BigThink There are some parts of our knowledge base that we generally take for granted. We use them every day, and they have been very successful in allowing us to conduct our lives. The number system that includes zero is one such practice. But zero didn’t always exist. It’s a rather genius idea that humanity…
Scott Firsing, Monash University Most do not associate Africa with the high-tech sphere of “space”. However, in recent years, many countries on the continent have woken up to the potential and usefulness of space technology. In sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria and South Africa are leading the charge. What have South Africa and Nigeria have achieved? Both…
The Economist The scramble for .africa Lawyers in California are denying Africans their own domain THE ruler-straight lines and strange squiggles of Africa’s borders are a reminder of how the continent was carved up by European powers around a conference table in Berlin at the end of the 19th century—with scant regard for the wishes of…
Reuters | BY GEORGE OBULUTSA NAIROBI -Online activists who claim ties to Anonymous said on Thursday they had begun to leak documents from Kenya’s foreign ministry as part of a campaign to expose government and corporate corruption across Africa. HackRead, a cyber security news site, reported that a hacker affiliated with “Operation Africa” had told it: “In (a)…
HRW Leaked Documents Show Need to Regulate Surveillance Sales Internet café in Lalibela, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.© 2010 Hemis.fr/AFP Photo (New York, August 13, 2015) – The Italian spyware firm Hacking Team took no effective action to investigate or stop reported abuses of its technology by the Ethiopian government against dissidents, Human Rights Watch said today. A…
Low expression of EDNRB gene increases tolerance for low oxygen conditions found at high altitudes, providing new drug target for sea level diseases By Heather Buschman, PhD, UC San Diego Health Ethiopians have lived at high altitudes for thousands of years, providing a natural experiment for studying human adaptations to low oxygen, a condition known as…
Lawsuit alleges that Addis Ababa used private technology to monitor Internet communications of dissident-linked American By Jenifer Fenton, Aljazeera A first-of-its kind lawsuit that resumes in a U.S. District Court on Tuesday has drawn attention to the private surveillance-technology industry as a potential enabler of spying on Americans. The case involves a U.S. citizen who alleges…
CSO Online Credit: Steve Ragan Hacking Team is awake, and the first order of business is to promote fear, uncertainty, and doubt On Sunday evening, someone hijacked the Hacking Team account on Twitter and used it to announce that the company known for developing hacking tools was itself a victim of a devastating hack. Note:…
(Jeffrey Kerby. Research funded in part by National Geographic.) An Ethiopian wolf mingling with gelada monkeys in Guassa Plateau. Peaceful interactions rarely occur between a predator and prey. But researchers in Ethiopia caught wild wolves and monkeys called geladas intermixing without agression. The seemingly tamed wild wolves just up and walk through the monkey herd,…