AI virtual assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant reinforce gender stereotypes which portray women as “subservient” by relying on female voices, a UN report has said.
The US Copyright Office awarded self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright registrations for the whitepaper and early computer code underlying the original cryptocurrency.
An unknown number of Google passwords belonging to the company’s enterprise customers have been stored in plain text for 14 years, the technology giant has admitted.
As speculation swirls about plans to deal with Eskom’s crippling debt load, one group of stakeholders hasn’t been consulted: owners of the company’s R243-billion of bonds.
Hikvision plunged as much as the daily limit after the New York Times said the Trump administration was considering curtailing the flow of American technology to China’s top maker of video surveillance gear.
Huawei said it’s working on its own operating system for its mobile handsets, and will consider rivals to Google’s Android, after the US blacklisted the company.
US President Donald Trump’s move to put Huawei on an export blacklist threatens to shake the entire telecommunications industry.
In this episode of the podcast, Duncan McLeod interviews IoT.nxt co-founder and CEO Nico Steyn about the recently announced acquisition by Vodacom Group of 51% of the company.
Many view the US action against Huawei Technologies as just another twist in President Donald Trump’s broader trade war. That may be naive.
The first great power rivalry of the 21st century has begun. It is not a re-run of the Cold War, however. Instead, this rivalry will look unlike any that has come before it.