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‘Come with me, if you want to live’: why blue chips need AI

Artificial intelligence is a complex subject that conjures complex emotions. A good barometer for the public’s sentiment on AI is Hollywood, which can’t decide…

5 ecommerce tips for the 21st Century artist

Being an artist, whether you make music, pottery, or kinetic sculptures set inside elaborate dioramas, has almost always involved an uneasy courtship with the…

Can a real fighting lightsaber be built with current technology?

The Star Wars saga borrowed (some say outright stole) its mythological theme from Budo (the art of the warrior) which was the societal philosophy…

What roles do domain names and hosting play in building an ecommerce site?

A domain name and a web hosting service both play a different, yet crucial role in the success of any ecommerce website. Before we…

Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors to set up office in South Africa

Major US automotive and energy storage company Tesla Motors plans to set up shop in South Africa, the birthplace of its CEO Elon Musk….

Is Ethereum the world computer that could just change it all?

Do you want to know how to build a better democracy in under a 100 lines of code? Or what about building your own…

What can a major US university teach us about the true cost of DDoS attacks?

If you were to hear that Rutgers University incurred serious damages, you might assume it was Sunday morning and these came courtesy of the…

South Africans beware, cybercriminals are coming for you

Until recently, cybercriminals have tended to target countries with higher national income levels, according to the Global Cost of Cybercrime report, compiled by Intel-owned…

The weekly roundup: Windows 10, GoPro 4 and Kenyan startups

Welcome to BurnMedia’s “The Weekly Roundup” with Mich Atagana and Jason Bechervaise, a weekly podcast in which they discuss the week’s events in the…

12 new African innovations you need to know about right now

A while back, we told you about the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. The prize, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), covers…

Londoners willing to give up their kids for free WiFi

In a virtual world where advertisers and media are battling for only a few seconds of your attention, the last thing on your mind…

Want to know what made Steve Jobs so persuasive? Look to the ancient Greeks

While the Apple of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is undoubtedly Tim Cook’s, it’s pretty likely that millions of people wouldn’t be queuing…

Amelia is the AI computing system with an eye on your job

It’s an old debate, but it’s always fascinating and, at times, even scary. Will technology some day make human beings obsolete? It is perhaps…

What I’ve learnt from the trenches of startup ecommerce in London

I’ve spent almost two weeks writing this. At first it was too personal, then it became too anecdotal, so I’ve settled on a list…

FOMO: technology joins the People’s Climate March and UN Climate Change Summit

On 21 September 2014, the People’s Climate March — the biggest march against climate change with 311 000 people — sliced through Manhattan, through…

Now, more than ever, the cloud makes a ton of sense in Africa

With flexibility, rapid deployment and low cost, cloud computing continues to take the world by storm. These are also all very good reasons why…

Meet Bash: the new bug that’s apparently worse than Heartbleed

Just when we thought it was all over, there’s a new bug in virtual town, and it’s called Bash bug. A few months ago…

Danish-developed robotic tongue out-tastes Belgian winetasters

The annual World Blind Wine-Tasting Championships took place in the southwestern French town of Leognan in 2013. The settlement is near France’s wine-growing capital…

The Internet of Things: Imagining our connected future

What do your fitness tracker, your fridge, car, thermostat, phone, TV, gaming console and the weather service have in common? They are all connected,…

5 significant innovations our smart homes will create by 2022

From entertainment systems and washing machines in our homes to transport technologies and environmental control outside of them, connected devices open up a world…

7 ways to make a dumb home smarter

The buzzword “smart home” fits nicely alongside terms like “The Internet of Things”. But the smart home is tangible, it is something. Best of…

10 factors that will drive mobile payment adoption into the mainstream

South African consumers have been caught up in a whirl of excitement around mobile payment solutions with the launch of no fewer than three…

Disrupt everything: how the web, social and mobile are changing everything we do

In the last decade, the world has experienced a significant boom in the disruption economy. The disruptive innovation that we have seen over the…

Broadband Africa Forum 2024

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