Category: Science/Technology

The Joro spider is spreading in the US, but it's n...

The population of the Joro spider has been growing in parts of the southern and eastern U.S., and some researchers think they will...

New study reveals how humans harnessed the lineage...

Scientists have traced the ancestry of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago and quickly became dominant acro...

Plummeting Humboldt penguin population presents ex...

The Humboldt penguin population has declined to the point that the birds are at risk of extinction. Scientists found only a single...

New research investigates how short-term space tra...

New studies show that space tourists experience some of the same body changes as astronauts who spend months in orbit. These chang...

How much is your personal information worth on dar...

Some of your information can be for sale on the dark web. If you use the same password for multiple accounts, those accounts are i...

How to easily enable, disable autofill on your And...

You've got full control over Android's autofill password feature, which is here to stay. Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson explains how to ...

Fox News AI Newsletter: AI for your iPhone

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

Chilling fake of birthing 30,000 babies in eerie a...

A controversial video, "EctoLife: The World's First Artificial Womb Facility," is fictional and does not depict an existing techno...

How to find and manage all online accounts linked ...

Because we have so many online accounts, it's important to manage them properly to prevent personal information from being comprom...

Elon Musk blasts Apple’s approach to AI, threatens...

Elon Musk on Monday threatened to ban Apple devices at his respective companies if the tech giant integrated OpenAI at the operati...

California police department unveils Tesla Model Y...

A California police department is testing out the use of Tesla Model Ys as patrol vehicles, while the outfitter is looking to supp...

Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI

Billionaire Elon Musk moved to drop the lawsuit he filed against OpenAI and its leaders, including Sam Altman, over what he saw as...

Apple Intelligence to be boon for future iPhone sa...

Apple’s artificial intelligence features will push consumers to seek iPhone upgrades and be a boon for future sales, some analysts...

Larry Ellison is $15B richer after Oracle shares h...

Larry Ellison’s net worth surged after Wall Street’s positive reaction to the Oracle’s fourth-quarter earnings results. Forbes ran...

Nigerian subscribers decline to 8.1 million as Mul...

“Mass-market customers in countries like Nigeria had to prioritise basic necessities over entertainment,” the company said in its ...

In today’s edition: Multichoice records $223 million in losses || TLG Capital, Wema Bank invest $10 million to boost aluminium rec...

BlackRock’s $400 million iShares ETF to exit Niger...

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, will close iShares Frontier a $400 million fund that invests in frontier and select ...

African innovation thriving despite scarce represe...

With generative artificial intelligence (AI) expected to add $4.4 trillion to the global economy annually, according to this McKin...

South Africa’s Standard Bank to fund $5 billion Ug...

Work on the 1,445km pipeline to connect Uganda’s oil fields on the shores of Lake Albert to the Tanzanian port of Tanga has faced ...

AI is speeding up crypto website fraud and influen...

AI’s early integration into crypto presents opportunities for efficiency, as well as scams. Per an Elliptic report, AI is helping ...

Nomad is Bringing Back Its Passport Wallets

There’s a lot you need to keep up with when traveling, like plane tickets, credit cards, and your passport and any important docum...

Dark and Darker Release Date, Pre-Registration, an...

In April 2024, Krafton invited a handful of fans to their South Korean headquarters to test the very first version of Dark and Dar...

ZkSync community reacts to airdrop debacle

Ethereum scaling solution zkSync will airdrop 3.6 billion ZK tokens to users next week, but the crypto community said the distribu...

AI tokens FET, AGIX, OCEAN merger delayed to July

FET, AGIX and OCEAN, the native tokens of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects Fetch.ai, SingularityNET, and Ocean Protocol, ...

Apple Pay adding more payment options and expandin...

The biggest change for consumers will be ability for banks to offer multiple forms of financing to customers within Apple Pay, as ...

Apple shares hit all-time high after unveiling AI ...

Apple stands to add $180 billion to its market value if the current stock price of $205 holds.

Secret meaning behind ‘Google’s name leaves intern...

The title's etymology has come to light via a resurfaced post on the forum platform Quora, in which a user inquired: “Is Google an...

Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI accusing Ch...

Musk dismissed his case without prejudice, which means he could refile it at another time.

Auto leaders’ venture company picks North Carolina...

A venture company founded by seven of the world’s largest automakers will make North Carolina its global headquarters, backed by m...

iPhone 16 to feature upgraded Siri and AI at WWDC

WWDC will bring many announcements, but all eyes are focused on AI news Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple will roll out big AI improveme...

Life is Strange: Double Exposure continues Max’s s...

What you need to know During the Xbox Games Showcase 2024, Square Enix and Deck Nine showed up to reveal the next mainline Life is...

Arbitrum unveils a $215m gaming catalyst program

The Arbitrum (ARB) blockchain platform launched an initiative to advance the Web3 gaming industry. Within three years, the company...

This surprise new game from the makers of Sniper E...

What you need to know Rebellion, makers of Sniper Elite, have revealed their new game at the Xbox Games Showcase. Atomfall is a si...

CMF Phone 1 From Nothing Sub-Brand May Have A Dime...

The CMF Phone 1 Is No Longer A Whisper In The Wind; It’s Actually Coming Image: CMF by Nothing The CMF Phone 1 is going to be the ...

Ashton Kutcher Threatens That Soon, AI Will Spit O...

Ashton Kutcher — who isn't quite the beloved figure he once was these days — has an eye rolling prophecy about the future of filmm...

Tesla Chair Warns Elon Musk Might Quit Tesla If He...

In an impassioned letter registered with US regulators, Tesla's chair Robyn Denholm pleaded with shareholders to approve the reins...

Popular News App Caught Publishing Completely Untr...

NewsBroken NewsBreak — the most downloaded news app in the US — has been publishing made-up news articles generated by AI, a Reute...

Google Hires Weight Loss Drug Exec With Zero Tech ...

Capital Gains After a nearly year-long search, Google's parent company has found its next chief financial officer — one who has no...

AI Systems Are Learning to Lie and Deceive, Scient...

AI models are, apparently, getting better at lying on purpose. Two recent studies — one published this week in the journal PNAS an...

CBN Lifts Ban Over OPay, Kuda, Others

CBN Lifts Ban Over OPay, Kuda, Others The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has lifted its ban on OPay, Moniepoint, Kuda, Palmpay, and...

Zoho announces early access to CRM for Everyone

Zoho announces early access to CRM for Everyone Zoho Corporation, a leading global technology company, today announced early acces...

Google upgrades NotebookLM, AI-powered research an...

Google upgrades NotebookLM, AI-powered research and writing assistant Google’s AI-powered research and writing assistant is gettin...

Zone Launches Point-of-Sale Payment Gateway Powere...

Zone Launches Point-of-Sale Payment Gateway Powered by Blockchain Zone, Africa’s fast-growing payment infrastructure company has a...

Glovo hosts first edition of ‘Courier Day’ and lau...

Glovo hosts first edition of ‘Courier Day’ and launches Glovo+ Leading multi-category app, Glovo, successfully concluded a two-day...

Android’s Find My Device trackers are missing one ...

Google's Find My Device network is currently missing ultra-wideband support, but some new app code suggests it could be en route.

Quordle today – hints and answers for Friday, June...

Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Frid...

Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzle...

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram fo...

Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.

Report: Apple may make it even easier to manage pa...

A new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman suggests that Apple will release a dedicated password management application for the iPh...

Tiny fern breaks world record for largest genome o...

The New Caledonian fern, Tmesipteris oblanceolata, has more than 50 times more DNA packed into the nucleus of its cells than human...

Book excerpt: "Challenger" by Adam Higginbotham

The British journalist and author of "Midnight in Chernobyl" returns with his exhaustively-researched new book about the 1986 spac...

China claims success as lunar probe unfurls flag, ...

China hails its lunar probe mission as a success after unfurling a Chinese flag on the far side of the moon and collecting rock an...

Maps show how "Tornado Alley" has shifted in the U...

"Tornado Alley" used to refer to the central Plains region, but research shows new areas of the Midwest and Southeast now face a g...

Joro spider photos: Get up close and personal as t...

Joro spiders can lay up to 500 eggs in a single sac and can parachute themselves "tens to hundreds of miles" away through the sky....

Boeing Starliner launch scrubbed yet again

What was to be the maiden launch of the Boeing Starliner with astronauts on board was halted yet again Saturday, this time less th...

Millions of Americans are losing access to low-cos...

FCC calls on Congress for funding to restart program that helped low-income households get high-speed internet service.

Russian disinformation network targets politicians...

A CBS News analysis found the sham news websites published dozens of false claims over the past two weeks alone.

Family urges better technology to help remind driv...

Many newer vehicles have built-in technology that is meant to remind drivers that a child is in the back seat of a car, which can ...

Could better safety tech help protect kids from ho...

The law requires car manufacturers to install rear seat reminder alerts in new passenger cars by 2025. The government is weighing ...

Binance generated 20bn from Nigeria in 2023, large...

Binance recorded a turnover of $20 billion in 2023 alone

We made a list of the top 5 performing crypto asse...

May was an eventful month for the crypto ecosystem. Many projects launched their tokens and the meme coin…

Bolt and Uber may hike fares in Kenya amid govt’s ...

Uber and Bolt said the new taxes have the capacity to tank overall revenue for them as well as income for the drivers

Zoho announces CRM for everyone, major updates to ...

Leading global technology company, Zoho has today announced early access to Zoho CRM for Everyone, a new set…

EFCC arraigns TStv CEO, Bright Echefu, for alleged...

Echefu was alleged to have misappropriated and converted the sum for his personal use, among other counts...

Make your bad photos look picture-perfect like a p...

Editing photos in iOS 17 is now simple, according to Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson. The tech guru explains the steps to process and cro...

Google testing ads in AI-powered search as news pu...

Google derives the vast majority of its annual revenue from digital advertising, which generated $237.86 billion its bottom line i...

Amazon to launch new AI-powered, conversational Al...

Amazon introduced Alexa in 2014 but has not found a consistent means to make it profitable, instead driving shoppers to the compan...

Are you car-compatible with your partner?

The poll of 2,000 married or cohabitating car drivers found that 25% are incompatible with how they treat vehicles — meaning they ...

Nvidia shares jump past $1,000 after AI chip maker...

Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and other technology companies have competed for a limited supply of Nvidia's high-end chips as they r...

News Corp, OpenAI reach landmark content licensing...

“We believe an historic agreement will set new standards for veracity, for virtue and for value in the digital age,” News Corp. CE...

Legal Experts Say OpenAI Is in Big Trouble If Scar...

Open Season OpenAI has landed itself in hot water for pushing out an update to ChatGPT that features a virtual assistant with an u...

That Guy Claiming to Be Satoshi Nakamoto Just Got ...

Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist who has long claimed to be Bitcoin's mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto, has once...

Google Is Already Jamming Advertisements Into Its ...

It was bad enough that Google decided to include "AI Overviews" in search results, watering down useful links with amalgamated gar...

The Washington Post Tells Staff It’s Pivoting to A...

Already facing scandal, the Washington Post's new-ish CEO and publisher, Will Lewis, has announced that the newspaper will be pivo...

Microsoft CEO Bashes Human-Like AI After OpenAI's ...

I Robot After OpenAI got in trouble for copying actor Scarlett Johansson's voice for a new ChatGPT voice assistant, the head honch...

How Africa’s largest payments network is integrati...

How Africa’s largest payments network is integrating social mission with its business aspirations Being deliberate about creating ...

Nigerian Startup Regfyl Wins African Fintech Summi...

Nigerian Startup Regfyl Wins African Fintech Summit Pitch Regfyl, a Nigerian startup specializing in Anti-Money Laundering (AML), ...

CJID set to covene Journalism, Digital Tech and AI...

CJID set to covene Journalism, Digital Tech and AI Conference 2024 The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID), a ...

Canon Central and North Africa launches ‘Women Who...

Canon Central and North Africa launches ‘Women Who Empower’ Campaign in Nigeria with WISCAR Canon Central and North Africa, a glob...

“Which Cloud? The One in the Sky?” – Grace’s Journ...

“Which Cloud? The One in the Sky?” – Grace’s Journey to Becoming a Cloud Engineer Grace Ezuma’s story isn’t your typical tech care...

TEAC unveils the elite DAC and headphone amp I'll ...

The big news here is a new DAC that promises incredible imaging and a super-clear sound stage.

Arrowhead's CCO wants the Helldivers 2 studio to b...

Arrowhead's chief creative officer has said he wants the Helldivers 2 studio to become the next FromSoftware of Blizzard.

The Witcher season 4 clip reveals first look at Li...

Henry Cavill's Geralt replacement has finally been unveiled by Netflix, and viewers have had plenty to say about the reveal.

Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 tipped to offer major audio ...

We've got a few more details about how Samsung is going to improve on its current series of wireless earbuds.

Nvidia RTX 5080 could still turn up later in 2024 ...

There’s been some confusion about when the RTX 5080 might launch, but it seems like the GPU is on track for release in Q4.

FCC to consider rules for AI-generated political a...

The FCC is introducing a proposal to require political advertisers to disclose when they use Ai-generated content in broadcast TV ...

Scarlett Johansson demands answers after OpenAI re...

Scarlett Johansson is demanding answers from OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, after it released a ChatGPT voice that she says sound...

Nebraska sues TikTok for allegedly targeting minor...

Nebraska sued social media giant TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, claiming the platform targets minors with "addictive des...

Flutterwave is only African on CNBC’s 50 list

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A chat with Zone’s Olayiwola Osoba on regulation, ...

Olayiwola Osoba has always been a lover of technology Having worked at Andela, GT Bank E-payments Group, Intel…

Weeks after shutting Lagos facility, Microsoft ann...

Tech giant, Microsoft has announced that it is joining forces with G42, the United Arab Emirates’ top artificial…

Alleged tax evasion: Binance executive Gambaryan f...

This comes weeks after another Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, escaped custody and fled Nigeria

CBN orders BDCs to re-apply for new licences, bans...

The CBN also bars BDCs or their franchisees from engaging in activities like street-trading of foreign currencies

'We'll be studying this event for years': Recent a...

Vibrant auroras that were recently observed by millions of people across the globe were some of the most widespread in the last fi...

Scientists discover the possible origin of the sun...

New simulations suggest that the origins of the sun's explosive storms could lie much closer to its surface than first thought.

H5N1 bird flu has spread to human from cow in 2nd ...

A dairy worker in Michigan contracted an eye infection on a dairy farm where H5N1 had been identified in cows.

Lost photos suggest Mars' mysterious moon Phobos m...

Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps...

Ancient Mycenaean armor is so good, it protected u...

Researchers recruited volunteers from the Hellenic Armed Forces to test the strength of replicas of 3,500-year-old body armor.

Listening to 'pink noise' could improve sleep and ...

Pink noise, a soothing alternative to white noise, is gaining attention for its potential benefits in promoting relaxation and imp...

How cockroaches spread across the world to become ...

Researchers analyzed the genes of over 280 cockroaches across 17 countries as part of a study to trace how the hardy little surviv...