Wesley Diphoko

Editor-In-Chief, Fast Company South Africa

The tech year that was 2023

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As if the world has not heard enough about AI, a company formed by former Apple employees dropped an AI hardware, the Ai Pin.

Meet the pin: an AI hardware that will change how you use computers

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Ai Pin, that was launched last week by a couple who formerly worked at Apple, Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri.

We are getting closer to the metaverse

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It’s time for businesses to develop their own metaverse plans, or else they will be left behind with just physical-world solutions with no presence in the virtual ...

Why UCT Online High School matters for SA education system

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UCT says interest in its R2,000 a month online high school has exceeded expectations.

The rise of young tech leaders

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There’s a group of young people however, who are tackling unemployment head-on.

Are Chinese tech firms getting unequal treatment?

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The unequal treatment of tech global companies highlights the need for a neutral oversight body.

Robots, healthcare and Covid-19

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The entry of robots into the mainstream has been resisted for valid reasons such as its impact on jobs. Current health circumstances however should inspire a review ...

Vodacom ordered to hand over documents to determine Please Call Me Idea value

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The judge has ordered Vodacom to handover within 21 days contractual documents that can assist with the process of determining the true value of the idea.

Will our 'new normal' be virtual? The ultimate revelations at the Apple event

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For the very first time in the history of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, the event was hosted virtually.

The Infonomist: Diversity lessons for SA tech firms from Google

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Google has committed itself towards improving black representation at senior levels and committing to a goal of improving leadership representation of under-represented ...

How to build a digital country that will last through future pandemics

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The process of developing digital countries will not be a quick solution to challenges presented by Covid-19 currently

Don't go back to school - go to virtual school

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We are also going through a different industrial revolution which is the fourth, yet society wants to go back to school and maintain the education system that was ...

Fast Company Talks: The 'Go Back To School (Virtual) Event' not to be missed

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Fast Company (SA) is hosting a live discussion that will focus how e-learning can become a saviour for parents who are concerned about taking their kids back to ...

Old education is dead, long live the new (virtual) education

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A quick review of the history of education tells us that the current education (school) system is in many ways a dead idea.

Should e-learning be the new norm in a post-Covid-19 world?

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One of the major challenges facing decision makers right now is whether to open schools or not.

Parliament's Zoom hack should be a wake-up call

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For the first time in decades, the South African Parliament took an ?unprecedented step? by allowing MPs to take part in some parliamentary proceedings via Zoom. ...

Airbnb becomes latest business victim in Covid-19 crisis: Read CEO's full letter

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Airbnb has become the latest economic victim of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a heartfelt letter to employees, Brian Chesky, the Airbnb CEO outlined the impact of business ...

How Covid-19 could create work for robots and why workers should own them

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Major corporations are realising faster that adding automation to operations will not only make them more resilient to disruption but can also cut costs.

Wanted: A cure for SA internet quality

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Many facets of human life ? work, school, banking, shopping, flirting, live music, government services, chats with friends, calls to ageing parents ? have moved ...

Zoom CEO says 'sorry' over safety and privacy issues

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In a statement by CEO Eric Yuan to Zoom users globally, video conferencing app Zoom has acknowledged that it has fallen short of adhering to necessary privacy and ...

Is Zoom safe for users?

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Zoom has been considered the safer option for using end-to-end encryption in comparison to other platforms. In simple terms, this would mean that when conducting ...

2019 SA innovations that may change the world

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2019 has proven to be one of the most challenging years for South Africans.

Samsung and UWC in search of youth to train in tech

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In response to the current technology skills challenge in South Africa, UWC and Samsung have partnered to create a lab.

Here's to the next decade of tech start-up excellence

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BIGEXIT, fintech, failure, success and impact are the keywords that define the past decade in the technology start-up world.

The Infonomist: The tech behind Nobel Prize winners

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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to an invention at the heart of modern life: the rechargeable lithium-ion battery.