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As children giggle and smartphones flash, the Robot Cafe in Nairobi’s bustling tech hub is making waves with its innovative approach to customer service. The cafe, believed to be the first of its kind in Nairobi and East Africa, boasts three robots named Claire, R24, and Nadia, who glide among human waiters delivering plates of
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Artificial intelligence researchers recently made headlines after discovering over 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery within a widely used dataset for training AI image-generator tools. The LAION dataset, which has been instrumental in the development of popular AI image-making tools, came under scrutiny when a report by the Stanford Internet Observatory revealed
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A recent study conducted by a team of AI researchers from the Allen Institute for AI, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago revealed a disturbing trend among popular LLMs – the presence of covert racism against individuals who speak African American English (AAE). The research, published in the journal Nature, focused on training multiple
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Robots have the potential to assist humans in various real-world settings by effectively and dexterously manipulating different objects. The need for cost-effective robotic grippers that can mimic human hands is crucial for enabling robots to perform tasks with precision. Recently, a team of researchers from Improbable AI Lab and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) introduced
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In July 2024, CrowdStrike, a US-based cybersecurity technology company, released a sensor configuration update that resulted in a global outage affecting an estimated 8.5 million computers. This incident had far-reaching consequences across critical infrastructure sectors, including airlines, 911 emergency systems, banks, government agencies, health care, and hospitals worldwide. The aftermath of the incident highlighted vulnerabilities
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