Tech

    Your recommendation now is to uninstall the latest update to mitigate bugs. What’s going on with the quality control for updates, Microsoft? (Image credit: Future | Edited with Gemini) Windows 11 users are dealing with yet another update headache, and this time, Microsoft is openly telling people to uninstall the problematic patch. Update KB5074109 has triggered a wave …

A new report by Google and Ipsos has revealed that Nigeria is leading in global adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly in learning, work and entrepreneurship. This is contained in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday by Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager for West Africa. Kola-Ogunlade said the report …

When computers and tech systems around the world went down Friday, snarling airports, closing Social Security offices and limiting jail operations, many people had one question: How on Earth could this happen in 2024? A software update from a single cybersecurity company, US-based CrowdStrike, was the root cause of the chaos, underlining the fragility of the global economy and its dependence on computer systems …

Apple, Google and Meta are set to face the EU’s wrath next week as Brussels prepares to hit the tech giants with probes into potential violations of a landmark law, sources close to the matter said Friday. The European Commission, the EU’s powerful antitrust regulator, has been in talks in the past months with the titans about complying with the …

Nigerians are dumping their bank apps and embracing alternative platforms Bank customers say they have never experienced the sort of glitches they have been witnessing in recent weeks To cope with the situation, bank customers have named their preferred alternatives to failing bank apps It appears banks are failing their customers in their numbers and cannot handle the volume of …

Elon Musk seemed destined to quit running the affairs of Twitter Monday after around 10 million users voted for him to step down less than two months after he bought the microblogging platform for $44 billion. The Tesla mogul had polled users late Sunday, asking if he should “step down as head of Twitter” and vowing to “abide by the results of …

Urges users to download apps only from official sites, stores A MALWARE that steals Facebook account credentials, known as ‘Schoolyard Bully’, has infected over 300,000 android devices. This has prompted the Nigerian Communications Commission’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT) to issue an advisory, reminding users to only download applications from official sites and application stores. The advisory recommended that …

WASHINGTON— Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was set to announce a “major scientific breakthrough” Tuesday in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it, something called net energy gain, …

Global telecom leaders came together to discuss how changing user behavior is compelling Nigerian brands to rewrite the way they connect and engage with their customers. In the post pandemic years, researches have shown that consumers want brands to become more empathetic, be accessible anytime, anywhere, and deliver personalized experiences every time.  However, doing this at scale, with millions of …

•Over 50,000 telecom infrastructure destroyed in five yrs The general knowledge on the street is that 5G will make the telecommunication a lot easier in terms of connections, data management social interactions. But, it appears that is not totally going to be the case as telcos are expressing frustration with the way and manner their facilities are being shut down, …