Category: Technology

Russia launches satellites for Starlink-style internet network

Russia’s Bureau 1440 space company has launched 16 broadband internet satellites, taking an early step...

Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am designs electric car with AI workspace

Black Eyed Peas frontman and tech entrepreneur will.i.am has unveiled a three-wheeled electric vehicle that...

FG intensifies push to commercialise university research outputs nationwide

The Federal Government is intensifying efforts to transform scientific research from Nigeria’s universities, polytechnics, and...

ITU secures $82bn for internet expansion to 2.2bn offline people

The International Telecommunication Union has secured more than $82 billion in pledges through its Partner2Connect...

Brazil orders X to halt Grok’s explicit image generation

Brazil on Wednesday instructed Elon Musk’s social network X to immediately stop its chatbot Grok...

OpenAI to retire GPT-4o, older models from ChatGPT February

OpenAI has announced plans to retire several older ChatGPT models, including GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini,...

Nigerian developers earn over $1m from local apps — NOTAP

Nigerian software developers have generated more than $1 million in sales from locally developed applications...

Africa, Middle East lag behind in business AI adoption — W’Bank

Artificial intelligence adoption among businesses remains lowest in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, highlighting...

EU launches fresh probe into X over Grok’s sexual deepfakes

The European Commission has launched a new formal investigation against the social media platform X...

X blocks Grok from creating sexualized images of real people

Elon Musk-owned social media platform X has announced new restrictions on its artificial intelligence model,...

NiMet launches AI team to boost weather forecasting

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has inaugurated an Artificial Intelligence Research and Integration Team as part...

Apple chooses Google’s Gemini AI to power Siri

Apple and Google have announced a multi-year partnership under which Apple’s next-generation artificial intelligence features,...