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The parent company behind the iPhone and MacBook, Apple will now wind down its team working on electric cars, called Special Projects Group, a decade after kicking off the project, per reports on Tuesday. According to an announcement by the company executives in a short meeting, the tech giant will be scuttling its secretive and long-running effort to build an …

Chui Ventures, Meta, Bujeti, Amini, Flow48, Bitmama Inc., Afri-Venture capital, Mtor, tappi, Microsoft, were some of the names that made the headlines this week. Pan-African Seed fund led by Managing Partner Joyce-Ann Wainaina, Chui Ventures, has secured a substantial $9 million commitment from the Mastercard Foundation Africa Growth Fund Also, Nigeria’s fintech sector, Bitmama Inc., a blockchain payments platform, has …

The UK has long been an attractive destination for international job-seekers and despite concerns around declining immigration post-Brexit, it continues to attract vast numbers of foreign workers – including for UK tech jobs. That’s according to recent data presented by Indeed at a roundtable event held in its London HQ. The finding, led by analysts Darina Jiang and Alexander Groutides, …

Microsoft is starting to roll out new changes to Windows Ink that let you write anywhere you can type in Windows 11. After months of previewing the changes, the handwriting-to-text conversion now works inside search boxes and other elements of Windows 11 where you’d normally type your input. Microsoft has started rolling out the KB5031455 non-security update as a preview …

Microsoft has started testing new updates to its Xbox app on Windows 11 that improve the experience on handheld devices and smaller screens. In an Xbox test app released earlier this week, Microsoft has introduced a new compact mode that greatly reduces the sidebar on the left-hand side. Compact mode is designed to improve “the experience on handhelds and small …

ENSEMBLE STUDIOS HAD spent nearly a decade mastering the real-time strategy genre when it became a victim of its own success. Its 1997 debut, Age of Empires, had been an instant hit and spawned several beloved sequels and expansions that cemented the studio’s glowing reputation. Imitators—some novel, some slavish—quickly appeared in their droves, and by the mid-2000s, parent company Microsoft …

Following promises of renewed commitment to its augmented reality headset, Microsoft has finally delivered a Windows 11 variant to Hololens in a bid to reaffirmits dedication to the platform. In the week after Apple’s announcement of its own headset – the Vision Pro – Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Holographic version 23H1, itself a variant of the increasingly …

Today аt itѕ Build 2023 conference, Microsoft unveiled a wide range оf nеw features fоr itѕ Power Platform, aimed аt revolutionizing арр development аnd empowering professional аnd citizen developers with low-code technologies. Aссоrding tо thе company, professional developers hаvе increasingly embraced low-code tools bесаuѕе оf thеir ability tо рrоvidе swift аnd cost-effective application development, reducing thе complexities аѕѕосiаtеd with traditional …