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 […]
Technology
Meta has announced a second round of layoff with 10,000 employees affected and 5,000 vacancies withdrawn as the Big Tech industry awaits deep economic downturn.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 […]
About 16% of Social Media Users Named WhatsApp as their most preferred Platform leading other social media apps like Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with more than two billion monthly active users worldwide. The social media space is extremely competitive and constantly changing keeping its users engaged for longer […]
China has blocked the latest artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT from OpenAI and also told firms Tencent and Ant Group (a subsidiary of e-commerce giant Alibaba) to restrict access to ChatGPT and report to officials over the fear that the American owners of ChatGPT would use the tool to spread […]
Kano North Renaissance (KNR) group has congratulated the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, over his recent achievement in emerging as the regulator of the year at the prestigious Vanguard Newspapers Award in recognition of his noteworthy contributions to Nigeria’s […]
The Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Alhaji Nasir Kwarra, has stated the plans of the commission to make use of full digital technology in the conduct of the 2023 census, ensure that the outcome of the population count is acceptable by the citizens of the country and that […]