The Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released the 2022 edition of its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Index Report, providing an overview of the state of AI in several areas: resear...
Qualcomm announced that it has ceased selling its products to Russian entities to comply with US sanctions imposed on Russia. Nate Tibbits, the company's senior vice president of government affairs, confirmed the company's decisio...
A fake video that appeared to show Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asking Ukrainian troops to lay down their weapons emerged on social media, in what could be the first weaponised use of deep fakes during an armed conflict...
In a recently published report titledTowards a standard for identifying and managing bias in artificial intelligence, the US National Institute of Technology (NIST) argues that machine learning processes and data are not the only ...
The Bank of Ghana has issued a paper outlining the rationale and design of Ghana's digital currency, eCedi. Subsequently, the country will pilot the digital currency, which according to the paper, is a digital version of loc...
Ghana's financial regulator- the Bank of Ghana has ordered payment firm Dash App to cease operation for carrying out unlicensed operations such as cross border payments, wallet creations and bill/utility payments. Dash has been op...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has shut down seven digital lending apps for privacy violations. Officers from various agencies carried out raids on the offices of the loan apps, following complaints by consumers about their unf...
Three Baltimore city council members, Zeke Cohen, Kristerfer Burnett, and Ryan Dorsey, sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to help close the digital divide. The three members, who got further support from ...
Through the Universal Broadband Fund (UBF) Rapid Response Stream, the government of Canada unveiled a federal fund of over$5.4 million for projects to bring high-speed internet to rural residents of northern, central and, southern...
New research by global market intelligence firm, IDC and sponsored by Microsoft, 'The Microsoft Cloud Dividend Snapshot: United Arab Emirates,' revealed that new revenues reaching around US$27 billion will be generated in the Unit...
According to a set of new rules unveiled by the Indian government last month to regulate social media networks, streaming services and digital news outlets; authorities can now order not only tech firms like Facebook and Netflix t...
Nigerian start-up Flutterwave has partnered with Paypal to enable African merchants on its platform accept and make payments. Flutterwave is a payment service provider for small businesses, that operates in 50 African countries. I...