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The Trump phone was never a serious phone. Not when it was announced last June, in dodgy renders and with an incoherent spec sheet. Nor when Trump Mobile admitted — just two weeks later — that it wouldn’t be made in the US. Not even when the company revealed the final phone, first to me over a video call in February and then to the world in April through a short commercial with the slick sheen of AI.It’s now on sale for $499, past the days of its tenuous, ever-shifting release dates. A few buyers even have the phone, The…

The US Federal Reserve named Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) co-founder Marc Andreessen to help lead a task force studying how artificial intelligence and other new technologies could affect productivity and jobs.Andreessen will serve on the Fed’s Productivity and Jobs task force alongside Charles I. Jones, a Stanford University economics professor currently on leave at Anthropic, and Asha Sharma, Microsoft’s executive vice president and Xbox CEO.The new task force will assess how general-purpose technologies such as AI will affect employment and productivity to better inform the central bank’s policymaking, the Fed said in a Thursday press release.The group is one of five…

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Edo Sector Command, says it will not participate in Saturday’s local government election in the state because it was not invited. The State Sector Commander of the corps, Preye Bedford, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Benin. According to him, the command’s exclusion from the exercise stems from a lack of an official invitation from the election stakeholders. “My command is not involved. Well, we weren’t invited,” the official said. Reacting to how the corps would navigate the 12-hour movement restriction scheduled from 6:00 a.m.…

Sterling Financial Holdings Company Plc has announced the appointment of Olubisi Makoju as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the holding company, while Olayinka Oni was appointed a Non-Executive Director of Sterling Bank Limited. In a regulatory filing signed by the company’s secretary, Sunny Kanabe, on Friday, the company said the appointments were intended to strengthen the leadership of both entities. The appointments of the two directors followed regulatory approval by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the financial institution stated. “We wish to notify Nigerian Exchange Limited, our esteemed shareholders, and the investing public of the appointment of new Directors…

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has condemned the assault on a resident doctor at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Kwara State, and demanded the swift prosecution of the alleged assailant. In a statement signed by its President, Mohammad Suleiman; Secretary-General, Shuaibu Ibrahim; and Publicity and Social Secretary, Abdulmajid Ibrahim, the association noted the incident as “barbaric” and called for stronger measures to protect healthcare workers from violence. According to NARD, the incident occurred on Wednesday at the Emergency Paediatrics Unit of UITH after the death of a baby receiving treatment at the hospital. The association alleged…

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one — instead, it’s offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is launching a pilot program for a new “distributed AI compute” program that will “place numerous compute nodes in homes equipped with Sunrun solar and battery storage systems.” Customers will be “compensated” for participating in the pilot program.Sunrun plans to sell the distributed compute power from the nodes to “enterprise compute buyers,” like AI companies. It’s a new approach to finding resources and space for…

The crypto industry has spent years convincing Washington that it deserves a seat at the table. Now, as Congress inches toward passing the CLARITY Act, a long-awaited crypto market structure bill, it seems it finally has one.The question is no longer whether lawmakers are listening to digital asset advocates, but whether the crypto lobby’s deep pockets and influence in election campaigns will be enough to get the legislation over the line.That debate comes as Senate negotiators work toward a potential floor vote before Congress breaks for its August recess. In a June 25 thread on X, Kristin Smith, president of the…

Big Brother is honoring former houseguest Mickey Lee, who died last year. As the reality show kicked off its 28th season on Thursday, July 9, a photo of Mickey was shown on screen. “In loving memory of Mickey Lee (1990 – 2025),” the text next to her image read. Mickey died on December 25, 2025, after being hospitalized due to multiple cardiac arrests as she battled complications from the flu. She was 35. Related: Big Brother’s Rachel Reilly Honors Mickey Lee on NYE After Her Death Big Brother alum Rachel Reilly shared a touching tribute in honor of her late costar…

For the second time in one week, the Federal High Court in Abuja rescheduled judgement in the assets forfeiture proceedings initiated against 57 properties allegedly linked to former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami. The court, on Friday, rescheduled the judgement for 15 July because Judge Joyce Abdulmalik did not sit. Court officials told our reporter that they did not know why the judge did not sit. The court originally set Monday (6 July) for the judgement upon conclusion of hearing on 26 May. However, on Monday, the court rescheduled the the judgement for Friday (today). No reason…

Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla will officially open the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games on 23 July, organisers have announced. The royal couple will attend the Opening Ceremony at the Hydro Arena in Glasgow, where the King will declare the Games open by reading the message he placed inside the King’s Baton on Commonwealth Day, 10 March 2025, at Buckingham Palace, before the Baton Relay began. The ceremony will mark the official start of the 23rd Commonwealth Games, which will feature more than 3,000 athletes from 74 Commonwealth nations and territories competing for 215 gold medals across 10 sports…