CEMESO showcases AI fact-checking guide to boost media integrity in digital era - ITREALMS

The Centre for Media and Society (CEMESO) has released the AI Fact-Checking Tool Guide for Journalists and Fact-Checkers, a practical resource designed to help media professionals, researchers, and information integrity advocates responsibly integrate Artificial Intelligence into verification workflows, reports ITREALMS.

As misinformation and digital manipulation continue to proliferate across online platforms, the handbook demonstrates how AI technologies can accelerate research, detect synthetic or altered media, analyze viral narratives, and reinforce evidence-based journalism. However, the guide firmly establishes that AI tools must complement, rather than replace, human editorial oversight, critical thinking, and professional ethics.

@CES'26: LG showcases 'Innovation in tune with you' - ITREALMS

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…demonstrates AI-Powered Spaces Where Affectionate Intelligence Evolves into Affectionate Action

LG Electronics (LG) hosted the global audience to join the LG World Premiere press conference as the year began at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Under the banner of its CES 2026 theme, “Innovation in tune with you,” LG will share its vision for elevating daily life through Affectionate Intelligence – delivering harmonized and seamlessly connected customer experiences.

With global media in attendance, LG will unveil a portfolio of AI-powered solutions that combine world-class devices and solutions with advanced AI core technologies. LG is evolving its products into intelligent solutions designed to expand meaningful connectivity between devices, people and spaces. This evolution extends from the home to mobility and urban environments, enabling a more seamless and elevated life journey.

Shell showcases decades of economic impact and energy future @NAPE 2025 - ITREALMS

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Shell is reinforcing its long-term commitment to Nigeria's economy and energy security by prominently featuring its extensive contributions at the 2025 International Conference and Exhibition of the Nigeria Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), reports ITREALMS.

The exhibition, which commenced yesterday in Lagos, coincides with the 50th anniversary of the professional body, founded in 1975.

Shell showcases energy industry contributions @SPE Conference - ITREALMS

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Shell has highlighted its pivotal role in Nigeria's oil and gas industry at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) conference in Lagos, with the exhibition featuring Shell's flagship businesses, including Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) and Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG), as well as its partnerships with All On and Daystar Power, reports ITREALMS.

Shell's participation in the conference comes as it received an award for its $5 billion Bonga North project, which is expected to produce 110,000 barrels of oil per day. 

Afreximbank Trade Finance Seminar'24 showcases speakers - ITREALMS

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The Afreximbank Trade Finance Seminar 2024, holding between November 5-7 at the Windhoek Country Club Resort, Windhoek, Namibia, has announced speakers lineup, reports ITREALMS.

The seminar, ITREALMS gathered would be followed by the Factoring Workshop on November 8 at the same.

CES 2024: HP’s OMEN showcases gaming personified - ITREALMS

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HP Incorporated has unveiled its most personalised gaming portfolio yet with innovations across its OMEN and HyperX brands at the just concluded 2024 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in the United States, reports ITREALMS.

This, ITREALMS gathered, saw the display of new laptops, accessories, and software are all designed to work together to create a seamless gaming ecosystem so gamers can focus on what they do best – play.

Google's Bard showcases more features, languages and countries - ITREALMS

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Google recently developed conversational generative artificial intelligence chatbot, the Bard is showcasing some more features, languages and countries, reports ITREALMS.

Bard, ITREALMS gathered, is a conversational generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google, based initially on the LaMDA family of large language models and later the PaLM LLM.

The duo of Jack Krawczyk, Product Lead, Bard and Amarnag Subramanya, the Vice President, Engineering, Bard, disclosed that users could not access new languages and countries, customised responses add images to your prompts and more.

According to them, curiosity and imagination are the driving forces behind human creativity, be it a child inventing a game, friends dreaming up their next adventure, or an entrepreneur coming up with a new business idea, our ability to imagine new possibilities is one of our most innate human qualities.

OPPO showcases latest innovative technologies @Mobile World Congress 2023 - ITREALMS

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At the 2023 Mobile World Congress 2023 (MWC2023), OPPO showcased a range of its latest innovative technologies, reports ITREALMS.

OPPO, ITREALMS gathered, not only showed a selection of flagship devices including the pocketable OPPO Find N2 Flip, but also introduces a number of industry-leading innovations based on its four Smart Initiatives - smart entertainment, smart productivity, smart health, and smart learning, such as OPPO Wi-Fi 6 Router AX5400, OPPO Zero-Power Tag, MariSilicon Y Bluetooth audio SoC, OHealth H1 family health monitor, OPPO Air Glass 2 and more. By delivering enhanced, connected experiences through these virtuous innovations, OPPO is reinforcing its position as a future-focused company that seeks to unlock new possibilities for smart living.

Sophos report showcases 2020 cyberthreat impacts - ITREALMS

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Leader in cloud-enabled next-generation cybersecurity, Sophos has launched its 2020 Threat Report providing insights into the rapidly evolving cyberthreats landscape, reports ITREALMS.

The latest report, ITREALMS gathered, was produced by SophosLabs researchers, and explored changes in the threat landscape over the past 12 months, uncovering trends likely to impact cybersecurity in 2020.

“The threat landscape continues to evolve – and the speed and extent of that evolution is both accelerating and unpredictable. The only certainty we have is what is happening right now, so in our 2020 Threat Report we look at how current trends might impact the world over the coming year. We highlight how adversaries are becoming ever stealthier, better at exploiting mistakes, hiding their activities and evading detection technologies, and more, in the cloud, through mobile apps and inside networks. The 2020 Threat Report is not so much a map as a series of signposts to help defenders better understand what they could face in the months ahead, and how to prepare,” said John Shier, senior security advisor, Sophos.

The SophosLabs 2020 Threat Report, which is also summarized in a SophosLabs Uncut article, focuses on six areas where researchers noted particular developments during this past year. Among those expected to have significant impact on the cyberthreat landscape into 2020 and beyond are the following:

Ransomware attackers continue to raise the stakes with automated active attacks that turn organizations’ trusted management tools against them, evade security controls and disable back ups in order to cause maximum impact in the shortest possible time.

Unwanted apps are edging closer to malware. In a year that brought the subscription-abusing Android Fleeceware apps, and ever more stealthy and aggressive adware, the Threat Report highlights how these and other potentially unwanted apps (PUA), like browser plug-ins, are becoming brokers for delivering and executing malware and fileless attacks.

The greatest vulnerability for cloud computing is misconfiguration by operators. As cloud systems become more complex and more flexible, operator error is a growing risk. Combined with a general lack of visibility, this makes cloud computing environments a ready made target for cyberattackers.

Machine learning designed to defeat malware finds itself under attack. 2019 was the year when the potential of attacks against machine learning security systems were highlighted. Research showed how machine learning detection models could possibly be tricked, and how machine learning could be applied to offensive activity to generate highly convincing fake content for social engineering. At the same time, defenders are applying machine learning to language as a way to detect malicious emails and URLs. This advanced game of cat and mouse is expected to become more prevalent in the future.

Other areas covered in the 2020 Threat Report include the danger of failing to spot cybercriminal reconnaissance hidden in the wider noise of internet scanning, the continuing attack surface of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), and the further advancement of automated active attacks (AAA).

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Minister showcases PMB achievements, slams opposition

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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has slammed the country's political opposition for downplaying the unprecedented achievements of the Buhari Administration, saying they are being deliberately and perpetually blind to the achievements, reports ITRealms.

The Minister made the assertion while inaugurating the 22-member newly-elected Governing Council of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), under the chairmanship of Mallam Mukhtar Sirajo, in Abuja on Thursday.

He described the opposition as unserious, very disdainful of the truth, lacks ideas and believes that being in opposition means crying wolf where there is none and spewing out fake information at the speed of light!

''Where is the seriousness in an opposition party throwing out a spurious figure of N10 trillion as the amount of money that has been looted under the present administration? What is Nigeria's annual national budget? How do you react to an opposition that is deliberately and perpetually blind to the monumental achievements of this Administration?'' Alhaji Mohammed queried.

He said while naysayers might pretend not to have seen all these achievements, ''Nigerians who are benefitting directly from them have testified to the reality of the successes.''

 Listing some of the achievements of the Administration, the Minister said it had taken power generation from 2,690MW to 7,000MW, moved Nigeria closer to self-sufficiency in rice than any Administration before it, increased the number of rice farmers from 5 million to an all-time high over 11 million and cut Nigeria's rice import bill of $1.65 billion annually by 90%.

''We are feeding 8.2 million pupils in 45,394 schools in 24 states, employing 87,261 cooks in the process; we are paying conditional cash transfer of N5,000 monthly to 297,973 poorest and most vulnerable households, never before done in Nigeria; we are building roads, rail and power, spending an unprecedented 2.7 trillion Naira on infrastructure alone in just two years; we have raised capital expenditure in the yearly national budget to an unprecedented 30% on the average, our Social Investment Programmes have benefitted 9 million people.

''The school children who are being fed, the unemployed graduate who has now been employed under N-Power; the small business owner who has benefitted from the GEEP loans and the thousands of people who have been rescued from the clutches of Boko Haram know that these achievements are real,'' he said.

Alhaji Mohammed said the economy is also back on the path of growth, after the recession of 2016-17, ''and we have the figures to support this assertion''.

He said the economy grew 1.95 percent in Q1 2018; Inflation has fallen for 15 consecutive months, from 18.7 percent to12.5 percent as of April 2018; External Reserves of $48 billion are the highest in 5 years; Total exports in 2017 were 59.47% higher than for 2016; Agriculture exports grew 180.7% above the value in 2016; Raw material exports grew 154.2% above the value in 2016; Solid minerals exports grew 154.2% above the value in 2016; Exports of manufactured goods grew 26.8% above the value in 2016, And the first quarter of 2018 saw the fourth consecutive quarterly increase in capital importation since Q2 2017.

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Black Friday: Yudala showcases best prices for 11/11–12/12

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Ahead of its Black Friday sales tagged 11/11-12/12 which runs from November 11th till December 12th, 2017; Yudala has boldly restated its status as the best source of guaranteed genuine products and best prices nationwide, with shoppers in line to enjoy millions of amazing offers and surprises all through the period.

Yudala 11/11-12/12, an annual promotion, will run online @ www.yudala.com and offline in every Yudala Store nationwide.

The much-anticipated promotion will offer Nigerians not only a huge assortment of genuine products sourced directly from the manufacturers, but also a bold promise of unmatched best prices nationwide.

 “Yudala 11/11-12/12 is the biggest Black Friday campaign to expect in Nigeria this year. We are not only assuring Nigerians of quality products which we are known for, but we are also offering real value for money with best prices nationwide. Best prices for genuine quality products, you cannot get that anywhere else but at Yudala. If you do, we will refund the difference, provided the product is genuine,” disclosed Prince Nnamdi Ekeh,  Vice President at Yudala.

“We are aware of the yearning of Nigerians, many of whom are tired of poor quality and sub-standard products on other platforms. Most of these disgruntled customers have never looked back after shopping with us.

“Yudala is widely renowned as the best source of genuine products nationwide. This is because we are perhaps the only e-commerce company in the country that can lay claims to having a clear quality products sourcing value-chain, as all our products are sourced directly from Original Equipment Manufacturers.  We have staked our reputation on this and we will never disappoint the millions of customers who have come to rely on us for quality.”

Yudala 11-11/12-12 promotion will witness a wide assortment of products across diverse categories including Home Appliances, Computing, Electronics, Mobile devices, Gaming, Lifestyle/Consumer Goods, Power Solutions, Food, Wines/Spirits, among others, with huge deals and unbeatable price slashes also expected.

Nigeria’s pioneer online and offline e-commerce outfit, Yudala captured the imagination of an entire continent during its first-ever online and offline Black Friday promotion in 2015, which saw the company make history with the drone delivery of the first order placed for its Black Friday sales, the first recorded instance on the African continent. The order for the item, a Nokia Lumia smart phone was placed by Yetunde Lawal, a staff of Access Bank Plc. who was shopping on the Yudala website for the first time.

Since that landmark feat, Yudala has not looked back on its mandate of delivering genuine products and services to its consumers –  a mission it has continued to fulfil with a series of innovative promotions including an on-going Master Brand campaign tagged  Yu Live Well.

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Lenovo showcases Yoga Book tablet

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The Lenovo  has showcased its latest in shelf, Yoga Book tablet, the acclaimed world’s thinnest and lightest 2-in-1 tablet, designed for unmatched productivity while on-the-go, reports ITRealms.

Proclaimed as built for mobility and to solve the most common challenge among tablet users on how to achieve productivity and entertainment in one device, ITRealms gathered that Yoga Book stands out as a tablet that looks and acts like no other.

Vice president and general manager, Android and Chrome Computing at Lenovo, Jeff Meredith, said with this Yoga Book tablet, they are set out to redefine the tablet category conundrum, namely that consumers no longer separate their activities into productivity and entertainment, because it all blends together.

“The Yoga Book introduces keyboard and handwriting input capability in an elegantly simple, unconventionally slender tablet design. We believe our unique design will offer tablet, 2-in-1 and traditional notebook buyers a first-of-its-kind option for evolving usage trends,” Meredith said.

ITRealms gathered that up until now, most people have been using tablets in ways never meant to, mainly for productivity, which becomes painful when typing or applying a stylus onto a touch screen that one may be using on-the-go.

But with the coming of Yoga Book, ITRealms further gathered, removed those difficulties by taking the fundamental building blocks from the DNA of what makes a great tablet namely portability, long battery life and a rich app ecosystem as well as entwines it into a strand of creativity and productivity through a suite of powerful new hardware and software features.

These ITRealms learnt, comprise having the instant halo keyboard, dual-use stylus that writes on paper and screen, productivity-driven Book User Interface (UI).

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