I used the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 for a week as a replacement for my phone and my work laptop. Though apps like Slack aren't exactly optimized for the new $1,800 foldable, the phone proved more than capable of handling the majority of my …
Google will soon make it easier for people to remove results about themselves from the company's search engine, Google said in a blog post Thursday.
In the next few days, an update to the "Results about you" section in the Google…
AI may have found a center of gravity in the Bay Area, but we’re seeing a lot of activity elsewhere among those who believe that there is a market opportunity ensuring that the pace of innovation does not only get played out in just one co…
Apple’s services business now has more than 1 billion paying subscribers, the company said during its third-quarter results conference call.
The company’s services portfolio comprises iCloud, Music, Fitness+, Pay, Apple Card and Apple T…
One-day Latitude59 event to take place in Nairobi, Kenya this December in partnership with global fintech leader - Admirals.
3 August 2023, Tallinn, Estonia; According to Ms. Liisi Org, CEO of Latitude59, the main ambition of the move …
Another former Twitter app developer has turned their attention to Mastodon in the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, which put an end to third-party clients. Launching today, a new app from the developer of the Twitter app Chirp is bri…
Microsoft is shutting down its digital assistant app Cortana this month, having now put more of its focus on modern-day AI advances, like its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat and other AI-powered productivity features across Windows and its web brow…
The government has announced a new panel to steer the UK's semiconductor industry, which it describes as "vitally important for the modern world we live in".
Around the world, governments have been taking action, passing new…
Amazon's e-commerce business perked up in the three months to June, after months of lacklustre spending amidst a wider, sluggish economy.
The uptick follows a push by boss Andy Jassy to make the online shopping giant's …
Japan's finance ministry has called on X, formerly known as Twitter, to take down an account impersonating its top currency diplomat Masato Kanda.
"Please don't follow the impersonation account and/or comment on the post," t…
Meta, parent company to Facebook, is beginning the process of blocking news in Canada, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday. Google also aims to block links to Canadian journalism later this year for people in Canada in respons…
Today AnkerMake -- Anker's 3D printing branch -- announced the M5C, the company's latest foray into 3D printing. Built on the back of the AnkerMake M5 and featuring a very similar aesthetic, the M5C is alleged to give the same performance …
Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, has renamed TweetDeck to XPro in an ongoing rebranding exercise of the social media service.
The company has adopted the @Pro handle instead of @TweetDeck for the tool. However, many parts of the too…
Kenya was one of the first countries where Worldcoin — the controversial startup that aims to create a new “human identity and financial network” through eye scans and its own cryptocurrency — launched sign-ups and as of this week, it was …
The firm that owns Twitter, now called X, is suing an anti-hate organisation whose research criticised the platform.
X Corp has accused the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which has offices in the US and the UK, o…
Nokia Bell Labs is deploying the first cellular network on the Moon to demonstrate that cellular technologies can provide the critical communications needs for future lunar or Martian missions. For the first time, we are digging into the d…
Around 1.3 billion broadband speed tests conducted across 220 countries, and analysed by Cable.co.uk
Western Europe dominates the global speed table, containing eight of the top ten fastest countries in the world for broadband. The se…
Flapmax (https://Flapmax.com/), a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced today its strategic partnership with Intel, the global technology leader, to foster AI innovation and drive economic empowerment in Africa. The colla…
Cher Horowitz had one, Serena van der Woodsen had one, Lizzie McGuire had one, and now, in 2023, Sydney Sweeney has one. I'm talking about flip phones, which through the 1990s and early 2000s were the must-have tech status symbol for teen …
When Google had its unpleasant realization that it had been complacently spinning its wheels on a form of fake AI for a decade, chances are it started realigning itself that day. And it sounds like Assistant itself is now getting a generat…
While Threads' meteoric rise has mostly tempered down, that hasn't stopped Meta from continuing to bring long-awaited updates to its users. This week, Threads got some pretty key updates to the platform that seem to have begun to level the…
Reddit is rolling out a number of updates to its website for logged-out users, including improved performance, a more helpful search results page and better communities and related post suggestions.
The company said in a post on Monday …
NASA will be launching its own streaming service later this year, the US space agency said Thursday.
The service, called NASA Plus, will livestream NASA missions. It will also feature original video series, including new shows being pro…
Apple could be putting an Action button on your next iPhone. According to a report from MacRumors on Wednesday, code in the fourth iOS 17 developer beta hints at functionality for an Action button on the next-gen iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max …
After weeks of changes to its social handles, branding on its interface, a redirect on the web, and lots of chatter from its owner, Twitter the app has finally changed its name on the App Store to X. The single-letter name may have an exce…
Earlier this week Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X - another step in his plan to emulate Chinese mega app WeChat.
Mr Musk has long said that he wants to transform his social media firm, which he bought last year for $44bn (£…
Kanye West's account has been reinstated on Twitter after an almost eight-month ban over offensive tweets.
The US rapper, known as Ye, was accused of violating the platform's rules prohibiting incitement to violence.
He has not poste…
The next iteration of the iPhone family is expected to get a slew of updates in the fall, including thinner bezels, wider use of the Dynamic Island screen feature, and USB-C charging, along with a higher price tag.
One of the biggest ch…
Innovative technology brand TECNO (www.TECNO-Mobile.com) today launched a groundbreaking upgrade to its popular SPARK 10 Series – the SPARK 10 Pro Magic Magenta Edition. The special edition illuminates the youth’s brilliance with an indust…
Universe, the no-code mobile website builder, announced today that it’s launching an AI-powered website designer in beta. The designer, called GUS (Generative Universe Sites), can help anyone build and launch a custom website from their iO…
Google is delaying the broad expansion of its Find My Device feature, and it says it’s doing so with personal safety in mind since the industry spec proposed by itself and Apple isn’t quite ready yet. “User safety and the prevention of unw…
LinkedIn appears to be developing a new AI tool that can help ease the effectively robotic task of looking for and applying to jobs. According to a new leak, the Microsoft-owned company seems to have a new “LinkedIn Coach” assistant in tes…
The first public beta of iOS 17 released earlier this month, introducing new features to the iPhone like contact posters, live voicemail and StandBy Mode. But that's just the beginning.
Like every new mobile software release, iOS 17 has s…
Apple's MacBook Air ultrathin laptops are primarily designed for lightweight office and school work on the go. But as Apple's own M-series processors have become more capable, so too have the MacBooks they're in. I'm a professional pho…
Spotting online scams is a lot harder than it used to be. Gone are the days of the Nigerian princes, horribly written emails and obviously fake web addresses.
Cybercriminals are more sophisticated than ever. They're creating emails and …
Private Internet Access, sometimes known simply as PIA, is a well-established VPN provider operating out of the United States since 2010. It's an excellent budget-friendly option that puts its money where its mouth is with regards to user …
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger was very bullish on AI during the company’s Q2 2023 earnings call — telling investors that Intel plans to “build AI into every product that we build.”
Later this year, Intel will ship Meteor Lake, its first con…
Rewind, a personal data recording startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), has launched an iPhone app that privately records your activity on Safari so you can ask questions based on your web browsing history later. By default, the ap…
Just when you think Elon Musk can’t get any more divisive, he’s weighed in on the light mode versus dark mode debate — and Twitter, currently undergoing a rebranding to X, is apparently going all in on the latter. Early this morning, Musk …
Bluesky, one of the many would-be Twitter replacements now on the market, is making a notable change to how users discover new content on its network. Previously, the Bluesky app would feature popular posts in a feed it called the “What’s …
It's easy to send files to and from Apple devices, thanks to AirDrop, which is why Google now has its own wireless file-sharing tool for Android and Windows.
Google recently rolled out the Nearby Share app for Windows, which has b…
We’ve all been there: someone in our social feeds or group chat just sent a link to an interesting article, but when we click that link and it opens in our phone’s browser, it’s almost impossible to read because there are so many ads, po…
Netflix has triggered an angry response from striking Hollywood actors and writers after posting a job advert for an artificial intelligence (AI) expert.
The new position would join its Machine Learning Platform team, which…
Google says people should use its search engine to check whether information provided by its chatbot, Bard, is actually accurate.
Some have suggested chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT could "kill" traditional search, which…
After Twitter’s (now X) rollout of a new paid plan offering verification, other social media companies like Meta, LinkedIn and Tumblr have tried to implement their own badges. Reddit is now joining the bandwagon by testing a new “official”…
As the second day of the SAPHILA 2023 conference - the African SAP User Group’s (AFSUG) official biennial conference for SAP users - opened, delegates were able to find out more on how SAP has addressed its own digital transformation to mo…
AT&T continued its subscriber growth streak by adding more phone and broadband customers in the second quarter of the year.
The Dallas-based telecom company logged 326,000 postpaid phone net additions over the period, a metric used by t…
AI startup Stability AI continues to refine its generative AI models in the face of increasing competition — and ethical challenges.
Today, Stability AI announced the launch of Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, a text-to-image model that the c…
An unfounded belief Covid vaccines are leading to a rise in heart problems, especially in young athletes, has been amplified by Twitter owner Elon Musk.
Bronny James - son of basketball legend LeBron James - suffered a cardi…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has said his new social media app, Threads, is drawing more repeat users than he had expected.
The app attracted more than 100 million sign-ups within days of its launch this month in a chall…