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  Giant tech IBM has developed a powerful AI-powered chip with the ability to process images 22 times faster than the one that's currently in the market. According to IBM report, the chip architecture is based on a faster and energy efficient AI. Semiconductors play vital roles in nearly everything ranging from computing, to other electronic appliances, to communication gadgets, transportation systems, and even the critical infrastructure. The era of AI, Cloud Computing and Internet of Things has seen the rise of chip performance and energy efficiency. IBM researchers have created a computer chip, christened as NorthPole, that integrates the data it uses and the processing module. The research team confided that their study was inspired by the way human brain functions. The chip accomplishes its task by deploying a 2-dimensional array of memory blocks and interconnected CPUs. The architecture permits the computing cores to communicate directly with distant blocks in an easier way...

  Semiconductors are substances that exhibit both electrical conductivity and electrical non-conductivity. How useful is a Semiconductor? They are mostly deployed in computers among other electronic appliances. They are an important component of electronic devices owing to their ability to control and manage the flow of an electric current. Semiconductors can be compounds like gallium arsenide, or pure elements like silicon or germanium. Semiconductors, also referred as Micro Chips or Integrated Circuits, are tiny fragments of Silicon and related raw materials altered through doping so that they can sometimes conduct electricity and sometimes not. Doping entails the addition of small amounts of impurities to the pure substances with the aim of causing changes in their electric conductivity. Micro Chips use a binary language that only recognizes 0s and 1s thus allowing them to be used as electric switches . Semiconductors are used in the manufacture of various electronic devices su...

  Photo : Silicon Valley data center Kenya President William Ruto travelled to Silicon Valley in the USA in a plan to woo innovators into investing in Kenya. Ruto tours Silicon Valley President Ruto's USA tour come weeks after he issued a charter to the Open University of Kenya (OUK). OUK programmes are tailored to be delivered virtually. The University is located at Konza City, which offers technologically geared courses to spur rapid tech-related innovations in varied disciplines. Ruto seeks to connect the Silicon Savannah to the Silicon Valley in the United States of America. Tech Giants such as Microsoft, Google and Apple are set to heavily invest in the Konza Technopolis City after Ruto's tour. President Ruto accompanied by US ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman met Apple CEO Tim Cook, Intel's Pat Gelsinger and Google CFO Ruth Porat. "Kenya is your gateway to the Silicon Savannah, to the East African Community, the most integrated regional market of 500 million, an...

 T echnological changes continue to shape humanity.  It's no longer business as usual as the internet connects the world. Tech apps, social media, digital media among connected devices turn the world toa global village. Forbes ranking listed tech companies such as Google , Microsoft , Amazon and a few others among the top 10 most valuable brands. Technological upheavals shaping the world can only be comparable to the industrial revolution. Currently, numbers (digits) control the world by prescription, while words shape the world in descriptive terms.  The advent of the digital revolution kick-started the process of making work easier for humanity to thrive. How Tech controls Humanity How we communicate : Social media platforms has caused much disruption to telecommunication companies in offering both voice and text-based conversations.  WhatsApp and Facebook messanger are among the most used social media. In 2014, Facebook (currently Meta Company) bough...

Meta app Threads gained prominence soon after its launch, with over 10 million users signing up hours after launch. The entire globe was astounded by the manner in which Threads , which almost resembles Twitter by many descriptions, would have such an overwhelming endorsement across the world. How Zuckerberg is trying  to eclipse other Social media platforms Is Zuckerberg turning into a predatory Marxist out to edge others from social media influence? Mark Zuckerberg copied Instagram stories from WhatsApp and later on bought WhatsApp. He reportedly copied reels from tiktok, story feature from SnapChat and Instagram music from Spotify. Finally, Zuckerberg has copied Threads App from Twitter. Brief History of Threads "Let’s do this. Welcome to Threads,” Meta Chief Executive Officer, doubling as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, wrote in his first post on the new social media site. Threads was launched on Wednesday and will run with no ads for now. Zuckerberg launched T...

  National Open University of Kenya set to operationalize as from September 2023 will be a game changer in the history of Kenya's higher education. President William Ruto in his Madaraka Day speech stated that the open university was to receive a charter at the course of June 2023. The President reiterated his desire to make university education "more affordable, more accessible and attainable. The Open University of Kenya is meant to provide distance learning. Potential students will be able to apply for academic progams from the comfort of their locality.  8 Programs offered by National Open University of Kenya Courses to be offered are of strategic importance to the country. The virtual university will offer both degrees and diplomas in: Data Science Cyber Security and Digital forensics Technology Education Business and Entrepreneurship Statistics  Economics Food Systems  Agricultural technology Open University of Kenya will also offer diploma in Leadership Man...

Kenya government has launched the refurbished E-Citizen Portal that merges all government services and bring them closer to the people  Digital transformation was a key pillar of the Kenya Kwanza manifesto  The official government Paybill number is 222222.  E-Citizen was launched in 2014 by the then president Uhuru Kenyatta. President William Ruto launched the refurbished E-Citizen on June 30, 2023 where he closed the many Paybill numbers that were used to pay for government services. Treasury Cabinet Secretary Njuguna Ndung'u has already gazetted the the online portal. The government has also established public Wi-Fi points to be used by Kenyans to access government services. Government portal is set to offer 5000 online services. Major Services offered by the E-Citizen Platform NTSA provisional driving license. Business registration services. Civil registration services such as marriage certificate. Police clearance services such as Certificate of Good Conduct. Kenya Re...

The space race was triggered almost a century ago, with the plan of moving human beings to Mars happening in the second phase.  21 st century has been in no doubt characterized by rapid techno-economic upheavals. The century replete of utopian thoughts modeled to making life better, with invention of more user-friendly gadgets and attempts to depopulate the ever surging world’s population at an advanced stage. Why do the rich want to migrate to the mars? Aren’t they out to escape the ever surging world’s population, or are they just being adventurous? Elon Musk has been on record saying that he would one day build a city in the red planet. Musk, who happens to be the richest man in the world, is a top-notched engineer who has deployed his skills in his SpaceX found space exploration firm. The firm has custom-built several rockets for the space mission. Will the rich escape the taxing planet world to another one? If they manage, will the other planet have authorities to regulate h...

  Elon Musk is currently ranked as the world’s richest man in the records of Forbes and Bloomberg real-time billionaires’ index. His net worth value is around $252 billion. He owns about 17% shares of Tesla – an electric car manufacturer. Musk’s debut in the world of technology emerged after he dropped out of a graduate class at Stanford University and launched two tech start-up firms in the 90s, including an internet software company and an online banking firm, later referred as PayPal, which was later sold to eBay in 2002 at $1.5 billion. Musk’s Journey to success The world’s richest man would later immerse himself into space exploration which conceptualized to SpaceX. Musk’s found SpaceX , a space exploration firm, acts as an alternative to Nasa in terms of lowered costs. He also launched The Boring Company and is a cofounder of OpenAI and Neuralink. Musk attributes his success to quality products and services rather than media publicity. “Other companies spend money on advertis...

U kraine’s Minister for digital transformation Mykhailo Federov is heavily relying on technology to brave Russian attack.  Mykhailo Federov operates from an underground shelter in a concealed site in Kyiv, while Ukraine’s President Voldymyr Zelensky joins the military forces for physical confrontation above. Federov turned the sedate government Twitter handle into a social media mortar that’s persuading world’s authoritative tech companies to close business in Russia as a protest against Russian incursion in Ukraine. Federov is urging tech-gurus like Elon Musk to deploy satellites for the benefit of Ukrainians. He uses his smartphone to reach out to the world. His tweet triggered Musk to react within 48 hours and attuned his pattern of Starlink satellites and dispatched a volume of internet-ready Starlink terminals to Ukraine. The service is crucial in the stability of internet services should the telecommunication networks be dismantled. However, Musk warned that Russian missiles ...