The Importance of GoodApp as a home service platform
We would like to introduce to you the team from GoodApp, they have recently been part of the AI Expo in Johannesburg South Africa, and believe that with the current movement of AI, GoodApp will be the go to home service provider in South Africa and Africa. Looking to Expand
Read moreKyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source
This morning at Scaleway’s ai-PULSE conference, French billionaire and Iliad CEO Xavier Niel gave some extra details about his plans for an AI research lab based in Paris. This new lab called Kyutai will be a privately-funded nonprofit working on artificial general intelligence. It will work with PhD students, postdocs
Read moreToku’s AI platform predicts heart conditions by scanning inside your eye
Ehsan Vaghefi, CEO and co-founder of Toku, grew up with a blind father who lost eyesight at the age of four due to congenital glaucoma. As a result of this, his dad was involved with the Blind Foundation in his home country of Iran. Vaghefi says most of his childhood
Read moreChange in X’s terms indicate EU researchers will get API access
After taking over Twitter last year, Elon Musk famously yanked API access from third-party apps and changed API pricing tiers to make it difficult for researchers to access and study the platform’s data. Now the company he’s since renamed X has backtracked in the European Union where legal obligations in
Read moreGlobal Funding Expands to South Africa, Revolutionizing SME Empowerment
Swoop Funding, a global leader in business funding solutions, proudly announces its official launch in South Africa, supported by industry leaders Sage and Enterprise Ireland. This strategic expansion signifies a significant step in Swoop’s commitment to addressing social, political, and economic challenges in the nation. With a mission to combat
Read moreCyber Security Today, Nov. 17, 2023 – A company’s slip may have led to a hack, free AI and incident response advice, and more
A company’s slip may have led to a hack, free AI and incident response advice, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, November 17th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. The hackers behind the recent theft of data
Read moreThink Tank Founder Talks about the Future of Digital Transformation in SA
Digital transformation is happening at a faster rate than the world has ever seen before. The Fourth Industrial revolution has dawned upon the world, and some countries are adapting quicker than others. According to Tebogo Moleta, multi skilled IT-Preneur and Founder of Think Tank, South Africa’s biggest challenge in making
Read moreE-commerce Giants Driving Financial Inclusion for the Kasi Economy
It has been discovered that the underbanked in the informal sector in South Africa amounts to more than 19 million individuals. Apart from this, the informal sector generates up to R260 Billion per year. In a panel discussion hosted by Payfast, to kick off the launch of their 2023 annual
Read moreMediaTek and RIOT Network Expand Affordable Wi-Fi Across South Africa
MediaTek has partnered with RIOT Network to develop solutions that enable households and small businesses to deploy and operate broadband infrastructure in their neighborhoods. RIOT’s CROWDNet devices, powered by MediaTek Filogic 830, a high-performance wireless networking system on a chip (SoC), make fast and affordable Wi-Fi services accessible in underserved
Read moreSignal details costs of keeping its private messaging service alive
What price privacy? End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app Signal has put out an interesting overview of the costs required to develop and maintain its pro-privacy systems which shield user data from tracking by default. The blog post, penned by Signal president Meredith Whittaker and developer Joshua Lund, reveals it’s currently
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