Today’s Tech Sightings: Elon Musk Takes On Saving the World From Artificial Intelligence Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk, along with several tech heavyweights, just founded a non-profit, billion-dollar outfit called OpenAI to research artificial intelligence (AI) in a way that benefits humanity. Musk had expressed concern that artificial intelligence could take over the world. Ready […]
Facebook in Africa; Popemoji; More Apps, Less TV; Apple Stylus
Posted September 10th, 2015 at 3:40 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: Facebook Rakes in Users in Nigeria, Kenya; Eyes Rest of Africa Twenty million users and counting now use Facebook in Nigeria and Kenya, according to the social network giant’s latest statistics. The majority of these users access their account on mobile devices. Facebook’s active African users, most of whom are in North […]
Education Tech; Alphabet; Western Tech Firms in China
Posted August 19th, 2015 at 3:55 pm (UTC-5)
Today’s Tech Sightings: How Bill and Melinda Gates Want to Transform Teaching Bill and Melinda Gates are putting up a series of blog posts this week to look at ways technology can transform education. In one post, Bill Gates points to a school system in California, which now uses computers to analyze how kids perform […]