Africa is rural. Or that’s what senior Western officials envision when they talk about the continent. This is wrong. Dangerously wrong.
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A financial crisis confronting South Africa’s state power utility has become a national debt problem.
Most discussions about artificial intelligence are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. This could end up turning people against AI research, bringing significant progress in the technology to a halt.
Now that the antitrust cops are coming in the door, the technology powers need to freshen their playbook in how they rebut questions about their size, power and influence.
Africa’s potential workforce will likely be larger than that of Asia by the end of the 21st century as both continents wrestle with different demographic and economic challenges.
Netflix shocked investors by reporting a drop in US customers and much slower growth internationally, raising fears that the streaming giant is losing momentum just as competitors prepare to pounce.
Advocates and opponents of breaking up big technology firms are falling prey to some serious misconceptions
The smartphone era is only just over a decade old, but the pocket-sized computers at the heart of that societal transformation are only really possible because of another technology: lithium-ion batteries.
Internet services such as search engines and social media platforms have increasingly been provided by a small number of very large tech firms. The blockchain could help consumers wrest control of their privacy away from them.
Facebook’s foray into digital currencies risks reversing gains in privacy and user sovereignty won by computer networking pioneers, according to one of the co-founders of ethereum.