The digital economy has been getting a lot of attention, with increasingly strong headlines offering apocalyptic as well as breathtakingly exciting scenarios. Some warn of job losses due to automation, some wonder at the things digital technology can do. And then there’s real scepticism about whether this will translate into delivering to people who need it most.
Did you know that Facebook has an artificial intelligence (AI) division? Not just the regular stuff that dictates what you see from the many, many posts on the social network, but an AI division with designs on more… practical applications? That division has announced that it’s built a ” large-scale distributed reinforcement learning…algorithm”.
Like 1,5bn other people last week, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. A sense of relief that’s arguably as deep as when Eskom doesn’t load-shit the country for a week.
At the end of 2019, we teamed up with Acer South Africa to bring you a next-level gaming experience. This includes visiting the Acer office in Johannesburg and playing on the Predator Thronos gaming setup which is powered by the Acer Predator Orion 9000 gaming PC with two Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card.
We used to be told not to get into stranger’s cars and definitely not meet strangers from the internet. (It’s…
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Samsung unveiled two new smartphones in its A series of handsets in Johannesburg today, the first of several devices in the range intended for the first half of this year.
Here’s one way to cheer you up at the end of Januworry: Samsung just launched the Note 10 Lite in…
Just 24 hours after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ iPhone was hacked, his data usage apparently increased with 29,000%. Someone was syphoning huge amounts of personal data from his iPhone 10 — but at that stage, no-one knew where it was all going.