Facebook on Thursday launched its digital assistant named “M” for US users of its Messenger application, ramping up the social network’s efforts in artificial intelligence. For users of the messaging platform, M will pop up and suggest “helpful actions” in the chat window. The move is seen as the first step in a broader launch … Read more
Google on Monday said it will apply machine smarts and outside eyes to help ensure brands don’t find ads paired with hateful videos on YouTube. The move come as the internet colossus scrambles to derail an advertising boycott of Google’s money-making engine. Google said it was using new machine-learning or artificial intelligence systems to enforce … Read more
Samsung’s Bixby is the new kid on the block of personal digital assistants and is likely to face a rough reception in a neighborhood dominated by tech sector rivals. Bixby — introduced at Samsung’s unveiling of Galaxy S8 smartphones — aims to help the South Korean giant break into a surging market for voice-activated virtual … Read more
Google was charged £36.4m in UK corporation tax last year, according to its latest annual results. The US search giant recorded sales of £1.03bn and a pre-tax profit of £149m in the UK for the 12 months to the end of June 2016. Google and other major tech firms have come under pressure over their … Read more
Do you intend to live for a thousand years? Upload your mind to a machine? Augment your abilities and supplement your skills with electronic implants? Are you looking forward to the coming “singularity” when artificial super-intelligence will surge far ahead of human brainpower and computers take over the world? If you answered any of those … Read more
Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its new Galaxy S8 smartphones, incorporating the virtual assistant Bixby, as the market leader seeks to rebound from a chaotic handset recall and a corruption scandal. The South Korean giant’s mobile chief DJ Koh told a New York event the Galaxy S8 and S8+ handsets marked “a new era of smartphone … Read more
Chinese tech giant Tencent has spent $1.78bn (£1.4bn) on buying a 5% stake in electric carmaker Tesla. Tencent, best known for its WeChat mobile app, has been investing in a number of sectors, including gaming, entertainment, cloud computing and online financing. Tesla said the stake was passive, meaning Tencent would not get a say in … Read more
The Vice President of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, joined CYST Company Limited to launch the company’s flagship mobile payments app Mazzuma. Mazzuma enables users to receive and send mobile money to all mobile networks, thereby achieving interoperability at the telecommunications level. Users of the service who are on the Facebook platform can also buy airtime, … Read more
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk hinted Tuesday that he is working on a new startup focusing on brain-computer interface, part of his vision to help humans keep up with machines. Musk, the founder of electric carmaker Telsa and exploration firm SpaceX, referenced the new company called Neuralink in a tweet, a day after a Wall Street … Read more
Mr Musk has a lot on his plate, and admits it will be hard to find time to run his new company Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has launched Neuralink, a start-up which aims to develop technology that connects our brains to computers. A report from the Wall Street Journal, later confirmed in a tweet … Read more
The feud sparked by Google’s failure to remove extremist content from its site Youtube could lead to the end of automated ad placement, experts have warned. Household names including Marks and Spencer and McDonald’s have pulled advertising from Google’s YouTube as part of a growing international boycott. Now analysts have predicted that brands could turn … Read more
Google’s money-making foundation is strong enough to endure a current boycott by advertisers, but the movement could rattle the practice of software “programmed” ad placement, analysts said on Thursday. The internet giant’s core business of serving up advertising along with online search results appeared to be safe from the boycott, motivated by companies seeking assurances … Read more
Kofi Kinaata’s songs, especially his latest hit “Confession” has been making waves in the Ghana Music Industry and beyond; but how to meet fans’ expectations in his subsequent songs is really giving the musician a serious headache. Speaking to Showbiz in a recent interview, Kofi Kinaata revealed that he has been put under continual pressure by … Read more
A top Google executive on Monday apologised after UK company and government adverts appeared alongside extremist content on its Internet platforms. The apology from Matt Brittin, president of Google’s Europe, Middle East and Africa division, came after UK banks HSBC and RBS, along with major retailer Marks and Spencer (M&S), decided to suspend their adverts … Read more
Marks and Spencer has become the latest firm to pull its online advertising from Google’s platforms over fears it is appearing next to extremist content. It follows a UK government decision to remove its adverts from YouTube – which is owned by Google – after it emerged they had appeared alongside content from supporters of … Read more
Google has removed audio about the movie Beauty and the Beast which played out unprompted on Google Home. “By the way, Disney’s live action Beauty and the Beast opens today,” the smart speaker said after listing the time, weather and travel update. In a video posted on Twitter, it then talked about the plot and … Read more
The latest data on Annual Percentage Rates (APR) of interest charged on loans and credit advances and the Average Interest (AI) paid on deposits by banks released by the Bank of Ghana revealed that the industry average base rate as at February 28, 2017, was 26.9 per cent. This saw a drop of 0.7 percent … Read more
The Bank of Ghana has, today, released its latest data on Annual Percentage Rates (APR) of interest charged on loans and credit advances and the Average Interest (AI) paid on deposits by banks. The data is based on figures available as at 28th February, 2017. The data reveals that the industry average base rate as … Read more
Ever since Steamboat Willie, the iconic animated clip from 1928 featuring a mouse that would later become Mickey, Disney has had a proud record of innovating with new technology. It’s rare that the company delves too far into how the “magic” – as they call it – works. Their logic is a magic trick doesn’t … Read more
The US state of California is easing its rules for autonomous car testing, by allowing testing of vehicles in which there is no human driver. The new rules have yet to be submitted for public consultation, with a final version expected by the end of the year, according to its Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). … Read more