Latest technology stories from across Kenya.
Video quality matters more than ever in 2026, as more people create content for social media, online courses, marketing, and streaming platforms. From blurry smartphone clips to low-resolution old footage, many videos need a serious…
Kenya will have its co-owned Climate Camera (ClimCam) installed at the International Space Station (ISS), marking a significant milestone in the continent’s growing space capabilities. If everything goes as planned, ClimCam will fly as…
Vertiv has announced four new or expanding manufacturing facilities in the Americas, growing the company’s production capacity for infrastructure solutions, power management, and integrated cabinets. As data centre operators focus on…
You buy a box. There’s a cartridge inside. You slot it into your Switch 2 and nothing happens until you download the entire game over the internet. The cartridge itself is empty. It acts as a physical key that must stay inserted while you…
When Google introduced AI Inbox in January, the goal was that Gmail, used by over 3 billion people worldwide, needed a smarter way to handle the volume. The answer is AI Inbox, a new interface powered by Gemini 3 that sits above the…
Kenya is not facing a fuel crisis, at least not yet, and will not face one in the near future if all scheduled fuel delivery makes it as planned. Kenya’s National Treasury revealed that stocks remain sufficient for the short term despite…
Olympic Esports: Are Video Games Finally Getting Their Rings? For years the conversation about esports and the Olympics stayed theoretical. Then 2025 arrived and the IOC ran its first dedicated Olympic Esports Games in Saudi Arabia – not a…
Sophos has released findings from a global, vendor-agnostic study (based on responses from 5,000 organizations across 17 countries), examining one of cybersecurity’s most urgent and overlooked necessities: trust. The Cybersecurity Trust…
Yesterday evening, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket left Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:35 a.m. local time. About 400,000 people showed up to watch in person, with over 900 journalists from 18 countries…
The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has just published its most recent Quality-of-Service (QoS) performance report, covering the financial year 2024–2025. The report has positioned Safaricom at the top of the country’s mobile…
Introduction Imagine that a company has received some old iPhones or iPads as returned devices from ex-employees only to find out that they were locked to someone’s old Apple ID. The devices are fully working but without the right login…
Tax season is nigh upon us, and this year there is a meaningfully different option for the millions of Kenyan traders who have long found eTIMS too technical, too slow, or simply too much to deal with. KRA launched a WhatsApp chatbot in…
The 4th edition of GITEX Africa Morocco, which will take place from 7to 9 April 2026, will bring together over 1500 exhibiting companies and startups, with participants from over 130 countries globally. Morocco is spearheading a bold…
Kenya is making a bold and strategic move to establish itself as Africa’s premier hub for Artificial Intelligence (AI) investment. At a high-level roundtable held during Kenya International Investment Conference (KIICO) 2026 in Nairobi,…
Impact investment management company, Platcorp Group has been recognized at this year’s FinTech Breakthrough Awards for its role in advancing innovative credit solutions through technology. The firm emerged as the best “Overall Business…
On the morning of March 31, Oracle employees in at least a dozen countries opened their phones to find a message that their roles had been eliminated. Up to 30,000 people received that email. The irony of this was that Oracle had just…
Kenya’s data protection regulator has launched a formal investigation into Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, confirming what digital rights advocates had been pushing for since early March. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner said…
Biometric payments refer to the use of physical or behavioural traits to identify the payer in a transaction.
There has been no good news coming out of Telkom Kenya, the state-owned telecommunications provider, for a while, and the dismal streak persists. Kenya’s oldest telco has recorded its worst-ever Quality of Service (QoS) performance in four…
Truecaller has crossed 500 million users worldwide. The company added more than 50 million users in 2025 alone. “This is an important milestone for us, but it also says something bigger about the world we live in,” said Rishit…
Madica has released a new insight-led guidebook aimed at one of the most challenging phases of building a startup, when raising a first round. Titled Zero to Funded: A Founder’s Guide to Pre-Seed Fundraising in Africa, the 75-page resource…
Vertiv has announced the launch of the Vertiv CoolPhase Wall, a wall-mounted cooling system designed specifically for small IT environments and edge deployments across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The new solution addresses…
Day 1 of Safaricom Decode 4.0 set the tone for what is shaping up to be one of Kenya’s most important tech gatherings of the year with artificial intelligence firmly at the center of the conversation. From hands-on AI labs to high-level…
Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming the defining force shaping the future of industries, economies and societies. Speaking at the Safaricom Decode 4.0 event, Safaricom’s Group Chief Finance and Innovation Officer, Dilip Pal,…
