When we hear the term "accessibility" in the context of disability, the images that quickly comes to our minds are ramps, elevators, tactile paving (textured ground which helps vision impaired people navigate public spac...
Bitcoin dropped 10% after Elon Musk tweeted: 'We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal.' On an annual level, the mining of bitcoin uses as much energy as th...
Facebook has renamed its crypto project from Libra to Diem. It has additionally scaled down its ambitions: the currency is no longer available internationally (including Geneva), but only in the USA, and its not backed by a basket...
Brazil is the country with the largest number of reported cases in Latin America. However, President Jair Bolsonaro insists on claiming that the situation is not serious. In this context, supporters of the President have bee...
Researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have published a review of the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the future of global health. The...
The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued areport on Tesla's semi-autonomous autopilot software which was involved in a fatal crash. The incident took place on 1 March 2019, when a Model 3 car crashed into a tracto...
The government of the Cooks Islands has made acall for submissions on its draft Telecommunications Market Competition Policy 2019 which has the prime objective of ensuring that there is competition and liberalization of the teleco...
The criminal network behind the Goznym malware has been dismantled by law enforcement agencies in Europe and USA. According to Europol, the criminal network used GozNym malware in an attempt to steal an estimated USD$100 million f...
The American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN) has successfully defeated a multi year scheme to defraud the Internet community of 735,000 IPv4 addresses. ARIN is responsible for assigning IPv4 addresses in the US, Canada and par...
TheUK has appointed a multistakeholder Artificial Intelligence (AI) Council 'to help boost growth of AI in the UK, promote its adoption and ethical use in businesses and organisations across the country'. The 21-member council inc...
During the Fourth UN Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) held in New York from 14-15 May 2019, a side event was organised on 13 May 2019 to discuss techno...
TheBoard of Supervisors in the city of San Francisco adopted an anti-surveillance ordinance which, among other provisions, bans the use of facial-recognition technology by the police and other city departments. Due to enter into f...