Electric vehicles in South Africa: how to avoid making them the privilege of the few

Tumblr’s enduring appeal reveals the potency of the web’s cultural memory

When tech billionaire Elon Musk made a deal to acquire Twitter in April 2022, many Twitter users threatened to shut down their accounts and migrate elsewhere...

Four ways you can design social media posts to combat health misinformation

It’s no secret that online misinformation has been a big problem throughout the pandemic. Of course, health misinformation isn’t exclusive to COVID – it’s a challenge...

Facial recognition technology: how it’s being used in Ukraine and why it’s still so controversial

Facial recognition technology is being used in warfare for the first time. It could be a game changer in Ukraine, where it is being used to...

We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here’s what it revealed about sentience

Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be, That machines should e’er surpass our art. We are the masters, them the slaves, And thus it ever shall...

Five of the world’s tiniest robots

The RoboFly. University of Washington   Allow me to take you on a trip down my memory lane. As a young lad, a film I saw...

A Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know?

Max Gruber / Better Images of AI , CC BY-SA Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text...

Canada’s COVID Alert app will be discontinued as PCR testing becomes rare

OTTAWA — Canada’s COVID Alert app will be discontinued in the coming days, a federal government source tells The Canadian Press. The app was launched in...

‘Transparency reports’ from tech giants are vague on how they’re combating misinformation. It’s time for legislation

On May 30, Meta, Google and Twitter released their 2021 annual transparency reports, documenting their efforts to curb misinformation in Australia. Despite their name, however, the...

When will I be able to upload my brain to a computer?

READER QUESTION: I am 59 years old, and in reasonably good health. Is it possible that I will live long enough to put my brain into...