Category: Technology Innovation
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🇯🇵 The Console May Disappear — But the Minerals Behind Computing Are Only Becoming More Important
Ken Kutaragi, the creator of PlayStation, believes AI, cloud computing and network technology could eventually make dedicated gaming consoles unnecessary. But if computing leaves the console and moves into the cloud, the demand for minerals does not disappear—it moves upstream into servers, semiconductors, batteries, power systems and telecommunications infrastructure. For Africa, that could make critical…
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🌎 Google’s $10 Million Bet on the Ghost of Spirit Airlines
Google has bid $10 million for a massive archive of defunct Spirit Airlines’ internal corporate data, including about 100 million emails and 500 million Microsoft Teams messages. The deal highlights a growing AI race for real-world enterprise data while raising new questions about employee privacy, corporate memory and who owns the digital history of a…
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🇸🇾 🇧🇫 The Irony of Mainstream Media: Who Gets Called a President, and Who Gets Called a Junta Leader?
Two BBC headlines describing political leaders in Syria and Burkina Faso raise a broader question about how mainstream media frames power: why are some leaders primarily presented through institutional titles while others are defined by the circumstances of their rise to power?
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🇮🇳 India-Meta Showdown: Parliament Demands Zuckerberg Apology After Modi Video Removed
A temporary removal of a Narendra Modi video from Facebook has triggered a confrontation between India’s parliamentary technology committee and Meta, with lawmakers demanding a personal apology from Mark Zuckerberg and warning that Meta could face the loss of safe-harbour protection.
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Epic Games & Google Reveal Secret $800 Million Deal During Legal Battle
“We view this as a significant transfer of value from Epic to Google.” Epic Games’ willingness to settle its antitrust lawsuit against Google might have seemed sudden, and California District Judge James Donato has some concerns as well. “The only changed circumstance that I can see right now is Epic and Google – two mortal enemies…
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Adobe Acrobat can now generate presentations and audio podcasts from your documents
The features build on PDF Spaces. Back in August, Adobe debuted Acrobat Studio. The new service saw Adobe bring the humble PDF into the 21st century with support for a handful of new genAI features, including PDF Spaces, a hub where you can upload up to 100 documents and have AI summarize them. Now the…
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🇨🇳 Are You Dead? What China’s Darkly Humorous Viral App Reveals About Urban Loneliness
A bluntly named Chinese app called “Are You Dead?” has exploded in popularity, and its rise says as much about modern loneliness as it does about technology. [1][2] What the app actually does The app, known in Chinese as “Sileme” (literally “Are you dead?”), is built around a single, stark function: proving that you are…
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🇺🇸 ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US
Latest charges join the mountain of indictments facing alleged Tren de Aragua members A Venezuelan gang described by US officials as “a ruthless terrorist organization” faces charges over alleged deployment of malware on ATMs across the country, illegally siphoning millions of dollars. Two indictments were returned in Nebraska, collectively charging 54 alleged members of the…
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🇺🇸 Beyond the Boarding Pass: Apple’s Digital ID and the Global March Towards a Wallet-Free Future
For years, the smartphone has been steadily absorbing the contents of our pockets. First, it replaced the camera, then the map, and most significantly for many in Africa, it began replacing the physical wallet through mobile money platforms. Now, the next frontier is upon us: your national identity, digitised and living securely in your device.…