As the world continues to strategise on fighting coronavirus, device manufacturers are offering thermal detection devices with facial recognition capabilities. The British company Silent Sentinel announced a new line of fever dete...
The Kenyan medical insurance company AoN Minet has temporarily suspended fingerprint identification for teachers and their dependants seeking medical services. This is meant to reduce chances of exposure to coronavirus through sha...
Six US universities have launched a partnership aimed at shedding light into what happens inside artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Funded by the US National Science Foundation, the 'Understanding the World Through Co...
According to India Times, the joint parliamentary committee studying the Personal data protection bill has requested an extension to submit its report to the Parliament on the legislation. After the bill was tabled in parliament, ...
The government of Benin kicked off their new online platform MonEntreprise.bj, to help businesses launch efficiently, lower barriers for entrepreneurs to formalise their business, and help the informal sector to register. 'Making ...
The French data protection regulator (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libert
Oracle hasannounced the launch of a new cloud computing service that would allow companies to place Oracle cloud servers within their own data centers. According to Oracle, this new approach is 'essentially turning one of the basi...
Six of the largest tech firms have called for major changes to the Investigatory Powers Bill, dubbed the Snoopers' Charter. One of the main criticisms -made by Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple -is that the bi...
The Patent and Trademark Office in the United States has recently granted Facebook with apatent for a technology that would allow users to send control signals to multiple Internet of Things devices via the social media platform. ...
Microsoft As Microsoft continues to ramp up its integration of generative AI tools, the newest product the company announced is a strong competitor to AI productivity hub, Notion AI. Microsoft's new collaboration...
Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter is retiring its blue checkmarks for "authentic, notable, and active" accounts, such as those for government figures, entertainers, athletes, activist...
Tim Robberts/Getty Images While TikTok has recently come under fire by Western governments for potentially posing a national security risk, a less popular app called Zigazoo is touting itself as the next TikTok --...