2023 Ushers in the year of the ‘Taming of Big Tech’ Globally

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Picture: JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP - An illustration picture taken in London on December 18, 2020 shows the logos of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft displayed ...

Is the 4th Industrial Revolution worth it?

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Picture: Laurent Gillieron/EPA – As the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) continues to disrupt all industries with artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process ...

Industrial Revolutions, Youth and Inequality

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Picture: Henk Kruger/African News Agency (ANA) – Cloud Support Engineer Tebogo Mpati with grade 9 learner Sibongile Khotseng during a Python Bootcamp facilitated ...

Our future artificial intelligence overlords need a resistance movement

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Picture: Supplied - Artificial intelligence is of the fastest-growing fields in the world. By Parmy OlsonArtificial intelligence has been moving so fast that even ...

US terror alert undermines solidarity, SA’s sovereignty

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Picture: Timothy Bernard/African News Agency (ANA) – ...

Fostering sustainable innovation in SA, one idea at a time

Dominic Naidoo|Published

Picture: Natania Botha – Moliehi Mafantiri, co-founder of BARALI. Barali’s (pronounced Baradi) black woman-owned design firm has two branches. The first is a sustainable ...

‘Social media platforms must uphold democratic values’

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By Dr Noluthando PhungulaSocial media has become central to most people’s lives and presents an important platform for political participation and public discourse. ...

What happened when Twitter and other social media platforms cracked down on extremists

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Picture: Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Illustration – ‘I think we’ve entered a new phase in which social media has altered and warped how we encounter information, how we ...

The gains of 4IR in Africa

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File picture: Phando Jikelo/African News Agency (ANA) - Components of the ZACUBE 2 diagram are shown at a previous plenary briefing hosted by the Cape Peninsula ...

Data Sovereignty and African integration: The time is now

David Monyae|Published

Graphic: ddzphoto/Pixabay - Africa should work towards the harmonisation of the legal and technical data management and regulation standards, says the writer. By ...

This electric three-wheeler brings greener delivery options

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An ElectraMeccanica SOLO car at the company's production facility in Canada in 2018. Picture: Ben Nelms/BloombergBy Ira BoudwayIn June, the electric bike startup ...

Massive reform needed to protect our personal information

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By Michele van Eck and Samantha HunebergSouth Africa, like many other countries in Africa and the world over, has in recent years seen an amplification of discourse ...