It’s late December and the media are amping up pre-election chatter. The United States, the United Kingdom and India are all going to the polls. It’s the biggest election year in the history of the democratic process. The dominant narrative is, of course, AI. Deepfake video and audio content are threatening to laugh in the […]
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A source of information during the Israeli-Palestinian war has been network platforms. Now, social media and human rights come face to face.
With seven No.1 songs on the charts, The Weeknd has just scored another hit . He has donated $2.5 million to the United Nation’s World Food Programme, more commonly known as WFP. This was done through his XO Humanitarian Fund. This amount will ensure that 173,000 Palestinians have meals for two weeks. Abel Tesfaye (his […]
A social media platform with Syrian roots, Al-bo’bo, sheds light on psychological hardships in a society where these topics are taboo. The idea of a traditional bogeyman called in Arabic Al-bo’bo was used to scare misbehaving children. Although the name suggests one thing, the concept behind it is completely different. The Emergence of the Concept […]
Microsoft has officially launched an app for Windows for Apple devices. It's a big move in the tech world, and here's what you need to know.
Every year, the team who caretake the Cambridge Dictionary choose an English language word which they feel most represents the zeitgeist of the times. Often, the word is chosen because of how many times it was searched. For example, last year, Homer was the chosen word. No correlation to the long- running Simpsons series, but […]
Cast your next vote very, very carefully. Because all the values of the democratic society you thought you lived in have turned in a rancid brew of manipulation and aggressive tribalism. Under your next government, you will no longer be able to hold your head up high because your beliefs are being represented. Those beliefs […]
The UAE is introducing virtual marriage as a simplified and smoother marriage process to make it more easier for couples.
In a UK survey conducted earlier this year, it was concluded that of the tens of millions of people using ChatGPT, 54% are male and 34%, female. There were a number of reasons given for this imbalance. Firstly, there seems to be a greater degree of mistrust in the generative AI app when it came […]
When Marwan Rashid, a consultant and contributor to Inside Telecom, brought this soft sensor story to my attention, a part of my life flashed before my eyes. Not because I was about to keel over and die. But rather, I was instantly transported back to two different children’s hospitals I visited in Africa about thirty […]