Xiaomi delivered a record number of electric vehicles in March, exceeding 29,000 units.
Xpeng and Leapmotor saw deliveries more than double in March from the same period last year.
Nio and Zeekr lag behind in deliveries as they struggl…
European defense giant Leonardo hopes to present a satellite alliance with Airbus and Thales within months, the company's CEO told CNBC, as the continent looks for alternatives to Elon Musk's Starlink.
Speaking in Rome on Wednesday, Leo…
Last year, funding into African startups edged past $2 billion, returning to pre-pandemic levels and presenting a mixed bag as expected. Signs suggest 2025 will follow the cautious trends of the past two years.
A sharp decline in mega…
All it took was losing $100 billion in three months to make Elon Musk change his tune on government work.
ICYMI: The last 24 hours have brought a parade of humiliation for the world’s richest edgelord, starting with his $20 million losing…
Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new Claude for Education tier, an answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu plan. The new tier is aimed at higher education, and gives students, faculty, and other staff access to Anthropic’s AI …
When OpenAI unveiled its o3 “reasoning” AI model in December, the company partnered with the creators of ARC-AGI, a benchmark designed to test highly capable AI, to showcase o3’s capabilities. Months later, the results have been revised,…
From simple smiley faces and love hearts to high heels and rainbows, it seems like there is already an emoji for every possible situation.
Now, iPhone users have even more designs to use. As part of Apple's iOS 18.4 update, iPhone users…
China plans to launch pilot projects in nine cities that would use the country's growing fleet of electric vehicles as batteries to shore up power supply on the grid during spikes in demand, according to a government announcement on Wednes…
Minecraft is the world's best-selling computer game and soon to be a Hollywood film. This is why children can't get enough of it.
AJ Minotti has three children – and they all love playing Minecraft. His twin girls aged 10 and his …
TikTok is shutting down its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, on May 8. The photo-sharing app launched in testing in Canada, Australia, and Vietnam last year.
The company is notifying TikTok Notes users of its decision to retire the…
British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi forecast a steady build-up in demand this year after it narrowly beat 2024 earnings expectations, helped by sales of its flagship Raspberry Pi5 as well as its semiconductor units.
The gro…
Africa stands at the forefront of a revolutionary shift in global health, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and data science, according to a report released today from the Science for Africa Foundation (SFA Foundation), African instit…
The Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) today announced the inaugural Governance of Emerging Technologies Summit (GETS), set to take place at the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort in Abu Dhabi on 5–6 May 2025. The summit will conven…
OpenAI’s ChatGPT may be the world’s most popular chatbot app. But rival services are gaining, according to data from analytics firms Similarweb and Sensor Tower.
Similarweb, which estimates traffic to websites, including chatbot web a…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming cybersecurity – for better and for worse. Cybercriminals are leveraging AI advances to coordinate more sophisticated attacks, while security teams deploy improved defence mechanisms, using the s…
On 27 March 2025, Kenya officially launched its National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy (2025-2030) (Strategy), marking a significant step toward positioning the country as a leader in AI adoption and governance in Africa.
Accord…
The Weaponisation of PDFs : 68% of Cyberattacks begin in you inbox, with 22% of these hiding in PDFs
Over 400 billion PDF were opened last year, and 16 billion documents were edited in Adobe Acrobat. Over 87% of organisations use PDFs …
Employee phishing tests have gained popularity as a way for organisations to gauge how vulnerable their employees are to phishing attacks and improve their awareness of cybersecurity. However, some have questioned whether it is app…
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes integral to banking and financial services institutions (BFSIs) across Africa, fostering consumer trust in AI-driven systems is critical to ensure long-term success. Fortunately, BFSIs can balance in…
AI-Media, the global leader in AI-powered language technology and solutions, is thrilled to announce an advanced partnership with AudioShake, a pioneering audio technology company specializing in sound separation. This partnership will enh…
Investor excitement surrounding the robots has been mounting amid increased mentions from tech leaders like Nvidia's Jensen Huang and ambitious plans from Tesla's Elon Musk.
However, analysts warn that U.S. firms could lose out to Chi…
China can use domestically developed tools to make advanced semiconductors, countering U.S. curbs on Beijing's access to high-end chipmaking technology, an executive at a major Chinese supplier said on Thursday.
Du Lijun, president of c…
Apple’s most profitable product could finally be getting a much-needed change.
The tech giant is soon expected to make its biggest bet in years, introducing a significantly slimmer iPhone to hopefully reinvigorate interest in its bigges…
Audio startup Krisp on Wednesday said it is launching a new feature that uses AI to change a user’s accent during calls. The company is initially rolling out support for changing Indian English accents to U.S. English.
The startup say…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Wednesday that the rollout of ChatGPT’s viral new AI image features to free users would be delayed, citing significantly higher demand than the company expected.
“Images in ChatGPT are wayyyy more po…
Fashion retailer H&M is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to create digital "twins" of 30 models.
It says it will use the AI doppelgangers in some social media posts and marketing in the place of humans, if given permission by model…
After teasing a return to “OG Facebook” earlier this year, the social network on Thursday announced an update that will give users a simple way to connect with friends. The company is introducing a new Facebook Friends tab that will only…
AI web-crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many software developers believe. Some devs have started fighting back in ingenuous, often humorous ways.
While any website might be targeted by bad crawler behavior — sometime…
Canon Europe (www.Canon-CNA.com) today announces the RF 20mm F1.4L VCM (https://apo-opa.co/4j7i4nQ), an ultra-wide angle addition to its innovative RF hybrid prime lens range [1], designed to adapt to the evolving needs of professi…
Mozilla has fixed a security bug in its Firefox for Windows browser that was “being exploited in the wild.”
In a brief update, Mozilla said it updated the browser to Firefox version 136.0.4 after identifying and fixing the new bug, t…
Jay Springett, a tech strategist and podcast host, joined the social media app Butterflies AI out of curiosity, and ended up staying for more than six months.
The idea of Butterflies is to allow human and AI personas to interact.
M…
WhatsApp launched a new feature on Friday, where users can include brief music clips in their Status updates, reminiscent of the Myspace era.
Status resembles Instagram Stories and allows users to share photos, videos, and text that d…
AI-Media, a global leader in AI-powered language technology and solutions, is set to make a major impact at NAB Show 2025 in Las Vegas. From April 6-9, attendees can visit Booth #W1915 to explore AI-Media's suite of industry-leading AI so…
Google said it has fixed a vulnerability in its Chrome browser for Windows that malicious hackers have used to break into victims’ computers.
In a brief note on Tuesday, Google said that it fixed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025…
Amazon continues to infuse AI into its shopping tools to encourage customers to make more purchases. The company announced on Wednesday a new feature called “Interests,” aimed at creating a more personalized and conversational search exp…
We tried one of Amazon's Zoox toaster-shaped autonomous vehicles, which don't have human controls. Can it really compete with Waymo?
There’s nothing normal about riding in a vehicle that actually, really drives itself.
The sensation …
Dear reader, while I do like Game Pass—it's often a good deal when the lineup's strong—I think you'll agree when I say I've never enjoyed the experience of using the Xbox app. Microsoft can't seem to cobble together a user interface that w…
TikTok (www.TikTok.com) hosted its second Annual Africa Safer Internet Summit in Cape Town, South Africa, bringing together government officials, regulators, and industry leaders from across Sub-Saharan Africa. Delegates from South…
The OnePlus 13T might be the official name for the compact OnePlus 13 Mini smartphone we’ve been hearing so much about, but it may well pack a super-sized battery.
Regular tipster Digital Chat Station has taken to Weibo to reveal a fasc…
Vietnam will cut its tariffs on several U.S. products including LNG and cars, and moved to approve Starlink services, as the country tries to avoid being hit with U.S. tariffs because of its large bilateral trade surplus.
The Southeast …
During a livestream on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the first major upgrade to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities in over a year.
ChatGPT can now leverage the company’s GPT-4o model to natively create and modify images …
OpenAI released updates Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice feature that enables real-time conversations in ChatGPT, to make the AI assistant more personable and interrupt users less frequently.
Manuka Stratta, an OpenAI post-t…
Top Trump administration officials used messaging app Signal to share war plans and mistakenly included a journalist in the encrypted chat, spurring calls by Democratic lawmakers for a congressional investigation into the security breach.
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Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday that co-CEO Han Jong-hee had died of a heart attack, leaving newly-appointed boss Jun Young-hyun solely in charge of the tech giant as it revamps its underperforming chip business and navigates trade unc…
China has narrowed the AI development gap with the United States to just three months in some areas, because firms such as DeepSeek have worked out how to use chips and apply algorithms more efficiently, the CEO of Chinese startup 01.AI Le…
A growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in job applications risks employers hiring candidates who cannot do the work, a business owner has said.
Advertising boss James Robinson said he and other business leaders were seeing a "r…
BlackRock has launched its first bitcoin exchange-traded product in Europe, in a bid to tap growing demand for cryptocurrency exposure in new markets after attracting more than $50 billion into similar products in the United States.
The…
The roar of the Zambezi is deafening as millions of gallons of water crash over rocks and tumble down rapids.
But there's another sound cutting through the trees of the Zambian bush - the unmistakable high-pitched whine of a bitcoin m…
Negotiations on a potential contract between Elon Musk's satellite internet operator Starlink and the Italian government have stalled, reflecting broader geopolitical tensions, Italy's defence minister said on Saturday.
Prime Minister G…
OpenAI and Meta Platforms have held separate discussions with India's Reliance Industries over potential partnerships to expand their artificial intelligence offerings in the country, technology news website The Information reported on Sat…