by admin | Mar 9, 2024 | Column, Columns, GPU, Industry News, Meta, News, Nvidia, stock market, Surge, Toby Shapshak
Just two weeks after Meta set the record for the largest single-day increase in market valuation ($197-billion), chipmaker Nvidia shot the lights out with a whopping $277-billion surge. Unlike Meta, which has been unmasked as the greatest enabler of paedophilias in... by admin | Mar 8, 2024 | Column, Columns, Google, Internet News, News, publishers, Toby Shapshak
Google and Facebook owe United States news publishers between $11-billion and $14-billion a year, according to new research. “The tech giants have argued that news is not essential and that publishers are lucky to have their platforms driving traffic to their sites,... by admin | Feb 28, 2024 | Column, Columns, Daily Maverick, facebook, Financial Mail, Google, News, Programmatic advertising, Toby Shapshak
For years I have been railing against the ineptitude, inefficiency, wasted marketing spend, and (more recently), outright lies of programmatic advertisers. In short: Google and Facebook lied. They promised a range of never-seen-before, easy-to-communicate nonsense... by admin | Feb 25, 2024 | Apple, Apple Pencil, Column, Columns, iPad, News, Other Tech News, Tablet News, Toby Shapshak
On Monday, two friends asked me which iPad they should buy. It’s a question I often get, so I wrote them this article. The first friend is a property developer who hates typing on his iPhone and was thinking of getting a folding Android phone, such as the Samsung Fold... by admin | Feb 22, 2024 | MTN, News, Phone News, podcast, Podcasts & Videos, streaming, T2S2, Toby Shapshak
Most of South Africa’s youth don’t watch a TV set. Why should they? They have a mobile entertainment console in their hands that can access the new form of television: streaming. Jason Probert, general manager of digital services for MTN South Africa, tells Stuff... by admin | Feb 22, 2024 | AI, Column, Columns, Internet News, News, Other Tech News, skills, Toby Shapshak, workplace
“If you made a movie about AI now, it would be called ‘Everything, Everywhere, All at Once’,” joked Jens-Hendrik Jeppesen, Workday’s senior director for corporate affairs for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), referring to the Oscar-winning film. Jeppesen...