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LG Electronics

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Pixel-perfect precision: Protecting today’s digital workforce’s visual health

With work and home lives blending, enhancing digital workspaces is key for employee satisfaction and health

For modern professionals who spend long hours focused on intricate digital tasks, maintaining eye health and comfort is critical. Yet many unknowingly put excessive visual strain on their eyes by working on cramped, low-resolution displays ill-equipped for detail-intensive applications. This can have serious ramifications for both employee well-being and work…

Gebeya

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Gebeya Inc. Joins Both Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Success and ISV and Startup program for Azure

Reinforcing Its Position as a Tech Leader in Africa with a Strong Focus on AI

Gebeya (www.Gebeya.com), a leading Pan-African SaaS Service marketplace technology company, is thrilled to announce its acceptance into the prestigious Microsoft ISV Success Program (http://apo-opa.co/3B0nwZb) as well as the ISV and Startup for Azure program. This significant milestone underscores Gebeya's commitment to driving innovation and excellence in the technology sector across…

Flapmax
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Flapmax Announces Inaugural HPC AI Forum to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI), High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Quantum Innovation Across Africa

Participants will benefit from additional perks including satellite-based internet hardware and connectivity, Intel AI PCs equipped with advanced Neural Processing Units (NPU)

Flapmax (www.Flapmax.com) today announced a new collaboration with high-performance computing (HPC) centers across Africa to strengthen the continent’s scientific computing capabilities through the inaugural HPC AI Forum. Starting October 10, 2024, the forum will bring together leading researchers and industry experts in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), HPC, and…

World Health Organization - Uganda
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World Health Organization (WHO) and Germany donate Information Technology (IT) equipment to support health sector digitization

The Ministry of Health is digitizing health service delivery in line with the Health Information and Digital Health Strategic Plan 2020/21-2024/25

The Ugandan Ministry of Health has today received brand new Information Technology (IT) Equipment worth USD 222,594 (equivalent to UGX 865,029,221) to support the Ministry of Health (MoH) in the ongoing digitization of health service delivery and the scale-up of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system across all public health facilities.…

African Development Bank Group (AfDB)

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Central African Republic: New digital era dawns with debut of high-speed internet cable

Funded by the African Development Bank and the European Union to the tune of €33 million, the new cable, is now rapidly ushering the Central African Republic (CAR) into a new and unprecedented digital age

Junior is a young student at a technical college in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, getting set to resume studies at the University of Bangui. From childhood, he has restlessly pursued interesting and ambitious ideas. A recent one: building a humanoid robot called “Mama Africa", to raise awareness…

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Pearson’s Test of English (PTE) Academic Recommended by Canadian Nurse Regulators Collaborative

PTE Academic is a two-hour, computer-based exam taken in a test center environment that assesses four key English language skills

Pearson (www.Pearson.com) (FTSE: PSON.L), the world’s lifelong learning company, has achieved a new recognition for PTE Academic. The Canadian Nurse Regulators Collaborative (CNRC) recommended that PTE Academic is included in the accepted tests for internationally trained nurses applying for registration in Canada.  The Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic is…

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

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Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Holds a Training Workshop for Stakeholders in the Energy Sector, on the Computerised Energy Information System in Togo

The workshop aims to familiarize the Togolese energy stakeholders and Togolese ministry charge of Energy and Mines with the computerised data collection tool

As part of the ongoing development of the Energy sector in West Africa, the ECOWAS Commission’s Directorate of Energy and Mines from the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Digitisation, has began a four day training 12th to 15th August 2024, in Lome – Togo to present the functionalities of the…

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Banque Populaire de Mauritanie further strengthens partnership with Azentio Software through adoption of iMAL Business Intelligence

Bank to use advanced analytics in bolstering decision-making, customer service and Sharia compliance

Azentio Software (“Azentio”) (www.Azentio.com), a leading end-to-end software company specializing in the BFSI sector, has announced that Banque Populaire de Mauritanie (“BPM”), one of the largest financial institutions in Mauritania, is now live with iMAL Business Intelligence (BI) (http://apo-opa.co/4cvpDBG) – a strategic BI platform that empowers banks to take more effective decisions,…

Microsoft

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the future of work – the opportunity for Africa

The technology can assist in decision-making, risk assessment, and data analysis, empowering entrepreneurs in their ventures

Africa has a unique opportunity to influence what the future of work looks like in these early days as large language learning models (LLMs) are evolving, and the environment for applications is still new. This is according to the AI and the Future of Work in Africa whitepaper produced by…

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Scammers can crack almost half of the passwords analysed in less than a minute

Kaspersky telemetry indicates more than 32 million attempts to attack users with password stealers in 2023

In June 2024, Kaspersky (www.Kaspersky.co.za) experts conducted a large-scale study on the resistance of 193 million (M) English passwords, compromised by infostealers and available on the darknet, to brute force and smart guessing attacks. According to the research results (http://apo-opa.co/4cbmMOk), 45% of all analysed passwords (87M) could be guessed by…