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Triply Wants to Bring Travel Agency Operations Under One Roof
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Triply Wants to Bring Travel Agency Operations Under One Roof

Kenyan travel technology company Triply is targeting the operational challenges faced by travel agencies and tour operators with a platform that combines itinerary planning, bookings, customer management, and payments in one system.…

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Meet Pressed Petals: A Botanical Journal App
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Meet Pressed Petals: A Botanical Journal App

This one is for the people who stop mid-walk to photograph a flower nobody else notices, who can tell a daisy from a chamomile at a glance, and who have at some point held a particularly beautiful wildflower and thought, “I wish I could…

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What Happens When an Airport eGate Cannot Match a Traveler
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What Happens When an Airport eGate Cannot Match a Traveler

An airport eGate that does not open is easy to misunderstand. To the traveler, the moment can feel like a rejection. To the system, however, it may simply mean that an automated check could not reach the confidence required to complete the…

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Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Fallout
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Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Fallout

Meta has been ordered to pay $25 billion to the state of New Mexico for misleading Facebook users about how their personal data was handled. The ruling came from Judge Francis Mathew on October 21. It stems from the Cambridge Analytica…

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PHP Fixes Critical Security Flaws That Put Millions of Websites at Risk
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PHP Fixes Critical Security Flaws That Put Millions of Websites at Risk

On Wednesday morning, the team behind PHP released emergency fixes for two critical security flaws. PHP is the programming language that runs a huge share of the web, including WordPress, Drupal and Magento. The flaws have existed in every…

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Cassava Brings Nvidia’s Open AI Models to Businesses Across Africa
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Cassava Brings Nvidia’s Open AI Models to Businesses Across Africa

Cassava Technologies has announced that it will offer Nvidia’s Nemotron open models as a managed service on its AI Factory, the company’s Nvidia-powered computing platform. The models will be available through the Cassava AI Multi-Model…

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Anthropic’s $518 Billion AI Bill Raises Questions Ahead of IPO
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Anthropic’s $518 Billion AI Bill Raises Questions Ahead of IPO

Anthropic is growing faster than almost any company of its size, but reports about its confidential draft IPO prospectus suggest that its growth comes with major financial commitments that could concern even optimistic investors. The…

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Why MPs Want to Remove IEBC’s Election Livestream Requirement
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Why MPs Want to Remove IEBC’s Election Livestream Requirement

A Bill seeking to remove the IEBC’s legal obligation to livestream results from polling stations is at the final stage in the National Assembly before a vote. While the proposed changes simplify parts of the election law, they could make…

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The Most Important Tech In the iGaming Industry – This May Shock You
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The Most Important Tech In the iGaming Industry – This May Shock You

The world of iGaming nowadays is a lot more complex than it once was because it uses very sophisticated technology. Operators and software suppliers rely on AI, virtual reality and all kinds of other tools to help them run their business.…

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Equity Group’s Finserve Africa MD Eva Ngigi Sarwari Dies at 45
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Equity Group’s Finserve Africa MD Eva Ngigi Sarwari Dies at 45

Eva Ngigi Sarwari, managing director of Finserve Africa and Equity Group’s director of payments and international banking, has died at 45 while on a business trip to China. TechCabal first reported the news. Her colleagues confirmed it in…

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Xbox Series X Can Now Boot Nintendo Switch Games Through Emulation
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Xbox Series X Can Now Boot Nintendo Switch Games Through Emulation

Someone has gotten Nintendo Switch games running on an Xbox Series X. Footage of the experiment shows Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Metroid Prime Beyond all booting on Microsoft’s console, with no Switch in sight. The…

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XRP Price: Why the Token and Ripple Are Not the Same Thing
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XRP Price: Why the Token and Ripple Are Not the Same Thing

XRP is frequently discussed alongside Ripple, which can create the impression that the two names refer to the same thing. They do not. XRP is a digital asset native to the XRP Ledger, while Ripple is a technology company that develops…

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8 Forex Brokers That Could Save African Traders Money in 2027
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8 Forex Brokers That Could Save African Traders Money in 2027

Forex trading has become increasingly accessible across Africa, with traders in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana and other markets using smartphones and online platforms to access global financial markets. But while technology has made…

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What Happens Behind the Scenes in Crypto Futures Trading?
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What Happens Behind the Scenes in Crypto Futures Trading?

Bitcoin is trading at $70,000, and a trader expects the price to fall. Selling BTC on the spot market would require owning it first. The futures market works differently: a trader can open a position that gains value if Bitcoin declines,…

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Sofa Time Lets You Track Movies and Shows Across Streaming Services
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Sofa Time Lets You Track Movies and Shows Across Streaming Services

Tracking what you watch across five streaming services, on two devices, between seasons that drop months apart, is a problem that no streaming platform has ever bothered to solve for viewers. Each service tracks only its content while your…

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Senate Committee Rejects AI Bill, Sending It Back to the Drawing Board
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Senate Committee Rejects AI Bill, Sending It Back to the Drawing Board

Kenya’s first attempt at a dedicated law to govern artificial intelligence has stalled at the Senate committee level. The Standing Committee on Information, Communication, and Technology rejected the Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2026,…

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Netflix Cuts Nearly 1,000 Jobs in Biggest Layoff Round Since 2022
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Netflix Cuts Nearly 1,000 Jobs in Biggest Layoff Round Since 2022

Netflix is laying off roughly 6% of its workforce, close to 1,000 people, in its biggest round of cuts since 2022. Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters told staff on Wednesday morning, and the news was first reported by The Wall Street…

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CMA Proposes Risk Ratings for Kenya’s Money Market Funds
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CMA Proposes Risk Ratings for Kenya’s Money Market Funds

If you keep your savings in a money market fund (MMF), you are in very large company. As of June 2026, 4.14 million Kenyans held units in a collective investment scheme, and the whole industry managed KES 948.7 billion. The Capital Markets…

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