Senegal’s government has shut down internet access in response to protests about the sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. This is…
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Avi Loeb, an astrophysicist at Harvard University in the US, has published a press release claiming that some of the 700 or…
Despite New Zealand’s record loss to South Africa in August, All Blacks fans can take heart from statistical modelling that has them…
When Apple’s latest software updates drop this month, users will have access to mental health and wellness features unlike anything currently available in a…
Are democratic societies ready for a future in which AI algorithmically assigns limited supplies of respirators or hospital beds during pandemics? Or…
Bad data does not only produce bad outcomes. It can also help to suppress sections of society, for instance vulnerable…
Today marks an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday. With billions of search queries submitted…
From the early days of human space activity in the 1960s, missions to the Moon have attracted significant global attention.…
Every time a scientist runs an experiment, or a social scientist does a survey, or a humanities scholar analyzes a…
Something remarkable is happening in a remote part of South Africa’s Northern Cape province, in a semi-desert area called the…