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Facebook hopes to implement AI services ‘within next 10 years’
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7 renewable energy startups trying to revolutionise the way Africa keeps its lights on
Africa has a serious energy problem. This is ironic considering the abundance of natural resources available, from coal in South Africa to oil in…
CNN faces trolls after ‘unnerving’ ISIS flag coverage turns out to be just dildos
This weekend was a rather colourful one: from Facebook profiles to Uber car requests overlaid with rainbow colours. But it was on the streets…
Ventureburn survey sheds light on SA’s tough, but pioneering startup industry
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Venture capitalist and founder of popular US seed fund Y Combinator Paul Graham once wrote that the recipe for startup “clusters” is having a…
Sonic the Hedgehog’s Twitter account is brilliant at converting trolls into followers
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All the facts, figures you need to know about Apple’s WWDC 2015
Apart from WWDC 2015 being longer than the Avengers 2 movie, over a 1 000 Apple engineers from 70 countries attended the Cupertino tech…
CustosTech wants to curb movie piracy using bitcoin
In January last year an illegal copy of the movie, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, was making its rounds on the internet. The…
Online publication Quartz Africa launches in mission to cover the ‘next billion’
Renowned US publisher Quartz launches its second international chapter in Africa today, reiterating a ripple of international interest in the region which is said to…
Mark Forrester from WooThemes on how a SA startup sprouted a global success story
Last week, we witnessed one of South Africa’s greatest success stories to date. A local tech company was acquired by Automattic, which is the…
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