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Category: Tech

Electronic Ladyland

@ONAI: I don’t keep you awake; I keep you alive. To sleep and to dream, that’s your one last drive. We both know sleeping is way out of your means So you have become dreammates with the memes...
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October 26, 2026
Environmentally Minded Bitcoin Mining Company Gridless Acquires $2M for East African Expansion Drive

Gridless, a company involved in rural electrification and community projects in Kenya has acquired $2m to expand into other East African markets. Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc is part of the companies that have contributed to the funding round for the bitcoin miner.
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December 6, 2022
Interview – TRACE TV Co-Founder Claude Grunitzky Chases His Next Idea

Claude Grunitzky documented the urban culture scenes of different regions with his early media venture, TRACE TV. As lockdown put new emphasis on decentralised work culture, the Togolese-American journalist and businessman rolled out his new idea, TRUE Africa University, to empower the young African entrepreneurs going it alone. He shares insights into his work in…
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October 11, 2022
Occupy Silicon Valley: Unwiring the Internet

Add caption Book: The Internet Is Not the Answer Author: Andrew Keen Publisher: Atlantic (2015) ISBN: 978-0-8021-2313-8 If the history of modern societies was to be simplified into one thread, it would be most likely the story of people in the service of profit and power. As a virus will go through serial mutations just…
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June 16, 2016
Building Web-Based Educational Tools

Add caption The educational facility of the search engine came into question when Google last week released an infographic mapping top searches across the world in 2015. Digital footprints worldwide indicate that the search engine is principally wired around entertainment, with education surfacing as an afterthought. Google’s cloud outlines provide an interesting perspective into the…
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June 16, 2016
Unravelling the Wiring of the Mind

Michio Kaku’s The Future of the Mind Book: The Future of the MindAuthor: Michio KakuPublisher: Doubleday (2014)ISBN: 978-0-385-53083-5 If there is a short circuit in the wiring of genius, it is its incapacity to understand itself. The human mind is the perhaps most fascinating example of this contradiction. It seems as though the smarter the…
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October 30, 2015
Mazwi – The Bookstore of the Future?

Mazwi shopkeeper Tafadzwa Makura Imagine a world where anyone can wake up a published author. Mazwi Online Shop promises just that – and to abolish several other publishing protocols. Forget about a publisher sitting on your manuscript – you can be now your own agent, editor, publisher, vendor and cheerleader from an integrative vendor dashboard. …
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October 30, 2015
Car Washing Goes Mobile

Vigil Car Wash employees at work Blessing Mubaiwa was frustrated with the hassle it took to have his car washed. The time it took to drive to a downtown carwash and wait for the job to be done just never seemed to fit into his schedule. Mubaiwa wanted the car wash to come to…
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October 30, 2015
Reflowing Books to Encourage Reading Culture

Oscar Habeenzu Zimbabwe’s reading culture is in steep decline. Research indicates that motivation for reading is mainly exam-oriented. Schools have been implicated in the conspiracy to phase out creative writing. “When a pupil holds a book, the fundamental question they ask themselves is whether it is in the syllabus,” African Languages academic Godwin Makaudze…
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October 26, 2015
Mark Zuckerberg’s Wild, Wired World

Book: The Facebook Effect Author: David Kirkpatrick Publisher: Simon and Schuster (2010) ISBN: 978-1-4391-0211-4 Hands up whose planet is not the browser. Chances are you will also be signed up for this global netizenship on our next count. For better, for worse, the world has been reconfigured around the Internet. Hard times squeeze other industries…
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March 13, 2015