What fast internet can do for Employment in Africa
By: Jonas Hjort, Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University Local employment effects of fast internet connections show that ICT might be one of the most effective employment-creating policies in Africa The textbook theories we grew up with predict that freer…
How valuable will humans be in the workplaces of the future?
Work is not what it used to be. The very concept of work has evolved considerably over the centuries, as newer technologies have become integrated into how we function individually as well as a society. In engineering, work is defined as the product of force…
Hands On With Google’s ARCore
Google’s ARCore will let Android phones experience augmented reality. We took it for a spin. By Sascha Segan Google’s new ARCore software developer’s kit, announced today, makes augmented reality on Android much more widely available. AR is potentially a much bigger deal than virtual reality, because it…
Outgrowing Our Internet: Caught Between the Intranet and the Decentralized Web
SaaS has had a good run. Over the last decade, it became the dominant way to deliver software and value to customers. It became faster than ever to spin up a new provider for any possible task an individual or company might want to achieve….
Africa’s digital revolution: a look at the technologies, trends and people driving it
This article is part of the World Economic Forum on Africa We are at the dawn of a technological revolution that will change almost every part of our lives – jobs, relationships, economies, industries and entire regions. It promises to be, as Professor Klaus Schwab has written,…
So how does Artificial Intelligence actually work? These videos by Facebook experts explain everything
Many intelligent machines and systems use algorithmic techniques loosely based on the human brain. Image: REUTERS/Thomas Peter Maryam Munir, Content Producer, Formative Content Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk argues that artificial intelligence (AI) poses a greater threat to humanity than nuclear weapons, while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
Making Sense of The Different Types of Artificial Intelligence Companies
As a Data Science grad from NYU and a VC analyst, I’m lucky to get to see and evaluate a lot of startups that are involved with AI (note: this term has some baggage. For the purposes of this post, I use AI and ML…
Men Are Scum
Salisu Titus saw a neighbour’s wife battered by her husband over a 1 year period and could not intervene for personal reasons beyond his control. The neighbor eventually killed her in one of the episodes and nothing happened to him. The incidence distressed the software…
Happy Eid Mubarak
Eid days are meant to celebrate, the goals and the achievements, that make you happiest. The ideals you believe in, and the dream you love the best. Eid Mubarak.
Apple Culture After Ten Years of iPhone
Today’s Apple is often seen as the iPhone company, a huge Supply Chain machine that produces and sells hundreds of millions of smartphones…and generates mounds of cash in the process. Today we look at the changes the iPhone brought to the old Apple culture — and consider…