TECHNOLOGY

The Chief Executive Officer of the National Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programme (NEIP), Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, has praised Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s initiative to train one million youth in digital skills, describing it as a crucial step towards the digitalisation of Ghana. Speaking in an interview on the Possibility Series on Wednesday, 13th November, Nkansah noted that this goal is key to ...

The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has appealed to the people of Ghana to embrace the recent digitalisation initiatives introduced in the health sector. At the official launch of Telehealth service in Ejisu in the Ashanti Region on November 11, Dr Bawumia stressed on the importance of the transformative potential of these services for ...

Starlink, the satellite internet service owned by Elon Musk, has announced pricing details for its products in Ghana. According to the company’s website, the pricing plans include Residential (best for households) starting from GHS 770, Roam (ideal for RVs, nomads, and campers) starting from GHS 1,540, and Boats (suitable for maritime emergency response and mobile businesses) starting from GHS 4,428. ...

A recent study has revealed that ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) are highly effective in launching cyberattacks, raising significant concerns in the cybersecurity field. Researchers Richard Fang, Rohan Bindu, Akul Gupta, and Daniel Kang tested ChatGPT-4 against 15 real-life ‘one-day’ vulnerabilities, finding that it could exploit these vulnerabilities 87% of the time. These vulnerabilities included websites issues, container management software, and Python ...

If you use Facebook, WhatsApp or Instagram, you’ve probably noticed a new character pop up answering search queries or eagerly offering tidbits of information in your feeds, with varying degrees of accuracy. It’s Meta AI, and it’s here to help, at least according to Meta Platforms’ CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who calls it “the most intelligent AI assistant that you can ...

Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you’re doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next. The software giant on Monday revealed a new class of AI-imbued personal computers as it confronts heightened competition from Big Tech rivals in pitching generative AI technology ...

Kylian Mbappé felt like he was in a virtual reality game when playing in a mask to protect his broken nose at the European Championship. The France star was smiling while telling the story Sunday on the eve of facing Belgium in the round of 16. But clearly he does not enjoy playing his role as the masked man of ...

Amazon was once Jeff Bezos’s “famously unprofitable company”, as the former CEO said in an exclusive 2000 BBC Newsnight interview. Nearly 25 years on, the ubiquitous company has become one of a handful of companies in the world valued at over $2 trillion. On 8 June 2000, the BBC presenter Jeremy Vine was pictured sat behind the Newsnight desk, poring ...

Doing more to protect children online appears to be one of the few issues that still has bipartisan support in Congress. Lawmakers from both parties have so far focused with some urgency on their own active legislation, pushing the social media bosses present today to either express support for it or explain why they will not. This is a big ...

Republican Senator John Cornyn wants to know about TikTok’s relationship with the Chinese government. The app is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company. He asks TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew if the company has shared US user data with the Chinese government, as mandated by Chinese law. “We have not been asked for any data by the Chinese government and we have never provided ...