by admin | Dec 13, 2024 | agriculture, AI, artificial intelligence (AI), Border Collie, farming, Industry News, Machine learning, News, Other Tech News, SwagBot
What if cows could herd themselves? They’re probably not there just yet (Ed: if you know of any self-herding cows please reach out to us) but researchers at the University of Sydney will tell you their ‘SwagBot’ is the next best thing. Border Collies will soon be out...
by admin | Oct 16, 2024 | agriculture, AI, Autonomous drone, dell, farming, Industry News, Moyo, News, Other Tech News
Dell Technologies and Moyo, a digital business consultancy based in South Africa, have teamed up to introduce South African potato farmers to an autonomous drone that uses AI to detect potato leaf disease with impressive accuracy. If you’re one of those farmers and...
by admin | Dec 2, 2023 | agriculture, AI, farming, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
For all the attention on flashy new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, the challenges of regulating AI, and doomsday scenarios of superintelligent machines, AI is a useful tool in many fields. In fact, it has enormous potential to benefit humanity. In...
by admin | Mar 23, 2023 | agriculture, Computers, Food, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
Digital technologies are changing how food is produced. And it’s more than harvesting robots that are arriving on the scene. Companies are now pairing data centres with greenhouses, capturing the heat emitted by computing hardware and reusing it to grow crops indoors....
by admin | Oct 15, 2022 | agriculture, Articles, data, oil
It has been said that data is the new oil. That’s certainly true of the agricultural environment where farmers are increasingly using the power of data and data analytics to make better decisions and improve their operations. Accurate and accessible records have long...
by admin | Jun 10, 2022 | Afri Eastern Cape, agriculture, artificial intelligence (AI), farming, locusts, Microsoft, Paul Allen, Technology
South Africa is bracing for a repeat of last season’s locust swarms, the worst in decades, and is banking on a tracking technology backed by the institute of Microsoft Corp.’s late co-founder, Paul Allen, to tackle the infestation.
