According to a report released by news and research portal Disrupt Africa, African tech startups smashed funding records in 2018 with 210 startups securing U.S.$334.5 million worth ... Read more »
"Saturday morning whatsapp will become chargeable. If you have at least 10 contacts send them this message." Sound familiar? This and more chain messages may become less frequent ... Read more »
Countries must agree strict rules on "killer robots" - autonomous weapons which can assassinate without human involvement - a top Red Cross official has said amid growing ethical ... Read more »
In the Sahel, climate change has translated into more frequent, longer drought spells that threaten the resilience capacity of nomadic livestock pastoralists but with satellite ... Read more »
The South African National Space Agency has been selected by the International Civil Aviation Organisation to become the designated regional provider of space weather information ... Read more »
Africa's recurrent challenges can benefit from the many inventions coming off the continent but we must invest in creating an environment that makes it easy to discoverer these ... Read more »
Roy Allela, 25, has invented smart gloves which convert sign language movements into audio speech. The gloves, named Sign-IO, have sensors stitched on to each finger which ... Read more »
South Africa's Department of Science and Technology has welcomed the launch of the ZACube-2, which will allow cutting-edge remote sensing of ocean traffic and wildfires, as well as ... Read more »
The fashion industry is reputed to be the second largest polluter in the world. The pesticides and insecticides used on crops grown for fabrics, coupled with the chemicals used in ... Read more »
Ketty Adoch and Torsten Bondo are among 11 people who have been selected to receive grants from Microsoft and National Geographic for projects on Artificial Intelligence (AI). ... Read more »
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