The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
Apple and Microsoft have rolled out steep price increases for their primary hardware products, blaming a global surge in memory chip costs. The global tech giants announced the coordinated price adjustments on Thursday to offset the rising cost of semiconductor components. Apple immediately implemented price hikes of twenty per cent or more across its entire…
Nigeria accounts for a dismal one percent of the 3.1 billion global 5G mobile subscriptions. The latest Ericsson Mobility Report reveals this massive gap between local adoption and international technological momentum. While international networks rapidly transition toward mainstream commercialisation and standalone infrastructure, Africa’s most populous nation remains firmly anchored to legacy networks. Data from the…
A new smartphone-based technology can detect bacterial contamination on surfaces within five minutes. Developed by food scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the diagnostic system removes the need for lengthy laboratory analysis. The innovation provides a rapid tool for hygiene monitoring in hospitals, food processing plants, gyms, and public spaces. Researchers unveiled the portable…
Google will pay SpaceX approximately 920 million dollars per month to secure massive artificial intelligence computing capacity. The tech giant disclosed the multi-billion-dollar cloud services agreement on Friday in a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the terms of the contract, Google will gain access to a cluster of roughly 110,000 Nvidia…
Nigeria’s data protection regulator has launched a sweeping sector-wide investigation into 1,369 domestic firms. The Nigeria Data Protection Commission suspects the targeted entities of systemic non-compliance with statutory privacy laws. The massive enforcement operation puts several prominent digital banks, insurance brokers, and gaming firms under intense regulatory scrutiny. It represents the largest coordinated crackdown on…
Your phone rests on the nightstand. Your laptop lid is shut. But Gemini Spark is still working for you. Most AI assistants wait for you to speak before they do anything. You tap, you ask, you wait. Gemini Spark changes that model completely. Google’s latest AI feature is not a smarter chatbot. It is…
Artificial intelligence firm Anthropic has secured $65 billion in private capital, pushing its post-money valuation to an unprecedented $965 billion. The massive Series H funding round vaults the maker of the Claude chatbot ahead of its chief rival, OpenAI, which investors last valued at $852 billion. Elite venture capital firms Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group,…
YouTube will begin automatically detecting and labelling artificial intelligence generated content on its platform, marking a significant departure from its previous self disclosure policy and signalling a tougher stance by the Google owned video giant on the rising tide of synthetic media. The platform announced the policy shift in a blog post published on…
Online shopping has always been messier than it should be. You find a product on Google Search, open the retailer’s site in a new tab, get distracted, lose the tab, and start over. Or you build a cart on one site, realise a better deal exists elsewhere, and end up juggling three browser windows and…
Google is back in the glasses business. And this time, the company is playing a much smarter game. At Google I/O 2026, held on May 19, Google and Samsung officially previewed the first Android XR smart glasses, giving the public its clearest look yet at what these devices will do, who is making them, and…
