Amazon is offering its till-less technology to other High Street shops, just over two years after launching it via its own Go Grocery chain. Go Grocery shoppers scan a smartphone app as they arrive, allowing them to pay via their main Amazon accounts. It has now adapted its Just Walk Out system for other retailers…
Amazon has banned more than one million products which claim to protect against the coronavirus – or even cure it. The online retailer told Reuters it had also removed “tens of thousands” of overpriced health products from unscrupulous sellers. The World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed concern about some misleading Amazon listings earlier this month, including…
YOUNG Bulawayo-based tech entrepreneur Thamsanqa Bhala has designed a free announcement app for schools. The mobile phone application allows schools to send out announcements to parents, guardians and students free of charge. The app helps to reduce the costs incurred by schools in print newsletters and notification materials. According to Bhala the mobile application known…
The “appropriateness” of Google’s sister company’s plan for a “digital city” in Toronto has been questioned. A panel set up to scrutinise Sidewalk Labs’s plan has asked it to explain what the benefits would be for citizens in collecting large amounts of data. The company wants to build a sensor-laden, eco-friendly neighbourhood with all the…
Clearview AI, a start-up with a database of more than three billion photographs from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, has been hacked. The attack allowed hackers to gain access to its client list but it said its servers had not been breached. Most of its clients are US law enforcement agencies who use its facial-recognition software…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s public figures are increasingly utilising information technology gismos to promote their profiles in the seamless global village that the world has become thanks to technology. The Internet provides cheaper platforms for celebrities and other public figures to publicise their activities to their followers. These personalities employ social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter…
HARARE – Over a year since a devastating wave of civil unrest swept across North Africa leaving in its wake a string of deposed long-time dictators, President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF is still worried about the prospects of such an action here. Panicking, the party is now fighting the world — literally — after it…
