In 2008, someone using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto published the design of the cryptocurrency bitcoin, proposed the initial code and was active…
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The European Space Agency has given the go-ahead for initial work on a mission to visit an asteroid called (99942) Apophis. If…
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Life in the digital world can be rewarding. It’s convenient to order groceries for pickup, share photographs or music, and…
If you visit a commercial mining operation anywhere in the world today, some sights and sounds – workers descending in…
Last week, the tragic news broke that US teenager Sewell Seltzer III took his own life after forming a deep emotional attachment…
In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) with the ominous…
It is difficult to spend any time on the internet these days without being inundated with advertisements. Not all advertising…
South Africa is immersed in a “just energy transition” from a fossil fuel-based energy system to a cleaner, low-carbon energy…
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company that developed the popular ChatGPT chatbot and the text-to-art program Dall-E, is at a crossroads. On Oct.…