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…
This new Google experiment lets you program a quantum computer
Quantum computing has been promising a lot for a couple of years now. For the average person though, it’s all a little bit difficult…
Julian Assange: Bitcoin could establish a new global consensus [Net Prophet]
“Bitcoin is the most intellectually interesting development in the last two years,” said Julian Assange via a WeChat Livestream at Net Prophet — the…
The future of online shopping: customer control and offline [Net Prophet]
“A new retail is emerging — it is consumer driven and tech-enabled,” says Jody Ford, VP of eBay Marketplaces. As our world keeps evolving…
Microsoft’s laplet: hubris, hype and hopeless enterprise-based optimism
On Tuesday Microsoft fooled pundits who’d been predicting the announcement of a smaller addition to its Surface range of tablet computers by announcing a…
