The Federal Government, under the ministry of communications, innovation and digital economy, has called for applications from researchers of Nigerian descent from across the globe to help the country to create its National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy. Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, announced this via X (Twitter), urging Nigerians to … [Read more…]
A 13-year-old programmer Joshua Agboola has emerged the youngest certified Amazon Web Services developer associate in Africa. Master Agboola achieved the feat after a gruelling two-hour examination that tested his skills and knowledge in deploying, troubleshooting, and development on the AWS cloud platform. Cloud services are infrastructure, platforms, or software that are hosted by third-party … [Read more…]
Twitter’s owner Elon Musk and its new CEO said Sunday that the social media network would ditch its bird logo, be rebranded with the name X and move quickly into payments, banking and commerce. Founded in 2006, Twitter takes its name from the sound of birds chattering, and it has used avian branding since its … [Read more…]
Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will beat out the struggling site owned by Elon Musk. In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, published by online news outlet Semafor on Thursday, Musk lawyer Alex Spiro accused the company of “unlawful misappropriation of … [Read more…]
Elon Musk says Twitter will limit the number of posts users can see a day to limit ‘extreme levels’ of data scraping by AI companies Elon Musk said Twitter had to take “drastic and immediate” action to restrict access to tweets because AI companies were stealing its data. Elon Musk said forcing users to sign … [Read more…]
Elon Musk is trolling Twitter users who either complain about getting blue check marks for free or back a campaign to block those who do pay for them. Elon Musk is giving out free blue check marks to some who complain about Twitter Blue. He gave them to some users who’ve been vocal about blocking … [Read more…]
Many of Twitter’s high-profile users are losing the blue checks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform. After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to keep them. … [Read more…]
Twitter Boss Elon Musk Announces Only Verified Users Will Vote In Polls, Have Tweets Recommende Twitter boss Elon Musk has announced a shake-up of the social media platform’s paid Twitter Blue feature. From 15 April only verified subscribers will have posts recommended to other users and be allowed to vote in polls. Under the policy, … [Read more…]
MTN Nigeria Communications Limited is set to roll out its 5G network today. The Chief Executive Officer of MTN Nigeria, Mr Karl Toriola, had said MTN was ready for rollout, having the required 5G equipment on the ground. A source close to MTN Nigeria disclosed that MTN kept to its promise by commencing the rollout … [Read more…]
Whatsapp: New update delivers great features for users The social media app, Whatsapp, last week rolled out a series of features that enhance user experience on the app. While Facebook (now Meta) founder, Mark Zuckerberg, took to his Facebook page on May 5, 2022, to announce the rollout of new reaction emojis on Whatsapp, the … [Read more…]
Africa has a growing youth population; apparently, the rest of the world is looking at it to source talents; especially, technology talents. Unfortunately, the formal education systems are overwhelmed, resulting in a huge deficit of the requisite skilled talents. However, to get more youths that could compete on a global stage, African tech start-ups are … [Read more…]
Federal government has directed telecommunication companies, (MTN, Globacom, Airtel, and 9mobile) to bar all outgoing calls from unlinked Subscriber Identification Module cards, SIMs. Disclosing this in a statement signed by the minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, FG stated that it’s directive will take effect from the 4th of April, 2022. Read part … [Read more…]