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Everything you need to know about Google’s Interview Warmup tool

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Art and Artists

Is Artificial Intelligence the future of art?

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Technology

Dangers of AI: Amazon’s Alexa ‘challenged’ a child to touch a plug socket!

Interview Warmup
Lifestyle

Everything you need to know about Google’s Interview Warmup tool

Art AI
Art and Artists

Is Artificial Intelligence the future of art?

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Technology

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Lifestyle

Sick of doing laundry? This robot dog can help you out [watch]

By Erene Roux22-11-2021 17:38

Watch as the robot dog, ‘Spot’ pick up dirty laundry, use a skipping rope, do some gardening and operate machinery in a warehouse.

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Lifestyle

FaceApp: Here’s why you should use it at your own risk, Mr Fixit & Co!

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FaceApp has been downloaded more than 500 million times around the world, but comes with a number of concerns from users…

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Long live, Beethoven! Musicologists, AI complete 10th Symphony

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A team of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists have made Beethoven’s vision for his 10th Symphony come to life.

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Africa News

Somalia PM accuses president of ‘obstructing’ high-profile probe

By AFP08-09-2021 18:15

Somalia’s parliamentary polls are now scheduled to kick off between October 1 and November 25 following months of delays.

Is that a TV? ‘Art lover bergi
Art and Artists

Is that a TV? ‘Art lover bergie’ steals R100k piece of art in Cape Town

By Erene Roux07-09-2021 13:34

The artist, Willem Pretorius, believes that a ‘bergie’ stole his painting worth R100k after mistaking it for a television.

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Lifestyle

‘You can run away from it’: Elon Musk jokes about his ‘friendly’ robot [watch]

By Megan van den Heever23-08-2021 20:25

‘Five miles an hour; if you can run faster than that, you’ll be fine’: Billionaire Elon Musk is at the helm of creating a humanoid robot, he believes will ‘eliminate dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks’.

Future spark: Cheapest electri
Lifestyle

Future spark: Cheapest electric car in SA costs a cool R200k

By Erene Roux22-07-2021 15:44

There are cheaper options available for those who cannot afford to pay around R3.8 million to get a Tesla Model X Performance model to SA.

Grimes
Entertainment

Grimes opens up about her upcoming ‘space opera’ album

By Naledi de Wee09-07-2021 13:35

Genre bending pop artist Grimes has always kept fans intrigued with her interesting takes on her music. She shares more on her upcoming album.

Grimes teases new music, goes
Entertainment

Grimes teases new music, goes viral with ‘AI is the fastest path to communism’

By Alicia Naidoo04-06-2021 18:15

Pop artist Grimes teases new music with British EDM DJ Chris Lake and talks Artificial Intelligence (AI) and… communism.

Weed
Lifestyle

Two South African students develop high-tech cannabis growing technique

By Cheryl Kahla13-04-2021 18:19

Cannabis and its users have been demonised for decades.

Robotics and coding to be intr
Parenting and Kids

Robotics and coding to be introduced in Grade R classrooms

By Erene Roux29-03-2021 16:00

Coding and robotics might become a more integral part of classrooms across the country.

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News

Innovative artificial intelligence tool analyses cough sounds to diagnose COVID-19

By Cheryl Kahla10-03-2021 22:02

The AI tool analyses audio samples to accurately measure patients’ COVID-19 status.

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Art and Artists

Selfies without a self: World’s first AI robot artist to exhibit her self-portraits

By Alicia Naidoo17-02-2021 16:59

Ai-Da is the world’s first ultra-realistic artificial-intelligence (AI) artist and her selfie art will go up at the Design Museum in London.

Using Artificial Intelligence
Lifestyle

Using Artificial Intelligence to grow avocados in South Africa

By Erene Roux02-02-2021 12:51

Here’s how an agriculture hardware-software solution is using Artificial Intelligence to grow avocados in South Africa.

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News

Built in Africa: Female Ivorian entrepreneur pioneers facial recognition tech

By Riyaz Patel31-01-2021 20:12

Charlette N’Guessan Desiree – one of the leaders of AI use in Africa – says technology can be “beautiful and have significant impact” when used for good.

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Technology

Personal devices will use AI to detect our emotional state by 2022

By Cheryl Kahla19-01-2021 21:33

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “generating multiple disruptive forces that are reshaping the way we interact with personal technologies”.

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Technology

These ten jobs will likely disappear in the near future

By Thenjiwe Kubheka09-11-2020 20:45

Everyone is a bit worried that artificial intelligence and the inevitable rise of the machine will steal our jobs.

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Health and Fitness

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm can detect COVID-19 cough

By Ebrahim Essa06-11-2020 14:49

An AI algorithm can tell if someone has the virus just from the sound of their cough even if they have no symptoms.

AI Joaquin
Technology

Watch: Parents of gunned-down teen bring him back in AI election video

By AFP30-10-2020 14:34

Joaquin was one of 17 people killed that day at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida by a former student.

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Space

Here’s how NASA’s new AI tool will help scientists discover craters on Mars

By Cheryl Kahla26-10-2020 18:44

Scientists from NASA’s JPL will use AI and a machine-learning algorithm to speed up their processing time when scanning images of Mars.

Lenovo Tech World 2020
Technology

Lenovo Tech World 2020: Here’s how to ‘take part in the future of innovation’

By Cheryl Kahla26-10-2020 16:58

Lenovo Tech World 2020 will be a two-day event. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s event will be a virtual one.

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Lifestyle

New SA hotel to employ three robot assistants [photos]

By Erene Roux15-10-2020 19:14

Micah, Lexi and Ariel – each one with its own name and personality – will assist guests during their stay at a new SA hotel.

Microsoft Seeing AI
Science

Microsoft’s new ‘Seeing AI’ algorithm exceeds human accuracy

By Cheryl Kahla14-10-2020 22:25

Seeing AI is an accessibility app that describes the world as seen through a smartphone camera.

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Lifestyle

AI webinar: Student leadership platform to upskill deaf community

By Alicia Naidoo12-10-2020 13:15

VarsityGenie aims to upskill members of the deaf community through a webinar – in sign language – on artificial intelligence (AI).

Artificial Intelligence
Science

Why AI can’t ever reach its full potential without a physical body

By The Conversation08-10-2020 19:40

Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the key technology behind self-driving cars, automatic translation systems, speech and textual analysis, image processing and all kinds of diagnosis and recognition systems.

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