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AI’s continued reach and influence into different commercial and creative spaces has undoubtedly been a point of contention in recent times, although it’s pretty clear that major players within the industry are hell-bent on pushing it to its limits, often in ways that have yet to fully manifest. take for example Google, which recently announced the launch of Project Genie. For those unfamiliar with it, Project Genie is an experimental research prototype that allows users to create and explore their own interactive, real-time environments. The platform runs on the new Genie 3 model alongside Nano Banana Pro and Gemini, and is…

It seeks to assign a Unique Identifier Number (NUI) to over 12 million Malagasy people, marking a major step toward digital governance and inclusion. Madagascar has officially launched its national biometric enrolment program, a large-scale initiative aimed at providing a secure legal identity to every citizen. Launched on January 27, 2026, the project was approved by the Council of Ministers and is supported by the World Bank’s PRODIGY project. It seeks to assign a Unique Identifier Number (NUI) to over 12 million Malagasy people, marking a major step toward digital governance and inclusion. The Ministry of the Interior and Decentralization…

iQOO is set to unveil the iQOO 15 Ultra on February 4 as its first Ultra smartphone. iQOO has already revealed the iQOO 15 Ultra’s design through renders, so we know what it looks like, but a video shared by tipster Ice Universe shows us what the smartphone looks like in the real world. The iQOO 15 Ultra’s back panel has a hexagonal design that looks colorful when light hits it at different angles. The smartphone has a metal frame with a matte finish. On the right frame is the power button and volume rocker, flanked by shoulder triggers. You…

SCX.ai Launches Australia’s 1st Sovereign AI Inference Node in Sydney SYDNEY, Jan. 30, 2026 — Australia’s first sovereign AI infrastructure node has gone live in Sydney, delivering AI inferencing ten times more efficient than traditional GPU-based systems while eliminating the need for water cooling, a critical breakthrough, as global AI expansion strains power grids and water resources. Australia’s First Sovereign AI Inferencing Cloud. Credit: SCX.ai. The deployment by SCX.ai at Equinix’s SY5 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre marks Australia’s entry into sovereign AI infrastructure, offering enterprises and government agencies locally hosted AI processing that meets strict data residency…

The integration of Mitsol’s fibre network into Frogfoot’s national fibre infrastructure will bring the benefit of Frogfoot’s national pricing structure, client support and access to a number of internet service providers. Frogfoot  has expanded its footprint in KwaZulu-Natal with the acquisition of fibre assets that were built and operated by Mitsol (Pty) Ltd.  The transition brings another 19,000 homes onto the Frogfoot network and consolidates the company’s position as a leading fibre network operator in the province. This purchase will deliver immediate benefits to customers in the region, through our extensive national footprint, and years of industry experience. The integration…

If you use Spotify and enjoy looking up lyrics for songs, you’ll be happy. Spotify is rolling out an update that brings lyrics up into the Now Playing screen and right into view. The update is apparently a server-side one and has been spotted by a few Reddit users. They began noticing the current song lyric showing up just under the album art in the Now Playing main screen. The full lyrics window is still present below the Now Playing screen, if you like to watch it while you’re listening to a song. The new lyrics Users…

Argonne-Led Team Develops AI Framework to Coordinate Gravitational Wave and Radio Observations A new AI-powered framework enables rapid, resource-efficient follow-up campaigns for a wider range of cosmic messengers, including gravitational waves and faint radio afterglows. Jan. 30, 2026 — When two neutron stars collide, the universe puts on a spectacular show. These cosmic crashes send ripples through space-time called gravitational waves. They also unleash bursts of light across the electromagnetic spectrum, from powerful gamma rays to faint radio signals that can last for years. Scientific visualization of a numerical relativity simulation of a compact binary system consistent with…

The engagement underscores ongoing cooperation between the regulator and industry players to strengthen Malawi’s telecommunications ecosystem and advance digital inclusion nationwide. Malawi’s pioneering mobile operator, TNM plc,  has reaffirmed its long-term commitment to national development and digital transformation during a visit to the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA).  The company’s leadership shared its growth plans and investment strategy aimed at expanding access to advanced technologies across the country. TNM’s Chief Executive Officer, Michel Hebert, highlighted the operator’s role in introducing successive generations of mobile technology in Malawi, including 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G and mobile money services. The company said its…

We’ve already heard a few times that Apple plans to delay the vanilla iPhone 18 until next spring, not releasing it alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max this fall. This rather unusual delay, representing an important shift in Apple’s release strategy, is now confirmed by yet another report from Asia. The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max will launch on time in the fall, and the iPhone Fold will be announced alongside them. iPhone 17 The iPhone 18, according to this new report, is only scheduled to come out at some point in the first half of…

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.5 Expands What Open-Weight Models Can Do Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based AI startup known for releasing large open-weight language models aimed at coding and agentic tasks, has released Kimi K2.5, the latest iteration of its open-source Kimi model family. The company says Kimi K2.5 extends the foundation of the earlier Kimi K2 model with significantly expanded multimodal training and new agentic execution capabilities. The model was pretrained on a staggering 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens and is described as a native multimodal model, meaning images and text are trained together in a…