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Google Bard makes historic debut in Swahili, the first African language supported

Google is expanding Bard, its conversational AI service, to 40 new languages including Swahili. Swahili becomes the first African language to be included, pushing Bard’s reach to 59 new countries across territories. New capabilities in the expansion enable users to more fully customize their experiences, foster creativity, and complete more tasks. With the extension, Bard is now accessible in the majority of the world’s countries, including those in the EU. Bard is now available in most frequently spoken languages such as Swahili, Chinese, German, Spanish, Arabic, and Hindi. Now that text-to-speech is available in eight languages, users can enjoy Bard in their favourite language. Swahili…

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The bitten apple

The first time I saw something pornographic, it was an old magazine called Life Seen, secretly passed around the boys dormitory as we hankered over starred genitals like Amish boys seeing a woman’s bare limb.  It was impersonal, black and white newspaper print with a coloured insert at the middle, where the publisher tried to blur out the graphic imagery. One time during holiday recess we dared to a cybercafé to see more graphic and colored images on the internet. Those days you paid Kes10 a minute and spent it looking at pixelated images buffer for ages.  So we pooled our ten bobs together, and…

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