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Chip maker, Nvidia, has joined the ranks of companies valued over $1 Trillion such as Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Fewer than 10 companies globally have ever achieved this level. Founded in 1993 by three American computer scientists, Jensen Huang (CEO), Curtis Priem, and Christopher Malachowsky, NVIDIA is known for…

Puzzle games are a great way to have fun and challenge yourself, but they can also provide significant benefits to your brain. Whether you enjoy crossword puzzles, Sudoku, or jigsaw puzzles, these games can help keep your brain sharp and improve your cognitive functions. The best part is that today…

The ability to share screens on WhatsApp is coming to Android phones. According to WABetaInfo reports, WhatsApp beta for the Android 2.23.11.19 update is allowing some beta testers to try out the screen sharing feature. This new feature is similar to screen sharing feature available on platforms like Zoom. Once…

Crypto marketplace Patricia announced that it is temporarily suspending withdrawals on its app (mobile and web) due to a recent security breach. It stated that Patricia Personal, the retail trading application, was solely affected by this breach and BTC and Naira assets were compromised. It however reassured stakeholders that all…

Neuralink, an American neurotechnology company developing implantable brain–computer interfaces, announced that it has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to commence human clinical trials. In our blog post in December 2022, we reported that Elon Musk had hoped that brain chip would be implanted in humans…

The financial forecast isn’t looking too good. The winds of change are approaching, as global conflicts, supply chain squeezes, and over-active energy prices plunge currencies into states of inflation. There are sunnier shores on the horizon if you know where to look. Baton down the hatches with gold bars and…

OpenAI has raised $175 million for its OpenAI Startup Fund as disclosed in Securities and Exchange Commission Filing. The company launched the OpenAI Startup Fund in 2021 with initial backing from Microsoft and other investors. The company said at the time of the launch that it would put $100 million into the fund.…

Eyowo, a digital bank operating in Nigeria, has issued a statement on Twitter to its customers and the public to remain calm despite the recent announcement of Microfinance license revocation by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). With its revocation, this means that it has been disconnected from other banks…

Netflix has started its crackdown on subscribers who give their friends and families living elsewhere their passwords to watch programmes on their Netflix accounts. Starting from Tuesday, the video on-demand service provider started sending the email below to members who are sharing Netflix outside their household in the United States…

Kunda Kids, the award-winning children’s media publisher and creative studio, today announces the launch of the Kunda & Friends YouTube series, the company’s flagship animation series, premiering on May 29th at The Cineworld Cinema at The O2 in Greenwich, London. This launch comes a few months after the company closed…

Meta has entered an agreement to sell Giphy, the animated GIF search engine, to Shutterstock for “$53 million of net cash paid at closing, inclusive of working capital.” Three years ago, Meta bought Giphy for $400 million but was later ordered by a UK regulator to dispose of the company due…

Tech giant Microsoft has announced the introduction of Windows Copilot, an AI ‘personal assistant’ for Windows 11. This makes Windows 11 the first PC platform to announce centralized AI assistance for users. This announcement was made at the company’s Build developer conference on Tuesday. Activating Windows Copilot is a user-friendly…

Tyme, the parent body of a South African digital bank TymeBank, announced that has raised $77.8 million in a a pre-Series C round led by Norrsken22, an Africa-focused tech growth fund, and Blue Earth Capital, an independent global impact investment firm. Other participants in this round include Tencent which increased…

Most modern businesses understand how customer data and information are crucial to their operations. A business owner can generate insights and make better decisions by utilizing them. While this sounds good, inspiring, and comforting, remember that not all data is valuable. For example, information on how a customer prefers one…

Innovation is the province of the visionary; it’s what sets the leaders apart from those that follow. Is it hard to achieve? Of course, it is, otherwise everyone would be doing it. To innovate is to do something new, and nobody can be doing that all the time. As a…

Tech firm Meta on Monday was hit with a fine of $1.3 billion (€1.2 billion) for violating European Union data protection rules and ordered to stop transferring data collected from Facebook users in Europe to the United States. Furthermore, the Facebook-owned company has been ordered to bring its data transfers…

Austin Russell has just acquired a majority stake in Forbes Global Media Holdings, the parent body of the well-known business magazine. He paid $800 million of 82% stake in the company, having bought the shares from the seller, Hong Kong-based Integrated Whale Media Investments, who will retain a minority stake.…

WhatsApp announced that it is rolling out a new feature which allows you edit your WhatsApp messages up to 15 mins after they’re sent! According to the Meta owned platform in a blog post, “For the moments when you make a mistake, or simply change your mind, you can now…

Nigeria, on Monday, commissioned the Dangote refinery which is described the refinery as “the world’s largest single train refinery.” This means that the plant has one integrated distillery system which can produce a variety of products and petrochemicals, instead of having different units for each type of product. The refinery…

OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, announced that it is introducing the ChatGPT app for Apple’s iOS. This app is free to use and is now available in the US for iPhone through Apple Inc.’s App Store. The app syncs your history across devices and also integrates Whisper, OpenAi’s open-source speech-recognition system,…