There were 4.5 million reported incidents of fraud in the UK in 2021/22, up 25% on the year before. It is a growing problem which costs billions of pounds every year. The COVID pandemic and the cost of living crisis […]
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A selection of tech news from Nigeria and Africa at large. Flutterwave Tuition | cybersecurity laboratory | FinTech collaboration | insurtech MyCover.ai funding | Flex Finance | Co-Creation Hub GIZ innovations Flutterwave introduces Tuition to help African students pay […]
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A selection of tech news from Nigeria and Africa at large. FUTA Student-Developed App | App Curb Faulty Banking Services | Nerdzfactory Digigap | Digital Health Platform | Logitech Developers Hardware | Electronic Spare Parts Startup App FUTA commences […]
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Warnings about artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous right now. They have included fearful messages about AI’s potential to cause the extinction of humans, invoking images of the Terminator movies. The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has even set up a […]
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A selection of tech news from Nigeria and Africa at large. Stllr partners Payoneer for SMEs | Convexity digital solution | PayGo solar startup | KCB, Visa, and Thales contactless | MTN and Microsoft Cloud Solutions | Insurtech Turaco milestone […]
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Apple recently unveiled its Vision Pro headset at the Worldwide Developers Conference in California. With it, Apple is venturing into a market of head-mounted devices (HMDs) – which are usually just displays, but in this case is more of a […]
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The pandemic forced many educational institutions to move to online learning. Could the rise of chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, now further improve the accessibility of learning and make education more obtainable for everyone? Chatbots are computer programmes […]
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In March 2023, Italy became the first western country to block the advanced chatbot known as ChatGPT. The Italian data protection authority, Garante, cited concerns over the protection of personal data when making this decision. It has given OpenAI, the […]
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In 1956, during a year-long trip to London and in his early 20s, the mathematician and theoretical biologist Jack D. Cowan visited Wilfred Taylor and his strange new “learning machine”. On his arrival he was baffled by the “huge bank […]
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Technology nearly derailed the conclusion of the 2023 presidential elections in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission could not fulfil its promise to transmit election results from the polling units on its result viewing portal (IReV). This led to calls […]
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