly because Western images dominated the internet when the data sets were compiled. And as most …
Keeping up with your favorite shows and movies across streaming services can be challenging. There are just so many out there. You probably have subscriptions to Netflix, Disney Plus, Max and all the other streaming services -- and you cer…
The Apple Watch is no longer just a fashion accessory, but a device that offers a plethora of ways to express yourself. One of these ways is to swap straps. Not only does it change your watch's look, but it also helps you replace a worn-ou…
Developers have been increasingly using third-party APIs to build their applications, and depending on the API, the costs can escalate quickly. It’s been challenging for companies to find ways to understand and manage these costs.
Tha…
Archer Aviation, the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle startup, has partnered with India’s travel and hospitality conglomerate InterGlobe Enterprises to launch an all-electric air taxi service in the country in 2026. If…
Meta may have abandoned its efforts around live shopping on Facebook and Instagram, but the social networking company still believes in its apps’ potential as a shopping platform. That leads to today’s news that the company is now working …
Internet at your fingertips. A camera in your pocket. And then, artificial intelligence improving your everyday life.
Samsung Galaxy helped democratize internet access and turned cameras into a communication tool we can’t live without. …
GitHub today announced plans for an enterprise subscription tier that will allow companies to fine-tune its Copilot pair-programmer based on their internal codebase.
The news constituted part of a number of notable tidbits the Microso…
Google’s AI-powered search experience is rolling out worldwide, after initial launches in select markets, including the U.S., India and Japan. Starting today, the AI-based conversational experience known as SGE, or Search Generative Experi…
TikTok is revamping its system for paying creators. With its new Creativity Program, which incentivizes users to make videos longer than one minute, the platform estimates that creators can make more than 20 times what they were previously…
During SiriusXM’s “Next Generation” event in New York, the company announced its revamped SiriusXM streaming app, which features an upgraded media player, improved search capabilities, a customized “For You” page, an expanded library and m…
Security culture. This is more than training employees, sneaking fake phishing tests and putting cybersecurity on the budget. It’s a culture of using security solutions as part of the very fabric of the organisation to reduce vulnerabiliti…
OpenAI, the company whose ChatGPT brought AI chatbots to mainstream awareness, said Monday that it'll let you build special-purpose AI apps using its technology. And with a new app store coming that'll let you find or share these GPTs, as …
Samsung's Galaxy phones will soon get a a bevy of new camera features, some of which are powered by AI, as part of the company's One UI 6 software.
The update, which is based on Google's broader Android 14 software, is said to h…
The iPhone 15 Pro Max has one of the best cameras it's possible to get on a phone. Its main, 48-megapixel image sensor takes stunning photos, while its telephoto lens has been bumped up to 5x, making it great for taking more zoomed-in shot…
When Apple launched the new M3 chip series for its Macs alongside new MacBook Pros and iMacs at its Scary Fast event earlier this week, it wasn't a new product that made a big splash, but one released in September. At the end of th…
This year the competition among midpriced TVs is hotter than ever, and one of the best TVs I've tested is the Hisense U8K. This television offers excellent image quality for the price thanks to super-bright mini-LED technology. The brand n…
ChatGPT now has 100 million weekly active users, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Monday at the company’s first developer conference in San Francisco. The service released nearly a year ago and garnered an estimated 100 million monthly u…
Shares of Honasa Consumer, the parent firm of direct-to-customer beauty and personal care Mamaearth, jumped slightly in a key public listing watched by many Indian startups as they evaluate their own initial public offerings.
Mamaeart…
In its third and record-breaking year, with over 30,000 images from over 50 countries submitted, Canon Europe (https://www.Canon-Europe.com/) is pleased to reveal the winner of this year’s Redline Challenge photography competition. Followi…
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