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African languages for AI: project that's gathering huge new datasetThe African Next Voices project, primarily funded by the Gates Foundation (with other funding from Meta) and involving a network of African...
Global analysis finds 15 million in India affected by 2024-25 wildfires, UP most impactedA recent global report highlights that wildfires affected 15 million individuals in India during the 2024-25 period, with Uttar Pradesh bea...
Google commits $37 million to AI development in AfricaGoogle on Thursday unveiled a $37 million package to accelerate artificial intelligence development across Africa, pledging support for loc...
Where will the ‘city killer’ asteroid YR4 hit? These are the countries that are under its potential strike zoneNASA has identified a risk corridor in which the asteroid 2024 YR4 could collide with Earth in December 2032.
11 tech bosses back launch of 'public interest' AI partnershipA group of 11 tech industry chiefs on Sunday threw their backing behind a partnership promising tools, data and infrastructure for "public ...
AI mission worth $2.5 billion gets backing of LinkedIn chief, other firms. Details hereCurrent AI aims to raise as much as $2.5 billion for its mission to grant AI developers access to more data.
Airtel Africa Foundation to offer fellowship to Zanzibar studentsThe Airtel Africa Foundation has launched a fellowship program for undergraduate students at IIT Madras Zanzibar. The program will support ...
More than 15,000 Indian tech workers moved to Canada last yearIndia accounted for the largest number of tech industry workers who migrated to Canada between April 2022 and March 2023, according to a re...
Google to train 20,000 Nigerians in digital skills, provide grantsGoogle Africa executives said a grant from its philanthropic arm in partnership with Data Science Nigeria and the Creative Industry Initiat...
Agri startup Cropin says it has set up AI Labs to compute cultivable landsCropin’s claimed that its proprietary knowledge graphs are created on trillions of farm pixel datasets that continuously grow and multiply ...
Atlan bags $50 million from Insight, Salesforce and SequoiaSeveral founders in the data space, including Fivetran founder Taylor Brown and ThoughtSpot founderAjeet Singh, participated in the round.
Imarticus Learning expands international operations to MENA countriesEducation platform Imarticus Learning is setting up its headquarters and main campus in Dubai along with a hybrid learning centre.
Record 43% fall in new foreign students in USA 2020 snapshot survey revealed that fresh international student enrolment, whether for in-person classes or those studying online from the...
Global warming shrank Indian economy by 31 per cent: Stanford studyThe study from 1961 to 2010, global warming decreased the wealth per person in the world's poorest countries by 17 to 30 per cent.
Global warming shrank Indian economy by 31 per cent: Study
Involvement in India will be investigated: Cambridge AnalyticaA spokesperson for the company yesterday said that while CA was focussed purely on the US market, its global arm SCL Elections handled othe...
US PE firm Oak Hill exits Vertex IndiaOak Hill Capital had bought Vertex Group, the holding company for Vertex India, for $426 million in 2007.
First malaria vaccine may be ready next yearThe world's first malaria vaccine will be available in the market by next year. Pharma company GSK has submitted a regulatory application t...
India rated fifth best in the world for growing businesses: Grant Thornton Global Dynamism IndexGoing beyond just GDP, the Grant Thornton study focussed on areas like business operating environment, technology and human capital.
- 47% of young Indian women marry before 18
That India marries off its daughters in such a hurry that they have little time to grow out of their teens is a fact that no longer raises ...