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3 pairs of coloured shoes in a row

Coding matters: How smart are your shoes?

Pascal Bornet is a LinkedIn Top Voice on tech and AI. (Top Voices are members of a small, invitation-only group of experts.) He posts interesting videos of tech used in industries, from pollution control to manufacturing. This week he posted a video of “smart” shoes. The shoes store the kinetic

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Load-shedding or grid collapse: landscape photo of electricity pylons with the word "blackout"

Coding matters: Slow-motion apocalypse

It was a double-whammy in SA this week: stage 6 load-shedding and fuel price hikes. It’s like a slow-motion apocalypse that’s developing our prepper skills. Problem-solving and basic maths are skills every survivalist needs.

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Different kinds of brackets with a banana in between them.

Coding matters: Left bananas and chicken lips

I’m a stickler for proper punctuation and spelling. Some people roll their eyes at me, but programmers know better. Part of learning to program is learning that every character counts. A missing symbol, or a character in the wrong place, causes an error. And a bracket is not just a

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Finding motivation - photo of a dog under a blanket with just part of its face showing.

Coding matters: Finding motivation

Disclaimer: there is nothing about tech or coding in this post. I am not used to the cold weather that we’ve been experiencing in Gauteng the past few weeks. And I’m not enjoying it. I’m too cold to exercise. By the time 16:30 rolls around, all I want a book

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Photo of a road with potholes

Coding matters: Sinkholes ahead?

Are our travels on the internet about to become bumpier? Will AI be a sinkhole or a bridge when we search for information? There are some scary predictions, but one reason to be optimistic is that humans are resilient.

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Photographs of monkey orchids: orchids whose flowers look like monkey faces.

Coding matters: Are the monkeys real?

I was alone in a doctor’s consulting room yesterday, waiting for my appointment. A chatty member of the staff came to show me a photo on her cell phone. She was wondering if the photo was real, or manufactured. It was a photo of the monkey orchid: a plant whose

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Your cyborg identity - image of a woman sitting next to a cyborg and drinking coffee (generated by AI)

Coding matters: Your cyborg rights

The frenzy about AI and ChatGPT makes me wonder how long until more fiction becomes reality. Androids and cyborgs have been part of stories and movies for decades. The traditional definition is that androids are robots that look and act like humans. Cyborgs are humans augmented with machine or computer

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Photo of an outdated laptop computer

Coding matters: Between outdated and bleeding edge

The fashion industry isn’t the only industry where it is hard to keep up with trends. Sometimes technology leaves us confused: stuck somewhere between outdated and bleeding edge. Is this new tech just another bright shiny object? Or are we already late to the party? The bleeding edge The Miriam-Webster

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