So, this is the new normal. Here we are. After the worst of lockdown, as it were, on level three.…
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You can’t buy flip-flops in-store, but you can online; while you can only buy a T-shirt if it’s worn under…
Hold onto your hats, because Facebook (the parent company that owns its namesake, Instagram and WhatsApp) acquired the GIF-sharing platform…
Dear Parliament, let me tell you about some great meeting software called Teams. It’s made by Microsoft, the same people…
As middle-class South Africa emerges from self-isolation, blinking in the sunlight and the harsh reality of this new normal, there…
At this stage, nothing can surprise us anymore. Tech conglomerates around the world are pushing their creative capacity to launch…
At the end of December 2019 Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) start-up BlueDot picked up a cluster of unusual pneumonia cases…
After years of denying they could filter out disinformation, the social media giants have suddenly been able to effectively keep…
Since the lockdown started in SA three weeks ago, yoga teacher Shasta Jordan’s online streamed classes have grown by a third. They are relatively small numbers, but it demonstrates the shift towards streaming in this sudden onset age of self-isolation.
The World Health Organisation already has a word for this other terrible, global, viral spread of disinformation, an “infodemic”. And…