Category: Science/Technology

Towable trailer transforms into rugged tiny home i...

You only need two minutes to watch this trailer transform from a compact towable to a spacious shelter, offering four-season comfo...

Early Memorial Day Sales: Snag these must-have pro...

Score early Memorial Day deals on top-rated products! Save big on earbuds, smart bulbs, headphones, power stations, dash cams, and...

Federal probe targets Waymo’s driverless robotaxis...

The self-driving taxi company Waymo is under federal investigation after a series of accidents. What does this mean for the indust...

Doctor Who's next episode on Disney Plus is being ...

Doctor Who season 14's newest entry, titled '73 Yards', has been met with critical acclaim ahead of its May 25 release.

This wiper malware takes data destruction to a who...

The BiBi Wiper now deletes the disk partition table, making data recovery harder.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6 and Z Fold 6 camera detail...

There's more unconfirmed news about the Z Flip 6 and Z Fold 6 that are expected to launch later this year.

Meta Quest 3 Lite leak suggests it’ll pack the Que...

A new Meta Quest 3 Lite leak reveals it's a powerful VR headset in the Quest 2's bulky body.

Excited about Snapdragon X Elite laptops? Forget t...

Intel fans flames of hype around Lunar Lake laptop CPUs set to arrive as soon as Q3.

Pope Francis on media's "serious responsibility"

Pope Francis tells Norah O'Donnell about the role of communication media and its lasting impact on young people in a historic inte...

OpenAI disables ChatGPT voice that sounds like Sca...

ChatGPT disables AI voice after users say it sounds similar to Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson.

Starlink now available in 99 countries, becomes th...

Starlink also became the third-largest internet service provider in Nigeria

TapSwap: Here is all you need to know about the fr...

Although there is no available information about the team behind the newest coin, the project claims to have 17 million community ...

Notcoin loses 85% value in first week as investors...

...the sharp decline was attributed to investors quickly selling off their airdropped tokens to secure profits rather than holding...

Nigerian startups attracted 30% of $15 billion rai...

Startup funding has continued to decline in recent times as the continent continues to witness a funding winter.

The top 10 countries where mobile data is least af...

Zimbabwe has the worst value for data anywhere in the world as 10GB per month of mobile data costs about 356.60% of the average an...

See May's full 'Flower Moon' rise this week close ...

May 2024's full moon, also known as the Flower Moon and the Planting Moon, will be at its fullest on Thursday, May 23. It will als...

Can a commercial airplane do a barrel roll?

Pilots have been doing barrel rolls in small planes throughout the history of aviation. But has anyone ever attempted this maneuve...

AI computers could run in extreme environments lik...

Ultra-heat resistant computer storage can operate at Venus-like temperatures and may be used in extreme conditions such as nuclear...

Save $200 on the iPad Air M1, with the iPad Air M2...

The M1 iPad Air is heavily discounted, and does almost everything the latest model does.

Earth from space: Rare phenomenon transforms Afric...

In 2018, a weather satellite captured a massive thunderstorm cloud in the shape of a jellyfish. The bizarre cloud was the result o...

How to connect your AirPods to your iPhone, iPad t...

Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson shows you how to connect your AirPods to your Apple devices. There are easy ways to connect your AirPods ...

In today’s edition: Nigeria withdraws cybersecurity levy || Copia faces a potential shutdown || Nigerian court rules for CBN’s soc...

CBN officially withdraws cybersecurity levy

Nigeria’s central bank has withdrawn a controversial 0.5% cybersecurity levy three days before it was supposed to take effect.

Next Wave: What’s going on in Kenya’s B2B space?...

Cet article est aussi disponible en français First published 19 May, 2024 Kenya’s e-commerce sector, once a picture of growth and ...

Early-stage VC firm OpenseedVC launches with a $10...

Launched in 2024 by Maria Rotilu, “OpenseedVC operates at a sweet spot where startups with strong potential for success, partly ba...

DSTV Packages Prices In Nigeria (May, 2024)

In today’s fast-paced world, where entertainment plays a crucial role in our lives, having access to a wide array of TV channels i...

New Law Would Force Government to Declassify Every...

Show Us Receipts In an age of growing UFO belief, a handful of Congress members are calling on the government to show its cards. T...

Sam Altman Clearly Freaked Out by Reaction to News...

Damage Plan OpenAI has had a tough week. Its reveal of the upcoming ChatGPT 4o — that's an "o" for "omni," not a "40" as in the nu...

Tesla's Firing Even More Employees as Crisis Deepe...

Head Count Electric vehicle maker Tesla has been hit by round after round after round of layoffs over the past month or so, to the...

Google's Top Autocomplete Suggestion for "How to E...

It is our somber duty to report, dear reader, that if you search the words "how to edge" on Google, the words "in class" are recom...

Machine Learning Researcher Links OpenAI to Drug-F...

A machine learning researcher is claiming to have knowledge of kinky drug-fueled orgies in Silicon Valley's storied hacker houses ...

EV company Spiro inks $50 million deal to expand i...

Spiro, an electric vehicle company, has signed a $50 million debt financing agreement with Afreximbank to expand in Africa.

NCC suspends issuing MVNO licences nearly a year a...

Nearly a year after licencing 25 operators, the NCC has temporarily suspended the issuance of Mobile Virtual Network Operator, Int...

Nigerian banks may start collecting customers’ soc...

The court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the CBN's Customer Due Diligence Regulations 2023, which include the provision of social...

Copia Global to lay off 1,000 staff or shut down

Today on TechpointDigest, we discuss Copia’s plans to lay off 1,000 staff or shut down, CBN collecting customers' social media han...

CBN Withdraws Cybersecurity Fee Order

CBN Withdraws Cybersecurity Fee Order The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has revoked its cybersecurity levy order, three days befor...

Financial Times names FairMoney one of Africa’s To...

Financial Times names FairMoney one of Africa’s Top Growing Companies FairMoney, Africa’s leading neobank, has been ranked as one ...

CAC Deploys AI for Faster Business Registration in...

CAC Deploys AI for Faster Business Registration in Nigeria The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) is taking a significant step tow...

TikTok Users Sue U.S. Government Over Upcoming Ban

TikTok Users Sue U.S. Government Over Upcoming Ban The ongoing saga of TikTok in the U.S. has taken a new turn. Eight TikTok users...

Boston Dynamics’ creepy robotic canine dances in s...

Boston Dynamics' Spot robot collaborated with its sparkly, costumed counterpart Sparkles to perform an entertaining dance routine.

Massive Dell data breach hits 49 million users — w...

Dell experienced a security breach in which an unauthorized individual accessed and stole sensitive customer data.

How to know if your computer got hacked – what to ...

Slow computer? Unfamiliar icons? You might be hacked! Don't panic. Learn more in our essential hacker-fighting guide.

How to connect your AirPods to your iPhone and iPa...

Sync your AirPods with Apple devices for enhanced functionality. Flawlessly interchange your connection from one Apple device to t...

iOS 18 tipped to bring next-gen Siri and a time-sa...

Notable AI improvements are coming to iOS 18, a new report claims, as Apple tries to catch its rivals.

Windows admins targeted with clever malvertising s...

Don't google your favorite system tools. Or, at the very least, be careful when clicking on the results.

Ghost of Tsushima off to an amazing start on Steam...

Ghost of Tsushima beats out Horizon and God of War as one of PlayStation's highest concurrent player counts on Steam.

Tesla is reportedly ditching support for Steam gam...

Tesla may be abandoning the ability to play Steam games on the Tesla Model S and Tesla Model X.

Leaked Sonos headphones just got a likely launch d...

Sonos messaged fans with the email title 'Heads up', providing a countdown for the launch of its 'most requested product'.

OpenAI strikes deal with Reddit to bring content t...

OpenAI will also become a Reddit advertising partner.

GameStop slides again on move to sell shares after...

GameStop logged its highest trading volume in three years so far this week, following a series of posts from Keith Gill's X accoun...

It wasn’t just your iPhone: Global outage hit Appl...

Hundreds of reports are emerging that people are having trouble sending text messages using their Apple devices.

OpenAI disbands safety team focused on risk of art...

A departing executive who co-led the group warned Friday that safety has “taken a backseat to shiny products” at the company.

Apple to release slimmer iPhone in 2025 as it grap...

The potential thinner version is likely to be priced higher than Apple's iPhone Pro Max, and is expected to be launched in Septemb...

Asia's deadly heat wave was made 45 times more lik...

Extreme heat is known as a "silent killer," and in some areas across Asia, its intensity would have been impossible without one cr...

New study may solve mystery about warm-blooded din...

A new study suggests that the first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have roamed Earth about 180 million years ago.

Discovery of long-lost river may solve ancient pyr...

The 40-mile-long river branch, which ran by the Giza pyramid complex, was hidden under desert and farmland for millennia, scientis...

TikTok says it's testing letting users post 60-min...

TikTok is allowing select users to upload longer-form videos as the social media app looks to compete with YouTube.

Biden's Chinese EV tariffs don't address lingering...

The 100% Chinese EV tariffs are meant to head off economic risks, but some Democrats say Chinese EVs should be banned entirely for...

Samsung trolls Apple after failed iPad Pro "crush"...

Samsung piles on with its on ad after Apple apologizes for a spot that it acknowledged "missed the mark."

TikTok influencers file lawsuit against U.S. gover...

Eight TikTok influencers have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government in an effort to block enactment of a law passed and sign...

Behind the wheel of a $3 million car

The Hennessey Venom F5 is not just a sports car; its twin turbo V8 engine can muster more than 1,800 horsepower, almost twice that...

The rise of blockchain-powered payments in Africa

By Shogo Ishida (Co-CEO, Emurgo Middle East & Africa)

Binance expresses disappointment as Nigerian court...

Earlier today, presiding judge, Emeka Nwite denied Gambaryan (who is 40 today) bail. The judge claimed that the Binance Executive ...

FairMoney Ranked Among Fastest Growing Companies i...

FairMoney’s category-leading growth between 2019 and 2022 underscores its dedication to expanding services that drive financial in...

Court approves CBN’s social media collection

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Congo is building a $72m national fibre data centr...

The fibre project will cost a total of €66.55 million ($72 million). Of this sum, a total of €52.47 million ($56 million) will be ...

A new theory of quantum gravity could explain the ...

A new theory of quantum gravity, which attempts to unite quantum physics with Einstein's relativity, could help solve the puzzle o...

Space photo of the week: Hubble spots a twisted 't...

The Hubble Space Telescope's stunning image of the dusty 'train-wreck' galaxy NGC 4753 reveals what may be one of the greatest opt...

Why is there sometimes a green flash at sunset and...

On a clear day, sometimes a green flash appears with the sun on the horizon just after sunset or before sunrise. But why does this...

Earth-size planet found orbiting nearby star that ...

An Earth-size planet discovered around a nearby star offers astronomers their first chance for exoplanetary geology.

32 animals that act weirdly human sometimes

From chimps that wage war over territory to parrots that outperform Harvard students on memory tests, many other members of the an...

Merger of massive black holes from early universe ...

The Webb Space Telescope has made a new discovery, detecting the earliest known merger of black holes. One of the black holes is 5...

New research estimates when first warm-blooded din...

The first warm-blooded dinosaurs may have lived about 180 million years ago, according to a new study published in the journal Cur...

Ocean temperatures surge, threatening worst coral ...

Scientists say temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire" hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global...

Aerodynamic electric hypercar is packing some seri...

A nod to MG's storied history, the EXE181 concept car could become the world's most aerodynamic vehicle, leading the charge in ene...

7 things Google just announced that are worth keep...

Tech wizard Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson runs down the seven most interesting takeaways from Google's I/O 2024 conference. Google's AI...

Boston Dynamics' creepy robotic canine dances in s...

Robotic dogs performed a dance routine and kissed, igniting discussion about the potential applications of this technology at ente...

Massive Dell data breach hits 49 million users; wh...

A cyberattack on computer manufacturer Dell stole information from an estimated 49 million customers. Leaked information includes ...

Fox News AI Newsletter: How artificial intelligenc...

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

Bill Gates makes cameo at party for Mark Zuckerber...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates made a cameo at Mark Zuckerberg’s recent birthday party to mark the Meta Platforms CEO turning 40 ...

Billionaire real estate mogul organizing 'people's...

Frank McCourt's Project Liberty is organizing a group that would offer to buy TikTok and revamp it to allow its continued U.S. ope...

AI is like a 'tsunami' hitting the labor force, IM...

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said that AI is "like a tsunami" that will have a significant impact on the global work...

Researchers say they've built an AI-powered sarcas...

A group of researchers from the University of Groningen announced they've built an AI model capable of detecting sarcasm in video ...

US-based company innovates 'cutting-edge technolog...

Aeluma CEO Jonathan Klamkin discusses the company's 100% U.S.-made semiconductor chips and its role in improving the military.

ST Digital to build additional data centres in 3 f...

ST Digital, a Cameroon-based digital infrastructure company will build additional data centres in Gabon, Cote d'Ivoire, and Togo t...

Spiro secures $50m debt funding from Afreximbank t...

Spiro has secured a $50m debt financing deal from Afreximbank to expand electric vehicles in Cameroon, Morocco and Uganda

African CEOs in Kigali push for home-grown solutio...

African CEOs and leaders in Kigali want solutions built by Africans on the continent to drive the continent's digital economy....

Empty wallets, empty bellies: Food inflation grips...

“These days, you give thanks to God if you can afford two meals a day,”  says Kafaru, a father of four who has been struggling to ...

Kenya’s Copia mulls shutdown amid plans to lay off...

Copia Global is considering laying off over 1,000 employees or shutting down, citing “uncertainties.”

Microsoft's Emissions and Water Use Shoot Up as It...

Waste Water As Microsoft ramps up efforts to conquer the artificial intelligence industry, its water use and emissions have shot u...

A Single Herd of Bison Can Help Capture CO2 From O...

Bison-tennial In 2014, a rewilding project reintroduced European bison into the foothills of the Tarcu mountains in Romania, where...

Huge Study Finds That Vegetarian and Vegan Diets A...

Fruits and vegetables win again! As CNN reports, a new umbrella study has found that certain vegetarian and vegan diets significan...

After Accident With First Patient, Neuralink Seeks...

Things haven't gone entirely according to plan with Neuralink's first human patient: as the company conceded after questions from ...

ISIS Affiliates Using AI to Generate Propaganda Pr...

Media Blitz Days after gunmen stormed a Moscow concert venue in late March and killed more than 140 people, a slick propaganda vid...

CBN issues approval-in-principle to 14 IMTOs follo...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has granted preliminary approval to 14 new International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOs) to inc...

South Africa ends 100-year Eskom monopoly with new...

Today on TechpointDigest, we discuss South Africa ending the 100-year Eskom monopoly, Flutterwave’s $7.2 million security breach, ...

Why MultiChoice is unshaken by South Africa's regu...

Following South Africa's Department of Communication and Digital Technologies concerns that on-demand music and online video strea...

10 exciting updates about Google’s Gemini and othe...

In the just-concluded Google I/O conference, Google shared updates on more than 100 AI advancements, including Gemini AI (formerly...

Zeepay to conduct outbound money transfers after a...

Ghanaian fintech startup Zeepay has received approval from the Bank of Ghana for outbound money transfers within the regulatory sa...

itel Launches New RS4 smartphone

itel Launches New RS4 smartphone The itel RS4 is the first MMORPG phone by itel. By teaming up with Free Fire, itel aims to elevat...