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Upskill or stay behind: The shift to AI, ChatGPT and more from a history of mavericks

Spotting trends and making ground-level assessments have become a palatable way for the tech industry to invest in upcoming software including hardware that will…

Amazon joins AI race, launches own generative AI service

Amazon is the latest to join the AI race as the company has now introduced tools to build and grow its own artificial intelligence…

Here’s how Google’s catching up on the AI race

In an accelerated shift towards dominating the AI (Artificial Intelligence), space Google has tabled plans to add conversational AI to its search product. Known…

Microsoft gains access to Open AI code base, trouble for Google?

Twitter head Elon Musk made a compelling announcement on Friday that Microsoft Corporation obtained “exclusive access to the entire Open AI codebase” So what…

Tech skills in 2023: Here’s what you need

Meta, Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies have made massive changes in their workforce which highlights an interesting forecast into skills required in tomorrow’s…

AI and it’s expensive costs and how Bing threatens Google’s profits

Artificial Intelligence (AI) searches using new chatbots reach deeper into consumer pockets due to an apparent demand in more computing power and electricity compared…

Microsoft launches Bing, is it more powerful than ChatGPT?

Microsoft has announced its new competitor against the popular Ai (artificial intelligence) chatbot ChatGPT. Bing is the name of an AI-powered search engine coupled…

Clippy returns! Microsoft reveals new backgrounds for Teams

Microsoft has revealed a collection of nostalgic backgrounds for Teams, including one that features the old Office assistant Clippy. The company announced the backgrounds…

Windows 11 announced: What to know about the new OS

Microsoft unveiled the next generation of its Windows operating system, announcing what’s coming with Windows 11. The announcement event took place on 24 June,…

Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 in 2025

Microsoft has revealed when it will end support for Windows 10, with the date rounding off to ten years since the OS first launched….

Microsoft to retire Internet Explorer in 2022 – but it will live on in Edge

Microsoft has revealed it will end support for Internet Explorer, its old browser application and one of the oldest still used, in 2022. The…

Microsoft Teams gets personal so you can meet with friends, family

Microsoft has expanded the availability of free tools in Microsoft Teams for personal accounts so that people can use the app to connect with…

14% of South Africans are still running Windows 7 – Kaspersky

Despite support for it ending last year, a portion of South African PC users are still running Windows 7 OS on their devices, according…

Microsoft expands free digital skills training with public sector partnership

Microsoft has expanded its local digital skills training, extending the initiative through a partnership with the Public Service Sector Education and Training Authority (PSETA)….

Women Techsters: Microsoft, Tech4Dev partner to train women and girls in Africa

Microsoft and Tech4Dev have launched the Women Techsters Initiative, which will train women and girls in Africa in coding and tech skills. The initiative…

Local team wins $5000 from Microsoft to tackle GBV in South Africa

Microsoft has announced the winners of its Safe@Home hackathon, with the winning team receiving $5000 from the company to further develop their solution. The…

Microsoft launches hackathon to fight domestic violence in South Africa

Microsoft has announced that it’s partnering with non-profits to launch a hackathon that will aim to build solutions for women and children facing domestic…

Sell or be banned, Trump tells TikTok – and give the US government a cut

US President Donald Trump has moved from wanting to ban TikTok to approving a potential sale to Microsoft — stating that the US government…

Microsoft details digital skills initiative in South Africa

Microsoft South Africa has announced the details of its local skills development programme. The initiative aims to combat unemployment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic….

Here are the free courses Microsoft launched for digital skills

Earlier this week, Microsoft unveiled a new global digital skills initiative in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the wave of job losses worldwide….

Microsoft is replacing the old Edge browser via a Windows 10 update

If you haven’t yet tried Microsoft’s new Edge Chromium browser, where have you been? Okay. To be fair, since it launched in January, users…

Microsoft reconsiders and delays Windows 10X’s dual-display destiny

Windows 10X, Microsoft’s operating system initially designed for dual-screen devices, is coming to laptops with single screens. In an announcement by Microsoft CPO Panos…

Windows 10 is now running on a billion devices worldwide

When Microsoft launched Windows 10 in 2015, the operating system was set a goal of running on a billion devices within three years. On…

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