The dead internet theory first emerged on forums in the late 2010s. It gained a concrete framework following a 2021 post on the online community Agora Road, which argued that the web “died” around 2016 as platforms began surfacing more algorithmic and AI-generated content. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: Apple Homeview! Since…
iOCO CEO Rhys Summerton iOCO will not pay a dividend for as long as Rhys Summerton is at the helm of the company, the IT services group’s CEO said on Wednesday. Instead, he plans to spend a sizeable chunk of the R650-million he expects iOCO to bring in over the next year on acquisitions and…
What’s the link between an exploding star, climate change and human evolution? Francis Thackeray, who has researched ancient environments and fossils for many years, sets out his ideas about what happened in the distant past – with enormous consequences. Global cooling that happened millions of years ago was thought to be the result of ocean…
