Tech giant Google has launched its Bard chatbot as competitor on OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT, which seeks to make up lost ground in the race to commercialise generative artificial intelligence technology. The rolling out of AI chatbot Bard will only be available to certain users over the age of 18 in […]
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The Federal Government has announced the removal of excise duty for telecom sub-sector after six months of intense deliberations. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja at a briefing to provide updates on the status of the 5 per cent excise […]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has implemented modern technology to improve the process of vehicle registration and make motor licenses seamless by making it stress-free, as well as the management of its transportation sub-sector which should be one of the goals of a working government. The introduction of […]
The United Kingdom of Great Britain has said that it will ban TikTok, a Chinese owned video app from being used on government phones, a move to join other western countries that have banned the due to fears that user data from the app owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance […]
OpenAI an American artificial intelligence research laboratory has released GPT-4, a powerful new image- and text-understanding AI model after months of anticipation. The new model can respond to images – providing recipe suggestions from photos of ingredients, for example, as well as writing captions and descriptions. It can also process […]
The Federal Government of Nigeria has launched a $672 million tech fund in a bid to support the tech and creatives ecosystems for young entrepreneurs which will ease capital funding. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo launched the $672 million fund under the Digital and Creative Enterprises Programme (DCEP) in Abuja recently […]
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in line with its consumer-centric approach to telecom regulation has directed mobile network operators (MNOs) to commence implementation of approved harmonised short codes (HSC) for providing certain services to telecom consumers in Nigeria thereby achieving uniformity in common short codes across networks. In a […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook and Instagram’s parent company is exploring strategies to create a new social media app in its effort to dislodge Twitter as the world’s “digital town square” which will be built on a parallel structure that powers Mastodon, a Twitter-like service that was launched in […]
The Managing Editor & Publisher, The Ojo-Yoshida Report, Mr Bolaji Ojo at the Technology Times Digital Transformation Thought Leadership Series advises the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to implement adequate national technology backbone and other fundamental measures to alleviate the adverse impact of the Naira redesign policy on Nigerians, […]
The search engine Google has joined in celebrating International Women’s Day by unveiling three new initiatives to empower women entrepreneurs in Africa and equip them with the tools needed to attain Success. Among the initiatives is the Hustle Academy for Women-Led Businesses, the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa: Women Founders […]
