Category: Science/Technology

Atlanta residents report Waymo traffic jams

Atlanta residents say they're waking up to traffic jams of self-driving Waymo vehicles confused by neighborhood signage.

Jury unanimously dismisses Elon Musk's lawsuit aga...

California jury dismissed all charges, finding that Musk missed the three-year statute of limitations to file suit.

An adobe renaissance

For thousands of years, civilizations around the world have built houses out of earth – whether it be mud brick, wattle and dab or...

TECNO officially launches the SPARK 50 with massiv...

TECNO has officially unveiled the new SPARK 50, a smartphone designed for users who want more power, smoother…

Infinix NOTE 60 SERIES garners Red Dot and iF Awar...

Infinix today announced that the NOTE 60 SERIES has received a series of world-renowned design recognitions, reinforcing Infinix’s...

Lagos records 16.4 million fake emergency calls in...

The Lagos State Command and Control Centre said it recorded 16.39 million fake emergency calls between January 2025…

MultiChoice, IHS, Mono: What employees gained from...

When a big merger or acquisition is announced, conversations mostly focus on the financial implications, the scenario of…

Tech Trivia with Abiola Rasaq, Founder of Bug Dete...

This is Technext’s weekly Women-in-tech trivia, a close-up series that spotlights the lives and personalities of female tech enthu...

'Last titan' of Thailand discovered, and it's the ...

A newfound species of long-necked dinosaur from Thailand lived up to 120 million years ago, and it's the largest known of its kind...

Daunian kyathos: A 2,700-year-old ceramic cup from...

A pre-Roman ceramic cup or ladle that could inspire kitchenware today — this li'l dude is excited to mix!

'Truly significant': James Webb telescope reveals ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have created the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever.

950-year-old burial of a pet dingo is first clear ...

Archaeologists have excavated the remains of a dingo that was buried by ancestors of the Australian Aboriginal Barkindji people an...

Deadly Ebola outbreak is a public health emergency...

Health officials suspect that an Ebola epidemic has killed 100 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the World Heal...

What a scammer sees the moment they Google your na...

Google your name and see what scammers find in seconds. Public records, data brokers and social media expose your personal details...

License plate cameras at Home Depot and Lowe’s spa...

Some Home Depot and Lowe's stores in Connecticut reportedly scan license plates in parking lots using automated readers tied to po...

Samsung phones that lost software support in May 2...

Table of contents How Samsung’s update system works The three phones that lost support Quick specs comparison What losing software...

The Kenyan Boeing engineer who chose trucks over p...

When we spoke, Thuo reflected on leaving Boeing, why Africa’s logistics startups keep failing, the cultural acceptance of ineffici...

Africa has seen oil shocks before. Why 2026 could ...

Africa has been here before. Oil climbs above $100, import bills balloon, Finance ministers across the continent convene emergency...

How to fix Samsung One UI 8.5 problems

Any major software update comes with a settling-in period, and One UI 8.5 is no different.

Samsung One UI 9 beta is here: What Galaxy users s...

Table of contents What is One UI 9? What is new in One UI 9 Which Samsung Galaxy phones will get One UI 9 When will your phone get...

Breaking Down Folorunsho Alakija’s Multi-Billion D...

Folorunsho Alakija built her fortune through bold decisions and strategic timing in Nigeria’s oil sector.

Tiwa Savage Is Supporting A Nigeria-Based Program ...

Tiwa Savage wants to ensure the next generation of Nigerian artists are well-equipped for the music industry.

Students’ Average Test Scores Are Declining For Gr...

A new report is shedding light on a “learning recession” in U.

After Losing His Grandmother Josiah Faison Launche...

Josiah Faison is leveraging tech to help people preserve their stories.

Tristan Thompson Invested In Anthropic Early After...

An NBA dinner led Tristan Thompson to invest in a major AI company.

The offline desk gadget that actually got me to si...

Deep Care's $350 device is pricy, but it runs offline and helps you improve your posture and movement habits

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of pr...

OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a y...

ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.

The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.

Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $3...

AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures a...

Gaza Is Rebuilding With Lego-Like Bricks Made From...

As reconstruction materials remain blocked, Palestinians are crushing debris into interlocking blocks to build shelters from destr...

The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Enti...

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature ...

Take Control of Your Debt With These Free Tools

These free debt calculators help you set up payment plans to get back in the black.

If You’re a Serious Bowler, You Need to Know About...

Bowling centers apply oil to their lanes using a machine that works like a giant inkjet printer. The pattern in which it’s applied...

The 6 Best Grills and Smokers of 2026: Smart, Port...

I grilled, smoked, seared, cleaned, and synced digital temp controllers to find the best grill option for every cookout and tailga...

The small business guide to HP Printers: Trusted, ...

Small business owners, this one is for you!

Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square discloses Microsoft ...

Ackman, 60, wrote in a lengthy X post that Microsoft operates “two of the most valuable franchises in enterprise technology” in th...

Everybody on Wall Street is ridiculing Ryan Cohen’...

GameStop is a lousy business, which CEO Cohen readily admits, but somehow he has made it work.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX accelerates timeline for blockb...

The accelerated schedule pulls forward a process that had originally been planned for around late June, around Elon Musk’s birthda...

AI influencer salaries revealed, with one making $...

“It’s a new category of creators and their ability to monetize in unique ways,” ex celebrity manager Clarissa Mansbridge told The ...

Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnec...

"It's happening almost everywhere." The post Dentists Are Using AI to Scare Patients Into Unnecessary Dental Work, According to an...

College Kid Shuts Down High Speed Trains With a La...

He says he pushed the button "accidentally." The post College Kid Shuts Down High Speed Trains With a Laptop and a Radio appeared ...

Amazon Employees Forced to Hit Quotas on AI Use, I...

"If companies use brain-dead metrics to judge people then you need to learn how to f**k them over right back." The post Amazon Emp...

Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Tow...

"Without collective voice, 'merit' becomes whatever management says it is." The post Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes The...

Gene Therapy Causes Patient to Grow Alarming Tumor

Tinkering with the genetic code of a living human is risky. The post Gene Therapy Causes Patient to Grow Alarming Tumor appeared f...

How Kora’s COO navigates growth, regulations, and ...

As Kora expands across Africa, its COO Stephen Oluwatobi is focused on building systems that can sustain growth, manage regulatory...

Jumia is cutting 200 jobs as AI takes over more of...

On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Jumia cutting 200 jobs and betting big on AI, Ghana ending its 5G monopoly experiment, and Kenya r...

Nigeria Revenue Service Authorised Upperlink as th...

Nigeria Revenue Service has Authorised Upperlink as the System Integrator...

Qoray Launches National Dealer-Owned Electric Mobi...

Qoray Mobility & Energies Limited has launched its Dealer-Owned, Dealer-Operated...

Sterling Financial Holdings Sustains Growth Moment...

…Group Profit rises 89% in FY2025, 53% in Q1 2026

Google Just Redesigned Every Emoji on Android – an...

Google Just Redesigned Every Emoji on Android – and They Are Now 3D Google just announced that every single emoji on Android is ge...

The Honest Review: Best Noise-Canceling Headphones...

The Honest Review: Best Noise-Canceling Headphones for Work-From-Home in 2026 Working from home sounds ideal until real life gets ...

A Guide to AI for Agriculture and Food Security in...

A Guide to AI for Agriculture and Food Security in Africa Modern food systems in Africa face many challenges, including erratic we...

Nigerian Fintech Infrastructure Is Shaping the Fut...

Nigerian Fintech Infrastructure Is Shaping the Future of Global Payments For years, global tech companies treated Africa as a mark...

Digital Skills Hiring in 2026

Digital Skills Hiring in 2026 Everyone online seems to be selling a new “high-income skill.” One week it is AI prompting. The next...

License plate cameras at Home Depot & Lowe’s spark...

Your plate may be scanned at Home Depot or Lowe’s. See who can access the data and why privacy questions are growing.

FCC robocall crackdown could change phone privacy

New FCC robocall rules may fight spam calls by forcing more ID checks. Could burner phones and phone privacy be at risk?

Is that traffic ticket text a scam or real?

Got a DMV payment text? This traffic ticket scam uses fake links and threats to steal your data. Here’s how to spot it fast.

Your 401(k) is the new identity theft target

A woman lost $751K from her 401(k). Here’s how scammers got in and what you can do to help protect your retirement savings.

One of the biggest data center projects in the US ...

Fayette County declined to fine QTS after hidden water usage surfaced following complaints about weak residential water pressure l...

Don't spend top dollar on a new Dyson vacuum — wit...

Dyson Week is on right now with a slew of stick vacuums heavily discounted by up to 53%, including some entry-level gems like the ...

A lot of musicians will be infuriated by this 'wor...

The Melo-D is a smart guitar that comes with useful AI features. It looks particularly good for beginners but I have a few concern...

How to watch IIHF World Championship 2026: FREE Li...

Watch free streams from the IIHF World Championship 2026 as USA defend their title and Canada seek revenge – ice hockey TV channel...

‘So close to brilliant’ — I reviewed the Corsair V...

The Corsair Vanguard Air 99 wireless is a slim premium 99% keyboard with Stream Deck smarts and excellent hardware, but the softwa...

Emperor penguins in focus as Antarctica talks star...

Greater protections for endangered emperor penguins and how to manage growing tourism are topping the agenda at talks on Antarctic...

China's most critical issue is Taiwan, also centra...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called Taiwan "the most important issue" between his country and the U.S. About 10% of the popula...

Employers are demanding AI skills. What's the best...

Career experts say workers and job seekers should take charge of their own AI education. Here's how to get started.

CEOs worth nearly $1 trillion accompany Trump to C...

The delegation of business leaders underscores the deep ties many major U.S. companies maintain with China despite years of trade ...

Workers are getting paid to teach AI how to do the...

AI companies are recruiting a wide range of temp workers, from writers to wine enthusiasts, for hourly-paid gigs to help train the...

Trump Mobile says its T1 mobile phone to ship this...

Trump Mobile's $499 gold-toned phone has faced delays since it was unveiled in June 2025.

Sampson Ovuoba started coding at 13, dropped out o...

It was late in the afternoon on a quiet day in Lagos, the clock inching towards 5:00 p.m.…

Will the IGP’s ban of POS within 200 metres of pol...

The Inspector General of Police has directed that Point of Sale (POS) operators can no longer conduct business…

Dangote Refinery listing: Nigerians to buy shares ...

Dangote Refinery is preparing to make a remarkable initial public offering (IPO) by listing on the Nigerian Stock…

Facebook spotlights African cinema in 6th ‘Made by...

Ahead of Africa Day on May 25th, Facebook has launched the sixth edition of its pan-African campaign, “Made…

Telecoms: Despite complaints about poor service, N...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has noted that network quality offered by Nigerian telcos is improving across several...

We tested the 'first self-cleaning air purifier' a...

The Dreame FP10 excels at removing hair, pet dander and bad odors, all without making excessive noise or requiring never-ending fi...

'Extreme' crystal that formed in 1945 nuclear bomb...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

A pill can stop people from developing COVID after...

A pill called ensitrelvir is the first drug shown to effectively reduce infection after exposure to SARS-CoV-2.

High-status Roman woman was buried in a lead coffi...

A burial of an elite Roman-era woman who appears to have been buried with exotic resins has been discovered in Colchester.

'There are 4 people in those pixels': Earth-based ...

A blurry new photo captured by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia shows Artemis II's Orion capsule circling the moon more t...

Facial recognition jails innocent grandmother, att...

Angela Lipps says she was arrested based on a facial recognition match and jailed for months before bank records helped prove she ...

Missed voicemails with no calls? It could be a sca...

Silent voicemail scams drop blank messages into your inbox without ringing your phone. Here's how the scam works and what you can ...

Fox News AI Newsletter: Graduation speaker praises...

Stay up to date on the latest AI technology advancements and learn about the challenges and opportunities AI presents now and for ...

New cancer tech sends chemo straight to tumors

A targeted drug-delivery system called TAMP aims to send chemotherapy near pancreatic tumors instead of through the entire body in...

Cisco to cut thousands of jobs as AI push accelera...

Cisco reported record revenue and surging AI demand while announcing job cuts affecting thousands as it repositions for an AI-driv...

OpenAI backs creation of global AI governance body...

OpenAI VP Chris Lehane supports creating a global AI governance body led by the U.S. that includes China, amid Trump's visit for t...

In today's edition: End of the road for Starlink in South Africa? || Cameroon acquires French-owned bank || Chimoney shuts down ||...

Nairobi’s traffic police may soon give way to AI

The government now wants machines to take over. Treasury documents tabled in parliament show Kenya has allocated KES 1.18 billion ...

Kenya plans 16% VAT on electric vehicles, batterie...

The proposal, contained in the Finance Bill 2026, could increase the cost of imported batteries, electric buses, and related compo...

Quick Fire

Meet Babatunde Onadipe, a cybersecurity professional at the Bank of Canada, and co-founder and CTO of WakaMi, a platform where peo...

In today's edition: Quick Fire

Lovable AI Launches Mobile App for Android and iOS...

Have you ever had a million-dollar app idea strike you at the most inconvenient time, while waiting in line for coffee, riding the...

Byron Allen Expands Empire With $120M BuzzFeed Dea...

Byron Allen is expanding his media empire by acquiring a majority stake in BuzzFeed Inc.

Valedictorian Lamont Newell, Who Battled Homelessn...

Lamont Newell is heading to an Ivy League school, and he’s already thinking of various ways to give back to the students coming be...

Twin Sisters Named Valedictorian And Salutatorian ...

Twin sisters Tia and Jasmin Criss are set to graduate from the nation’s oldest Historically Black College and University (HBCU).

PayPal Settles Federal Probe Into ‘Illegal DEI’ Pr...

PayPal Inc.

Prep School Located In This Predominantly African-...

Southland College Prep Charter High School’s 2026 class has more than one reason to celebrate this graduation season.

Evolution of snakes: Scientists unravel the myssst...

Huge snakes, tiny snakes, poisonous snakes and constrictor snakes, snakes that slither, burrow or swim: New fossils and modern tec...

The deep roots and fragile future of biodiversity

Species are disappearing at least 10 to 100 times more rapidly today than extinctions observed over millions of years. A biologist...

Do you take after your dad’s RNA?

Evidence is growing from rodent studies that sperm carries marks of a father’s life experiences, influencing traits in offspring. ...

Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI wi...

The head of product for Claude Code and Cowork says that the next big step for AI is proactivity.

Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI...

Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace...

Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unche...

Gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company's use of "mobile" gas turbines as power plants.

Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic u...

Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.

Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, onc...

"The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among...

Sony Bravia Theater Bar 5 Review: Basic Bar, Big S...

The latest Bravia Theater soundbar strips away the nice-to-have extras, but its crisp and booming sound is on point.

OnlyFans’ First-Gen Creators Are Retiring—and Some...

As more sex workers quit the industry, some are having to navigate tough questions around consent and the “afterlife” of work they...

Submit Your Questions: AI Is Changing Your Job—Now...

Pose your questions ahead of our May 27 livestream AMA, where a panel of WIRED experts will discuss how AI is transforming work.

Best Air Purifiers (2026): Coway, AirDoctor, IQAir...

Protect your home against dust, pets, allergies, and more with the best air purifiers, tested firsthand.

Inside the Race to Develop a Test for the Rare And...

A University of Nebraska lab has developed a test that can detect the virus before symptoms become severe. Now, it's ready to star...

Sergey Brin’s ‘MAGA girlfriend’ denies pushing Goo...

"The Democrats redpilled him. I didn’t have to do anything," Gerelyn "GG" Gilbert-Soto told Bari Weiss's online publication The Fr...

OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6B in stock sales l...

Approximately 75 employees maxed out their sales and received the full $30 million, the report said.

Sam Altman faces heat as he takes witness stand in...

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman hit back at Elon Musk’s claims that he “stole” OpenAI the charity and steered it away fr...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defends OpenAI’s for-p...

OAKLAND, CALIF. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella defended OpenAI’s pivot to for-profit status and discussed his company’s hopes for a...

New lawsuit claims Facebook profits by ‘actively’ ...

A California county filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc.

Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinc...

We have to sit down. The post Man Behind Simulation Hypothesis Warns That Extinction of Humanity Is a Risk We Have to Take appeare...

New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelan...

"To be clear on AI..." The post New York Times Issues Stern Warning to Its Freelance Writers About AI Use appeared first on Futuri...

Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Enti...

Who could have seen this coming? The post Researchers Put Google Gemini in Charge of an Entire Coffee Shop, and It’s Inexorably Dr...

Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI I...

Oops. The post Large Study Finds That Replacing Workers With AI Is Backfiring Badly appeared first on Futurism.

OpenAI Sued Over ChatGPT Medical Advice That Alleg...

"ChatGPT recommended a dangerous combination of drugs without offering even the most basic warning that the mix could be fatal." T...

Airtel Africa posts record $813M profit, delays IP...

On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Airtel Africa's $813 million profit, how Paytags may change the way Nigerians send money, and an A...

Accuvice Launches AI-Powered Compliance Web Platfo...

Founded by Kamoru Emmanuel Umoru, the Accuvice platform helps businesses...

Expedier Processes Over $150M in FY2025, Driven by...

Expedier processed more than $150 million in transaction volume in...

Jumia’s revenue rises 39% as Q1 2026 hits $50.6M

On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Jumia's 39% revenue increase in Q1 2026 to $50.6 million, Vodacom Group's 12.2% increase to R167.7...

BestPOSApp Launches Free Offline POS System for Re...

BestPOSApp introduces free offline point-of-sale software for SMEs. Manage retail,...

Startup Funding News Today: Biggest Deals And Tren...

Startup Funding News Today: Biggest Deals And Trends Today’s startup funding landscape is being shaped by huge AI and deep tech ro...

Two-Factor Authentication Explained: What You Need...

Two-Factor Authentication Explained: What You Need to Know Passwords are no longer enough. Data breaches, phishing attacks, and le...