By JKNewsMedia CHILDREN UNDER 16 could be barred from accessing major social media platforms under sweeping new legislation unveiled by the United Kingdom (UK) government. JKNewsMedia.com reports that Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the policy, describing it as a necessary step to shield young people from harmful and polarising online c...
By Imran Rahman-Jonesand and Laura Cress, BBC technology reporters ONLINE PUBLISHERS can choose not to appear in the AI Overviews of Google search results in the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced. The competition regulator said this would “put publishers, like news organisations, in a stronger position to nego...
 Source: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) INVISIBLE SURVEILLANCE using ordinary WiFi signals could soon identify and track people with near perfect accuracy, according to researchers in Germany who demonstrated a system capable of recognising individuals without requiring them to carry an active device. German researchers said standar...
By www.analytica.world.com UMass spun off HertZ Innovation launches smartphone-based bacterial test A smartphone-based technology to detect bacteria contamination, developed by food scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, sets a new benchmark in efforts to quickly and reliably understand how clean a surface is in places such as ...
By JKNewsMedia ACCESS TO government information and public services has been simplified with the launch of GovGuideNigeria, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered platform introduced by the Federal Government for Nigerians across the country. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Bosun T...
Analysis by Kevin Schaul Understanding the secret commands that steer the behavior of chatbots like ChatGPT can help you customize them to your needs. CHATSBOT LIKE ChatGPT are powerful because of their simplicity: Ask just about anything and you’ll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. […]
By JKNewsMedia OPERATION OF Kled AI in Nigeria have ceased following the detection of widespread fraudulent activity on its platform. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the United States (US) based data marketplace confirmed it removed its application from the Nigerian app store and imposed an IP ban across the country. Kled AI, founded in 2025, op...
By JKNewsMedia LONDON BASED photographer and artist Ejatu Shaw appeared this week on African Voices, the magazine programme on CNN International sponsored by Globacom. Glo notes that the British-Sierra Leonean creative was born in 1996 and graduated from the University of Westminster with a Master’s Degree in Photography Arts in 2020. Shaw fi...
By Joke Kujenya WHEN IT’S time to cook, the type of onion you choose can make or break a dish. JKNewsMedia.com writes that sharpness, sweetness, and even appearance shift depending on the variety, so picking wisely can transform everyday cooking. Nutritionists says that onion sharpness is linked to pyruvate content, the compound that determin...
By JOCELYN GECKERÂ THE SCENE is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online [...
