At GITEX Technology Week 2023, Nokia’s Network Infrastructure (NI) is demonstrating how disruptive network technologies for infrastructure are pushing the boundaries of innovation and sustainability to open up new opportunities for the tel…
As long as new technology is introduced into the world, fraudsters will continue to search for a place to thrive. Unfortunately, Bitcoin gives cryptocurrency scammers an interesting opportunity as it's a borderless digital currency.
Bit…
The UAE’s AI minister on Wednesday urged countries to come to a consensus on AI governance sooner than it came to the Paris Agreement, which took years to take shape and come into force.
His Excellency Omar Al Olama, UAE Minister of S…
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has announced the latest FE series addition to the Samsung Galaxy ecosystem — the new Galaxy S23 FE, Galaxy Tab S9 FE and S9 FE+, and Galaxy Buds FE. Known for their iconic and durable designs, advanced perfor…
Walking through Token2049, it was hard to tell that the crypto industry was going through a “winter” phase. The crypto conference held in Singapore in September attracted an unprecedented crowd of 20,000 attendees, filling the island state…
Jacquelyn Melinek@jacqmelinek / 9:08 PM GMT•October 13, 2023
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Trezor, a hardware crypto wallet company, debuted two new products this week at the B…
After months of waiting, Apple released iOS 17 on Sept. 18, bringing a number of improvements to your iPhone, such as the useful StandBy mode. But one of the most impressive new features is iOS 17's ability to turn your photos and …
After taking time off, I returned this week to find my inbox flooded with news about AI tools, issues, missteps and adventures. And the thing that stood out was how much investment there is in having AI chatbots pretend to be someone else.…
Google has launched a new app for Pixel phones: Magnifier, which lets you zoom in on text and objects to make them easier to decipher. So if you're trying to read fine print, make out street signs, or you're just... in the nosebleeds…
As a photographer, I wanted to love the Pixel 8 Pro's new high-end camera technology. But some unpleasant photo surprises during my first week of testing meant my relationship with Google's flagship smartphone got off to a rocky star…
The Google Pixel 8 is unlike any other phone you can buy today. After testing it for nearly a week, I realized that the Pixel 8 and its AI features offer an early glimpse at how photography, calling and even our phone's wallpaper could evo…
If you're hoping artificial intelligence will get your creative juices flowing faster, Adobe on Tuesday revealed three big changes to its Firefly family of generative AI tools. The engine that powers Photoshop's image generation is…
iOS 17 has been available to download and the brand-new iPhone 15 has been in stores for a couple of weeks now. That means that Apple fans can finally play around with the exciting new features that the company has been teasing for…
It's been three years since the PS5 first went on sale, and a new upgraded design should help one fit a lot more easily in your TV cabinet. The suddenly announced redesigned PS5 arrives in November, is 30% smaller and weighs anywhe…
Apple released iOS 17 on Sept. 18, and the new OS brings new features and improvements, like Live Stickers and offline maps, to your iPhone. The update also brings new functionality to the Photos app, letting you tag and add your pets to y…
A virtual private network, or VPN, is a privacy tool that can help protect you and your information online by encrypting your data and hiding your IP address. That might sound like something you'd want to leave on all the time, but sometim…
Monitoring your blood pressure on a daily basis is super important. Especially if you're worried about high blood pressure or have hypertension, monitors are key. Thankfully, if you own an Apple Watch , you already have a good starting po…
At its product event in September, Amazon executives couldn't say enough about how Alexa will be there for you as a friend, thanks to an injection of AI upgrades.
Dave Limp, the company's senior vice president for services, showed off …
When Apple released iOS 17 on Sept. 18, it introduced a lot of new features and improvements to your iPhone, like Live Stickers and offline maps. One of the more helpful new features Apple introduced in iOS 17 is the ability to share AirTa…
Telecel Group, the majority shareholder of Vodafone Ghana, is thrilled to announce the successful expansion of Vodafone Ghana’s network infrastructure by adding a remarkable 300 new 4G sites, most of which have been activated across variou…
By Jaap Scholten, Head of Group ICT Strategy at Datacentrix, and COO of eNetworks, a Datacentrix company
JOHANNESBURG – October 09, 2023 - Amazon Web Services launched its cloud services in 2006, followed shortly by Microsoft's Azu…
Unless you have a supported Google Pixel phone like the new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, you may not always have access to the latest Android updates as they are released. But even if you can't upgrade to the latest version of Android …
Google launched the Pixel 8 series on October 4. The company relied on showing Google’s AI prowess as a core selling point. Google’s launch comes weeks after Apple launched its new iPhone 15 series of devices. That’s why we wanted to compa…
Netflix has “not succeeded” in scaling up its business in India despite the global streaming giant consistently lowering the subscription costs in the country, analysts at AllianceBernstein wrote in a report to clients Thursday.
The U…
It's October. In some parts of the country, the leaves are starting to turn beautiful fall colors, football is back in full force, Halloween decorations are popping up and pumpkin spice latte season is practically over.
It's also Cybers…
After the SmartTag and SmartTag Plus, Samsung is introducing a new device to help you keep track of items: the Galaxy SmartTag 2. It sports a new design and updated features, and it's scheduled to launch globally on Oct. 10.
The SmartTa…
Spotify today is rolling out a big change in terms of how users connect with artists on its streaming music platform. With the newly debuted artist profile pages, content has been reorganized under three main tabs, including Music, Events …
Of all the holy grails in robotics, learning may well be the holiest. In an era when the term “general purpose” is tossed around with great abandon, however, it can be difficult for non-roboticists to understand what today’s systems can — …
The iPhone 15 Pro Max packs one of the most capable cameras seen on any 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 shots of…
A virtual private network, or VPN, is a privacy tool that can help protect you and your information online by encrypting your data and hiding your IP address. That might sound like something you'd want to leave on all the time, but sometim…
Instead of scrolling mindlessly through a social feed of updates, a new app called Thoughts offers a way to scroll through and collect inspirational content. Created by indie developer Henri Bredt, Thoughts is described as a “focused inspi…
Snap’s AI chatbot has landed the company on the radar of the U.K.’s data protection watchdog which has raised concerns the tool may be a risk to children’s privacy.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today that it’s i…
iOS 17 is here, and it's brought many new and exciting features to compatible iPhones, including the ability to create your own contact poster, the brand-new StandBy mode, the Journal app and more.
Among these new iOS 17 features, is t…
OnePlus, the maker of high-spec Android phones at sub-$1,000 prices, is already showing off its upcoming foldable phone to YouTube channel Unbox Therapy before it's even ready, as per a video uploaded to the channel on Monday.
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Visa announced today that it plans to invest $100 million in companies developing generative AI technologies and applications “that will impact the future of commerce and payments.”
The investments will be made through Visa Ventures, th…
New York-based privacy and security startup Cloaked, launched its apps today to let users create unique proxy emails, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts.
The company, which was in private beta for the last two years, is …
Kenya’s communications regulator has said that the country experienced a record 860 million cyber-attacks in the last 12 months.
The regulator said that “the frequency, sophistication and scale of cyber-threats” targeted at Kenya’s crit…
It’s been a wild few weeks for consumer hardware news, but it seems the season is finally winding down. We’ve already seen big events from Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, and now it’s time for Google to get in on the action. After all, being …
As tech companies begin to monetize generative AI, the creators on whose work it is trained are asking for their fair share. But so far no one can agree on whether or how much artists should be paid.
A recent open letter from The Auth…
Widespread complaints about overheating of the new iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can be traced to several factors, including a software bug in iOS 17, Apple told CNET on Saturday.
The company said the new phones' titanium frame and aluminu…
Threads users may not have to sacrifice their Instagram accounts after all if they want to drop Threads for good.
According to a report from TechCrunch, Meta is working on a feature that'll let you delete the Threads app without deletin…
Apple released the first iOS 17.1 public beta for the iPhone on Thursday. The first iOS 17.1 beta arrives about a week and a half after the release of iOS 17 and about a week after the release of iOS 17.0.1 and iOS 17.0.2. The update bring…
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts, hyper-charging productivity. But it also has a more…nefarious side.
In any case, AI tools a…
Zapier today announced the launch of Canvas, a new tool that aims to help its users plan and diagram their business-critical processes — with a fair bit of AI sprinkled in there to help them turn those processes into Zapier-based automatio…
Even though the iPhone 15 is a leap forward compared to older iPhones, it can still be difficult to decide whether it's worth upgrading. After using the iPhone 15 for the past couple of weeks as my primary phone, I can say it feels l…
Japanese space company ispace has invested over $40 million in its new U.S. subsidiary to date, as it looks to take advantage of growing investment from NASA and the Pentagon in technologies for the moon.
The level of investment is a …
As of January 2024, Google is discontinuing the option to display Gmail on your browser in the Basic HTML view. A new post in Google's Help Center says Gmail will automatically change to Standard view. Standard view is a richer ver…
After issuing updates to iOS, iPadOS and macOS in the past few weeks, Apple has rolled out a redesigned iCloud.com website with more functionality, such as support for browser notifications for Mail and Calendar on a PC, a customizable hom…
Get ready for your Windows laptop experience to change radically.
"It's the next era," said Microsoft's Pete Kyriacou, likening the impact of AI to the early days of the Internet. The comment from Kyriacou, corporate vice president of M…
The iOS 17 update was made available to most iPhones on Sept. 18, but some people are getting the update. Some older iPhone users were left out of Apple's newest software upgrade -- that includes you if you've got an iPhone from 2017 or be…