Blind Spots in AI Just Might Help Protect Your Privacy

Machine learning, for all its benevolent potential to detect cancers and create collision-proof self-driving cars, also threatens to upend our notions of what’s visible and hidden. It can, for instance, enable highly accurate facial recognition, see through the pixelation in photos, and even—as Facebook’s Cambridge […]

Kyivstar revisioni mobile ID servizi, accetta studenti di Big Data schoolBIG Dati

Ucraino operatore di telefonia mobile Kyivstar piani di modificare il suo Mobile ID elettronica, servizio di firma. Il servizio sarà reso disponibile per gli abbonati di ogni tariffa dal 08 ottobre e risconti i clienti non possono pagare un extra per esso. Separatamente, l’operatore ha […]

India’s Fyle bags $4.5M to expand its expense management platform in US, other international markets

Fyle, a Bangalore-headquartered startup that operates an expense management platform, has extended its previous financing round to add $4.5 million of new investment as it looks to court more clients in overseas markets. The additional $4.5 million tranche of investment was led by U.S.-based hedge […]

Africa Roundup: CcHub’s iHub acquisition, Andela’s $50M run-rate and layoffs, Transsion’s IPO

Two of Africa’s powerhouse tech incubators joined forces in September. Nigerian innovation center and seed-fund CcHub acquired Nairobi based iHub. The purchase amount was undisclosed, but CcHub will finance the deal out of its real-estate project to build a new 10-story HQ in Lagos, CcHub CEO […]