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A government-run conference is to look at the uses and dangers of artificial intelligence. This comes as the German and UK defense ministers will discuss expanding AI's role in military cooperation. DW has more.
AJB's return is a 'reaffirmation' of the network’s mission to go where the story matters, says its digital director.
“For the relatives of people in prison, as well as for national and international human rights organizations and agencies, the information provided by the Prison Agenda publication can be vital.”
Netflix blazed a path in the streaming era that many of its media rivals have tried to follow. As it has tried to navigate Madison Avenue, however, the company has found bumps in the road. The streaming giant last week rolled back its projections for advertising revenue, calling for $2.7 billion instead of $3 billion […]
As the polls pointed to defeat, a WhatsApp channel helped turn online enthusiasm into votes for Lula.
An immunization worker gets set up to receive her wages on her mobile wallet in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: WHO Campaigns in Africa to stop polio and other diseases have a more stable, better-motivated workforce thanks to WHO’s collaboration with countries and partners to pay frontline health workers through their mobile phones instead of in cash. “Over 80 percent of workers are saying they prefer the digital payments,” said Ahmed Hamani Djibo, head of WHO’s Digital Finance Team. WHO has been leading among international organizations in moving away from the unwieldy, less-sec
Digital authoritarianism is not developing in isolation, but through the international exchange of technologies, standards, and practices.
François Picard is pleased to welcome Valdemar Osted, partner and head of technology at Danish digital consultancy Common Consultancy. Can the fear of disinformation become as dangerous to democracy as disinformation itself? Osted challenges widely circulated claims that attacks on Russian data centres have triggered a sudden collapse in online engagement among supporters of Donald Trump and Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). Drawing on social media monitoring and research into inauthentic behaviour, Osted reports finding no unusual decline in Facebook interactions following th
For those parents overwhelmed by headlines about the dangers of new tech, try using it and getting informed, says Emily Oster.
If the Arab Spring was defined by optimism about what the internet could do, the years since have been marked by a more sober understanding of what it takes to defend it
India is betting that open digital infrastructure can make its vast, fragmented tourism supply easier to discover, book and eventually surface through AI.
Nigeria’s Postal Service has launched a National Digital Alphanumeric Postcode System. The system is designed to help Nigerians find the postcodes of locations across the country. Before now, house identification in Nigeria was based on an unreliable house numbering system. Locating places was difficult, time consuming and sometimes even expensive. But there may challenges using the new system in a country with poor urban planning and illegal building constructions.
Walmart is rolling out a light-up shelf label feature connected to its app to help customers better find the items they're looking for.
This 2026 is a historic year for Unicaja from the point of view of digital perception by the customer. One of the main objectives of the "Strategic Plan 'in Unicaja was to provide a simpler, more agile and adapted relationship to the technological needs of individuals, self-employed and companies. The entity's digital channels are in continuous evolution and improvement
Venezuela has unblocked some news sites that had been censored for years, its telecom regulator said Thursday, as US-backed political transition talks were set to resume. Digital rights group VE Sin Filtro verified access to 17 news sites through several internet providers. However, at least 188 websites remain blocked, it said, including 79 news outlets.
Fred Again, PinkPantheress and Travis Scott provide new music for the blockbuster - but not all fans are happy.
