May 26, 2023
Africa: How AI and Other Technologies Are Already Disrupting the Workplace
Artificial intelligence (AI) is often cast as wreaking havoc and destroying jobs in reports about its growing use by companies. The recent coverage of telecom group BT's plans to… Read more »
May 24, 2023
Africa: Male Video Game Characters Speak Twice As Much As Females, Largest Study of Its Kind Reveals
Video games are played by nearly three billion people worldwide and make more money annually than the film industry. Around 50% of gamers are female but gaming has chronic problems… Read more »
May 01, 2023
Africa: Generative AI Is Forcing People to Rethink What It Means to Be Authentic
It turns out that pop stars Drake and The Weeknd didn't suddenly drop a new track that went viral on TikTok and YouTube in April 2023. The photograph that won an international… Read more »
April 24, 2023
Africa: Much Wow, Very Meme - What the Revival of the Ancient Doge Meme Tells Us About the Lifecycle of the Internet
In early April, when Elon Musk randomly and very briefly replaced the Twitter bird logo with the face of the "doge" meme, the value of the dogecoin both rose and fell by a matter… Read more »
May 02, 2023
Nigeria: Nigeria and Digital Banking - a Revolution Still Waiting to Happen
At the end of 2022 the Central Bank of Nigeria launched new banknotes. At the same time it also capped withdrawal of the new banknotes. The rollout of the currency change was… Read more »
April 24, 2023
Africa: The Dirty Truth About Your Phone - And Why You Need to Stop Scrolling in the Bathroom
We carry them everywhere, take them to bed, to the bathroom and for many people they're the first thing they see in the morning - more than 90% of the world owns or uses a mobile… Read more »
April 05, 2023
South Africa: Astronomers Used Machine Learning to Mine Data From South Africa's Meerkat Telescope - What They Found
New telescopes with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution are being unveiled around the world - and beyond. Among them are the Giant Magellan Telescope under construction in… Read more »
March 12, 2023
Africa: ChatGPT is the Push Higher Education Needs to Rethink Assessment
The COVID-19 pandemic was a shock to higher education systems everywhere. But while some changes, like moving lectures online, were relatively easy to make, assessment posed a much… Read more »
February 28, 2023
Africa: How to Ditch 'Fomo' and Foster 'Jomo' - the Joy of Missing Out
Have you ever felt a sense of joy because you knew you were missing out on an invitation to a party, shiny new opportunities or the latest social media posts and influencer trends… Read more »
March 02, 2023
Nigeria: Election Was Nearly Derailed By Technology - but Biometric Devices Weren't the Problem
Technology nearly derailed the conclusion of the 2023 presidential elections in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission could not fulfil its promise to transmit… Read more »
February 27, 2023
Africa: The Next Phase of the Internet Is Coming - Here's What You Need to Know About Web3
The rapid growth of cryptocurrencies and virtual non-fungible tokens have dominated news headlines in recent years. But not many may see how these modish applications connect… Read more »
March 01, 2023
Africa: How SpaceX's New Internet Service Could Be a Gamechanger in Africa
It's hard for many of us to imagine a world without instant, limitless internet access. Some have even argued that it should, alongside access to clean water and electricity, be… Read more »
Africa: ChatGPT - How to Prevent It Becoming a Nightmare for Professional Writers
Nearly half of white-collar professionals have tried using ChatGPT to help with their work, according to a recent survey of more than 10,000 people at blue chips such as Google, JP… Read more »
February 24, 2023
Africa: Why Are So Many Gen Z-Ers Drawn to Old Digital Cameras?
The latest digital cameras boast ever-higher resolutions, better performance in low light, smart focusing and shake reduction - and they're built right into your smartphone. Read more »
February 28, 2023
Africa: Dall-E 2 and Midjourney Can Be a Boon for Industrial Designers
Since the introduction of DALL-E 2 and ChatGPT, there has been a fair amount of hand-wringing about AI technology - some of it justified. Read more »
February 27, 2023
South Africa: Online Learning Platforms Aren't Enough - Lecturers Need the Right Technical Skills
Technology has become the centre of our lives. It has also changed how university students learn and how lecturers teach. Some institutions had already shifted to some form of… Read more »
February 22, 2023
Africa: ChatGPT Has Many Uses. Experts Explore What This Means for Healthcare and Medical Research
The sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship is the cornerstone of the healthcare profession. This protected space is steeped in tradition - the Hippocratic oath, medical… Read more »
February 19, 2023
Africa: We Pitted ChatGPT Against Tools for Detecting AI-Written Text, and the Results Are Troubling
As the "chatbot wars" rage in Silicon Valley, the growing proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools specifically designed to generate human-like text has left many… Read more »
February 03, 2023
Africa: Nipple Ban On Instagram and Facebook Reveals How Bizarre Our Attitude Is Towards Different Genders
Some women consign themselves to breastfeeding in public toilets to prevent their apparently sexually explosive nipples causing offence. On hot days, meanwhile, males of all ages,… Read more »
February 02, 2023
Africa: ChatGPT Is Great - You're Just Using It Wrong
It doesn't take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake. My son is doing a report on U.S. presidents, so I figured I'd help him out by looking up a few biographies. I tried… Read more »
January 26, 2023
Africa: ChatGPT - Our Study Shows AI Can Produce Academic Papers Good Enough for Journals - Just As Some Ban It
Some of the world's biggest academic journal publishers have banned or curbed their authors from using the advanced chatbot, ChatGPT. Because the bot uses information from the… Read more »
South Africa: Vaccine Hesitancy - Covid Experience Highlights Conspiracies, Mistrust and Role of Media
In recent weeks, China has reported a spike in new cases of COVID and related deaths. Some countries have imposed travel restrictions as a result. But most - including South Africa… Read more »
January 25, 2023
Africa: Free Online Courses Could Be a Path to Higher Education in African Countries but Awareness Is Low
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the largest regions in the world and has the lowest rates of participation in higher education anywhere in the world. The World Bank reported in 2020… Read more »
January 12, 2023
Africa: ChatGPT, Dall-E 2 and the Collapse of the Creative Process
In 2022, OpenAI - one of the world's leading artificial intelligence research laboratories - released the text generator ChatGPT and the image generator DALL-E 2. While both… Read more »
January 19, 2023
Africa: How the Fifa20 Video Game Reproduces the Racial Stereotypes Embedded Within Football
EA Sports' Fifa football videogame series is arguably the most successful sports gaming franchise of all time. Since its debut in 1993, it has sold over 260 million copies across… Read more »