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Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
While Apple’s entry into the foldable smartphone market with the iPhone Duo has captured significant attention, the company is arriving well after Android competitors who have been refining the category for years. Established...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Screenless health trackers have been around for over a decade, but they are currently experiencing a massive surge in popularity. Whoop, a pioneer in the space since launching its first tracker in 2015, recently secured a $575 million...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Oracle announced a $1 billion commitment to its partner ecosystem to help partners capitalise on customer demand for AI-powered solutions and services. Spanning the next four years, the investment is intended to expand opportunities for...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Checkout.com has announced a partnership with PRYPCO , the first all-digital real estate ownership platform in the MENA region. Through the partnership, Checkout.com has helped PRYPCO increase payment acceptance rates by 20%, creating a...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Censys released its fifth annual State of the Internet Report , the definitive industry report on the changing Internet, revealing that exposed AI infrastructure grew 63% in nine months. The report also identified roughly 134,000...
CXO Insight Middle East · · Critical severity
Qualys has announced that it is offering its solutions for free as a service to the community to help organisations detect, validate, and mitigate their exposure to PHP2Shell, two critical vulnerabilities in PHP tracked as...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched applications for a new capacity-building programme aimed at helping African institutional investors develop the skills and confidence needed to invest in venture capital funds. The...
TechCabal ·
In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية It’s Moonshot week! The PHP pandemic is sending shivers through government IT departments. On Friday, South Africa’s Presidency temporarily took its website offline after two...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has officially withdrawn the banking authorization of UK-based HSBC Bank’s Johannesburg branch, bringing to a close the global banking group’s long-planned departure from South Africa. The decision...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
Researchers at KU Leuven , Kunsan National University , Vrije Universiteit Brussel , imec, et al. published “Irradiation-Source-Dependent Tone Conversion in Dry-Deposited Halogenated Amorphous Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Resists for...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
Researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo, Yokohama National University , AIST , and Photonics Electronics Technology Research Association (PETRA) published a technical paper titled “Reduced-DSP 200G/λ Low-Voltage Slow-Light Silicon...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
Researchers at Arizona State University and University of Maryland published “SEAL: Multitenant Security-Aware Layer Mapping for Heterogeneous 3-D CiM Accelerators.” Abstract : “Heterogeneous 3-D compute-in-memory architectures can...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Artificial intelligence is moving beyond smartphones and computers into devices designed to accompany people throughout their day. From wearable note-takers and translation earbuds to personal AI companions and miniature robots, a...
Semiconductor Engineering ·
Researchers at Technical University of Munich published “NN-Based Transistor Modeling for Ultra-Fast SPICE Simulation and Standard Cell Library Characterization.” Abstract : “Neural network (NN)-based transistor models have proven to be...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Nigeria and the United Kingdom are expanding their cooperation on the standards needed to govern emerging technologies, secure digital infrastructure and support cross-border trade, with artificial intelligence governance emerging as a...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Setting up a reliable home network involves more than simply plugging in a router and connecting devices. Small mistakes during installation can lead to poor Wi-Fi coverage, slower speeds, network congestion, security vulnerabilities,...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Apple’s AirTag has become one of the most popular item-tracking devices for travelers, commuters, and anyone prone to misplacing keys, bags, or other valuables. One of its biggest advantages is that it doesn’t require regular charging...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Electric vehicle batteries rely on sophisticated thermal management systems to maintain optimal temperatures, balancing the extreme thermal demands of fast charging, harsh climates, and high-performance driving. If an EV is plugged into...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Electric vehicles continuously consume small amounts of power even when parked and turned off, a phenomenon commonly referred to as phantom drain . While lithium-ion batteries experience a negligible amount of natural self-discharge...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
For over a year, Android devices have quietly initiated a process that automatically attaches the active SIM card’s phone number to every Google account signed in on the hardware. This includes primary, secondary, and even enterprise...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
As smartphones continue to evolve, traditional physical SIM cards are gradually being joined, and in some cases replaced, by eSIM technology . While both serve the same purpose of connecting your device to a mobile network, they work in...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
As smartphones become an essential part of everyday life, digital wallets are changing the way people make purchases, store important documents, and manage their finances. Platforms such as Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, Samsung Wallet,...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Digital wallets have fundamentally transformed personal finance by replacing bulky physical cards with specialized software, though they vary significantly in scope, security, and merchant compatibility. Relying on any of these systems...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Regardless of your iPhone’s out-of-the-box battery specifications , everyone eventually finds themselves hunting for a charger before the day is done. While it is a common reflex to aggressively force-quit inactive apps under the...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
When building or upgrading a PC , most people focus on performance-enhancing components such as a faster processor, a more powerful graphics card, or additional memory. While these upgrades can significantly improve performance, one...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Hair care has come a long way from the days when a basic blow dryer and a round brush were the only tools needed to style your hair. Today, technology is changing how people dry, smooth, curl, and shape their hair at home. Modern...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
A WiFi router is powered by several hardware components that work together to provide reliable internet connectivity. While hardware components like antennas, processors, and RAM often receive the most attention, flash memory is also an...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
BMW is taking a bold approach with the upcoming 2027 iX5 , an all-electric SUV designed to replace the current iX and serve as the electric counterpart to the popular X5. While many automakers have recently experimented with...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Google’s push to make artificial intelligence more personal is raising new questions about how it uses people’s private information. A privacy policy update effective October 16, 2026, introduces an exception allowing data from Gmail,...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) granted global financial powerhouse JPMorgan Chase & Co. an Approval-in-Principle (AIP) to establish a merchant banking subsidiary in the country. The decision comes after the American banking giant...
Tech In Africa ·
Google and the Elba Hope Foundation, established by British actor Idris Elba, have partnered on a $1 million initiative aimed at expanding access to artificial intelligence tools for creative professionals across Africa. The programme...
Tech In Africa ·
African technology company Cassava Technologies has expanded its artificial intelligence infrastructure by incorporating NVIDIA’s Nemotron AI models into its AI Factory, a move intended to increase access to advanced AI capabilities for...
Space in Africa ·
Rwanda is expanding access to commercial satellite imagery and developing ground infrastructure for international satellite operators. Its approach raises a […] The post Is Rwanda Pointing to Africa’s Next EO Model? appeared first on...
iAfrica.com ·
Egyptian agentic AI customer-experience startup Tactful AI has secured investment from Hatem Dowidar, the former group chief executive of UAE telecoms group e&, as an extension of its pre-Series A round. Tactful raised $1 million in...
TechAfrica News ·
Kenya’s Technopolis Development Authority has signed a project preparation funding agreement with the Public-Private Partnerships Project Facilitation Fund under the National Treasury to advance the Konza Cloud Expansion and Smart City...
iAfrica.com ·
London-based SoleCrypt has announced plans for a 40MW AI campus in Bizerte, Tunisia, powered by solar energy and targeting operations in 2028. The company unveiled the SoleCrypt AI Campus at NVIDIA GTC Berlin. Its first phase will...
iAfrica.com ·
Uganda has launched a five-year National Data Strategy to overhaul how government collects, stores and shares information — work officials describe as the foundation for the country’s forthcoming National AI Strategy. A baseline survey...
TechCentral · · Medium severity
A hacker claims it has 366GB of data from the insurer that handles injury claims for mineworkers and metalworkers.
CIO Africa ·
Runway to Railway has announced plans to hold an infrastructure and technology expo in November 2027, following a Cape Town...
TechCentral ·
The presidency has pulled its website offline, two days after PHP released fixes for critical flaws.
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