Multipolitan, the world’s first platform for borderless living, has released findings from its Start-Up Friendly Cities Index 2026, a study that measures and compares the relative attractiveness of leading global cities for founders, investors and innovators. The Index provides an…

New Horizons Nigeria, a leading ICT training institute, has launched a comprehensive empowerment programme aimed at taking Almajiri youths off the streets and equipping them with practical, income-generating technical skills. The initiative, tagged Almajiris-to-Tech, is a 90-day intensive empowerment scheme…

Carbon AI has unveiled plans for the AI in Action 2026 conference, set to take place on 22 January 2026, at the Lagos Oriental Hotel, aiming to advance practical, homegrown artificial intelligence solutions across Africa. In a statement issued on…

Rising memory chip costs driven by AI data centre demand are set to push up Android smartphone prices in 2026, while low- and mid-range brands face the greatest margin pressure, and global shipments are expected to decline, JUSTICE OKAMGBA reports…

It happens every year: we set ambitious New Year’s resolutions — work out more, spend less, keep the house cleaner — full of optimism and motivation. Then life happens, and suddenly it’s June and you can’t recall what your resolutions…

It’s January, which means there’s a whole year of rectangular glass slabs ahead of us. But before that happens, I managed to find phones of a different shape lurking around the corners of the CES convention center halls. They weren’t…

If you’re one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue. What was the issue? Unclear. We reached out to Meta for clarification and have…

Wing is bringing drone delivery to even more Walmart stores in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its drones will be flying above 150 more locations this year, including in four new cities: Los Angeles, St. Louis, Miami, and…

This week, Google announced a new AI Inbox view for Gmail that replaces the traditional list of emails with an AI-generated list of to-dos and topics to track based on what’s in your inbox. It’s not widely available yet, but…

For a while, it seemed like everyone had a TiVo. It was a plot point on major TV shows; it had A-list Hollywood fans; it became a verb as ubiquitous as Google or Xerox. The love was well-earned, since TiVo…

Malaysia has suspended access to Elon Musk’s chatbot Grok over AI-generated pornographic content, the country’s tech regulator said on Sunday. The decision follows global backlash after it emerged that Grok’s image creation feature allowed users to sexualise pictures of women…

I picked Aqara’s Smart Lock U400 and Roborock’s Saros Rover robot vacuum as the overall best smart home gadgets from CES 2026, but there were gazillions of other great gadgets on the show floor.It was a banner year for smart…

In 2023, what was then still called Twitter, open-sourced at least portions of the code that decided what it served up in your feed. But that GitHub repository is hopelessly out of date, with the vast majority of the files…

The FCC approved SpaceX’s plan to launch an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites on Friday. That brings the total number of satellites the company will have in orbit to around 15,000 worldwide. As part of the approval, the government is…

Greetings from the year of Linux on my desktop.In November, I got fed up and said screw it, I’m installing Linux. Since that article was published, I have dealt with one minor catastrophe after another. None of that has anything…