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Just took a quick scan of this subreddit called r/southafrica and was actually amazed at the quality of the discussion. Not the usual rants and ugly comments often seen when the "emotional" topics come up. […]
The new Exposure Notifications Express spec is baked into iOS 13.7 which emerged this week and will appear in an Android update due later this month.This is not, repeat not, pervasive Bluetooth surveillance. The tool […]
So like Chromium is the fully open source version of Chrome browser (like LineageOS is to commercial Android), we have 3rd party browsers like Brave and others that strip out some, and enhance other, features […]
Despite all the concern, facial recognition is getting popular among consumers. Most recent Android and iOS devices have the feature to unlock the device with facial authentication. Once you get used to the face unlock […]
Solar Taxi is a Ghanaian startup that we covered recently about its announcement that it is scaling up its electric bike business. The company quickly followed that up by launching an EV leasing business where […]
So far, we don’t know much about this lower-cost Apple Watch — an “Apple Watch SE,” if you wil l— other than it’s aimed at competing with wearable makers like Fitbit in the budget smartwatch […]
We all know our passwords probably aren’t as safe as they should be (looking at you, people who have used their pet’s name plus their birthdate for the last 10 years) — but would it […]
This was a framework that both Google and Apple were working on globally to ensure privacy was protected. All that was left was for each country to put their own top level app in place […]
In 2015, the Eyüpsultan Municipality in Istanbul, Turkey, began a bold migration to adopting open source software. This involved several major changes: Linux on the desktop and major changes to the IT infrastructure, including a […]
Algorithms are not magic – Humans define them as sets of rules which can be simple or very complex (obscured). They can be used for good or bad (like most things). Machine learning is still […]
