Forget chatbots and robo-advisors, Absa just introduced an AI-powered digital clone of award-winning journalist Fifi Peters, and it’s rewriting the rules of what’s possible…
YouTube’s VP9 codec has enabled users to watch 25bn hours of faster, better, buffer-free videos
YouTube has revealed that video buffering is no longer a thing. Thanks to the VP9 video codec, which is the default codec for YouTube’s…
Social media marketing: it’s about more than nice-looking profiles
The web is the primary tool in market globalisation. Borders and distance are no longer a hindrance in getting people to buy and sell…
With Messenger as a platform, Facebook’s strategy starts to make sense
During the opening keynote at Facebook’s F8 developers’ conference, you got the sense that there were a lot of light-bulbs going off in a…
Live video streaming feud: Twitter launches Periscope, Meerkat completes a funding round
Like two bulls readying themselves for a fight, bellowing, mooing, looking menacing, intimidating the other, Twitter and Meerkat are ramping up their respective livestreaming…
