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Speech recognition systems have higher error rates for black people, study finds
Pardon? Image: DigitalVision Vectors / getty By Jack Morse2020-03-24 01:44:18 UTC No, you're not just imagining it. Speech recognition systems…
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Iddris Sandu: The tech genius behind Uber, Instagram and Snapchat
This unorthodox African tech prodigy is responsible for algorithms that made Uber, Instagram and Snapchat what they are today.
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Google opens first African Artificial Intelligence lab in Ghana
A Tanzanian rural farmer hovers with her phone over a wilting cassava plant. She gets a diagnosis of the disease…
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Google celebrates jazz icon Hugh Masekela
Google has unveiled a new addition to its Doodle series featuring Hugh Masekela, a legendary jazz musician known as the…
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Almost all internet searches in Africa bring up only results from the US and France
A Google search for “Accra,” the capital of Ghana, returns its Wikipedia entry, travel advice from Lonely Planet and TripAdvisor,…
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