Australia's government is considering banning camera-equipped smart glasses from public workplaces, a move Reuters says would be the first of its kind. Separately, more than 70 plaintiffs have filed an amended class-action lawsuit against Meta in a California federal court, alleging its smart glasses recorded intimate moments—including bathroom and bedroom footage—without users' knowledge, which was then reviewed by contractors in Kenya training Meta's AI.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-21
A clinical psychologist and public-health researcher describes how coastal communities in Kenya and elsewhere are experiencing psychological and social fallout from climate change, including anxiety, substance abuse, gender-based violence and eroding cultural traditions tied to livelihoods like fishing. The author argues these non-economic losses—identity, belonging, intergenerational knowledge—are rarely captured in climate policy discussions, and calls for new tools to measure them ahead of COP31 negotiations in Antalya and Climate Week NYC 2026.
nature.com
· 2026-09-21
Engineering students from Eindhoven University of Technology have built the Stella Juva, a solar-powered electric ambulance designed after consultations with African health NGOs to serve remote Kenyan communities. The vehicle carries an ultrasound scanner, X-ray equipment, a defibrillator and a refrigerator for vaccines, functioning as a mobile clinic rather than just transport, and is now undergoing real-world trials in select Kenyan communities.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-20
According to the New York Times, thousands of Kenyan workers who once earned income writing essays for foreign college students have seen that business evaporate since ChatGPT launched in 2022. One worker, Teresios Bundi, once earned $40-$70 per paper—far more than his public health training would have paid—but now struggles financially as demand has dried up. At its height, the essay-writing trade employed more than 40,000 people in Nairobi alone.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-11
Researchers tracked children in five countries using baseline and endline phone surveys to measure whether mobile education programmes helped maintain learning during disruptions like COVID-19 lockdowns. The assessments, adapted from the ASER numeracy test, measured math skills alongside child wellbeing and parental engagement, with strict quality checks like time limits and requiring children to explain their answers to prevent parental assistance. Data collection methods varied by country, including a partial baseline in Nepal and administrative data in Kenya.
nature.com
· 2026-09-09
IEEE held educational workshops in February in Nairobi, at the University of Rwanda, and at Makerere University in Uganda, drawing more than 120 attendees. The sessions, led by IEEE staff and volunteer authors, covered how to prepare, submit, and get papers peer-reviewed, along with guidance on using IEEE Xplore and ensuring research integrity.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-09-07
Kenyan freelance writers who long earned income producing custom essays for cheating students abroad are seeing that work dry up as AI writing tools take over the task. The shift marks the collapse of a once-thriving informal outsourcing industry built around academic dishonesty.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-09-07
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