MTN Group Names Marina Madale Executive for Sustainability & Shared Value
MTN Group is delighted to declare the appointment of Marina Madale as Group Executive for Sustainability & Shared Value, commencing on 1 September 2023. Previously, Marina held the role of General Manager for Sustainability and Shared Value at MTN Group. In her new capacity, she will lead the strategic vision
Read moreIBM promised to back off facial recognition — then it signed a $69.8 million contract to provide it
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge IBM has returned to the facial recognition market — just three years after announcing it was abandoning work on the technology due to concerns about racial profiling, mass surveillance, and other human rights violations. In June 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests swept
Read moreSee the complete Sustainability Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
Keeping apace of the latest trends and innovation in climate tech and sustainability — an area that touches every industry and city — is nearly impossible. It’s why we created the Sustainability Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 and invited the best and brightest minds to share their insights. The dedicated
Read moreMeta releases a data set to probe computer vision models for biases
Continuing on its open source tear, Meta today released a new AI benchmark, FACET, designed to evaluate the “fairness” of AI models that classify and detect things in photos and videos, including people. Made up of 32,000 images containing 50,000 people labeled by human annotators, FACET — a tortured acronym
Read moreAI-powered BeFake is a real app, not a BeReal parody…and it has $3M in funding
BeFake, a social networking app that combines concepts from popular Gen Z app BeReal along with AI technology has netted itself $3 million in seed funding to create an AI-augmented social network. The app’s name, a clear reference to BeReal’s authentic photo sharing among friends, is meant to suggest it
Read moreLEAP Fund puts $1M into African, Latin America e-mobility projects
The LEAP Fund has chosen three projects in Africa and four in Latin America that focus on e-mobility to fund. These selected initiatives will receive funding grants totaling a significant amount of US $1.05 million. The primary objective of the fund is to offer support to organizations situated in emerging
Read moreThreads starts testing search feature in Australia and New Zealand
Threads launched one of the most anticipated features, a web version of the platform, last week. Now, Meta is testing another highly demanded feature for the social network — searching for posts. At the moment, users can only search for usernames on Threads. However, the company is working on bringing
Read moreSatgana appoints Anil Maguru as partner to back climate-tech startups in Europe, Africa
Europe-based climate-tech VC Satgana has appointed Anil Maguru, formerly an investment director at the firm, as its newest partner. Satgana, which emerged out of stealth last year, invests in climate startups in Europe and Africa. Maguru joined the VC firm at inception three years ago, starting as an analyst. At
Read moreBridging Connectivity Gaps in Africa with FWA Solutions
Addressing the Global Digital Divide The global digital divide persists, with around 1 billion households without fixed broadband, and projections indicating that approximately 30% of households worldwide may still lack broadband connectivity by 2028, according to an Ericsson analysis. At the same time, 3GPP technologies, including LTE and 5G, are
Read moreNutun Launches Nutun Empowered Women Programme (NEW)
Global Business Services company Nutun has announced the launch of the Nutun Empowerment Women (NEW) Programme, designed to accelerate the careers of female employees across the organization. Introduced at a special employee event by Dineo Sekwele, Nutun’s Group HR Executive, the initiative is driven by Nutun’s workforce demographic, with 75%
Read more