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Billionaire Elon Musk’s satellite internet firm, Starlink had announced a 55.6 percent reduction in the price of the installation hardware kit in the Kenyan market in a promotion that ended May 15. During the offer window, Kenyans purchased the hardware equipment at Ksh. 59,500 down from the Ksh. 89,000 asking price during normal sales.
Airtel Africa has announced plans to build a data center in Nairobi, its second in the continent after Nigeria. The telco said its Nairobi data center, which will serve telcoms and other sectors, will have a capacity of seven megawatts.
Google parent Alphabet’s potential acquisition of HubSpot , a U.S. marketing software maker with a market value of $31 billion, would boost its ability to compete against Microsoft in offering cloud-based applications to companies. Reuters reported last month that Google was exploring an offer for HubSpot. Such a deal would be Google’s biggest, expanding its products and applications …
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Failures affecting the SEACOM and EASSY subsea cable system disrupted connection in East Africa. In March, damage to for cables off the West Africa coast caused similar problems, and in February, the vital links were damaged in the Red Sea after the anchor of a stricken ship damaged through three cables. It will take more …
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The United States Embassy in Tanzania has closed for 2 days because of an internet outage which hit East African countries on Sunday. Consular appointments were canceled and rebooked for a later date. The embassy said it would remain accessible for handling emergency cases involving American citizens and Visa collection.
A robot, designed to mimic the motion of a snail, has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol. A study shows a novel way for robots to scale walls easily, potentially changing how difficult-to-access surfaces such as blades of wind turbines, hulls of ships, aircrafts and glass windows of sky crappers are autonomously. …
Germany police blocked proteseters trying to get into the Tesla grounds at its Berlin-Brandenburg factory. Tesla is pursuing a major expansion for its battery and car assembly factory in Brandenburg, Germany and is facing local pushback over plans to cut down approximately 250 acres of forest.
The co-founder and chief scientist Llya Sutskever is leaving the startup at the center of today’s A.I boom. “OpenAI would not be what it is without him,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a message to the company. Jakub Pachaki will be the company’s new chief scientist, the company said on it blog. Pachoki has …
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A cure for HIV could be on the horizon, after scientists eliminated the virus from the cells in the laboratory, Using a gene-editing tool known as Crispr-Cas, researchers were able to target HIV DNA and remove all traces of the virus from infected cells. Working essentially as scissors, the Nobel Prize-winning technology can cut DNA at certain …
Kenyans will begin monetizing their content on Facebook and Instagram by June this year, making Kenya one of the few countries in the continent enjoying the feature. The move was announced by the Facebook President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg in a meeting with President William Ruto at State House Nairobi. Clegg said, “Kenyan content creators …
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