By: Samuel Ogunleke (Contributor) Tech is referred to as the “new oil” to mean that it’s the industry driving the economy and just like oil, it revolutionizes the economy and transforms societies. Oil has proven historically to be a catalyst for fuelling economic growth, and the analogy emphasizes the […]
By: Daniel Echoda Barely a year has passed since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a creation by the U.S.-based artificial intelligence (AI) and research company, which is also responsible for DALL-E 2 and Whisper, the AI art generator and automatic speech recognition system. ChatGPT quickly rose to fame as one of the […]
By: Daniel Echoda Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement last week of rolling out “WhatsApp Channels,” his recent innovation, “globally and adding thousands of new channels that people can follow in WhatsApp” brings us to a long-standing pattern in tech, specifically regarding new features and platforms that often emerge with claims of innovation. […]
Image credit: Forbes By: Emmanuel Ilesanmi When Apple Inc. launched its Apple Card payment system in August of 2019, little did its consumers assume that this service would translate to a more extensive development—a savings account. Fast forward to 2023, Apple now has a savings account, thanks to its continued […]
By: GeeTee Elections are a process through which people decide their representatives in a democratic system of government. It is no news to an average student of the University of Ibadan that the Students’ Union is a body of student representatives who are a vital link between the student populace […]
By: Gideon Oyeyinka Technological innovations are fast rising in our ever “going-digital” world of today. No sooner are students of the University of Ibadan getting very much acquainted with ChatGPT, then Starlink emerges. In the world of tech, ChatGPT has become conventional, while Starlink is fast becoming familiar, but what […]
By: John Eriomala Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks – and that has to be an extremely large one at that – you must have seen quite a few new fliers and banners within the University premises; “So and so is coming”, “Miss A […]
By: Ogunleye Moboluwarin Damiloju, a 200-level student studying physiotherapy at the University of Ibadan, had academic difficulties. You see, in addition to her regular schoolwork, she also had a side business where she painted on commission and sold the paintings to her classmates and anybody else who was interested. Due […]
By: Ilesanmi Emmanuel What is Open Banking Have you ever used a financial service that messages people on your contact list? Then you might have had an experience with open banking, or at least a similar concept. Open Banking is a centralized network of data privacy and sharing between third-party […]
By: Emmanuel Ilesanmi It is 2023, and while Artificial Intelligence (AI) looks to revolutionize the world, Nigeria’s fintech space is facing a change that has brought about a haphazard movement of digital and physical distribution of the legal tender between “e-note“(digital transactions), new note and old note. However, consumers bear […]
