AI used to tackle poverty, translate languages African data seen vital to fighting racial bias More funding, wider digital access needed, say developers DURBAN, Feb 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - ...

The coveted computer science degree has promised graduates six-figure salaries and exciting careers in high-tech spaces since the personal computer took off in the 1990s. As an academic discipline, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African ...

Emerging economies in Africa often have relationships with developed nations through dark colonial pasts, but today, digital tech is connecting previously unexpected partners. Developed nations ...

MULDERSDRIFT, South Africa—The University of Johannesburg might have selected Joburg, rather than the bush, for the most recent Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research focused ...

AstraZeneca has opened an African innovation hub that will use the latest technologies to improve the healthcare of the continent’s people. The pharma giant said that the Africa Health Innovation Hub ...

Guerraoui is a Professor in the School of Computer and Communications Sciences at EPFL, where he is also Director of the Distributed Computing Laboratory. ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, ...