In today’s fractured online landscape, it is harder than ever to identify harmful actors such as trolls and misinformation spreaders.…
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I’m a writing professor who sees artificial intelligence as more of an opportunity for students, rather than a threat. That…
Last week, Meta – the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp – unveiled a new “personal artificial intelligence (AI)”. Powered…
An estimated 90% of the training data for current generative AI systems stems from English. However, English is an international lingua franca…
Live and on-demand video constituted an estimated 66% of global internet traffic by volume in 2022, and the top 10 days for…
With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance…
In medicine, there’s a well-known maxim: never say more than your data allows. It’s one of the first lessons learned…
If you wanted to check someone’s pulse from across the room, for example, to remotely monitor an elderly relative, how…
Just over 74% of South Africa’s electricity still comes from burning coal. In 2021, the country negotiated the Just Energy Transition Partnership…
Nanotechnology is the use of materials that are one-billionth of a metre (a nanometre) in size. One of its potential…