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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…
Fifteen years is a long run for any product category. On May 12, 2026, exactly 15 years and one day after the first Chromebook shipped, Google ended that chapter. At The Android Show: I/O 2026 Edition, the company officially announced Aluminium OS, a new Android-based desktop operating system built to replace ChromeOS on consumer hardware….
An Australian federal court has ordered Elon Musk’s social media platform X to pay a fine of AU$650,000 (approximately US$464,900) after the company failed to adequately respond to demands from the country’s internet safety regulator regarding child protection measures, bringing to a close a legal confrontation that stretched over three years. The ruling, delivered…
