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Subsidies for African farmers: we’ve designed a tool to guide spending decisions
One of the hardest decisions a government must make is who to support with the limited...
Wearable technology can change autistic people’s lives – if they’re involved in designing it
Many autistic people experience difficulties in expressing their emotions
What are automotive ‘over-the-air’ updates? A marketing professor explains
Whenever automakers discover that a vehicle has a defect or does not comply with...
Internet services disrupted again in Iran
The Iranian capital, Tehran, witnessed on Monday a major disruption in internet...
Google arming Israel with advanced AI, machine-learning capabilities, report reveals
Google is providing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning capabilities...
Rather than threaten jobs, artificial intelligence should collaborate with human writers
In Sept. 2020, The Guardian published an opinion piece written by a program. The...
Shareholders are suffering most from Elon Musk’s Twitter feud – here’s why both sides must renegotiate the deal
Elon Musk’s recent highly public back and forth with Twitter has given the market...
Four reasons the shift to hybrid working is set to stay for young professionals
We’re in the middle of a remote working revolution. In the UK, though remote working...
Russians reportedly building a satellite-blinding laser – an expert explains the technology
Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites...
Cryptocurrencies are gaining ground across Africa. That’s both good news and bad
Cryptocurrencies have become popular in African and other developing countries
Virtual fashion: Programming Palestinian embroidery
Traditionally made by hand, taking weeks to complete, Palestinians are now using...
Irony machine: why are AI researchers teaching computers to recognise irony?
What was your first reaction when you heard about Blake Lemoine, the Google engineer...
Investing in crypto-assets: How to limit the risk of being exposed to fraud
In 2017, thousands of investors in over 175 countries found themselves with empty...
Hackathons should be renamed to avoid negative connotations
Events where groups of people come together to create or improve software using...
The promise of quantum computers
What if tiny microparticles could help us solve the world's biggest problems in...
Publishers vs the Internet Archive: why the world’s biggest online library is in court over digital book lending
Earlier this month, the Internet Archive asked a US court to end a lawsuit filed...