News of technology

Indigenous youths use tech as 'weapon' to protect Amazon

09-05-2023 16:38 Txai Surui, and many young Indigenous activists, use technology instead of weapons to defend the Brazilian Amazon.

Ben Goertzel interview

Expert: AI could replace 80% of jobs 'in next few years'

08-05-2023 22:26 Artificial intelligence could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming year, predicts US-Brazilian researcher and AI guru Ben Goertzel.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Venezuela, China, Biden and extraterrestrials – the disinformation of AI

17-03-2023 15:38 Avatars generated by artificial intelligence are becoming ever more common in global disinformation. Experts warn of the threat of deep fakes and AI-generated audio-visuals.

ChatGPT & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The horror and the beauty of ChatGPT

18-02-2023 06:39 A recent wave of excitement, fear and even dystopian predictions has taken over as users have become massively exposed to ChatGPT. Ultimately it’s not about the technology but how we put it to work as individuals, groups and society as a whole.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

FOOTBALL IN ARGENTINA

River rev up revamped Monumental, but VAR steals the show

16-02-2023 14:05 Technology is here to stay in football, and it would be naïve to think otherwise. But as the weekend outcry, and a host of similar protests in the Premier League showed, the promised land of a sport without refereeing mistakes seems as much of a utopia as it ever did.

by @DanEdwardsGoal

GOVERNMENT & POLICY

Massa unveils export stimulus programme for tech sector

05-10-2022 10:36 Scheme aims to boost technology exports to US$10 billion next year, says economy minister.

ENERGY & INFRASTRUCTURE

China nuclear deal held up over Argentina’s reactor fuel demand

19-09-2022 09:35 Buenos Aires insists on the right to manufacture the fuel; Outcome of negotiations could weigh on global nuclear market.

Bloomberg

Gene-edited beer is next in Argentine crusade for GMO acceptance

19-05-2022 17:44 Farm tech firm Bioceres in talks with Buenos Aires craft beer maker Rabieta to brew the first-ever GM lager.

TECH & SOCIETY

Nine out of ten urban homes in Argentina have Internet access

18-05-2022 17:07 Nine out of every ten households in urban conglomerations in Argentina have access to the Internet, a new report has revealed.

Climate Crisis

World lacks time, not minerals for climate-saving technology

30-04-2022 15:12 The rush for resources to build the new energy infrastructure is only a temporary problem.

FINTECH

Central Bank chief Miguel Ángel Pesce: ‘Not all fintechs are the same’

04-02-2022 01:15 Central Bank chief Miguel Ángel Pesce responds to questions on fintech and their regulation in Argentina. Extract taken from recent interview with Perfil's Jorge Fontevecchia.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

ECONOMY

BitCow: Cryptocurrencies break into Argentina’s agricultural sector

26-12-2021 08:00 Blockchain technology and tokenisation of assets such as cows and soybeans could provide Argentina’s agricultural sector with greater transparency and traceability

BLOOMBERG

Argentine fintech start-up Ualá starts its own brokerage service

08-12-2021 08:51 Company to allow dollar purchases at parallel exchange rate; Start-up is ramping up investment after last funding round.

NEW STUDY

More than third of world has never used Internet, says UN

30-11-2021 21:20 Some 2.9 billion people – 37% of the world's population – have still never used the Internet, the United Nations said Tuesday.

TECH GIANTS

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by widespread outage

04-10-2021 20:55 Facebook battled duelling crises on Monday as it faced a large-scale outage of its dominant social network for seven hours, and fought against a whistleblower's damning revelations.

Covid-19 vaccines

Argentine firm begins work on Covid vaccine based on mRNA tech

28-09-2021 09:50 Sinergium Biotech to produce vaccines against Covid-19 for Latin American countries based on mRNA technology, similar to that employed by Pfizer and Moderna in their shots.

TECHNOLOGY

China limits children's online gaming to three hours a week

30-08-2021 13:20 China on Monday announced a drastic cut to children's online gaming time to just three hours a week during term time, the latest move in a broad crackdown on tech giants in the world's biggest gaming market.

spyware scandal

Reports: Private Israeli malware Pegasus used to spy on journalists, activists

19-07-2021 11:46 Activists, journalists and politicians around the world have been spied on using mobile phone malware developed by a private Israeli firm, reports said over the weekend.

Digital divide

32% of Argentine households without fixed Internet connection, says report

11-06-2021 01:53 Almost a third of households in Argentina do not have a fixed Internet connection, says new report. Huge disparity in access nationwide.