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The tech industry once measured progress in gigahertz and transistor counts. Today, it measures it in API calls and monthly subscriptions. This shift from…
Open any processor announcement from the past two years and count how many times you see “AI acceleration,” “neural processing unit,” or “machine learning…
In the tech industry, yesterday’s cutting-edge framework is today’s legacy code. The tools you mastered last quarter might be obsolete by next quarter. Yet…
At exactly 2:47 AM on a Tuesday in October, Chinedu refreshed his Stripe dashboard for the fifteenth time that hour. The payout notification finally…
Optometrists are having a field day. Gen Z, the generation that can’t remember a time before smartphones, is speedrunning its way toward a collective…
Valentine’s Day tech gifts often fall into two extremes. Either they are flashy gadgets with little real value, or practical devices that feel emotionally…
The Nigerian fintech space just witnessed an awkward moment. Bamboo, the investment platform, posted a tweet calling out Cowrywise for what appears to be…
Paystack was acquired by Stripe in 2020 for over $200 million, marking Nigeria’s largest startup acquisition at the time. That was nearly five years ago.…
Something strange has happened in the relationship between tech companies and their customers. Somewhere between the launch of the iPhone and today’s subscription-saturated landscape,…
For over two decades, PayPal has dominated global digital payments while systematically excluding African users from its platform. Now, as the fintech giant watches…
Every day, we make thousands of choices. What to watch, what to buy, what news to read, even who to date. We believe these…
Last week, I experienced the full absurdity of Nigeria’s so-called cashless economy. As a medical student going through departmental clearance, I found myself in…
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