5 reasons to buy AirPods Max over Bose 700 NC - Pocket Lint
5 things to know about ANC - Pocket Lint
8 questions that tell you everything you need to know about the bitcoin halving - Techpoint
A look at Salad, which pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their GPUs remotely to AI companies, including those making AI-generated porn (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) - Techmeme
A US jury finds Avraham Eisenberg, a crypto trader who stole $110M on the Mango Markets exchange in 2022, guilty of fraud despite his "code is law" claim (Crystal Kim/Axios) - Techmeme
Acer Broadens Chromebook Horizons: Introducing the New Model - Itnewsafrica
Acer's $400 Chromebook Plus 514 has up to 512GB of storage - Pocket Lint
Akira Ransomware Gang Extorts $42 Million; Now Targets Linux Servers - Hackers News
Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones - BBC
Apple brings AirPlay to select hotels - Pocket Lint
Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China App Store following state order - Techcrunch
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Apple says it was ordered it to remove WhatsApp and Threads from China App Store - Engadget
Audien Hearing Atom One Hearing Aid Review: ber-Cheap and Too Basic - Wired
Baldur's Gate 3 developer confirms it won't make the sequel - Engadget
Bayobab acquires MTN Zambias fibre assets to further growth plans - Techpoint
Blizzard takes aim at Overwatch 2 console cheaters - Engadget
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 - Slashdot
Can AI Be the Catalyst for Financial Inclusion in Africa - Itnewsafrica
Can TikTok's owner afford to lose its killer app - BBC
Canal+ increases MultiChoice stake to 40.8% - Techcabal
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data - Slashdot
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules - Slashdot
Crackdown on Binance is right but the approach is wrong'- A chat with Oladotun Akangbe of Flincap - Technext
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme - Slashdot
Cybersecurity Transparency: Vital for African Enterprises - Itnewsafrica
Digital marketing software company Ibotta closes up 17% at $103.25 per share in its trading debut, after raising ~$577.3M in an IPO priced above marketed range (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
EFCC deems Binance executive a flight risk, halts bail request - Techpoint
Engadget Podcast: PlayStation 5 Pro rumors and a look back at the Playdate - Engadget
Environmental Damage Could Cost You a Fifth of Your Income Over the Next 25 Years - Wired
eTranzact says consumer-focused products are its future revenue driver - Techcabal
Fallout has already scored a green light for a second season - Engadget
FBI Says Chinese Hackers Preparing To Attack US Infrastructure - Slashdot
Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students - Slashdot
Fintech CRED secures in-principle approval for payment aggregator license - Techcrunch
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack - Slashdot
Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams in Research to DeepMind (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) - Techmeme
Hackers Target Middle East Governments with Evasive "CR4T" Backdoor - Hackers News
How Attackers Can Own a Business Without Touching the Endpoint - Hackers News
How to use AirPlay during your next hotel stay - Pocket Lint
Hugging Face releases a benchmark for testing generative AI on health tasks - Techcrunch
Infinix announces extended software support for NOTE 40 and NOTE 40 5G models - Technext
Internal draft: UK's ICO says Google's Privacy Sandbox falls short and leaves gaps that can be exploited to undermine privacy of users who should be anonymous (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Internet users are getting younger; now the UK is weighing up if AI can help protect them - Techcrunch
Is Cryptocurrency the Key to Zimbabwe's Economic Recovery - Itnewsafrica
It took 20 years for Children of the Sun to become an overnight success - Engadget
Kuhn Rikon Black Star Review: Perfectly Smooth Cast-Iron - Wired
Latest news for students sitting for JAMB from April 19 to 29 2024 - Techcabal
Meta AI allows you to create images on WhatsApp - Techpoint
Meta AI enables Google and Bing searches on WhatsApp, Instagram in Africa - Techpoint
Meta AI Gets New Features, Expands Into More Countries - TechCity
Meta AI is restricting election-related responses in India - Techcrunch
Meta claims both Llama 3 models beat similarly sized models like Gemini, Mistral, and Claude 3 on certain benchmarks; humans marked Llama 3 higher than GPT-3.5 (Emilia David/The Verge) - Techmeme
Meta cuts the price of the base 128GB Quest 2 from $249 to $199, its second permanent price cut in four months, after a drop from $299 to $249 in January (Kris Holt/Engadget) - Techmeme
Meta Is Adding Real-Time AI Image Generation To WhatsApp - Slashdot
Meta Is Already Training a More Powerful Successor to Llama 3 - Wired
Meta's Quest 2 will now only cost you $199 - Pocket Lint
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview (Ryan Morrison/Tom's Guide) - Techmeme
13 Best Coffee Grinders (2024): Conical, Flat Burr, Blade, and Hand Grinders - Wired
5 Surprising Tech Skills Your Pet has Mastered - Itnewsafrica
5 things to know about Sony's new TVs - Pocket Lint
7 Waymo robotaxis block traffic to San Francisco freeway on-ramp - Techcrunch
80% of locally-assembled smartphones in Kenya sold off in 6 months - Technext
A look at Apple's iPhone recycling, including shredding robots, and contractor GEEP, which Apple sued in 2020 for $22.6M in a case that has since been inactive (Austin Carr/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
A real privacy law' House lawmakers are optimistic this time - The Verge
Acer's new $399 Chromebook Plus 514 hits the mark for a solid budget laptop - Engadget
AI helps me to make wine for younger drinkers - BBC
Airchat is the latest app trying to make 'social audio' cool again - Engadget
AirChat, the buzzy new social app, could be great ' or, it could succumb to the same fate as Clubhouse - Techcrunch
Alphabet X's Bellwether harnesses AI to help predict natural disasters - Techcrunch
AltStore PAL Alternative App Marketplace Launches On iPhone In EU - Slashdot
Amazon says a whopping 140 third-party stores in four countries use its Just Walk Out tech - Engadget
An experiment with LLMs: the tools are helpful in mundane ways but you can't build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology that's kind of useful (Molly White/Citation Needed) - Techmeme
An interview with Reddit Chief Product Officer Pali Bhat on the company's roadmap: faster load times, new moderator and developer tools, and AI translation (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Analogue Duo review: A second chance for an underappreciated console - Engadget
Another aero politics imminent on UAE-Nigeria route as Emirates returns - Tribune
Another South African regulator hit by cyberattack - Techpoint
Apex Legends hacker says game developers patched exploit used on streamers - Techcrunch
Apple plans to spend $250M+ on its regional hub in Singapore, including expanding its campus later in 2024, as Tim Cook visits Vietnam and other Asian countries (Amanda Lee/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Author Granted Copyright Over Book With AI-Generated Text - With a Twist - Slashdot
AWS discontinues its Snowmobile service, an 18-wheeler truck introduced in 2016 to help customers transport large amounts of on-premises data to AWS facilities (CNBC) - Techmeme
Binance secures operational licence in Dubai - Technext
Boston Dynamics debuts an electric version of humanoid robot Atlas for commercial use, a day after retiring the hydraulic Atlas, with a pilot starting in 2025 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Boston Dynamics' New Atlas Robot Is a Swiveling, Shape-Shifting Nightmare - Slashdot
Brave Search introduces Answer with AI, which shows answers synthesized from multiple sources for informational queries, appearing above organic search results (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Building owners are often in the dark about their carbon pollution. A new algorithm could shed light on it - Techcrunch
Bye, robot: Atlas HD retires after 11 years of jumps, flips and falls - BBC
Canadian Science Gets Biggest Boost To PhD and Postdoc Pay in 20 Years - Slashdot
Canal+ acquires additional multichoice shares to inch over 40% ownership - Technext
Cape dials up $61M from A16Z + more for mobile service that doesn't use personal data - Techcrunch
Cardoso downplays concerns over FX reserves amid naira rally - Techcabal
Cellulant appoints new executives from Stripe, Interswitch - Techpoint
ChatGPT is a squeeze away with Nothing's upgraded earbuds - Techcrunch
Cities: Skylines 2's embarrassed developers are giving away beachfront property for free - Engadget
Coding bootcamp Lambda School ' now BloomTech ' is finally getting punished - The Verge
Colorado Governor Jared Polis signs a bill that, for the first time in the US, expands the state's personal privacy law to include consumer "neural data" (Jonathan Moens/New York Times) - Techmeme
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fines BloomTech for false claims - Techcrunch
Crypto miners are stockpiling bitcoins ahead of April 20 halving; TheMinerMag: Marathon Digital, CleanSpark, and Bitfarms hoarded ~$2B worth of bitcoins (Scott Chipolina/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Dark is building a rocket-powered boxing glove to push debris out of orbit - Techcrunch
DARPA reveals that an AI-controlled X-62A jet successfully faced a human pilot in an F-16 during an in-air dogfight test carried out in 2023 (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Techmeme
Data Protection: NDPC mulls national certification scheme - Technology Times
Delta Is an iOS Game Boy Emulator That (Likely) Won't Get Taken Down - Wired
DJI's new backup battery can power small appliances, charge your drone - Engadget
Document: Microsoft added 500+ megawatts of data center capacity since July 2023 and topped five gigawatts of total capacity in the H1 of its latest fiscal year (Eugene Kim/Business Insider) - Techmeme
Don't blame MKBHD for the fate of Humane AI and Fisker - Techcrunch
Donald Trump Is 'Seriously Considering' Jake Paul's Fight Invite - Wired
EU criticizes Meta's 'privacy for cash' business model - Engadget
Europol, law enforcement in 19 countries, Microsoft, and others disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation and make 37 arrests (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) - Techmeme
Everything new in Tesla's spring update - Pocket Lint
Exclusive: CEO Harry Scherzer on Future Forex's Breakthrough - Itnewsafrica
Exclusive: Kenya's Equity Bank hit by $2.1 million debit card fraud, 19 suspects arrested - Techcabal
Far-Right Sheriffs Want a Citizen Army to Stop 'Illegal Immigrant' Voters - Wired
Feds Appoint 'AI Doomer' To Run US AI Safety Institute - Slashdot
Filing: 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki is seeking to take the company private after three years in public markets that saw its valuation collapse from a high of $6B (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
FIN7 Cybercrime Group Targeting U.S. Auto Industry with Carbanak Backdoor - Hackers News
For Dataplor's data intelligence tool, it's all about location, location, location - Techcrunch
French B2B software company Planisware raised 278M in a Paris IPO; its shares jumped up to 33% to ~21 on its debut, giving Planisware a 1.1B valuation (Thyagaraju Adinarayan/Bloomberg) - Techmeme