Category: Big Data
Facebook to erase sexuality, religion, and address from profiles
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Facebook will erase religious, political, and sexual preference information from user accounts. The transition begins on December 1.…
VUZ raises $20M to launch its social app
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VUZ, a social app, has recently raised $20 million in Series B funding. The app enables users to…
South Africa is Google’s new cloud region
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Google has officially announced that South Africa will become the site of a new Google Cloud region. The…
Orange Group Inaugurates 11th Digital Centre in Liberia
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With the opening of the 11th “Orange Digital Center” in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, Orange Group and…
Raxio starts new data center in the DRC Congo
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In the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, Raxio Group has started construction on…
DFC Announces Investment loan of US$300 million to Africa Data Centers
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The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has announced the first disbursement of US$83 million of its strategic…
Nigerians Await August’s Commencement of 5G
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A wide range of industries is expected to benefit from Nigeria’s 5G rollout scheduled for August 2022. For the…
“No Language Left Behind” by Meta For The First Time, AI Can Translate 200 Languages
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The “No Language Left Behind” NLLB-200 is the first single AI model to translate across 200 different languages,…
AIMS (Ghana) and Google (Africa) have teamed up to conduct cooperative research in Africa.
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The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences—Ghana (AIMS Ghana) has signed a Masters Sponsored Research Agreement (MSRA) with Google…
Equinix Announces $30Million Main One Acquisition Deal
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Equinix announced on Monday that it had completed its $320 million acquisition of MainOne, a provider of data…
