Data Science Current

Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

"Globes" has learned that four submarine communications cables have been damaged in the Red Sea between Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and Djibouti in East Africa.

Deep genetic structure of Africa reveals unique ancestry of the Angolan Namib

Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Africa is the birthplace of modern humans and the continent with the highest level of genetic diversity. While ancient DNA studies are revealing some aspects of the genetic structure of Africa before the spread of food production, issues concerning DNA preservation have limited the insights from ancient DNA.

‘Broken’ solar panels manufactured to deter criminals in South Africa

Hacker News

AUGUST 22, 2023

A European company purposefully produces solar panels with broken corners and cracked glass to make them less attractive to criminals in South Africa.

Webinars

Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

From Developer Experience to Product Experience: How a Shared Focus Fuels Product Success

Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

MORE WEBINARS

'In Africa, the priority is developing artificial intelligence aligned with the continent's challenges'

Flipboard

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Without investment in local skills, AI risks being ineffective in solving issues unique to Africa. While artificial intelligence (AI) continues to …

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence AI AI

Innovative Drought Prediction Model Empowers Proactive Response in East Africa

Data Science Connect

JULY 25, 2023

In the face of climate change and its adverse impact on weather patterns, East Africa is grappling with the recurrent challenge of droughts. This article delves into the details of the new prediction model, its potential to improve proactive response, and the transformative implications for East Africa’s resilience to drought.

Data Scientist

Data Scientist Data Quality Machine Learning Machine Learning

4 reasons SAS is empowering young minds to code in South Africa

SAS Software

DECEMBER 19, 2023

In the classrooms of South Africa, students are learning how to code with hopes of creating future opportunities for themselves. 4 reasons SAS is empowering young minds to code in South Africa was published on SAS Voices by Riad Gydien

Data Science

Academia to Industry: Data Science Graduate Programs for South Africa’s Future

Analytics Vidhya

APRIL 24, 2023

Introduction South Africa is not an exception as data science-driven economic change sweeps the world. The nation is seeing an increase in demand for qualified data science workers as a result of its booming IT sector and developing data-driven industries.

Data Science

Data Science Analytics Analytics Data Engineering

Vodafone and Microsoft Forge $1.5 Billion Decade-Long AI and IoT Partnership

Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 17, 2024

In a recent collaboration, Vodafone and Microsoft have announced a transformative 10-year strategic partnership, poised to reshape the digital landscape for over 300 million businesses, public sector organizations, and consumers across Europe and Africa. Also Read: […] The post Vodafone and Microsoft Forge $1.5

Internet of Things

Internet of Things Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence AI

Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes

Hacker News

MAY 3, 2024

I guess the brains down in Africa gonna take some time to do the things they never should have had

Leading a movement to strengthen machine learning in Africa

DeepMind

JUNE 22, 2022

Avishkar Bhoopchand, a research engineer on the Game Theory and Multi-agent team, shares his journey to DeepMind and how he’s working to raise the profile of deep learning across Africa.

Machine Learning

Machine Learning Machine Learning Deep Learning Deep Learning

Astronomers find 49 galaxies in under three hours

Hacker News

MARCH 26, 2024

A team of international astronomers have discovered 49 new galaxies using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa from observations that were less than three hours long,

Africa is building a Great Green Wall to prevent expansion of the Sahara

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the Northern border of Senegal to see an innovative land recovery projec.

How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time

Hacker News

DECEMBER 17, 2023

More than 60 percent of French speakers now live in Africa. Despite growing resentment at France, Africans are contributing to the evolution and spread of the French language.

Undercover in Saudi Arabia's secretive program to keep the world burning oil

Hacker News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Speaking to undercover reporters, Saudi energy officials disclosed ambitious plans to undo progress on phasing out oil by financing high carbon infrastructure across Africa and Asia.

Databricks Expands Brickbuilder Solutions for Migrations in EMEA

databricks

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Today, we're excited to announce that Databricks has expanded Brickbuilder Solutions by collaborating with key partners in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands

Hacker News

JANUARY 11, 2024

But it was here, on a rocky island off the coast of West Africa, that the young naturalist was said to have found his calling. Most travelers following in Darwin’s footsteps go to the Galápagos.

Africa’s deep think in being an AI leader

Flipboard

JANUARY 8, 2024

Young people are generating advances in artificial intelligence to ensure Africa is an equal partner in the new digital innovation. Previous …

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence AI AI

Lovecraftian movie posters from Ghana

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The first regular movie screenings in Gold Coast colony took place in Accra shortly after 1900 when traveling showmen from other parts of West Africa began screening their wares in various coastal cities on tours that took place over a period of months.

How the Great Green Wall Is Holding Back the Sahara Desert

Hacker News

MARCH 7, 2024

THe Great Green Wall being built in Africa to halt the southern progress of the Sahara Desert is a favorite public works project of mine — it’s massive, ambitious, long-term, important, and if it works, the effect will repay the cost many times ov

Hominins built with wood 476,000 years ago

Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A remarkable finding in Africa of a structure made from shaped wood provides clues about our hominin relatives. Understanding the timeline of technological developments sheds light on early societies. Ancient hand-crafted wooden structures excavated in Zambia.

The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Journal of African cities chapter 8

DuckDB 0.9.0

Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This release is named Undulata after the Yellow-billed duck native to Africa. The DuckDB team is happy to announce the latest DuckDB release (0.9.0). To install the new version, please visit the installation guide. The full release notes can be found here.

AI Search Is Turning Into the Problem Everyone Worried About

Flipboard

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Google, are you sure no country in Africa starts with a K? Updated at 10:19 a.m. ET on November 7, 2023 There is no easy way to explain the sum of Google’s knowledge. It is ever-expanding. A growing web of hundreds of billions of websites, more data than even 100,000 of the most expensive …

AI

AI AI Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence

Bizarre Movie Posters From Africa That Are So Bad, They’re Good

Hacker News

AUGUST 25, 2023

During the '80s and '90s, African artists were tasked with making Hollywood movie posters seem as exciting as possible, regardless of plot. Not only that, a fair share of the time they were creating promotional material for films they hadn't even see.

Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light

Hacker News

JANUARY 30, 2024

SKAMPI was made in China, driven by Docker, located in South Africa, and aimed at the stars

Google AI predicts floods four days early in South America and Africa

Flipboard

AUGUST 21, 2023

An artificial intelligence from Google can predict floods even in regions with little data on water flow, and its predictions four days in advance are as accurate as conventional systems manage for the same day

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence AI AI

Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai form and use accidental social ties

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties in East Africa. Woodhouse, I. Sankeni, and G. Ecology and Society 26(2):41.

Sixto Rodriguez, subject of 'Searching for Sugarman' documentary, dies at 81

Hacker News

AUGUST 9, 2023

only to find success in South Africa and a stardom he was unaware of, has died in Detroit Sixto Rodriguez, who lived in obscurity as his music career flamed out early in the U.S.

Advance Africa Scholarship Program on Udacity

Mlearning.ai

JUNE 6, 2023

Recognizing the importance of bridging the digital skills gap, Access Bank, in collaboration with Udacity, has launched a transformative… Continue reading on MLearning.ai »

ML

ML ML Data Science Machine Learning

New ancient ape from Türkiye challenges the story of human origins

Hacker News

AUGUST 24, 2023

million-year-old site in Türkiye is challenging long-accepted ideas of human origins and adding weight to the theory that the ancestors of African apes and humans evolved in Europe before migrating to Africa between nine and seven million years ago. A new fossil ape from an 8.7-million-year-old

Scientists discover new isopod species in the Florida Keys

Hacker News

JULY 25, 2023

An international team of scientists from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the Water Research Group from the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management at the North-West University in South Africa have discovered a new species of marine cryptofauna in the Florida Keys.

Lingering effects of Neanderthal DNA found in modern humans

Hacker News

JUNE 12, 2023

Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out of Africa, but the question remained open on how much those genes are still actively influencing human traits—until now.

How did humans survive alone for 1000 years on desert islands off Africa?

Hacker News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Comments (..)

Artificial intelligence in South Africa comes with special dilemmas – plus the usual risks

Flipboard

JANUARY 27, 2023

When people think about artificial intelligence (AI), they may have visions of the future. But AI is already here. At its base, it is the recreation …

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence AI AI

Rapidly growing African cities

FlowingData

DECEMBER 2, 2021

In a multi-faceted piece, The Washington Post described the rapidly growing cities in Africa that are projected to be the most populated cities in the world : In three projections by the University of Toronto’s Global Cities Institute, Africa accounted for at least 10 of the world’s 20 most populous cities in 2100.

"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa"

Hacker News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Comments (..)

Migration out of Africa may have been driven by first glaciation of Pleistocene

Hacker News

MARCH 18, 2024

Comments (..)

Saving Elephants with AI Camera Traps

Flipboard

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Poachers in Africa kill over 20,000 elephants every year. Rangers usually arrive too late. Dutch organization "Hack the Planet" has developed an intelligent camera trap that sends warnings in real time.

AI

AI AI Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence

Polio cases in Africa linked to new oral vaccine

Hacker News

MARCH 21, 2023

Comments (..)

Let’s get to know… Naomi Molefe, WiBD South Africa Chapter Director and a Member of Global Exec Committee.

Women in Big Data

JUNE 21, 2022

A young woman based in Johannesburg South Africa who has a keen interest in how the youth of SA is empowered in taking the country forward and making sure that we remain competitive in business and other economic activities we choose to undertake. Who is Naomi Molefe? Access to affordable, fast internet connectivity is the biggest one.

Big Data

Big Data Big Data Data Analysis Data Analysis

Google delves deeper into its AI-powered healthcare mission

Flipboard

MARCH 14, 2023

The search giant is improving its Med-PaLM 2 large language model, and is partnering with Right to Care to bring AI-powered tuberculosis screenings to Sub-Saharan Africa. Google on Tuesday announced a number of new AI-focused healthcare partnerships during its annual health event, The Check Up. Read Full Story

AI

AI AI

Prehistoric timeline in Africa pushed back by more than 10M years

Hacker News

APRIL 14, 2023

Comments (..)

Azure has the most Cloud Regions, and it's not even close

Data Science 101

MARCH 18, 2020

Both leave Australia, South America, and Africa with little to no coverage. Azure has much better coverage in India with 3 regions; 2 regions in Africa, and 4 in Australia. Overall, you will notice Africa and South America do not have much coverage. Azure is the only provider with any regions currently in Africa.

Azure

Azure AWS Data Science Cloud Computing

An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa

Hacker News

AUGUST 17, 2023

Comments (..)

Submarine cables linking Africa-Asia-Europe severed

Deep genetic structure of Africa reveals unique ancestry of the Angolan Namib

Webinars

Trending Sources

‘Broken’ solar panels manufactured to deter criminals in South Africa

Webinars

'In Africa, the priority is developing artificial intelligence aligned with the continent's challenges'

Innovative Drought Prediction Model Empowers Proactive Response in East Africa

4 reasons SAS is empowering young minds to code in South Africa

Academia to Industry: Data Science Graduate Programs for South Africa’s Future

Vodafone and Microsoft Forge $1.5 Billion Decade-Long AI and IoT Partnership

Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes

Leading a movement to strengthen machine learning in Africa

Astronomers find 49 galaxies in under three hours

Africa is building a Great Green Wall to prevent expansion of the Sahara

How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time

Undercover in Saudi Arabia's secretive program to keep the world burning oil

Databricks Expands Brickbuilder Solutions for Migrations in EMEA

Charles Darwin Found Inspiration on the Cape Verde Islands

Africa’s deep think in being an AI leader

Lovecraftian movie posters from Ghana

How the Great Green Wall Is Holding Back the Sahara Desert

Hominins built with wood 476,000 years ago

The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)

DuckDB 0.9.0

AI Search Is Turning Into the Problem Everyone Worried About

Bizarre Movie Posters From Africa That Are So Bad, They’re Good

Square Kilometre Array prototype 'scope achieves first light

Google AI predicts floods four days early in South America and Africa

Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai form and use accidental social ties

Sixto Rodriguez, subject of 'Searching for Sugarman' documentary, dies at 81

Advance Africa Scholarship Program on Udacity

New ancient ape from Türkiye challenges the story of human origins

Scientists discover new isopod species in the Florida Keys

Lingering effects of Neanderthal DNA found in modern humans

How did humans survive alone for 1000 years on desert islands off Africa?

Artificial intelligence in South Africa comes with special dilemmas – plus the usual risks

Rapidly growing African cities

"95% of container ships are now going around the Southern Tip of Africa"

Migration out of Africa may have been driven by first glaciation of Pleistocene

Saving Elephants with AI Camera Traps

Polio cases in Africa linked to new oral vaccine

Let’s get to know… Naomi Molefe, WiBD South Africa Chapter Director and a Member of Global Exec Committee.

Google delves deeper into its AI-powered healthcare mission

Prehistoric timeline in Africa pushed back by more than 10M years

Azure has the most Cloud Regions, and it's not even close

An underwater landslide knocked out two critical submarine cables serving Africa

Stay Connected