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Vanguard Video of Funke Akindele, JJC Skillz vacationing in Paris with twin sons surfaces

Nollywood actress Funke Akindele and her former husband, entertainer Abdulrasheed Bello, popularly known as JJC Skillz, have reuni...

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Vanguard The Three Musketeers and the Lone Ranger: Two great African families

Suave, exact, and unbothered. Where Ronald sees the piece, Gilbert sees the puzzle, and, more importantly, sees how the pieces loc...

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Vanguard After 30 years in service, physically challenged retired Lagos LG chief cries over unpaid benefits

A retired Head of Administration and Human Resources at Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos State, Michael Olawale Odesanya, has...

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ScienceDaily Health Childhood trauma may leave a lasting “scar” inside brain cells

Early-life stress may physically alter how DNA is packaged in the brain, leaving stress-related genes primed to activate more easi...

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ScienceDaily Nutrition Scientists may have found a shortcut to calorie restriction’s anti-aging benefits

Moderate calorie restriction lowered an immune protein called C3 that appears to help drive chronic inflammation as the body ages....

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ScienceDaily Health A missing color in indoor light may help prevent myopia

A wavelength of light largely missing from indoor LEDs may play an important role in protecting developing eyes from nearsightedne...

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TechCrunch Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents

Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence...

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TechCrunch Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.

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TechCrunch Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos

Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.

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TechCrunch QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you

The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queri...

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ScienceDaily Nutrition What you eat before age 2 may affect your health 70 years later

Britain’s postwar sugar rationing created a rare natural experiment that let researchers examine how early sugar exposure might af...

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ScienceDaily Health Turmeric compound may protect blood vessels from diabetes damage

A compound found in turmeric may help protect blood vessels from some of the damage caused by Type 1 diabetes. In rats, curcumin r...

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TechCrunch CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July

The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across...

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TechCrunch Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to...

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TechCrunch Meta settles for $18B in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children

The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about t...

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TechCrunch Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

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TechCrunch Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features

Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.

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TechCrunch Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

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TechCabal Zambia’s carbon registry could mark a turning point for Africa’s carbon market

In AugusT 2026, the Government of Zambia launched a fully operational national carbon registry, becoming the second African countr...

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TechCabal What 12 years of Tony Elumelu did to UBA in 10 charts

Sixteen years after leaving the bank he helped grow into one of Nigeria’s biggest financial institutions, Tony Elumelu has left Un...

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Premium Times INTERVIEW: Why I joined Rangers and what I want to achieve this season – Ifeanyi Okechukwu

The 21-year-old midfielder joins Rangers after gaining valuable experience with Niger Tornadoes, Enyimba, and Nasarawa United, and...

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Vanguard NDDC, Works Ministry move to fix Benin-Sapele-Warri-Agbor roads

By Daniel Abia, P/Harcourt The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, the Federal Ministry of Works, the Edo State Government a...

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Vanguard Deadly floods hit Nepal-Tibet border, 384 tourists missing

More than 300 tourists remain unaccounted for, and at least 19 people have died following severe flooding and a mudslide near the...

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Premium Times Oyo police arrest 10 suspects for alleged possession of human parts

The police said the suspects were allegedly involved in using human body parts to prepare ritual concoctions purportedly meant to...

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