Browsing: Opinion

by Casey Fiesler, University of Colorado Boulder Twitter’s move on July 1, 2023, to limit the number of tweets users…

The National Health Insurance charade continues despite its absurdity. I can assure you that it will end up in no…

by Mohammed Hassan, University of Arizona If you’ve ever wished you had a faster phone, computer or internet connection, you’ve…

by David Luke, London School of Economics and Political Science A new European law that imposes the first ever carbon…

SUB-SAHARAN Africa remains one of the world’s youngest, fastest-growing regions – home to more than 1 billion people, half of…

As a developer, widgets are my favorite update from WWDC 2023. They’re interesting for plenty of reasons: Widgets have been…

by Adrian Barnett, Queensland University of Technology Fraud in science is alarmingly common. Sometimes researchers lie about results and invent…

Any reduction in load-shedding is welcome but we must not let it lull us into complacency. Our electricity system remains…

Fibre connectivity is solving some of South Africa’s most pressing challenges, playing a significant part in empowering and uplifting communities,…

by Eric Zeng, Carnegie Mellon University The European Union filed an antitrust case against Google on June 14, 2023, charging…

In today’s digital age, the media as well as countless information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become integral parts of…

by Brendan H. O’Connor, Arizona State University ChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply…

Last week an important new vehicle for business cooperation with the government began its journey, writes BLSA CEO Busi Mavuso. At a…

Could organizations use artificial intelligence (AI) language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways? Sen.…

By Paul Wani Lado The Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Bill currently being considered by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Mineral Resources…

Business has every interest in seeing universal health coverage in South Africa, but it must be sustainable, and provided in a…

by Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, University of Birmingham The recent news that BT would reduce its workforce by as many as 55,000…

by Nello Cristianini, University of Bath This week a group of well-known and reputable AI researchers signed a statement consisting…

by Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University Takeaways: A new federal agency to regulate AI sounds helpful but could become unduly…

by Anirban Basu, University of Washington Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the…

There has been a lot of talk around the corner about PayShap – the new super-fast, low-cost payment rail which…

by Gale Sinatra, University of Southern California and Barbara K. Hofer, Middlebury Until very recently, if you wanted to know…

Money on blockchains is inevitable. The component pieces are the regulations, the technology and the behaviour. The regulations and the…

The modern world is flush with technology jargon, and new ones keep entering our lexicon: Digital Transformation, the Fourth Industrial…

The telecommunications industry is in the midst of a digital revolution; one shifting from providing traditional communications services to becoming…