Toss Pay Partners with CU for Expansion Into Offline Transactions
Jul 11, 2023 10:23 am UTC| Business Economy Technology
Toss Pay has joined hands with CU convenience store chain to expand its service and include offline transactions. CU is owned and operated by BGF Retail, and the mobile payment firm tapped it for partnership as it makes...
Samsung Electronics Introduces Its Gaming Portal’s Shopping Platform
Jul 11, 2023 09:12 am UTC| Business Economy Technology
Samsung Electronics Co. revealed it has opened its own gaming-focused shopping platform that will give users access to gaming product information as well as expert reviews. The company said on Monday, July 10, that the...
Jul 11, 2023 07:59 am UTC| Nature Technology Economy Business
Responding to the French governments ban on disposable tableware, McDonalds France and Checkpoint Systems, a division of CCL Industries, have joined forces to implement a radio-frequency identification (RFID) solution....
Why Meta's Threads app is the biggest threat to Twitter yet
Jul 11, 2023 07:38 am UTC| Technology
The launch of social media app Threads as a competitor to Twitter is a game-changer. Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram, launched the new platform yesterday, ahead of schedule. Threads was welcomed almost...
Uncovering 7 examples of bias in AI-generated images
Jul 11, 2023 06:52 am UTC| Technology
If youve been online much recently, chances are youve seen some of the fantastical imagery created by text-to-image generators such as Midjourney and DALL-E 2. This includes everything from the naturalistic (think a soccer...
AI: why installing 'robot judges' in courtrooms is a really bad idea
Jul 11, 2023 06:45 am UTC| Technology
Science fictions visions of the future include many versions of artificial intelligence (AI), but relatively few examples where software replaces human judges. For once, the real world seems to be changing in ways that are...
As Meta launches its Threads microblogging site, Twitter is being kicked while it's down
Jul 11, 2023 06:45 am UTC| Technology
Elon Musk is no stranger to highly competitive markets in which you take advantage of a competitors weakness. For once, he is on the receiving end as Meta launches its microblogging platform Threads to take advantage of...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects