Category: Technology
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🇷🇼 Rwanda’s Digital Banking Future: Innovation, Cybersecurity and Public Trust
Bertrand Ndengeyingoma discusses the National Bank of Rwanda’s technology strategy, exploratory AI work and cybersecurity priorities in a podcast examining innovation and public trust.
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🇧🇲 From GetEmails to Retention.com: The Rise of Adam Robinson and the Tragic End of a Bootstrapped Tech Visionary
Adam Robinson transformed GetEmails from a fast-growing email-identification startup into Retention.com, building a multimillion-dollar bootstrapped technology empire before his life and entrepreneurial journey ended in a tragic Florida Learjet crash that killed nine people.
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🇯🇵 The Console May Disappear — But the Minerals Behind Computing Are Only Becoming More Important
Ken Kutaragi, the creator of PlayStation, believes AI, cloud computing and network technology could eventually make dedicated gaming consoles unnecessary. But if computing leaves the console and moves into the cloud, the demand for minerals does not disappear—it moves upstream into servers, semiconductors, batteries, power systems and telecommunications infrastructure. For Africa, that could make critical…
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🇰🇪 Kenyan Content Moderators Take Meta Dispute to Court
A circulating social-media post has renewed attention on the legal dispute involving former Kenyan content moderators and Meta, raising broader questions about workplace conditions, outsourced digital labor and corporate accountability in Africa.
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🇺🇸 ONE Data Launches Free AI Tool to Track Africa’s Development Finance
ONE Data has launched a free AI-powered Development Finance Observatory designed to help journalists and researchers trace aid, government budgets and debt figures back to their original sources.
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Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Legacy: The Black Woman Whose Cells Changed Modern Medicine
Henrietta Lacks’ HeLa cells transformed biomedical research, contributing to decades of discoveries while raising enduring questions about consent, privacy, ownership and racial equity in medical science.
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🇪🇬CAMRED III Brings Africa’s Mining, Investment and Technology Leaders to Cairo
CAMRED III opens in Cairo October 5–7, bringing African mining leaders, investors, government institutions, technology providers and mineral-sector organizations together around critical minerals, smart mining, beneficiation, investment and African value chains.