Microsoft has unveiled a cybersecurity skills initiative to upskill a new cybersecurity workforce, specifically women, focusing on some of the most underrepresented nations, including South America and Asia. Currently, 2...
The EU and Norway formed a Green Alliance to tackle climate change, protect the environment, and accelerate the adoption of clean energy. The alliance is the most comprehensive form of bilateral engagement established under the Eu...
The United States Supreme Court rejected computer scientist Stephen Thaler's challenge to the US Patent and Trademark Office's denial of patents for inventions created by his AI system. Thaler, who founded Imagination Engines Inc,...
According to a Reuters report, US states that are pioneering contact tracing apps (North Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah) called on Apple and Google to allow public health authorities to use both GPS and Bluetooth to combat the Cor...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published the 2020 Broadband Deployment Report unveiling that the number of Americans lacking access to fixed broadband declined 30% between 2017 and 2018. This is the result of approxim...
According to Bloomberg, a panel of EU data protection regulators told the U.S. embassy in Brussels there are exemptions to EU data protection laws to allow scientists internationally to share health information. The European Data ...
In response to the COVID-19 lockdown, the Senegalese government is promoting e-commerce and the delivery of key supplies by accelerating the adoption of e-commerce policies and reforms. To this aim, the trade ministry launched an ...
The UNCTAD Annual Report 2019 entitled 'Beyond Uncertainty' sheds light on the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation for development. The report highlights that digitalisation has the power to transform the global economy...
After the Masala High Court's ban on TikTok on 17 April, the appappealed to the decision and filed a counter-affidavit laying out the existing mechanisms preventing that pornographic content is uploaded on the app. The ...
France's President Emmanuel Macron and New Zealand's President Jacinda Arden announced to host asummit in Paris on May 15 to present the 'Christchurch call': a document calling for the elimination of terror content online. The sum...
Google has completed the installation of a10 ,000km subsea fibre link that connects Los Angeles to Chile. The four-fibre pair system which is named Curie after the renowned physicist and chemist Marie Curie has a branching unit ...
Facebook indicated that it expected a fine up to$5 billion by the Federal Trade Commission for privacy violations. The FTC is looking into whether Facebook broke its own 2011 agreement to protect user privacy. The company disclose...