Technology
Let me take you on a journey behind the scenes and into the mind of the man who brought you the official music video ‘Marama Dina’ by Marama. Wilo Usuramo, a very familiar name in the entertainment industry with a very vast music influence. In a post published on his personal page, Wilo said that […]
Nzambi Matee is a Kenyan of the mountains of discarded oil drums, laundry buckets, yoghurt tubs and other trash being shredded into colourful flakes at her Nairobi factory. She is a 30-year-old engineer and inventor that has discovered a way to recycle tonnes of plastic destined for landfill into eco-friendly […]
A fourth-year computer science student specializing in data science at the Vellore Institute of Technology, went viral on LinkedIn after using AI to translate American sign language (ASL). Priyanjali Gupta got the idea from her mom, who pushed her to put her engineering degree to good use. She made the model using Tensorflow Object Detection to translate […]
It’s a video that has gone viral with millions of views showing Bollywood actress Rashmika Mandanna getting on to an elevator. There’s only one issue. The video is 100% what’s called a “deepfake” which has been defined as “a video of a person in which their face or body has been digitally altered so that […]
Sphere, the world’s largest spherical structure, has opened its doors to the public. Standing tall at 366 feet and measuring 516 feet wide, the partially hollow arena is big enough to comfortably fit the entire Statue of Liberty from base to torch. The venue’s inaugural offering is a series of 25 concerts centered around U2’s […]
TikTok and Billboard announced the TikTok Billboard Top 50 chart — a new weekly chart that will track the most popular songs on the platform in the U.S. The chart is available to all TikTok users in the U.S. and on Billboard.com. Tetris Kelly: You’ve heard them on TikTok thanks to the hottest trends. They’ve even […]
Elon Musk says his potential in-person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. The two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to a “cage match” face-off in late June. Zuckerberg is actually trained in mixed martial arts, and the CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta posted about completing his first jiu […]
PimEyes is a reverse-image search site that uses facial recognition technology to match every photo of a person that’s ever been posted to the internet. After someone uploads a photo of the person they want to find, Pimeyes will scour the internet to match that person’s face to others. Although it’s not completely perfect, it’s […]
Suumit Shah, a 31-year-old CEO of an e-commerce platform called Dukaan based in India, is getting torn to shreds online for firing 90 percent of the company’s customer support staff after arguing that an AI chatbot had outperformed them. In a lengthy twitter thread laden with screenshots from action movies such as “iRobot” and “Limitless,” […]
Two of the world’s most high-profile technology billionaires – Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg – have agreed to fight each other in a cage match. Mr Musk posted a message on his social media platform Twitter that he was “up for a cage fight” with Mr Zuckerberg. Mr Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook and Instagram […]
