The Mpost Success Story: In many developing countries, reliable physical addresses are rare. This makes receiving parcels, documents, and accessing services like e-commerce and banking a nightmare.According to the UN, it is estimated that over a billion people are unregistered individuals and estimates are that up to 80% of the world’s population lacks proper addresses that are verified. This becomes an enormous barrier for those affected to get access to essential services such as Helathcare or education as well as access to financial products that all require proof of residence and for courier companies to deliver parcels.Founded in 2016 by…
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MIT reveals a new prosthesis driven by the nervous system will assist amputees to walk naturally and navigated obstacles. State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with amputations achieve a natural walking gait, but they don’t give the user full neural control over the limb. Instead, they rely on robotic sensors and controllers that move the limb using predefined gait algorithms that have generally been quite different to natural limb movements. Possibly the closest achievement to natural movement in a prosthetic, prior to this new breakthrough, was the development of a brain controlled prosthetic arm by the Biomedical Engineering Research Group…
In just 6 months, with a team of just 8 staff, the Kyutai research lab developed, from scratch an artificial intelligence (AI) model with unprecedented vocal capabilities called Moshi. The new experimental prototype AI, was publicly unveiled in Paris yesterday. The interactive demo of the AI will be accessible from the Kyutai website as of 4 July where it can be freely tested online as from today, which constitutes a world first for a generative voice AI. This new type of technology is the first to make it possible to communicate in a smooth, natural and expressive way with an…
A cluster of three wind farms, called the Koruson cluster, in the Eastern Cape area of South Africa is nearing completion.
The depth of natural resources combined with a large, young workforce, there is no conceivable barrier to Africa becoming an economic powerhouse. It needs only to adopt business friendly policies and deliver freedom for its countless entrepreneurs to thrive in.
There is much hype around solar and wind energy generation, but there are several other alternatives that deserve consideration depending on your location and how much power generation is required. Micro Hydro Generators Hydro energy generation has found a meaningful place in locations with good water supply and where other tech such as solar or wind do not perform as well due to weather factors. Additionally it is power that is available 24/7 and all year around, but is also dependent on water supply being uninterrupted. Solarite, a green tech company based in South Africa, provides energy generation via its…
There is a big move across Africa to start using sustainable energy and to move away from fossil fuels, driven mainly by global pressure from the likes of the World Bank and the United Nations. And Africa can certainly benefit from a cleaner environment and maintaining the beauty of our natural wildlife heritage, that exists nowhere else in the world. The move to better sustainability however, can also come with increased costs for businesses that ultimately reduces their profitability and with that their competitiveness. In South Africa, and other African countries, power interruptions have become an additional business risk and…
The Africa-focused VC firm has already backed nine start-ups, including Numida, Hohm Energy, Socium, Klasha, Kwara, Coachbit and Sava, and will be aiming to achieve a minimum of 40 Tech start-up investments from this first fund.
Processor Manufacturing Giant increases its brand appeal as it grows its computer processing Tech In the ever-evolving global landscape of technology giants, the competition between Intel and Qualcomm has been a key narrative in the semiconductor industry recently. Intel has dominated the computer chip industry for decades and is well known for its processors that power a vast number of different personal computer, server and laptop brands worldwide. Qualcomm, in comparison has been focussed predominantly in mobile technology, particularly with its leading Snapdragon processors that dominate the smartphone and tablet markets and is widely used in top mobile brands such…
Kevin Pentecost (Microsoft) and Stuart Scanlon (Epic ERP) at a recent Microsoft product event held at Pablo Clark Racing in Kyalami, Johannesburg Discuss Business Central as a solution for Mid enterprises
