Temitope Ajayi, senior special assistant to President Bola Tinubu on media and publicity, has denied reports that American technology company, Microsoft, is shutting down its operations...
How does Amazon CTO Werner Vogels — a man worth untold millions, who during the COVID-19 pandemic bought outright the small Central Amsterdam Airbnb he’d been...
Volkswagen has revealed all about its latest California camper van model, which is now based on the long wheelbase version of the excellent Multivan, meaning it...
Developers season has officially commenced, and we’re mere days away from Google I/O 2024. The short answer to the question of what to expect is two...
Groww, an Indian investment app, has become one of the first startups from the country to shift its domicile back to India from the U.S., signaling...
Surveys have been used to gain insights on populations, products and public opinion since time immemorial. And while methodologies might have changed through the millennia, one...
Elon Musk’s brain technology, Neuralink, has said that the device implanted in its first patient malfunctioned weeks after the surgery. The company disclosed this on Thursday...
Google has announced the opening of applications for the 2024 cohort of its Hustle Academy, a programme dedicated to accelerating the growth of small and medium-sized...
Call centers are embracing automation. There’s debate as to whether that’s a good thing, but it’s happening — and quite possibly accelerating. According to research firm...
TikTok is starting to automatically label AI-generated content that was made on other platforms, the company announced on Thursday. With this change, if a creator posts...
India’s mobile payments regulator is likely to extend the deadline for imposing market share caps on the popular UPI payments rail by one to two years,...
The Association of Capital Market Academics of Nigeria (ACMAN) has expressed its concern regarding the timing of the proposed 0.5% cybersecurity levy introduced by the Central Bank of...
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria on Tuesday warned that Artificial Intelligence (AI), as good as it may be, should be a tool for empowerment and...
Ever wonder why conversational AI like ChatGPT says “Sorry, I can’t do that” or some other polite refusal? OpenAI is offering a limited look at the...
The African Union (AU) has suggested that to attain sustainable development globally, developing countries should have increased representation and influence within global Artificial Intelligence(AI) governance structures....
Apple’s iPad event had a lot to like. New iPads with new chips and new sizes, a new Apple Pencil, and even some software updates. If...
Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of...
Good news, crypto founders: Venture capital activity is picking up in your sector after falling to multi-year lows in late 2023. Put another way, venture folks...
Google Deepmind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3...
We’ve all seen them. The inspector with a clipboard, walking around a building, ticking off the last time the fire extinguishers were checked, or if all...
Close to a decade ago, brothers Aviv and Matteo Shapira co-founded Replay, a company that created a video format for 360-degree replays — the sorts of...
Monzo has raised another £150 million ($190 million), as the challenger bank looks to expand its presence internationally — particularly in the U.S. The new round...
High interest rates and financial pressures make it more important than ever for finance teams to have a better handle on their cash flow, and several...
High interest rates and financial pressures make it more important than ever for finance teams to have a better handle on their cash flow, and several...
It is estimated that about 2 billion people, especially those in lower and middle-income countries, lack access to quality and affordable essential medicines. The situation is...
The 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exams recently ended and candidates can now check their UTME results. Many students would be looking to undergo...
Tech giant, Microsoft, and ChatGPT maker, OpenAI, have launched a $2 million Societal Resilience Fund to tackle AI misinformation and educate people around the world on...
Samsung Medison, a medical device unit of Samsung Electronics that specializes in developing diagnostic imaging devices, said on Wednesday it plans to acquire Sonio, a Paris-based...
Ofcom is cracking down on Instagram, YouTube and 150,000 other web services to improve child safety online. A new Children’s Safety Code from the U.K. Internet...
Meta is rolling out an expanded set of generative AI tools for advertisers, after first announcing a set of AI features last October. Now, instead of...
Robert Kahn has been a consistent presence on the Internet since its creation — obviously, since he was its co-creator. But like many tech pioneers his...
Amazon is launching a new tool, Bedrock Studio, designed to let organizations experiment with generative AI models, collaborate on those models, and ultimately build generative AI-powered...
TikTok has taken a bold step by filing a lawsuit against the US government, marking the first challenge to a new law that mandates Chinese parent...
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Mercury’s latest expansions, wallet-as-a-service startup Ansa’s raise and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released vital information regarding JAMB results 2024 updates. In a recent post via their official X (formerly Twitter)...
AI is coming for audiobooks, and that is not an entirely bad thing. But it is a cause of concern in the realm of audio titles...
Apple isn’t yet ready to unveil its broader AI strategy — it’s saving that for its Worldwide Developer Conference in June — but the tech giant...
Chipper Cash, a pan-African fintech startup, has resumed operations in the US after a two-month pause, and after a restructuring exercise that saw the company remove...
The United States has announced that it plans to deploy a cybercrime advisor in Nigeria. The advisor is poised to facilitate cooperation between the two nations,...
OpenAI says it’s developing a tool to let creators better control how their content is used in AI. Called Media Manager, the tool — once it’s...
Interest in male birth control has increased in the past few years, especially since the U.S. overturned Roe vs. Wade, which protected a woman’s right to...
Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale “alphabet” with the aid of machine learning technologies. Results...
Many students interested in pursuing higher education in Nigeria consider the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) pathways. UTME conversion to DE 2024...
While taking a long road trip across the U.S. years ago, Sanish Mondkar realized that there were stark, problematic disconnects between employers and the staff they...
We’re still well over a month out from WWDC, but Apple went ahead and snuck in another event. Today, at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET, the...
Digital banking startup Mercury is layering software onto its bank accounts, giving its business customers the ability to pay bills, invoice customers and reimburse employees, the...
Bias in AI image generators is a well-studied and well-reported phenomenon, but consumer tools continue to exhibit glaring cultural biases. The latest culprit in this area...
Thomas Li was working at Point72, the hedge fund founded by notorious investor Steve Cohen, when he realized that the financial industry relies heavily on manual...
Microsoft and OpenAI have announced a $2 million fund to combat the growing risks of AI and deepfakes being used to “deceive the voters and undermine...
When Itai Ben-Zaken’s first startup failed in 2018, the former BCG consultant and Wharton MBA spent months trying to understand what he could have done differently...
A Nigerian startup providing digital identity solutions, Seamfix, has secured $4.5 million to fund the expansion of its digital ID and credential services. The private equity...
Cards are gaining ground in Egypt, with over 30 million in circulation (prepaid cards, particularly, are seeing more use than debit and credit cards combined). This...
India’s Election Commission has issued an advisory to all political parties, urging them to refrain from using deepfakes and other forms of misinformation in their social...
In partnership with Good morning ☀️ TechCabal is launching a podcast we hope will enhance conversations and improve insight into the people in the ecosystem. Please...
President of the Africa Fintech Network (AFN), Dr. Segun Aina, has said that some of the regulatory issues facing fintechs in Nigeria are due to the...
Whether you love or hate celebrity culture, the Met Gala is an event. Those less jaded among us get to see all of the biggest stars...
Wayve, a UK-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed a $1.05 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank...
It seems we’re all in agreement: Kendrick Lamar defeated Drake in one of the most engrossing rap battles of the decade. To add insult to injury,...
An environmental scientist, Olamide Iyanda, has underscored the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in accurately forecasting environmental changes globally. Making this assertion at a media briefing recently,...
As DocuSign reportedly explores a sale to private equity, it’s acquiring a company itself. On Monday, DocuSign announced that it’s buying Lexion, a contract workflow automation...
Nigeria may reinstate a previously suspended telecom tax and other fiscal measures as it seeks to secure a new $750 million loan from the World Bank. This is...
Nigeria may reinstate a previously suspended telecom tax and other fiscal measures as it seeks to secure a new $750 million loan from the World Bank. This is...
Building a startup is hard. Building a company that helps startup is similarly difficult. That’s the takeaway from TechCrunch reporting on Techstars and Newchip. In the...
Plenty of founders have a difficult decision to make early in their journey: where to set up shop. For deep tech founders, the decision is complicated...
Engwe P275 Pro: One minute review It isn’t immediately obvious that the P275 Pro is an Engwe bike, but I think that’s a good thing. Right...
News that Jack Dorsey is out at Bluesky caused a stir this weekend. After all, Dorsey is a former Twitter co-founder and CEO, so his investment...
We’re still well over a month out from WWDC, but Apple went ahead and snuck in another event. Tomorrow, May 7 at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m....
The first bit of news out the Automate conference this year arrives by way of Alphabet X spinout, Intrinsic. The firm announced at the Chicago event...
OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks. As a result of...
The Chief Executive Officer of Financial Derivatives Company Limited, Mr. Bismarck Rewane, has thrown his weight behind plans by telecommunications operators in Nigeria to increase their...
Last November, Adam D’Angelo found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest controversies in the tech industry. The board of OpenAI — the $80...
The latest report from cybersecurity firm Sophos revealed that ransom payments by companies globally hit with ransomware increased by 500% in 2023. According to the “State...
Founders at the early stages of building their startups may have already created a strong solution, identified a gap in the market, or may simply have...
You’ve probably seen the headlines: battery EV sales are slowing down, and PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) sales are hot; the DC fast charging infrastructure isn’t...
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable...
The appetite for alternative clouds has never been bigger. Case in point: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this...
I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. And I...
Nigerian young resident population now feels more mistrust and bewilderment, because of the FG’s recent attack against Nigeria’s crypto industry A crackdown on peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency...
Software giant, Microsoft, has rolled out passkeys for all consumer accounts, enabling users to drop passwords to access the company’s accounts. The company noted that the...
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable...
When Sonia García and Stas Sokolin decided to launch Amae Health to solve the broken care system for people with severe mental illness, they were already...
Hallucinations — the lies generative AI models tell, basically — are a big problem for businesses looking to integrate the technology into their operations. Because models...
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of...
21st-century science has all the necessary principles to create a working Star Wars lightsaber, but not the know-how. A few years ago, Swiss fusion physicist Federico...
When Seb Inglis-Jones and Will Stirrup, the co-founders of British electric motorcycle start-up Maeving, found themselves in China on business, they remarked at how beautifully silent...
For a while, Nigerians have faced difficulty making international/dollar purchases or payments with their naira cards due to the ban placed on these cards by the...
You may be one of those looking to open an account with Providus Bank because their naira Mastercard lets you make dollar/international transactions. Whatever the reason...
Happy Star Wars Day to those who celebrate! But even on these most nerdy of holidays, the tech world moves so fast it’s like it’s jumped...
Google is facing scrutiny over advertising practices amid an antitrust trial by a United States court. Judge Amit Mehta presided over the final stages of a...
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has released the schedule for disbursing social grants in May 2024. Here’s a quick rundown of payment dates for...
X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app’s Explore section....
Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t give much away about the company’s AI plans on Thursday’s Q2 earnings call with investors, but he did confirm a few...
The Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC) has said it is working in collaboration with the Centre for Energy Research and Training (CERT), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU),...
Allozymes’ ingenious method of quickly testing millions of bio-based chemical reactions is proving to be not just a useful service, but the basis of a unique...
Last year’s doldrums are in the rearview If you were concerned about slowing cloud infrastructure growth for a time in 2023, you can finally relax: The...
One of Nigeria’s leading fintech companies, OPay, has warned its customers against trading in cryptocurrency or any virtual currency on its app. The company, in a...