Just over a month ago I turned off my voicemail. After voice calls and SMSes, voicemail has been the longest…
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It was easy last week to focus on the failure to fire South Africa’s two most incompetent Cabinet ministers –…
Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? It’s a decade-old question that has gotten more and more attention since this mythical figure came…
Although the internet has enabled an “amazing advance” for humanity, it has “real problems” with social networks, the addictive nature…
“So you just view it in Safari,” a friend asked me with great bewilderment when I explained I didn’t have…
Perhaps because it was Apple CEO Tim Cook sounding the alarm, his admonishments that our personal data “is being weaponized…
Most of the conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) seem to be focussed on the potential job losses this new form…
When I handed cash to the cashier at a restaurant in Shanghai, he looked at me blankly for a moment.…
When it first burst onto the app scene in 2010, Instagram was a revelation. This little picture-sharing app let iPhone…
This time Facebook can’t blame a third party for last week’s major hacking of some 50m accounts, nor its seemingly…