The national health scheme administrator of Mali Conseil d'administration de la Caisse d'assurance maladie obligatoire (CANAM) has given 1st April as the switchover date for the digital ID health cards. CANAM is switching to digit...
The US President Donald Trump signed a US$8.3 billion emergency funding to combat the coronavirus outbreak in the country. The legislature includes a provision to waive telehealth restrictions for Medicare recipients according to ...
The Ministry of Health of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is reportedly planning to set up the first virtual hospital in the Middle East. In virtual hospitals, doctors and nurses can provide care to patients who are based at home b...
The Kenyan government has announced plans to issue 37 million digital ID cards in the next two months. The new digital ID programme was announced in 2019, but the High Court temporarily stopped it pending the hearing of three peti...
The Swedish data protection authority has launched an investigation into the use of Clearview AI app by Swedish entities. According to IAPP, the authority will send questions to police departments, the Coast Guard, the Migration A...
As the number of individuals infected with the coronavirus increases worldwide, a number of tech summits and conferences including Adobe Summit, Google Cloud Next '20 and Okta event were cancelled in response. Following in the ste...
According to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), developments in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) should be aligned with ROAM principles -human rights, openness, accessibility, an...
The Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) and the Barbados-based fintech company, Bitt Inc. (Bitt), have signed a contract to conduct a blockchain-issued Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) pilot within the Eastern Caribbean Curr...
Democrats in the US Congress introduced a net neutrality bill known as the Save the Internet Act, which aims to restore the open Internet order of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The bill would nullify the FCC repeal ...
Arizona prosecutors decided not to press charges against Uber following the accident in whichone of its self-driving cars killed a pedestrian a year ago. The County Attorney's Office ruled that there is no basis for criminal liabi...
Microsoft has has announced the opening of its first datacenters at two locations in Africa: Cape Town and Johannesburg , South Africa. The new datacenters on the continent will make Microsoft Azure cloud services availa...
After revelations of an unprecedented leak of billions of emails, usernames, and passwords pertaining to theCollection#1-5 database, Swiss journalists have revealed that the database has more than three million Swiss accounts, inc...