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Blossom Academy opens applications for second Code4Food Security Fellowship cohort
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Blossom Academy opens applications for second Code4Food Security Fellowship cohort

Blossom Academy has opened applications for the second cohort of its Code4Food Security Fellowship, a six-month initiative designed to equip young people with technology skills to tackle food security challenges. The programme, delivered in partnership with the World Food Programme (WFP), with support from the Republic of Korea through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), combines training in data science, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning with practical projects focused on improving agricultural productivity and strengthening food systems.

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Cybersecurity gaps could expose Traffitech users to fraud — Technology Consultant
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Cybersecurity gaps could expose Traffitech users to fraud — Technology Consultant

Technology consultant Maximus Amertogoh has called on the Ghana Police Service to strengthen cybersecurity safeguards around its newly introduced Traffitech-GH system, warning that uncertainty over official notification channels could expose motorists to fraud. Police guidance on scam messages The Ghana Police Service has published guidance to help motorists identify genuine Traffitech notifications and avoid fraudulent payment demands.

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TCL urges TV buyers to look beyond the ‘Mini LED’ label
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TCL urges TV buyers to look beyond the ‘Mini LED’ label

TCL, the world’s largest Mini LED television brand, is encouraging consumers across West Africa to look beyond the “Mini LED” label when shopping for a television and pay closer attention to three features that can significantly influence picture quality. “Mini LED gets talked about as if it’s a single technology, but it’s really a family of approaches with very different results,” said Mr Daniel Ray, Director of Sales / General Manager of West Africa, TCL Middle East, Africa & Beyond.

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Indigenous tech solution targets fish losses with data driven farming
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Indigenous tech solution targets fish losses with data driven farming

By Cynthia Alo High feed costs, fish mortality and inefficient water management are reducing the profitability of fish farming in Nigeria, prompting calls for wider adoption of technology that can help farmers improve production and cut losses. Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Pysis Technologies, Oluwatoyin Ogundeji, said fish farmers still rely largely on assumptions to determine when to feed their fish or change pond water, leading to unnecessary production costs.

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‎Bawumia calls for laws to protect workers from AI job losses
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‎Bawumia calls for laws to protect workers from AI job losses

Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has called for legislation to protect workers from potential job losses arising from the growing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). ‎“Artificial Intelligence should be a tool to complement human labour and not a substitute for it,” he said.

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AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton says it might turn out humans would have been better off without AI
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AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton says it might turn out humans would have been better off without AI

Nobel winner who devised concept of neural network warns AI could be near to triggering major incident such as power or banking shutdown One of the “godfathers of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technology as he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems. The Nobel prize-winning computer scientist told the Guardian he is not a “doomer” about the technology that is underpinned by his groundbreaking research into artificial neural networks

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Google says there’s no way to use Search without using artificial intelligence
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Google says there’s no way to use Search without using artificial intelligence

In announcement geared to schools, tech giant showed how entwined AI is with the world’s most popular website Google just acknowledged that you can’t use Google Search without using artificial intelligence. There’s one catch, though: if a school or teacher blocks the use of Google’s AI features, students won’t be able to use Google Search.

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Hackers behind $6.3bn Binance heist ‘used malware and bogus job interviews’
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Hackers behind $6.3bn Binance heist ‘used malware and bogus job interviews’

Firm reveals details about how its cryptocurrency exchange was compromised, saying operation began in June The hackers behind the $6.3bn (£4.7bn) Binance heist used bogus job interviews, malicious software and an internal AI tool, the company has revealed. The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange was compromised in an operation that began with an inadvertent download of malware in June, led to a recruitment scam in September and then a raid last week of “hot wallets” where billions of dollars worth of crypto-assets were taken.

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Soludo approves remodelling of Upper Iweka
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Soludo approves remodelling of Upper Iweka

By Vincent Ujumadu AWKA – The Anambra State Executive Council has approved the remodelling of Upper Iweka, Onitsha, as part of the state government’s urban regeneration programme. The Commissioner for Information and Value Reformation, Dr Law Mefor, disclosed this while briefing journalists after the weekly State Executive Council meeting at the Government House, Awka.

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IGNITE, brAInify train 50 police and immigration officers in AI
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IGNITE, brAInify train 50 police and immigration officers in AI

Fifty officers from the Ghana Police Service’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have received specialised training in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to support criminal investigations and intelligence gathering. Speaking at the event, IGNITE Global Advisory Board Member and Strategic Partner for Sub-Saharan Africa, Nathan Kwabena Anokye Adisi, popularly known as Bola Ray, said the use of AI could reduce the time officers spend processing administrative information and allow them to concentrate on analysis and decision-making.

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E-Jobs4All opens applications for fully funded entrepreneurship programme
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E-Jobs4All opens applications for fully funded entrepreneurship programme

The programme is a partnership between Queen’s University in Canada, the Community and Entrepreneurial Development Initiative (CEDI Ghana) and Leadogo Incorporated, Canada. Under the initiative, participants will receive entrepreneurship and innovation training through the Dunin-Deshpande Innovation Centre at Queen’s University.

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