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  In a groundbreaking move, MasterCard has successfully established a state-of-the-art technological infrastructure in South Africa, culminating in the launch of advanced data centers. This strategic development marks a significant step toward fostering more secure and efficient processing of local transactions, contributing substantially to the modernization of South Africa's payments industry. Aligned with the South African Reserve Bank's Vision 2025, the initiative focuses on bolstering the digital ecosystem and promoting the adoption of locally relevant technology. MasterCard's commitment to South Africa extends beyond four decades, showcasing the company's adaptability in the face of an environment that is both robust and continually evolving. Gabriel Swanepoel, MasterCard Southern Africa country manager, emphasized the company's dedication to adding one billion people and 50 million small and microenterprise businesses to the formal digital economy. This forwa...

 Threads, Meta's text-based social networking platform, is expanding the availability of a new Keyword Search function to more countries in order to improve user experience.  Users can search for certain keywords on the platform's mobile and browser editions. It is now available in English and Spanish, with future intentions to expand to other languages. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta (formerly known as Facebook), announced the feature's release and hinted at possible future updates. The company aims to become global and cater to a variety of languages ​​and countries. Threads has had issues despite a successful start. The network acquired 50,000 daily active users in July, but has since suffered a substantial reduction in user count, with barely 10 million members remaining. Since its high in early July, daily usage has dropped by more than 80%. Threads had a bright begin with over 10 million sign-ups in seven hours and 100 million users on its first day. However, it appears...

  Satya Nadella, an Indian-American business executive who is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft, has joined the Threads app, which is known as the “Twitter killer” app. After joining the Threads app, Satya Nadella announced an AI partnership with Meta. He wrote on Threads,  “What a great day to join Threads! We are thrilled to expand our AI partnership with Meta, as we bring their Llama family of large language models to Azure.” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also talked about the AI partnership. Reportedly, Meta aims to make an artificial intelligence system to offer a free  ChatGPT -like tool, but with a different approach. Zuckerberg said that his company partnered with Microsoft to launch the next generation of its AI large language model. He said that the AI tool would be free for research and commercial use.  Meta used the acronym LLaMA, for Large Language Model Meta AI, to describe the first version of its AI model. Meta named the second ...

  WhatsApp, a centralised instant messaging and voice-over-IP service application owned by United States tech conglomerate Meta, has rolled out a feature that will allow users to edit their sent messages. You can edit sent messages on WhatsApp on Android and iOS devices within 15 minutes. It is available for WhatsApp users across the world. You must update to the latest version of WhatsApp to use this feature.   How to edit a sent message on WhatsApp? Update WhatsApp from the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store. The WhatsApp update is rolling out in phases on Android and iOS devices.  The new edit feature can be used in all kinds of chats. If you edit the WhatsApp message, it will show that the message has been edited. Steps to edit a sent message on WhatsApp Long-press on a text message that you have sent Select the three dots in the top right corner Choose the “Edit” option Edit the message and resend it to a s...

  OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence research laboratory, has announced the release of GPT-4, the latest version of its artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      GPT-4, a large multimodal model, can respond to image and text inputs. It can ...

  Tech billionaire and the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Twitter, Elon Musk , fired a top Twitter engineer who told him he was declining in popularity on the micro-blogging site, according to a report by The Platformer. On Tuesday,  Musk met with several Twitter employees to discuss his declining view count on Twitter. He told the engineer, «You’re fired, you’re fired.» The Platformer did not reveal the name of the engineer. During the meeting, Twitter employees discussed internal data and a Google Trends chart with Musk. Google Trends data reportedly showed that Musk’s popularity dropped in recent months. An engineer told Musk that his popularity might be declining on the social media platform due to a lack of public interest since his Twitter purchase. After hearing this,  Musk fired the engineer. Musk told employees that his view count was impacted by an internal issue. He asked Twitter employees to track how oft...