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Lost in translation - How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-11 02:28:10

Lost in translation - How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap 16 hours ago Share Save Pumza Fihlani BBC News in Johannesburg Share Save BBC Farmer Kelebogile Mosime uses an AI app that speaks her language Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world's languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates - many are missing when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence (AI). This is both an issue of a lack of investment and readily available data. Mos

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Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 07:54:15

A world map for everyone The Equal Earth Wall Map is for schools, organizations, or anyone who needs a map showing countries and continents at their true sizes relative to each other. Africa appears 14 times larger than Greenland as it actually is. And wherever you live, the map has you covered. Download a choice of three versions centered on these regions: Africa/Europe, the Americas, and East Asia/Australia. Other features include: • It’s free. Download the map and print as many copies as y

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Massive anti-cybercrime operation leads to over 1,200 arrests in Africa

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-01 16:08:13

Law enforcement authorities in Africa have arrested over 1,200 suspects as part of 'Operation Serengeti 2.0,' an INTERPOL-led international crackdown targeting cross-border cybercriminal gangs. Between June and August 2025, law enforcement agents seized $97.4 million and dismantled 11,432 malicious infrastructures linked to attacks that targeted 87,858 victims worldwide. "In a sweeping INTERPOL-coordinated operation, authorities across Africa have arrested 1,209 cybercriminals targeting nearly

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Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-11-03 09:00:00

While overall sales to African countries are still small compared to these traditional export markets, the Global South appears to be at a turning point in how it thinks about energy. For decades, energy-starved countries largely had one default option when they wanted to add new power supply: import coal and gas. Now, for the first time, solar energy is emerging as the cheaper and greener way forward, so there’s no need to sacrifice the environment for development. Familiar Story What’s happe

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The Business Traveler of Today Is Changing—and So Is Their Flight Map

wired.com Christine Ochefu 2025-12-03 08:50:00

“Most of my work starts in Lagos, but it doesn’t stay there for long,” says Anita Ashiru. She’s one of the sole production designers working in Nigeria, where her team builds multi-scale sets and stage designs for the country’s booming Afrobeats industry. Requests often come at a whim for work; Ashiru might be called abroad by the likes of frequent collaborator Davido, a Nigerian-American singer-songwriter who frequently shoots music videos in South Africa. Ashiru’s job is one that largely didn

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Yes in My Bamako Yard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-05 23:22:26

YIMBYs have been winning in some of the most productive cities on Earth. Legislative victories in California and the UK have made it easier — if still not easy — to build. The logic of pro-housing reforms is both straightforward and well-supported: Fewer regulatory barriers to building mean more houses, which leads to more affordable housing and, in turn, more people able to live in dense cities that offer all the benefits of urban life. City life makes workers smarter and more productive. Urban

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Swahili on the Road

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-27 12:56:29

In March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) – sat down with former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt on her roundtable discussion programme Prospects of Mankind. The topic was ‘Africa: A Revolution in Haste’. Although he found himself in a sympathetic circle of interlocutors, Nyerere was asked to defend the ‘readiness’ of African peoples for independence. Good-humoured but resolute, he replied: ‘If you come into my house and steal my jacket, don’t then a

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‘Killer Bee’ Swarm Spotted Near Georgia, Raising Alarms

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2026-01-31 12:50:08

A small county in Georgia may be facing a “killer bee” invasion. The Africanized bee is the common honeybee’s aggressive, lethal cousin. They look just like honeybees, but this hybrid between European and African honeybees is infamous among beekeepers for ganging up and attacking intruders—bee or human—earning them the nickname “killer bee.” Africanized bees arrived on U.S. soil in the 1990s and have since been spotted across parts of the southern U.S. But this latest sighting of so-called kil

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When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere

news.ycombinator.com Carl Zimmer 2026-02-24 22:14:18

Geography is one of the things that sets apart modern humans. Our closest living relatives — chimpanzees and bonobos — are confined to a belt of Central African forests. But humans have spread across every continent, even remote islands. Our species can thrive not only in forests, but in grasslands, swamps, deserts and just about every other ecosystem dry land has to offer. In a study published on Wednesday, scientists pinpoint the origin of our extraordinary adaptability: Africa, about 70,000

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After raising $38M, African e-commerce startup Sabi lays off 20%, pivots to traceable exports

techcrunch.com Tage Kene-Okafor 2026-03-02 12:16:01

African B2B e-commerce startup Sabi has laid off around 20% of its workforce (~50 employees) as it pivots from its original retail-focused platform to double down on a growing business in commodity exports. The layoffs, confirmed by the company on Thursday, are part of a broader restructuring aimed at aligning resources with what it describes as rising demand for traceable, ethically sourced commodities, an area it began building out last year under a new vertical called TRACE (Technology Rails

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Latest Tech News

Lost in translation - How Africa is trying to close the AI language gap

Equal Earth – Political Wall Map (2018)

Massive anti-cybercrime operation leads to over 1,200 arrests in Africa

Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels

The Business Traveler of Today Is Changing—and So Is Their Flight Map

Yes in My Bamako Yard

Swahili on the Road

‘Killer Bee’ Swarm Spotted Near Georgia, Raising Alarms

When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere

After raising $38M, African e-commerce startup Sabi lays off 20%, pivots to traceable exports

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