Science & Tech
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Inside Konza’s Housing Project: Technology Reshaping Construction
The development is using aluminium formwork, replacing much of the conventional timber-based formwork with reusable aluminium panels to cast concrete walls and floors. The method is changing how the 11 residential blocks are built, while…
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The Pull of Konza: Higher Education Seeks a Place in Technopolis
As Konza Technopolis takes shape as Kenya’s emerging Silicon Savannah, universities are positioning themselves within its growing ecosystem of science, technology and innovation. The presence of the Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST),…
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Which TECNO Is Yours? The 2026 Lineup, and the AI Called Ella Riding Along
Walk into any phone shop on Moi Avenue or Kimathi Street right now and you’ll see a wall of TECNO boxes. Spark, Camon, POVA, a couple of tablets. If you’re standing there wondering which one…
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US-German trio win medicine Nobel for work on optogenetics
The Nobel medicine prize was awarded Monday to US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for their work in the field of optogenetics.
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Why the Tecno POVA Might Be the Smartest Business Tool a Rural Entrepreneur Buys This Year
There’s a conversation happening in rural Kenya, Uganda, and across upcountry East Africa that rarely makes it into tech reviews: what happens to your business when your phone dies at 2 PM and the nearest…
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EU to ban social media for under 13s, curb access until 15
The European Union will ban social media for children under 13 and allow only limited, supervised access until the age of 15 under plans unveiled Wednesday by EU chief Ursula von der Leyen.
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Washington accuses Chinese AI firms of ‘systematic’ theft
Washington accused top Chinese artificial intelligence labs including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI of systematically stealing the capabilities of American models on Tuesday as the two countries race for tech supremacy.
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How Humankind is already losing control of AI
If you’re a fan of Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, or their movie and miniseries adaptations, you’ll have noticed the absence of something normally central to science fiction: computers. In Dune-lore, thousands of years before the…
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OpenAI to lease massive new AI data center in US, backed by Nvidia
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI will lease a massive new data center in the United States for 20 years, backed by a $105 billion financing commitment from Nvidia, according to a regulatory filing published Monday.
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Major Meta trial begins as lawyers spar over witnesses, damages
Facebook parent Meta will defend itself in a landmark social media trial that begins Tuesday in California, where attorneys have sparred over witnesses and financial penalties.
