The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is warning the public against accepting banknotes stained with traces of blue and green ink. Looters targeted over 1,400 ATMs during last week’s violence in parts of the country. The Reserve Bank said it noticed an increase in the circulation of dye-stained notes in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng – which...
Day: <span>19 July 2021</span>
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Amazon Added Shaquille O’Neal and Melissa McCarthy’s Voices on Amazon Alexa
Tech and e-commerce giant Amazon added two more celebrities into its Alexa digital assistant. Now you can have Alexa speak in the voices of Shaquille O’Neal or Melissa McCarthy, replacing Alexa’s default female voice. Owners of Alexa devices can ask Shaq or McCarthy to tell them the weather, play songs, tell jokes, read poems or stories,...
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Tesla Motors Launches Subscription Service for Advanced Driver Assistance Software
The electric car maker Tesla has introduced an option for some customers to subscribe to its advanced driver assistance software, dubbed “Full Self-Driving capability”, for $199 per month, instead of paying $10,000 upfront. The service is available only for Tesla vehicles with Full Self-Driving computer 3.0 or above, and, depending on the Autopilot package, it costs $99...
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Zoom to Acquire Cloud Software Provider Five9 for $15 Billion
Zoom Video Communications is cementing its place in tech world by acquiring cloud software provider Five9 Inc. According to Reuters, the video chat app Zoom has agreed to buy cloud software provider Five9 Inc in an all-stock deal worth about $14.7 billion to target business clients looking to boost customer engagement, it said on Sunday....