19 Innovators Chosen for Second AU Digital and Innovation Fellowship Programme - Innovation Village
5 Best Personal Safety Alarms (2024), Tested and Reviewed - Wired
5 reasons to get a Whoop band over a smartwatch - Pocket Lint
6 legit crypto mining apps for Android and iPhone - Techpoint
7 Best Ski Gloves and Mittens, Editor Tested and Reviewed (2024) - Wired
A bitcoin strategic reserve is a resilience strategy for the "hodlers", not the US state, as a bet on bitcoin is bullish on permanent institutional collapse (Brendan Greeley/Financial Times) - Techmeme
A look at the rise of super clusters that use ~100K of Nvidia's GPUs for training giant AI models and the new engineering challenges arising from such clusters (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
A look at the shortcomings of Google's Tensor SoC for Pixel devices, with four generations failing to impress in key performance and power efficiency metrics (Robert Triggs/Android Authority) - Techmeme
A profile of Chris Maurice, the CEO of US stablecoin startup Yellow Card, which operates in 20 African countries and has traded $3B+ worth of crypto in 2024 (David Pan/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
A skeptical look at the new AI scaling "laws", including post-train duration and "inference time compute", and why they may fail to predict AI model performance (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI) - Techmeme
Abojani Calls For Innovative Financial Products for Long-Term Investments - TechMoran
AfriLabs and NASENI partner to launch innovation hub for Nigerian tech entrepreneurs - Innovation Village
AI's Future and Nvidia's Fortunes Ride on the Race To Pack More Chips Into One Place - Slashdot
Airbnb plans to let tenants in nearly 1,500 flats owned by Greystar in London to sublet homes on a part-time basis, expanding on a 2022 Greystar partnership (Eri Sugiura/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Airtel Nigeria Partners with Mobihealth to Expand Healthcare Access in Nigeria - Innovation Village
Anthropic announces the Model Context Protocol, an open source standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Anthropic proposes a new way to connect data to AI chatbots - Techcrunch
Appcharge raises $26M to help gaming apps cut out Apple and Google from virtual goods revenues - Techcrunch
Apple again snubs AI in its 'iPhone App of the Year' finalists - Techcrunch
Apple Pay, Cash App Face Bank-Like Regulations - TechCity
Apple will never stop thinking about making a TV - Techcrunch
Apple's Upcoming Ultra-Slim iPhone Hits Roadblock Over SIM Tray Rules - Slashdot
Applications now open for the 2025 Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship - Innovation Village
ariika secures $3 million Series A extension to fuel MENA expansion - Techpoint
Ariika, Egypts furniture e-commerce platform raises $3 million for expansion - TechMoran
Austin-based anti-ransomware startup Halcyon raised $100M at a $1B valuation led by Evolution Equity Partners, bringing its total funding to date to $190M (Katie Roof/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Authorities catch 'SMS blaster' gang that drove around Bangkok sending thousands of phishing messages - Techcrunch
Bending Spoons is taking video platform Brightcove private in $233M acquisition - Techcrunch
Benin steps into the 5G era with MTNs commercial launch - Techpoint
Best Ways for African Tech Startups to Utilize ChatGPT - Innovation Village
Binance Faces Updated Charges in EFCC's $35.4 Million Money Laundering Case - Innovation Village
Black Friday Apple deals include the AirPods Pro 2 for a record low of $154 - Engadget
Black Friday Apple deals include the M3 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM for an all-time-low price - Engadget
Black Friday Apple deals: The best sales we could find on AirPods, iPads, MacBooks and AirTags - Engadget
Black Friday Apple Watch deals: The Watch SE is discounted to a record-low price - Engadget
Black Friday deals bring the Fire TV Stick 4K Max down to a record low of $33 on Amazon - Engadget
Black Friday Google deals: The Pixel 8a is on sale for an all-time low of $399 - Engadget
Black Friday kitchen deals on gadgets, appliances, cookware and more: The best discounts are up to 44 percent off - Engadget
Black Friday TV deals for 2024: Save big on sets from Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and more - Engadget
Bluesky falling foul of EU rules by not reporting user numbers across the bloc - Techcrunch
California will offer EV rebates if Trump kills federal tax credits - Techcrunch
ChatGPT Prompts to Get You Through University Exams - Innovation Village
Cisco Expands Innovation Network with New EDGE Centre in Johannesburg - Itnewsafrica
Coding Boot Gamp Graduates Find Tough Prospects In an AI-Powered World - Slashdot
Corning offers bundle of commitments in bid to settle EU antitrust probe - Techcrunch
Craigslist Founder Gives $300M to Fund Critical US Infrastructure Cybersecurity - Slashdot
Cybersecurity Blind Spots in IaC and PaC Tools Expose Cloud Platforms to New Attacks - Hackers News
Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles - Wired
Dyson Black Friday deals include the 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum for $200 off - Engadget
Egypt used car e-commerce startup Sylndr gets $7.5 million capital financing - Technext
Entrepreneur Marc Lore on 'founder mode,' bad hires, and why avoiding risk is deadly - Techcrunch
FAAN boss commended for vision in boosting aviation hospitality sector - Tribune
Flamewar Leads to Declining of Bcachefs Pull Requests During Linux 6.13 Kernel Development Cycle - Slashdot
Flying Under the Radar - Security Evasion Techniques - Hackers News
Google's New Restore Credentials Tool Simplifies App Login After Android Migration - Hackers News
How PrimeTech Digital Africa is disrupting Nigeria's training sector with AI-driven tools - Technext
How to deactivate an Instagram account - Pocket Lint
How to lock your iPad screen - Pocket Lint
I hate office politics even though it favours me - Techpoint
7 best online shopping apps in Nigeria - Techpoint
A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft (Shawn Musgrave/The Intercept) - Techmeme
ActivityPub co-author on Bluesky and ATProto being neither decentralized nor federated, and how Bluesky is building a good X replacement with a "credible exit" (Christine Lemmer-Webber/Dustycloud ...) - Techmeme
Amazon Black Friday 2024 deals: The best sales on Kindles, Echo speakers, Ring doorbells and more - Engadget
America's DEA Ordered to Stop Searching Random Travellers at Airports - and Seizing Their Cash - Slashdot
An overview of macro tech trends for 2025, focusing on generative AI, LLMs, scaling challenges with training ever bigger AI models, the capex surge, and more (Benedict Evans) - Techmeme
Apple is changing how MacBook Pro speakers are replaced and it could make repairs cheaper - Engadget
Australia drops plans to fine internet platforms up to 5% of their global revenue for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation online (Sam McKeith/Reuters) - Techmeme
Australian government drops misinformation bill - Techcrunch
Bank Employees Resign After Executive Demands Return to Offices Without Space for Everyone - Slashdot
Black Friday Apple deals include the 10th-gen iPad for a record-low price - Engadget
Black Friday Apple deals include the M3 MackBook Air with 16GB of RAM for an all-time-low price - Engadget
Black Friday gaming deals 2024: The best discounts on consoles, video games, accessories and more - Engadget
Black Friday PS5 deals discount the DualSense wireless controller to $55 - Engadget
Black Friday PS5 deals: Grab the Slim console for $75 off - Engadget
Black Friday subscription deals for 2024: The best discounts on Audible, Kindle Unlimited, MasterClass, ProtonVPN and more - Engadget
Conservationists turn to AI in battle to save red squirrels - BBC
Customers of banking startups like Yotta describe losing savings ranging from $7,000 to $200,000+ due to Synapse's collapse, after US regulators refused to help (Hugh Son/CNBC) - Techmeme
Deckmatch research of ~5,000 YC-backed startups finds YC commonly accepts startups that are building similar or nearly identical products to previous YC grads (Julie Bort/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Does GitHub Copilot Improve Code Quality - Slashdot
DOJ tells Google to sell Chrome - Techcrunch
Don't snap another pic without these 5 Android photo apps - Pocket Lint
Elon Musk's Neuralink cleared to launch clinical trials in Canada - Innovation Village
Engadget review recap: An iMac, a coffee maker and an Amazon tablet - Engadget
EV Charging Stations to Generate More Than $17billion in Annual Revenue by 2029 - Itnewsafrica
Executive assistants, high salaries, and other ways early-stage founders will trigger a seed VC - Techcrunch
ExpressVPN's Black Friday deal saves you up to 61 percent - Engadget
Gamers who prefer playing together are fueling demand for esports hotels across China; research firm Niko Partners says China has more than 21,000 such hotels (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
GitHub Announces New Open Source Fund with Security Mentoring - Slashdot
How a digital 'you' can sit through your agonizing web conference calls - Techcrunch
How AI is reshaping the data-intensive field of Grand Prix racing, including helping design cars, setting F1's technical regulations, and shaping race strategy (James Allen/Financial Times) - Techmeme
How researchers used AI in tandem with drones to find 303 previously uncharted Nazca Lines in Peru, almost doubling the number that had been mapped as of 2020 (Franz Lidz/New York Times) - Techmeme
How Tim Cook developed a personal relationship with Donald Trump, in part by zeroing in on areas of mutual interest between Apple and Trump's agenda (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
How to Create a Future of Cheap Energy for All - Wired
How to get celebrity voices on Waze - Pocket Lint
How to install the Google Play Store - Pocket Lint
How to use the Snapchat Friend Solar System - Pocket Lint
Huawei is targeting 100,000 applications for HarmonyOS over the next 6-12 months and currently has over 15,000 applications that can meet consumers' basic needs (Reuters) - Techmeme
Is There New Evidence in the D.B. Cooper Case - Slashdot
Is your iPhone better than a Pixel - Pocket Lint
Kindle Unlimited: how much does it cost - Pocket Lint
Latin America fintech will be a market to watch in 2025 - Techcrunch
Lomography Lomo'Instant Wide Glass Review: The Best Instax Camera - Wired
MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game 'ChipWits' from 1984 is Now Open Source - Slashdot
Mars Meteorite Reveals New Evidence That Hot Water Flowed on Ancient Mars - Slashdot
Mathematicians Just Debunked the 'Bunkbed Conjecture - Wired
Meta Wants Apple and Google to Verify the Age of App Downloaders - Slashdot
More Business School Researchers Accused of Fabricated Findings - Slashdot
Nintendo Black Friday deals are live: Get The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for a record-low price - Engadget
Potentially Toxic' Chemical Byproduct May Be Present in 1/3 of US Drinking Water - Slashdot
Profiles of Teresa Ribera, Henna Virkkunen, and Ekaterina Zaharieva, the three incoming EU commissioners in charge of key tech policy areas into 2029 (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Q&A with Eric Schmidt about the DOJ's proposal for Google to sell Chrome, a new book about AI he co-authored with Craig Mundie and Henry Kissinger, and more (Michel Martin/NPR) - Techmeme
Q&A with US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on what happens to the CHIPS program under the Trump administration, the future of AI safety, and more (Steven Overly/Politico) - Techmeme
Report: 17% of families in South Africa face regular conflicts because of kids' online life - Itnewsafrica
Roland Aira P-6 Sampler Review: Great Sound, Complicated Interface - Wired
Sabotage or Accident' American and European Officials Disagree On What Caused Cuts to Two Undersea Cables - Slashdot
SilverStone's Retro Beige PC Case Turns April Fools' Joke into Actual Product - Slashdot
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5 (Financial Times) - Techmeme
Six months into a deal with OpenAI, Spanish bank BBVA says staff created 2,900+ GPTs and reported productivity gains, but questions ChatGPT's scalability (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme