Nigeria holds 109th position out of 131 Countries on the Network Readiness Index (NRI) in the year 2022 as ICT Industry experts stress the importance of networked readiness to drive social and economic transformation for African countries. NRI 2022 confirms that advanced economies in Europe, parts of Asia and the […]
Technology
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 […]
The Federal Government of Nigeria is ready to conduct its first ever digital census, 17 years after last exercise in 2006 with an approval of N2.8 billion ($5.4 million). The exercise, originally scheduled for March 29 but postponed to May 2023 due to the rescheduled gubernatorial and state House of […]
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 […]
Meta has announced a second round of layoff with 10,000 employees affected and 5,000 vacancies withdrawn as the Big Tech industry awaits deep economic downturn. Co-founder and CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg also revealed that the company will cancel lower priority projects, as the indirect costs of these […]
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 […]
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 […]
Samsung, a leading global consumer electronic company has continued to solidify it’s presence in Nigeria especially in costumer satisfaction and interactions by opening a new premium customer service centre strategically located in the heart of Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos State. The Samsung Customer Service plaza centre in partnership with […]