Informal trade is ubiquitous in Africa, but too often ignored

Fair exchange, sometimes robbery “THE border is like a river,” says Ronald Sembatya, “where somebody can come to get fish.” He is resting beside his wheelchair in the muddy no-man’s land between Uganda and Kenya. His disability makes it hard to find work elsewhere. But here he earns his “fish” by shuttling goods across the […]

5G could power a ‘calm tech’ era, where tech is ubiquitous but doesn’t interrupt us

GUEST: Back in 1996, when the internet was in its formative stages and had not yet produced time- and attention-sucking features like Twitter or mobile push notifications, a pair of pioneering computer scientists named Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown coined the idea of “calm technology.” They imagined a world where humans are surrounded by […]

How the ubiquitous game actor Troy Baker plays Talion in Middle-earth: Shadow of War

Troy Baker is the ubiquitous video game actor. He’s coming back this year as the voice of Talion, the hero known as The Bright Lord in Warner Bros.’ Middle-earth: Shadow of War. He returned to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) to tout the game in the wake of the release of a new trailer teasing […]

Nvidia releases a recipe to make GPU computing ubiquitous in data centers

Nvidia wants its graphics processing units (GPUs) to handle the artificial intelligence computing and other heavy-duty parallel processing tasks in giant data centers. To that end, the company is launching a program that makes it easy for its big manufacturing partners to package its GPUs in AI supercomputers. Nvidia HGX is a kind of starter […]