It may seem like a doomed attempt to mix business and pleasure. But a growing number of young professionals in Silicon Valley insist that taking small doses of psychedelic drugs simply makes them perform
Author: The Conversation
A recent police clampdown on driving while using hand-held mobile phones caught nearly 8 000 UK drivers in a week, ostensibly reflecting a widespread disregard of a law intended to protect all. But is using a handheld mobile
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It’s not easy for computer science students at most universities in Africa to practise and develop their programming skills. They can program, but access to desktop or laptop computers might be a problem. I experienced this first-hand
The military’s most prolific leaker of digital documents has ushered in an age of even more increased surveillance over government workers. The legacy of Chelsea Manning’s actions is under discussion in the
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I grew up in a Kenyan village with dark skies and vivid stars. We admired the sky and listened to stories about it told by the elders. There were few expectations that the children in our village would ever understand the sky’s secrets
How would you feel about getting therapy from a robot? Emotionally intelligent machines may not be as far away as they seem. Over the last few decades, artificial intelligence has got increasingly good at reading
South Africa is not producing enough school leavers who are competent in mathematics and science. This is a fact borne out by international assessments such as the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
In today’s data-rich world, companies, governments and individuals want to analyse anything and everything they can get their hands on – and the Web has loads of information. At present, the most easily indexed material from the Web