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It's Freedom Day in South Africa. Don't Laugh

On 27th April 1994, South Africa bathed in the soft glow of the world community’s smiles. For this was the day when people of all races went to the polls for the first time in the country’s history. The queues to the actual polling stations were often kilometres long. Images of these have since became […]

Will Twitter Remain an Important Social Media Platform?

Since tech billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, the platform and its users have been taken on a wild ride. Based on research by ExpressVPN, a virtual private network and cybersecurity company, Twitter has been in a constant state of change. With news of layoffs, firings, and Twitter users abandoning their accounts for alternative platforms […]

Doge Chatbot: What’s the Motive? 

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and SpaceX are now distracted by the newest bright object: AI chatbots, just months after acquiring Twitter. While there is little information regarding Musk’s planned AI project, the entrepreneur has been vocal in his disdain for ChatGPT. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but has subsequently severed connections with the firm. […]

Generative AI War: Peace Was Apparently Never an Option

After Elon Musk criticized OpenAI’s filters that prevent generative AI from producing toxic content, he announced a generative AI war on Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and his own project, “TruthGPT.” After Elon Musk called for the pause of artificial intelligence (AI) development earlier this month, he came out of the woodwork declaring a generative AI war on […]

AI for Social Justice: A Good Idea?

The use of AI for social justice has been a topic of debate with Elon Musk advocating for a pause on AI, while Bill Gates is promoting the ethical use of AI to solve social challenges. On today’s episode of “What Has Been Dividing the World Recently”, we discuss how one side of the debate, […]

SpaceX postpones debut flight of Starship rocket, citing frozen valve

Elon Musk’s SpaceX called off the highly anticipated debut launch of its newly combined Starship cruise vessel and Super Heavy rocket in the final minutes of countdown due to a frozen valve, delaying the uncrewed test flight for at least two days. The two-stage rocketship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 394 feet […]

The Dark Side of the Technological Development

Technological development should never be at the expense of living beings, animals, or humans. Or at least that’s what morality and ethics dictate. But we all know reality differs greatly from the ideal. In 2016, Elon Musk and Max Hodak founded Neuralink Corporation, a neurotechnology company concerned with the development of implantable brain-computer interfaces (BCI). […]

NPR to Stop Using Twitter, Says Account’s New Label Misleading

National Public Radio (NPR) will no longer post content to its 52 official Twitter feeds in protest against a label by the social media platform that implies government involvement in the U.S. organization’s editorial content. NPR said on Wednesday Twitter refused its repeated requests to remove the inaccurate label of “state-affiliated media”, now changed to […]

US House Panel Subpoenas FTC for Twitter Probe Documents

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed the Federal Trade Commission’s chair for documents related to the regulatory agency’s privacy probe of Twitter, the panel said on Wednesday. In a statement, the committee said its Chairman Jim Jordan and others had asked FTC Chair Lina Khan for information about the probe following […]