Adji Bousso Dieng will be Princeton’s School of Engineering’s first Black female faculty. Not only has Adji Bousso Dieng, an AI researcher from Senegal, contributed to the field of generative modeling and about to become one of the first black female faculty in Computer Science in the Ivy League, she is also helping Africans in …
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She’s lived in a refugee camp since her family fled war when she was a little girl, but Grace Nshimiyumukiza has always wanted to be the one to help, not just be helped. First she coached her six younger siblings through classes in Kakuma, one of the world’s largest refugee camps. Then she tutored friends …
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As tech ecosystems and hubs continue to sprout across Africa, an accompanying effect has been an upswell in local software engineering talent. It’s proven enough for even global tech giants to notice: Microsoft is investing over $100 million to open its first development centers on the continent and employ 100 full-time African developers this year and grow its …
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Tech giants including Google and Facebook have spent years trying to figure out how to bring the internet to billions of people who still lack a reliable connection. Now, an American startup has come up with its own plan. Telelift is an attempt to create a “flying cellphone tower.” It uses drones the size of a …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform of Amazon.com Inc, said on Wednesday it has launched its data centre operations at three locations in Cape Town, South Africa, setting up its first “AWS Africa region”. The company defines a “region” as a combination of two or more physical data centre clusters, …
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Less than a month after Beyonce’s father, Matthew Knowles, made an undisclosed investment in African music streaming platform MePlaylistTM, Apple is finally making a bet on Africa. Of the 52 new countries Apple plans to expand to, 25 are in Africa. The company has made known its intentions to tap into dozens of new markets in the continent, …
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