Tag Archives: Internet

The impact of AI slop on the internet: It is a growing concern (FC)

A few months ago, I was lying in bed, lightly clutching my phone, when Instagram Reels presented me with a brief video that promised an impossible soap opera: There were animated cats—with feline faces but unmistakable human bodies—living seemingly human lives, including in a human-seeming house and also, for some totally unclear reason, at a […]
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Connecting humanity: Assesing invesment needs of connecting humanity to the internet by 2030 (ITU)

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has recently published “Connecting Humanity – Assessing investment needs of connecting humanity to the Internet by 2030“, a comprehensive new study that estimates the investment needed to achieve universal, affordable broadband connectivity for all humanity by the end of this decade. Nearly half the global population aged 10 years and over […]
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Africa Entertainment & Media Outlook 2019-2023 (PWC)

An in-depth analysis of the trends sharing the entertainment and media industry in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania. This outlook is looking at the industry through the lens of the consumer.The focus is on the rise of increasingly personal and personalised media interactions, as today’s consumers – eager, highly selective and voracious – […]
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NASA’s interplanetary internet, coming soon to a planet near you (Discover Magazine)

by Troy Farah NASA is about to make it a little easier to check your Instagram in zero gravity. Two teams, Science Mission Directorate and Human Exploration and Operations, are working together to finally make interplanetary internet a thing. Previous efforts to bring WiFi throughout the solar system haven’t always been successful, but this time, […]
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