Cape Town based startup Zindi has registered 10,000 data-scientists on its platform that uses AI and machine learning to crowdsolve complex problems in Africa Founded in 2018, the early-stage venture allows companies, NGOs or government […]
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Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity arrives at Spaceport
The arrival of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo vehicle, the VSS Unity, at Spaceport America in New Mexico brings the company one big step closer to flying customers to suborbital space Unity made the trip from Mojave, […]
5 Central Banks to Explore Launching Digital Currencies
The Bank of England, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, Bank of Canada, and Sveriges Riksbank along with the Bank of International Settlements recently announced that they’ve banded together to research central bank digital currencies […]
A Bracelet of Silence: Privacy Armor
New technologies are continually eroding our privacy and anonymity. People are looking for an opt-out Mr. Zhao and Ms. Zheng are computer science professors at the University of Chicago, and they decided to channel their […]
Viral Jihad
How could a group of jihadists from a war-torn corner of the world be so adept at using all the tricks of modern viral marketing? The answer was grounded in demography, and made almost inevitable […]
A Spider’s Web is Part of its Mind,
Researchers are slowly coming around to the idea that spider webbing is an essential part of these creatures’ cognitive apparatus. The animals don’t just use their webs to sense with; they use them to think […]
Back to the Future
Peter Thiel reviews Ross Douthat’s new book “The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success” Are we making progress? Not so much, Douthat answers. Baby boomers will wince at his title, […]
Banksy Confirms Bristol Valentine’s Day Artwork is His
An artwork that appeared on the side of a house in Bristol has been confirmed as the work of street artist Banksy The piece features a stencil of a girl firing red flowers made with […]
Coronavirus Is a Data Time Bomb
It will be a long time before we understand what the outbreak did to the global economy So far, less than 0.0008 percent of the humans on Earth have been diagnosed with the coronavirus known […]
Google Releases its Latest Google Glass AR Headset
Google is making its latest augmented reality headset available for direct purchase, a year after launching it through select workplace partners for $999 a unit The price remains the same (or slightly more if you […]
Google Maps turns 15
On Google Maps’ 15th anniversary, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai underscores the importance of machine learning, while downplaying Google’s dominance in advertising The future of Google Maps is one in which algorithms are drawing buildings, AR […]
The Most Detailed Picture of the Sun’s Surface Ever Taken
A new solar telescope in Hawaii has taken its first photo and movie of the Sun. The shots are the highest resolution views of our star yet, showing details on the Sun’s surface as small […]
OurMine Hacks Facebook’s Social Media Accounts
OurMine follows last weeks attacks on NFL social media accounts with a fresh attack on Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts The same hacker group who last week defaced social media accounts for the NFL, 15 […]
Work in the Age of Web 3.0
A look at the future of work during the age of Web 3.0, examining scenarios in which AI, VR, and the spatial web converge to transform every element of our careers, from training, to execution, […]
Alter 3 Robot Conducts ‘Android Opera’
Alter 3 is a robot conductor of a new ‘Android Opera’, by Japanese composer Keiichiro Shibuya, entitled Scary Beauty The orchestral piece, which was performed in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, last week. Right in the […]
Mural Raises $23M in Series A
Recently, Mural, a software startup focused on visual collaboration, announced that it closed a $23 million Series A round of capital TechCrunch chatted with the company’s CEO, Mariano Suarez-Battan, and Weston Gaddy, the round’s lead […]