Kenya’s Elly Savatia Wins Africa’s Biggest Engineering Innovation Award
NAIROBI, Kenya- Elly Savatia has been named the 2025 winner of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his artificial intelligence-powered sign-language translation app, Terp 360,...
Ruto’s New Cyber Law Sparks Outcry Over Website Shutdown Powers
NAIROBI, Kenya — On October 15, 2025, President William Ruto assented to the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act, 2024, a controversial law granting...
Global AWS Outage Knocks Out Major Apps — Including Snapchat, Canva, and Roblox in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya- A number of popular websites and apps were left inaccessible on Monday, October 20, following a global outage on Amazon Web Services...
Instagram Introduces New Parental Controls and PG-13 Filters for Teen Users
Instagram is tightening safety settings for its teenage users with a new set of parental controls and content filters designed to give parents more...
Microsoft Unveils MAI-Image-1 to Rival Sora and Google’s Nano Banana
WASHINGTON - Microsoft has taken a step toward AI independence with the unveiling of MAI-Image-1, its first proprietary text-to-image generation model — a move...
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