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Africa Go Green Fund Doubles Spiro Financing to $36 Million as Electric Motorcycles Scale
Africa's electric mobility sector has received another significant financing commitment.
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Trump Wants AI Renamed 'Super Intelligence', But Superintelligence Already Means Something Specific
President Donald Trump has proposed a new name for artificial intelligence: 'super intelligence.' Trump made the remark during his September 22, 2026 address to the United Nations General Assembly.
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Samsung Galaxy S27 RAM and Storage Leak: 12GB Could Be the New Baseline
Samsung's next flagship smartphone family is still months away from an expected launch, but leaks are already beginning to outline the Galaxy S27 lineup.
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TikTok Asks Kenyan Creators for Tax Details as Withholding Rules Move Into the Platform
Kenyan TikTok creators who earn money through the platform are being asked to provide tax and residency information as TikTok moves to comply with Kenya's tax requirements.
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Googlebook Is Google's New Premium Laptop Strategy, and It Brings Android to the Desktop
Google has finally made a much bigger move in laptops.
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EPRA Removes Kenya's 15,000 kWh Monthly EV Charging Limit, Changing the Economics of Electric Mobility
Kenya's electric mobility industry has received a regulatory change that could materially affect the economics of charging infrastructure.
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Kenya just opened a $390 million tender to expand its fiber backbone, here's exactly what's being bid on
Kenya's ICT Authority opened an international tender, referenced KE-ICTA-538567-NC-RFB, to expand the National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure and strengthen cross-border and metropolitan connectivity, under the World Bank-backed Kenya Digital Economy Acceleration Project.
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LG smart TVs were caught recording audio in standby mode, and it happened on standard retail units, not hacked ones
A 135-minute investigation published this month by hardware channel Gamers Nexus, working with Level1Techs and independent security researchers, found that retail LG OLED smart TVs actively scan home networks to map nearby devices, collect Wi-Fi network names and signal data, and can buffer microphone audio locally while in standby mode, uploading it once network connectivity is restored.
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Inside Kenya's "Startup Graveyard": Twiga Joins a KES 93 Billion Wreckage, and One Number Complicates the Story
This is a labeled analysis piece, not neutral reporting.
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Apple TV just came to Kenya for the first time, bundled into a $0.99 cloud storage plan
Apple TV is available for the first time ever in Kenya as of this month, bundled at no extra cost into every paid iCloud+ subscription, including the entry-level 50GB plan, which stays at $0.99 a month, roughly KES 128.
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Kenya's High Court just unwound a $1.58 billion Safaricom sale that closed three months ago
Kenya's High Court declared the government's sale of a 15% stake in Safaricom PLC to Vodacom Group unconstitutional, null and void, and ordered the shares restored to the state.
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iOS 27 is here, and the headline feature isn't the update, it's the AI assistant Apple rebuilt with Google's help
Apple released iOS 27 to all compatible iPhones on September 14, 2026, closing out a beta cycle that started at WWDC on June 8.
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Twiga Foods is in administration, and the paperwork traces years of trouble most people missed
GT Flow Limited, the operating entity formerly known as Twiga Foods One Limited, entered statutory administration in Kenya on August 17, 2026, confirmed by a Kenya Gazette notice published September 11.
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Nairobi E-Mobility Week opened at KICC, and Kenya's electric two-wheeler numbers explain why it matters
Nairobi E-Mobility Week 2026 launched at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre on September 14 and runs free to the public through September 19, organized by UNEP and Kenya's Ministry of Transport as part of UNEP's Global Electric Mobility Programme.
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Valve's Steam Frame is here, and it costs more than anyone expected for the same reason your next phone will too
Valve launched the Steam Frame, its standalone wireless VR headset, on September 14, 2026, without advance notice, at $1,059 for a 256GB model and $1,299 for 1TB.
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The iPhone 18 Pro Max sold in the US is quietly different from every other one in the world
Every iPhone 18 Pro, in every country including the US, uses Apple's own C2 modem.
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Absa Bank Kenya just made its interim CEO permanent, and the backstory explains why
Absa Bank Kenya confirmed Yusuf Omari as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect on September 10, 2026, following board approval and completion of regulatory clearances.
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Android can finally move your passwords between apps without a file, a year after Apple got there
Starting September 10, 2026, Android lets users transfer saved passwords and passkeys directly between Google Password Manager, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane, without exporting an unencrypted file first.
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Kenya's smartboard rollout to 10,382 schools isn't new news, but here's where it actually stands
Kenya's rollout of interactive smartboards and teacher laptops to 10,382 public junior secondary schools launched with an official flag-off on June 9, 2026, under the World Bank-funded Kenya Digital Economy Acceleration Project (KDEAP), not this week.
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Kenya's ICT ministry held cybersecurity talks with Fortinet, but this is one conversation in a much longer year
Principal Secretary for ICT and the Digital Economy John Tanui held discussions with Fortinet East Africa this week focused on strengthening Kenya's cyber defenses using AI-driven threat intelligence and automated response systems.
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Everything Apple actually announced at its September event, and the one thing it didn't
Apple's "Surprise and Shine" keynote on September 9, 2026, the first hosted by new CEO John Ternus, announced five new products: the iPhone Duo (Apple's first foldable, starting at $1,999), the iPhone 18 Pro ($1,199) and iPhone 18 Pro Max ($1,299), and the Apple Watch Series 12 ($399) and Watch Ultra 4 ($799).
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Apple raised iPhone prices $100, and absorbed a bigger hike itself to keep it that low
Apple raised the starting price of the iPhone 18 Pro to $1,199 and the iPhone 18 Pro Max to $1,299, both $100 more than their iPhone 17 predecessors, and simultaneously discontinued the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max.
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iPhone Duo vs Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8: What Apple Actually Got Right, and What It Didn't
This is analysis, not neutral reporting.
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iPhone Duo vs Xiaomi 18 Fold: Why the Timeline, Not the Design, Is the Real Story
Xiaomi launched the 18 Fold in China on September 7, 2026, two days before Apple officially unveiled the iPhone Duo on September 9.