COVID-19 vaccine testing facility has been hit by a ransomware group that initially promised not to target medical organizations. The victim was Hammersmith Medicines Research, a British company that previously tested the Ebola va...
Researchers at Stanford University and Georgetown University in America have found that automated speech recognition (ASR) systems present racial disparities. They conducted a study in which five ASR systems developed by Amazon, A...
The Global Network Resiliency Platform is a new platform launched by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for sharing best practices and initiatives that have been put in place during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis t...
The MTN is promoting the good of humanity by helping communities stay digitally connected during the social distancing imposed by COVID-19 (coronavirus). The Y'ello Hope package provides support to governments and other stakeholde...
The GSMA released a new report that examines the mobile taxation framework in Kenya, identifies potential areas for reform which would, in turn, improve the overall business environment, and support the delivery of Kenya's connect...
There are reports of Singapore contemplating to bring in new laws to address the threat of fake news. Fake news has been on the rise and many countries are looking to introduce legislation to rein in the fake news trend, whic...
The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act was signed into law on 22 March by President Donald Trump. The new legislation amends the 1986 Stored Communications Act to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based ...
The Australian government hasproposed a fee of 2-7 Australian dollars on the import of overseas packages, which would help cover the costs of screening the packages at the border. While this fee already applies to shipments of mor...
The article Some Artificial Intelligence Applications Are Making Humans Better People proposes that artificial intelligence (AI) may help humans to improve analysis and learn from the processes AI uses to solve problems....
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India and Bangladesh have made a deal in which electricity and Internet will be exchanged. India will supply 100MW power to Bangladesh, while Bangladesh will export 10GBPS Internet connectivity to India. According to Indian Prime ...
Akamai'sreport on the state of the Internet in the fourth quarter of 2015 shows that, despite the continued depletion of available IPv4 address space, approximately 70% of the analyses countries/regions had higher unique IPv4 addr...