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Africa to benefit from Smart LEO networks
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Machines are now inbound service contact centre customers
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Europe dominates global Internet penetration rates
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300m to use cryptocurrencies in 2024
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Security and risk management spend set for growth
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Majority of Africans tricked into believing deepfakes are real
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Researchers drive hyper-local climate modeling
The do-it-yourself climate modeling movement is here. Researchers from Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory have been launching Nvidia Jetson-driven edge computing Waggle devices across the globe to collect hyper-local climate information. Waggle is...
More than 1m people have asked to be forgotten
Between 2015 and 2021, more than 1-million"right to be forgotten" requests were submitted to Google and Microsoft Bing, with half of the requests being from Western European countries. When the Covid-19 pandemic started, “right to be forgotten” cases rose by nearly...
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Accounting software puts power in entrepreneurs’ hands
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