AV-Test Institute, an impartial IT security company, estimates that there will be over 1.2 billion malware pieces online in 2023. The organization discovers 450,000 new viruses and possibly dangerous apps daily. Scammers and hackers use such apps to steal funds and personal information or use your online identity. These virus prevention tips can prevent you […]

Mastercard and Xsolla, a global company specialising in video game commerce, have formed a partnership to facilitate payments that are hassle-free, safe, and rewarding for gamers.  These improvements range from enhanced checkout experiences that make use of credit card loyalty points to simple in-game currency gifting, as well as improved creator payout processes and other […]

2Africa, an international subsea cable (submarine telecommunications cable) which aims to expand internet connectivity and help boost Africa’s digital economy,  has recently landed in Durban, South Africa. The massive subsea cable, which landed in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal,  is the latest after landing in December and January, at other locations in the country:  Vodacom network facility in […]

According to a Twitter announcement, paying users can now post tweets up to 4000 words long. This implies that its Blue subscribers can now tweet over the initial 280-character cap. The changes apply to replies and quoted tweets. Twitter stated that media like photos and videos could be posted with more characters. The updates apply […]

Netflix’s Premium subscription now includes spatial audio and more download devices, upgrading or joining Free. Netflix Director of Product Management Rishu Arora stated that 4K HDR resolution has been tuned for premium members. “We’re happy to offer new features for users who are already on the Premium plan, upgrade, or register for the first time,” […]

Following a two-year ban for his online behaviour during the January 6th uprising, Meta has announced that it will reinstate Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram. The ban was imposed in response to the January 6th uprising. Nick Clegg, the president of global affairs for Meta, provided an explanation for the decision in a […]

Instagram’s duo founders have launched a new news-focused app called Artifact, four years after giving up ownership of their previous social media app. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, on Tuesday, January 31st, announced the unveiling of Artifact, an app that is powered by artificial intelligence and offers a personalised news feed for its users. Systrom […]

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, also known as the Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a powerful language model. It has been trained on a large amount of text data and can generate human-like responses to a variety of prompts OpenAI created the AI chatbot, a global research corporation specialising in the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems. With OpenAI’s […]

Google has shut down its Stadia cloud-gaming service in the UK, promising to refund gamers who have made Stadia purchases. The service was made inaccessible after 08:00 on 19 January, many gamers say they are “heartbroken” to see it go. Google says it will refund people who bought controllers, games or downloadable content, with Google […]

Nokia, a major manufacturer of mobile devices and telecom infrastructures has partnered with UNICEF to provide more accessible digital education and training in some regions of Senegal, West Africa, in an effort to reduce the digital gap. The company tweeted that Nicole Robertson, Vice President of Environmental, Social, and Governance, praised this collaboration. “I am […]

BioNTech SE plans to acquire Tunisian-founded, United Kingdom-based InstaDeep for up to £562 million (about $680 million). This will be BioNTech SE’s largest deal to date. According to the Financial Times, the German vaccine manufacturer plans to employ the machine learning capabilities of InstaDeep to better its drug discovery process. This will include the development […]

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), with a mission to establish a dynamic Science and Engineering Infrastructure-base for achieving home-initiated and home-sustained industrialization, has expressed disappointment on the setback of Nigeria’s manpower training in China, which has affected local manufacture of First Made in Nigeria helicopter. This was according to a statement […]

Certain products and services Google sells in Kenya will be subject to a Value-Added Tax (VAT) of 16%. The search engine company made this announcement on January 1, 2023. This comes as a result of the Kenyan government’s implementation of a new tax through the Digital Marketplace Supply (Amendment) Regulation, 2022, earlier this year. It […]

OpenAI has hinted that it may soon release a premium, paid version of the well-known chatbot, ChatGPT, for business users. ChatGPT is a conversational dialogue model that has been trained by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize and respond to natural human language. A free service utilizing the AI chatbot was made available […]

By integrating AI technology from OpenAI into its programs, Microsoft may give Office users a means to write text for projects. With tools like Stable Diffusion that produce artwork from straightforward cues, AI has become more common in the creative industries over time. It now appears that Microsoft is thinking about utilizing that same technology […]

Gift cards were made to make payments easier, spread the use of digital assets, and encourage people to buy things without cash. With a gift card, you can shop whenever you want at your preferred retailer or company. When you have information about your digital assets on your phone, you no longer need to be […]

Tech giant Google’s web browser Chrome will cease to support computers using versions of windows older than Windows 10 from 15th January 2023. Google has in the past two years been considering this action, with its support team announcing in October 2022 that the new version of the web browser, Chrome 110, is designed to […]

Acer has introduced a suite of powerful new Nitro gaming laptops featuring the latest 13th Gen Intel Core processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs. The laptops come in more compact, thinner, and lighter form factors with higher screen-to-body ratios. Intended for casual gamers who are ready for enhanced gameplay, extra features, and a […]

African leaders have been asked to pay more attention to digital skills education in 2023 so that they can train the kind of workers who will help the continent grow. Osita Oparaugo, founder and CEO of GetBundi, said this recently while talking to journalists in Lagos. He said that Africa’s economic growth would be slowed […]

As the company strives to minimize expenses, Amazon has announced that it intends to eliminate more than 18,000 positions, which would be the highest amount in the company’s history. The internet behemoth, which has 1.5 million people working for it throughout the world, did not specify which nations would be affected by the job losses, […]