Telecoms

How the UK Recession Will Effect Telecoms

We Brits love a good recession. It gives us something else to complain about, other than the weather. (In the interests of transparency, I’m using the royal ‘we’ from the warmth of an early South African autumn.) At 07h00 GMT today, that’s exactly what we got. A much-predicted recession just in time to arm the […]

How to Turn Air into Water and Other African Technologies

The imminent threat of AI going rogue. Weaponry with freshly demonic kill power. Untrammelled illegal data collection. Wouldn’t it be nice to draw a line through 2023, and sigh with relief that it’s over? Well, the number of bad tech thresholds we crossed last year rules that out. Tightly fastened seatbelts would seem to be […]

What Interested You Most in 2023

So we had a look at our 50 most popular articles of 2023. We think we’re getting to know you and what you like to read but when we looked at the numbers, there were quite a few surprises. Love that, by the way. And we hope you continue to surprise us in 2024. The […]

WhatsApp Is Allowing You to Gossip Freely

Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp and Facebook, has announced that all chats on Facebook and Messenger will have automatic encryption features. With end-to-end encryption (E2EE), only the sender and recipient can read the calls and messages.  The company has also officially announced that it will soon be possible to set voice messages on WhatsApp […]

OpenAI: Will Microsoft Move from Shareholder to Owner?

At a board meeting last week at OpenAI, Sam Altman was presenting a strategy that would reverse the losses of ChatGPT and render a profit within three months. It involved a cost-sharing idea whereby the AI tool would prioritise information linked to participating, fee-paying commercial partners. This would achieve one significant goal. Namely, the major […]