Category: Technology Innovation
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🇱🇷 After Starlink, Liberia now seeks Amazon satellite internet entry
Liberia telecom regulator considers licensing new satellite providers, including Amazon.• Project Kuiper plans 3,232 satellites, with commercial launch expected by end-2025.• Starlink entered Liberia in Jan. 2025, charging $40–50 a month plus $390 equipment. Liberia is looking to attract new global players to its internet market, including Amazon, which is rolling out a low-Earth orbit satellite…
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🇷🇺 Russia Blocks WhatsApp Nationwide, Pushing State-Backed ‘Max’ App in Digital Sovereignty Drive
MOSCOW — In a dramatic escalation of its crackdown on foreign technology platforms, Russia has officially blocked nationwide access to WhatsApp, the country’s most popular messaging service. The move, confirmed by the Kremlin on Thursday, effectively severs communication for over 100 million Russian users and represents the latest salvo in Moscow’s push to establish a…
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Silicon Valley and the Ghosts of Empire: How Surveillance Capitalism Became Africa’s New Colonial Frontier
From the streets of Nairobi to the boardrooms of Lagos, African users are being sold a seductive promise: that Big Tech and digital currencies represent liberation, leapfrogging, and a break from old power structures. But beneath the glossy veneer of innovation lies a far more sinister inheritance. A recent forensic examination of Silicon Valley’s origins…
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Apple acquires Israeli audio AI startup Q.ai for $2B
Apple confirmed Thursday that it has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli artificial intelligence startup focused on machine learning for audio and communication—marking a second sale to Apple by founder Aviad Maizels, who previously led PrimeSense, acquired by Apple in 2013 in a deal widely estimated at about $350 million. The purchase price for Q.ai was not…
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Epic Games & Google Reveal Secret $800 Million Deal During Legal Battle
“We view this as a significant transfer of value from Epic to Google.” Epic Games’ willingness to settle its antitrust lawsuit against Google might have seemed sudden, and California District Judge James Donato has some concerns as well. “The only changed circumstance that I can see right now is Epic and Google – two mortal enemies…
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Adobe Acrobat can now generate presentations and audio podcasts from your documents
The features build on PDF Spaces. Back in August, Adobe debuted Acrobat Studio. The new service saw Adobe bring the humble PDF into the 21st century with support for a handful of new genAI features, including PDF Spaces, a hub where you can upload up to 100 documents and have AI summarize them. Now the…
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🇴🇲 Oman selects Airbus for reconfigurable OmanSat-1
It will provide telecommunications services across Oman, the Middle East, East Africa, and Asia, supporting government networks, private communications, broadband, maritime, and aero connectivity. Questions and Answers: What is OmanSat-1? OmanSat-1 is a fully reconfigurable, high-throughput Ka-band telecommunications satellite for Oman, capable of adjusting coverage and capacity while in orbit. Who is building the satellite?…
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Beyond Science Fiction? Harvard Study Suggests Aliens Could Walk Among Us
A provocative new study from researchers at Harvard University is challenging not just what we know about extraterrestrial life, but where we should be looking for it. The paper posits a startling theory: that aliens may not be arriving in glowing saucers, but could already be living on Earth, seamlessly integrated into human society. The…
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🇨🇳 Are You Dead? What China’s Darkly Humorous Viral App Reveals About Urban Loneliness
A bluntly named Chinese app called “Are You Dead?” has exploded in popularity, and its rise says as much about modern loneliness as it does about technology. [1][2] What the app actually does The app, known in Chinese as “Sileme” (literally “Are you dead?”), is built around a single, stark function: proving that you are…
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