In the last few years, the hype around artificial intelligence has become stratospheric. Riding a wave of venture capital, tech…
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As the United Kingdom and other countries make moves to follow Australia’s lead in restricting access to social media for under-16s,…
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Mauritius set out its national AI strategy in 2018, the first by an African country. Since then, over a dozen…
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Digital technologies create great opportunities, but the transformation they offer isn’t equally within reach of everyone. Access is determined by…
One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centres is that artificial…
Globally, agriculture faces mounting pressures. These are driven by climate change, land degradation, labour shortages, supply chain disruptions and the demand for food from a growing…