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YCombinator – The famed accelerator is having an identity crisis – according to critics
What is MP5? Unpacking Blings’ Groundbreaking Technology
This poject may turn farmers into smart farmers and farms into smart farms
Silicon Cape is dead, long live the Silicon Tech Startup Community
Elon Musk Boycott: Tesla showrooms become protest centres against Elon Musk and DOGE
Valentine Warning: Don’t fall for romance scams, Meta warns
Binance highlights the power of Cross-Border payments this Valentine’s Day
Streaming lessons from Netflix: How to build a profitable platform?
The SoftBank’s (Masayoshi Son) plan to win AI wars
Inside the Tech Race for the Control of Governments
How Cape Town and other global cities confronted major water supply crises
Samsung and Google partner to take sound to another level
Is it time for an alternative Social Media platform in Africa?
Deep Seek first week: Key Questions Answered
LinkedIN founder (Reid Hoffman) on how AI can be your Superpower
App Fatigue – it’s time to rethink apps business models
DeepSeek – The Chinese Open Source AI challenge to Western Tech Giants
All you need to know about DeepSeek, the Chinese answer to ChatGPT
Samsung Galaxy S25 series sets the standardof AI phone as a true AI companion
Tech leaders inside the Trump Administration
All Impact Stories
This AI Robot is ready to operate on humans
“Imagine that you need to get surgery within a few minutes or you may not survive,” John Hopkins University postdoc student Brian Kim tells me over email. “There happen to be no surgeons around but […]
Checkers Sixty 60: How to balance the side effects of innovation?
There’s something beautiful about the Checkers Sixty 60 as a service. At the same time there’s something very ugly about what makes the service possible. The ability to get groceries from the comfort of your […]
Patients Are Choosing Zealthy—Here’s Why It’s a Healthcare Favourite
Rena Marie Zealthy offers a promising solution for many patients in a world where healthcareaccessibility and affordability remain major challenges. This digital health platform is gaining popularity, reshaping how people access and experience healthcare services. […]
What’s In It for Elon Musk
If there’s one person former president Donald Trump can thank for his decisive election night victory, it’s Elon Musk. The tech billionaire propelled Trump to a second term on a wave of $119 million in […]
The rising power of Big Tech leaders in Politics
If the influence of technology leaders was ever in doubt it is now clearly visible. When Elon Musk made a decision to buy Twitter it was not clear how the billionaire would use the social […]
Evidence-Based Solutions to Burnout: The Story Behind The Clear Mind Method
By: Mae Cornes Burnout has become an increasingly prevalent issue in modern health conversations. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes it as a condition resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. […]
Nuclear is cool again for Tech, Deep Atomic is making it possible.
The Artificial Intelligence boom has inspired a major shift towards nuclear power. The carbon-neutral, high-energy demands and redundancy requirements of data centres and the desire to have less impact on the environment has moved tech […]
Zoom may become a tool for Doctors as TeleHealth takes off
Earlier this month, CEO Eric Yuan declared Zoom’s future isn’t video conferencing, it’s AI for work. Now, Zoom has announced it’s partnering with Suki, a startup for AI-powered medical notetaking. Zoom plans to use Suki’s […]
Can Wikipedia survive in the AI era?
Despite the rise of such AI models as ChatGPT and Google Gemini, “old-school” Wikipedia remains one of the most visited sites around the world—with 15 billion visitors every month. Maryana Iskander, CEO of Wikimedia, the […]
Nobel Prize for AI Pioneers
Two pioneers of artificial intelligence — John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work […]
Academic Research Challlenges? There’s AI tools for that
For students and professional scholars alike, starting a new research project typically means digging through academic literature to understand what others have already written. That can take a considerable amount of time, with researchers tracking […]
AI will never substitute teachers. Here’s why
Two things are certain about the emergence of new technologies. One is that it will be accompanied by a host of world-saving missions. The second is that one of those missions will be “solving” education. […]
These Nigerian sextortion accounts have been removed by Meta
Meta said Wednesday it has removed roughly 63,000 accounts engaged in financial sextorion scams, a growing category of online crime in which scammers use fake accounts to dupe victims into sharing nude photos, then extort […]
SA Health Tech needs to be overhauled
No one has ever imagined that someone could die due to a malfunctioning and compromised health technology system at one of South Africa’s health institutions. It seems such a scenario is possible now that there’s […]
Google adds more African languages online
When Google was launching its AI products, African languages were no where to be seen. Now that Google Translate has expanded its support of African languages we are likely to interact with our Android devices […]
The Promise of AI and Data-Driven Decision-Making in Africa’s Healthcare Future
In 1924, Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for pioneering the electrocardiogram. This diagnostic tool for heart conditions could measure and record the heart’s electrical activity, enabling physicians to diagnose and […]
The European AI law is coming, it will set a global standard
Europe’s landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed on Tuesday a political deal reached in December, setting a potential global benchmark for a technology used in business […]
We Need National Health Digital Systems to make NHI a reality
Now that NHI is a law of the land, it’s time to focus on what will make it a reality. Many have focused on the financial side, however, there’s also a need to focus on […]
