Author: Smart Megwai

YouTube has announced that Creator Music is now live. This is a new and easy way for creators who are part of the YouTube Partner Program to use music in their videos while still being able to make money. The online hub, which was first announced last September, provides a…

Tizeti, the first Internet service provider (ISP) in West Africa that runs on solar power, said today that it will cover ten more states in Nigeria with 4G LTE. This is part of its mission to help more people on the continent get online by making broadband connections more affordable,…

Opera is betting the company on AI, short for artificial intelligence. A new feature called “Shorten” will use ChatGPT to summarize articles and web pages. This is the first step in the company’s plan to add generative AI to its web browser. Once the feature is made available to the…

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is rumoured to be cutting even more jobs in the coming weeks. The Financial Times says that the tech giant has slowed down its operations because it plans to lay off more people. Meta will likely make the restructuring announcement in March, after it has finished…

Samsung is unrivaled when it comes to large devices—extraordinarily sized phones that can do it all. A dozen years ago, the company that brought the idea of a “phablet” to the forefront of popular culture has never given up on its lofty goals for the size of mobile devices. In…

Uber has introduced Apple’s CarPlay support to the iPhone, giving drivers the ability to control the app directly from the vehicle’s dashboard display. TechCrunch confirmed an email was sent by the ridesharing service, reporting that the feature is rolling out to drivers across United States and hopefully will be available…

Twitter has given more information about upcoming changes to its API that will require most developers to pay to keep using its developer tools. This comes one week after the microblogging site announced that it would be ending free API access. The company recently announced “a new form of free…

Twitter is rolling out the ability to write longer tweets to Twitter Blue subscribers. Towards the end of Wednesday, February 8th, the company made the announcement that Twitter Blue members in the US can now “type all the way up to 4,000 characters.” Twitter, however, expressed that longer Tweets could…

Besides Apple, Zoom has joined the list of other major tech companies that have been laying off staff recently. It is laying off about 15 percent of its workforce, or about 1,300 people. According to a note from CEO Eric Yuan to employees, the company tripled in size within two years…

It looks like Bing, Microsoft’s long-neglected search engine, is getting a second chance at glory. On Tuesday, the tech giant made the expected announcement that it would work with OpenAI to add OpenAI’s artificial intelligence technology to its search engine. Microsoft, however, had another trick up its sleeve: the upcoming Bing update…

WhatsApp has made some changes to its Status feature, which was added to the instant-messaging app in 2017. Key to this update is a new function called “Voice Status,” which allows you to record voice notes up to 30 seconds in length and use them as status updates. According to the company,…

Twitter has updated its app for both Android and iOS, “so that its For You and Following” will default to the last tab you had open. When a user opens the app, the default view will now be the last timeline tab he or she selected, whether it’s the algorithmic…

Microsoft will host a major press conference today, February 7th. Last week, the software giant sent out invitations to a live event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond. Just as Google announced its ChatGPT competitor, the company is making the event official. The event will begin promptly at 10AM PT…

There’s a chance that Apple will unveil a brand new iPhone next year as its flagship device. According to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, Apple is thinking about releasing an even more expensive iPhone called the “Ultra,” which would sit above the iPhone Pro and iPhone Pro Max. He says that the piece…

OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an automated text generation system, has been all the rage since its public beta release two months ago, but its moment in the spotlight is quickly coming to an end. On Monday, Google finally confirmed that its much-rumored artificial intelligence chatbot project is, in fact, real and on…

A SIM card is necessary for answering and receiving calls, sending and receiving text messages, and accessing the internet. As unfortunate as it is, hardware and software issues can cause your phone’s network connection to fail. If your Android phone says “No SIM card,” there are possible reasons it is malfunctioning; TRY…

The popular app TikTok is being asked to be banned again, this time by a well-known lawmaker. In a letter to Apple and Google, Democratic Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, demanded that the tech. companies remove TikTok from their app stores. Bennet writes that…

Instagram is rumoured to be working on a subscription plan that includes the blue badge. “Paid blue badge,” as a reverse engineer named Alessandro Paluzzi puts it (via TechCrunch), was found in code snippets that suggested the company might be thinking about letting users pay for verification. “At the moment…

ChatGPT’s number of users has grown at a much faster rate than that of TikTok and other popular apps. UBS, an analytics firm, released a study (via Reuters and CBS) indicating that OpenAI’s chatbot was on track to surpass 100 million MAUs in January. Although the chatbot only recently became…

Microsoft has launched a premium Teams messaging offering that is powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company made the announcement in a blog post, touting, “Teams Premium brings the latest technologies, including Large Language Models powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, to make meetings more intelligent, personalized, and protected.” Microsoft’s Teams Premium subscription…