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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansThe plausible truth is that modern technology, especially cellphones, tablets and computers has made our lives seemingly easier and more convenient. The effects of technology have had a great impact on humankind since early inventions and now life is only becoming less and less manual instead it gets more and more technically motivated...
Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone technologyand motor vehicles. It powers tools for agriculture and healthcare. But concerns have emerged about the accountability of AI and related technologies like machine learning. In December 2020 a compute...
I don’t believe this is the most efficient use of the vaccines. In a country like South Africa, we’d be much better off offering a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to the 65% of adults above the age of 65 who have been vaccinated, and intensifying efforts at vaccinating the elderly and high risk groups who have not yet receive...
The Democratic Alliance is set to meet with Facebook this has been formally confirmed by the Communications and Digital Technologies Committee. The meeting is set to take place on 25 May 2021. Similar invitations have been sent to other big tech giants – Google and Twitter. The DA has been at the forefront of tackling the issue of disi...
South Africa reacted with outrage to travel bans, first triggered by the UK, imposed on it in the wake of the news that its genomics surveillance team had detected a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africahas been monitoring changes in SARS-CoV-2 since the pandemic first broke out. ...
For many of us, the case for childhood vaccination seems self-evident. Every year, this powerful public health intervention protects billions of children from deadly and debilitating infections like polio and measles. Yet worldwide, many...
Southern Africa is popularly associated with sunshine. Does that make the region exceptionally suited to solar energy generation? With electricity shortages plaguing all parts of the sub-continent, a plentiful energy source that is be...