Category: Science/Technology

Joshua Adewolu chose to build for medical doctors,...

“I told my parents that I would rather be the one to make the devices that you use to treat people,” he recalls. “That was the beg...

In today's edition: Kenyans file petitions to block new tax chief || Lagos targets 250MW data centre capacity || US backs West Afr...

Paystack’s first Dashboard rebuild in a decade bri...

Paystack has launched the first full rebuild of its Dashboard in a decade, introducing simplified navigation structure, mobile par...

Nigerian fintech Sycamore wants $29 million in dep...

The move reflects a broader shift among Nigerian fintechs that are increasingly acquiring microfinance banking licences to gain di...

Nigeria reviews 26-year telecom policy as networks...

Nigeria has begun reviewing its 26-year-old telecommunications policy, proposing 15 major changes that could affect everything fro...

This HBCU In Maryland Has A Nursing Program That H...

Morgan State University’s nursing program is now the best in the state.

Agent 00 Once Used Student Loan Money To Buy A PC,...

Canadian-born streamer Agent 00 has forged his own lane.

Black Women-Owned Zero-Proof MEDASE Cocktails Make...

MEDASE Cocktails has expanded to another retailer.

Ruka Hair, A Biotech Beauty Brand Pioneering Lab-G...

Ruka Hair has raised new funding to scale its mission of ensuring hair and beauty solutions work for the textured-hair community.

How Justin Tuck Went From NFL To Managing Director...

Football was never the end goal for two-time Super Bowl champion Justin Tuck.

How to use Google’s new AI agents to go beyond you...

Google is launching AI-powered “information agents” that can monitor topics in the background and proactively alert users to updat...

Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and vid...

Good news! Discord's hundreds of millions of users now have their communications scrambled, so not even Discord can see them.

You can now talk to your Gmail inbox, as seen at G...

Google expands Gmail’s AI Inbox with conversational voice search, letting users ask Gemini to find buried email details.

‘Ask YouTube’ brings AI-powered conversational sea...

Google is completely revamping its search experience, and that doesn't stop at YouTube.

Google just declared itself a contender in AI desi...

Google says it's designed the app to be accessible to everyone, from teachers to small business owners.

Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Buil...

A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to...

Election Officials Are Getting Ready for ICE to Sh...

The Trump administration keeps threatening to send federal agents to oversee elections. State and local officials are preparing, a...

Trump Wants to Be the Hero Vapers Don’t Really Nee...

The White House says Trump’s pro-vape stance is based on “gold standard science.” It feels more like vice-signaling to a demograph...

Everything to Look for When Buying a New Laptop in...

Shopping for a laptop can be infuriating. Here’s how to sift through the acronyms, storage options, and extra features to find the...

How to Upgrade Weber and Kamado Joe Into Smart Gri...

You don't need to buy a smart grill to make perfect meat. You can buy a dumb grill and send it to school with smart upgrades.

‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry warns of simila...

Burry, who rose to prominence after his bet against the subprime mortgage market was featured in “The Big Short,” pointed to evide...

Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy ...

Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder and former director of AI at Elon Musk’s Tesla, has joined Anthropic – adding to the artific...

Gen Z gets heat for booing AI, but their lives hav...

The typical Gen Zer was handed an iPad as a child; their high school experience was upended by a pandemic; and now, they’re confro...

Tom Steyer makes shocking flip flop on water-hoggi...

The billionaire is not calling for a temporary ban on new data center construction.

FTC urged to investigate Roblox for allegedly expo...

Fairplay and the National Center for Online Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) allege that Roblox’s voice and text chat features “are a s...

Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spec...

"That is a lesson learned for us." The post Students Boo and Jeer as AI Name-Reader Flops Spectacularly at College Graduation Cere...

Book About AI’s Effects on the “Future of Truth” F...

Poetic, really. The post Book About AI’s Effects on the “Future of Truth” Found to Contain Slew of AI-Hallucinated Quotations appe...

Elon Musk Compares His Work to Miracles Performed ...

"They’re sort of what I might call Jesus-level technologies." The post Elon Musk Compares His Work to Miracles Performed by Jesus ...

Pizza Hut’s AI Store Control System Is Such a Disa...

Mamma mia, that's a lotta money. The post Pizza Hut’s AI Store Control System Is Such a Disaster That It’s Wasted $100 Million, La...

Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Playing a Cruel Game With...

"It's a bit surreal that 1 out of 10 people are about to be hit, and no one knows how the lists are being made." The post Mark Zuc...

Yango Group’s $150M Africa bet reshapes ride-haili...

On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Yango targeting Africa's ride-hailing behemoths, Nairobi breathing again after a transport strike,...

Backed by $8 million, Checker expands into Africa ...

Checker is betting stablecoins can fix Africa’s costly cross-border payments problem as trade volumes rise and fintechs search for...

Starlink wins provisional satellite license in Uga...

Uganda's UCC has granted Starlink a provisional licence while Airtel Uganda tests the operator's direct-to-cell satellite service,...

Best Budget Laptops for Students in 2026

Best Budget Laptops for Students in 2026 Buying a laptop for school is frustrating. Prices keep rising, flashy marketing makes eve...

8 new movies and shows to stream this week (May 19...

Coming your way this week are all-star casts in movies like The Bride! and Jack Ryan: Ghost War, plus many more!

Meta Medicare scam ads targeting seniors face scru...

Medicare scam ads on Meta allegedly targeted seniors with fake benefits. Meta says it removed 159M scam ads last year.

Best Early Memorial Day Deals: Bose, HP, roborock

Shop Memorial Day deals on tech, outdoor gear, home gadgets and travel essentials. Check back as new discounts are added.

Cyber attackers have a new favorite, the browser

AI-fueled browser threats are rising fast, pushing enterprises toward isolation and stronger security strategies.

Want to feel more hands-on with your files and spr...

Logitech's top-end MX Master 4 mouse is getting Windows 11 Advanced Haptics - so strap in and feel the vibration.

How AI search is shifting brand visibility from SE...

AI systems are shaping first impressions – inconsistent or unverified data can misrepresent brands before users ever get to click ...

Need a compact soundbar upgrade ahead of the World...

The Sonos Beam (Gen 2) is a good-sounding and compact soundbar ideal for many homes. It's on sale now at Amazon.

The Boys season 5 ending explained: who dies, is t...

The Boys season 5 finale brings the popular Prime Video show to an end — here's what happens to its main characters.

Live chicks hatched from artificial eggshell, biot...

Independent scientists say the technology, while impressive, lacks some components to be truly considered an artificial egg.

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VerseTap: How Pastor Simeon Taiwo built an AI-powe...

Every piece of purpose-built software is born from a precise moment of human friction. For Pastor Simeon Adeola…

Africa’s $1 billion talent play: Why the AISCA lau...

For years, the conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa has largely been passive. While Silicon Valley and…

Why telecoms theft and vandalism are still on the ...

On June 24, 2024, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu signed the Designation and Protection of Critical National Information Infrastructur...

The Era of Intelligence Consumption: How SSA Enter...

Across the sub-Saharan African (SSA) technological landscape, a cognitive revolution is underway around AI. For years, African ent...

China installs world's largest floating wind turbi...

Three Gorges Pilot, a 16-megawatt floating offshore wind turbine, marks a major step for deep-water renewable energy and the futur...

More young people are getting colorectal cancer — ...

People 65 and older are seeing their rates of colorectal cancer drop, but younger people are being felled by a rising number of ca...

800-year-old notebook and fancy silk toilet paper ...

Archaeologists recovered the 10-page wax notebook with Latin writing and its leather carrying case from a medieval latrine in Germ...

Diagnostic dilemma: Biopsy triggered 'spontaneous ...

Doctors describe a strange case in which a tumor in a woman's arm disappeared without specific treatment.

Celestron AstroMaster LT 70AZ review

A simple, beginner-friendly telescope that makes it easy to get started and enjoy your first real views of the moon and planets.

Texas company hatches live chicks from artificial ...

Colossal Biosciences says it hatched live chicks from artificial eggs for the first time, a step toward potentially reviving extin...

Turning 65? Month-by-month plan to protect yoursel...

Turning 65 can trigger data brokers to sell your personal details to marketers and scammers. Learn how to protect yourself before ...

MTN’s IHS acquisition could change who controls co...

MTN’s IHS Towers acquisition could reshape connectivity, competition, and startup opportunities across Francophone Africa’s digita...

Why Kenyan digital bank Cloud9 acquired Mtickets i...

Cloud9, a Kenyan digital bank, acquired ticketing platform M-Tickets in an all-stock deal valued at roughly KES 100 million ($773,...

He started building in military-era Nigeria. Now h...

In the 1990s, when most Nigerian businesses still relied on paper files, fax machines, and office memos, Chuma Chukwujama was alre...

Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data cent...

Costs for solar panels are expected to drop another 30% in the coming decade, helping the tech cement its lead in energy markets.

How to Make Apps and Websites Remove Your Nonconse...

Starting May 19, tech platforms in the US will have to start complying with the Take It Down Act. Here's how more than a dozen of ...

Google I/O 2026 Live Blog: All the Gemini and Smar...

Follow our live coverage of Google’s annual developer keynote, where the company will announce updates to its Gemini suite of AI t...

Set Up Your Phone’s Always-On Display So You’re Un...

Break the pattern of unlocking your phone for one thing and then getting sucked into something else. Set up your lock screen to sh...

Tom Steyer Wants to Save California From Billionai...

The hedge fund billionaire turned gubernatorial candidate wants to tax California’s ultrawealthy, regulate AI, and keep Silicon Va...

The real problem with African payments isn’t techn...

From fragmented regulations to deeply localised financial behaviours, Ehi Ijewere of KoraPay explains why scaling fintech products...

Mac users beware — this devious new infostealer ma...

SentinelOne found a new variant of the SHub macOS infostealer called Reaper.

The 4.5-star Ninja air fryer just dropped to its l...

The Ninja Foodi FlexDrawer Air Fryer is a fantastic addition to your kitchen and offers amazing results — it's on sale at a great ...

Why business demand for AI video creation Is surgi...

As AI scales production, creative direction and execution become the new competitive edge.

What is the release date for Rivals season 2 episo...

Tony Baddingham has launched his most hostile revenge on Rupert Campbell-Black yet. But when does Rivals season 2 episode 4 drop o...

To adopt or to adapt? Why SaaS is easing banking's...

Why banks should take 'adopt' approach as opposed to the adapt approach.

Meta to reassign 7,000 employees to new AI roles a...

Meta Platforms Inc. is reportedly reassigning about 7,000 of its workforce to AI roles this week, following its…

Surveyo AI: How Samuel Damfe is empowering struggl...

Walk into a typical school lecture hall across West Africa, and the first thing that strikes you is…

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Doctor's kit found on Mount Vesuvius victim in Pom...

A man who died in Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 was carrying a medical kit with him, new scans reveal.

Bright-blue 'potash ponds' shine alongside a dark-...

A 2017 astronaut photo shows two sets of solar evaporation ponds alongside the Colorado River. The stripy structures are used to r...

1,200-year-old giant 'death jar' in Laos contains ...

Excavation of a large stone vessel from the mysterious Laos Plain of Jars has confirmed its use in an ancient funerary tradition.

Global warming is accelerating 5,000 times faster ...

A new study finds that climate change is creating environments where humans have never successfully cultivated rice before.

World's first 'native' color lidar will let robots...

Ouster has launched the Rev8 set of lidar sensors that function as both a camera and a 3D mapping sensor at the same time. Its eng...

Papa Johns drone delivery skips the pizza

Papa Johns launches drone delivery with Wing in Indian Trail, North Carolina, starting with sandwiches while custom pizza packagin...

Amazon recall text scam comes with red flags

Scammers are sending fake Amazon product recall texts with phishing links designed to steal your login and payment details. Here's...

Federal jury delivers verdict on Musk's lawsuit ag...

A jury in federal court reached a verdict in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI after Musk accused the maker of ChatGPT of violati...

Kenya appoints Adan Mohamed as tax chief amid reve...

Kenya has appointed Adan Abdulla Mohamed as Commissioner General of the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), in a major leadership reshu...

In today's edition: Kenya has a new tax chief || Fawry seeks licence for inbound remittances || Ethiopia gives timeline for cloud ...

Chicken Inn owner handles 6,000 daily deliveries a...

The figures point to a broader shift in how restaurant chains are expanding in African cities, where logistics capacity is becomin...

uLesson names Iheanyi Akwitti CEO as Sim Shagaya t...

The transition comes a month after Shagaya announced the launch of Myka, his newly founded insurance startup.

Spotify now wants listeners to know when AI helped...

As AI-generated music becomes harder to distinguish from human-created work, streaming platforms are being forced to answer uncomf...

Instructure Canvas Cyberattack Exposes 275M Record...

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New Course Centering Beyoncé And Her ‘Cowboy Carte...

A course on Beyoncé and her album “Cowboy Carter” (2024) has arrived at Harvard University.

Data Centers Continue To Drain Water In Drought-St...

Data centers continue to use public water supplies without authorization, leaving residents in water-stressed communities to bear ...

US Justice Department Accuses Yale School Of Medic...

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Social Security Insolvency Fears Grow As Trust Fun...

Social Security insolvency has become a growing concern among Americans, many of whom worry their benefits could be unavailable by...

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman ...

Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verd...

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used ...

Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation a...

OSHA probing worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase sit...

The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites.

SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Clau...

Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting tha...

Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford...

"There's a common refrain among [young] people in this world that it's easier to raise money for a startup right now than to get a...

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AI advances are breaking into the physical world –...

A tech VC said, physical AI is "the challenge of figuring out how to reinvent the physical world. It's a big challenge." In descri...

Meta employee gets dark about horror of working th...

"I definitely spend a good amount of that time sort of despondent somewhere in my house."

TikTok was set to pay $1B in 2024 over kids privac...

TikTok is nearing a $400 million truce with President Trump’s Justice Department over child data privacy breaches – a sweetheart d...

Meta employees told to work remotely Wednesday as ...

The companywide bloodbath will take place in three waves, with impacted workers learning their fate by email at 4 a.m. local time ...

Elon Musk’s bid to sue bitter rival Sam Altman fai...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Jurors on Monday handed Elon Musk a loss in the landmark trial over the future of OpenAI — finding that the worl...

AI CEOs Baffled by Hatred of Their Technology

There's a huge gap between the public and AI executives. The post AI CEOs Baffled by Hatred of Their Technology appeared first on ...

People Are Getting Plastic Surgery to Look More AI...

"It's like saying I want to look like Ariel from 'The Little Mermaid.'" The post People Are Getting Plastic Surgery to Look More A...

Parents Explode in Fury at School’s Plan to Consta...

"I am troubled by the idea of using my child's likeness in unknown AI tools and how this could be abused." The post Parents Explod...

If Starship Explodes Again, It Could Derail SpaceX...

The pressure is building. The post If Starship Explodes Again, It Could Derail SpaceX’s Entire IPO appeared first on Futurism.

Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by O...

"Not Found." The post Sports Illustrated Just Deleted Every Article by One of Its Writers After Accusation of AI Plagiarism appear...

Kenya gives Safaricom a 25-year lifeline amid Voda...

On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Kenya giving Safaricom a 25-year lifeline, Your NIN is now your tax ID in Nigeria, and Bolt wants ...

Nairobi ride-hailing drivers abandon apps as fuel ...

Nairobi ride-hailing drivers are bypassing apps during a fuel strike, negotiating fares directly with stranded commuters as Kenya ...

How Sulfman’s Eagle Watch is putting African innov...

Sulfman Consulting introduces Eagle Watch, its AI-powered digital investigation platform designed to help organisations investigat...

Zimbabwe gives content creators until June to decl...

Zimbabwe has given content creators and social media influencers until end of June to voluntarily disclose undeclared income, as Z...

Nigeria sets June 17, 2026 as official date for an...

Nigeria has confirmed June 17, 2026 as the date for its Digital Switch Over, ending analogue broadcasting and reshaping the countr...

Can Therapy Apps Replace Therapists? The Honest An...

Can Therapy Apps Replace Therapists? The Honest Answer Mental health apps are everywhere now. From guided meditation tools to AI-p...

Rideable robot looks ready to stomp all over us

Unitree’s $574K rideable robot can walk, carry a passenger and transform. Would you climb inside one of these machines?

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As TechRadar's TV tester, I've created 4 TV and so...

With the World Cup only weeks away, I've put together four TV and soundbar combos to suit every budget to upgrade your setup

Thinking of upgrading to the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ul...

If you've been thinking of buying the top-end Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, you might find another, older device that ticks your box j...

12 Memorial Day TV Deals worth shopping at Best Bu...

Best Buy's Memorial Day sale is live, and I have all the top TV deals, including up to $2,000 off 4K, QLED, and OLED TVs from Sams...

'We have not seen the limits of what Atlas can do'...

Atlas robot hefts 50lb fridge to deliver a single drink — and yes, this is progress.

'I'm sorry Dave': NASA is working on an AI chip to...

NASA developed a powerful autonomous spacecraft processor designed to improve deep-space decision-making without constant Earth co...

How a growing El Niño will affect 2026 hurricane s...

The last time an El Niño pattern occurred was in 2023, when the Eastern Pacific hurricane season produced 20 tropical systems.

New dinosaur weighing as much as 9 elephants ident...

The long-necked herbivore is the largest ever found in Southeast Asia, researchers said.

El Niño could bring "double whammy" of high tide f...

The upcoming El Niño could trigger frequent and widespread flooding in coastal areas around the United States, even when storms ar...

Driverless Waymo cars get into traffic jam in Atla...

Atlanta residents woke up to Waymo traffic jams on Friday. The driverless cars took over a quiet cul-de-sac. Skyler Henry has more...