Ford Pledges $1bn For AI Start-Up
Car giant Ford has announced that it is investing $1bn (£800m) over the next five years in artificial intelligence (AI) company Argo. The firms will collaborate on developing a virtual driver system...
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Ford To Invest $1 Bn In Artificial Intelligence Startup
Ford will invest $1 billion over five years in an artificial intelligence startup with the aim of developing an autonomous vehicle by 2021, the auto giant said Friday. Ford will take a majority stake...
We Must Find A Solution To Streetism
Sometimes l wonder why we want to reinvent the wheel in Ghana. There is no problem that is new in the world and borrowing from others to solve ours, should not be a difficult thing to do. That is why...
Toyota, Suzuki Poised To Unveil Partnership On Monday
Japan's Toyota Motor Corp (7203. T) and Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T) appeared poised to unveil a wide-ranging partnership on Monday that could include the development of new technologies and...
Facebook Loses $500m Oculus Virtual Reality Case
A US court has ordered Facebook and other defendants to pay $500m (£395m) after finding they unlawfully used a firm’s virtual reality technology. The jury found Oculus, which Facebook bought in...
Creating Employee Experience
2017 is here and the next journey for Human Resource (HR) leaders will be to apply a consumer and a digital lens to the HR function creating an employee experience that mirrors their best customer...
Robots and Drones Take Over Classrooms
Classrooms are noticeably more hi-tech these days – interactive boards, laptops and online learning plans proliferate, but has the curriculum actually changed or are children simply learning the...
Alibaba Posts 54 Percent Rise In Third-Quarter Revenue, Raises 2017 Guidance
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Tuesday posted a 54 percent rise in third-quarter revenue, beating analyst estimates, helped by higher sales during its Single's Day shopping event and increased earnings...
5 Tech Trends To Tickle Your Fancy In 2017
A year with glimpses of far-reaching technological milestones that will influence the way we live. Over the past decade we have been awed at how dynamically and quickly technology is transforming our...
HTC’s New Phone Has Two Displays, But No Headphone Jack
As expected, HTC has joined the league of players that believe headphone jacks are relics of the past and don’t deserve their 3.5mm space on modern smartphones. The Taiwanese smartphone...
MEPs Vote On Robots’ Legal Status – and If A Kill Switch Is Required
MEPs are to vote on the first comprehensive set of rules for how humans will interact with artificial intelligence and robots. The report makes it clear that it believes the world is on the cusp of a...
Check Out the 2017 VGMA Nominees Provisional List
As the year has ended, which would also mean the shutting down of the calendar year for the 2016 music releases for the Vodafone Ghana Music awards 2017; music lovers, experts and aficionados of the...
A Moment In History
Ten years ago I was running from San Francisco’s Moscone Centre to a nearby hotel to edit a piece for the Ten O’Clock News when my phone rang. Those were the days, by the way, when phones were...
The Six-Legged ‘spider’ Robot Delivering Packages
play videoIt was designed by a robotics team in Pennsylvania, USA A team at the Robotics Institute in the US-based Carnegie Mellon University has designed a robot that can perform basic tasks. The...
Mrs. Charlotte Osei, An Embodiment Of Hope And Courage
A man is said to be hero, not when he loses many war, but rather the many war he wins. So says the adage. Since 1992, Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) came under scrutiny by level headed...
Uber Launches Artificial Intelligence Lab
Ride-sharing service Uber has acquired a New York-based artificial intelligence start-up which it hopes can speed up its progress in creating self-driving cars. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, will...
I Buried My Late Husband A Month Ago
Amina Ibrahim (AI) wife of late Hi-Life singer Daasebre Gyamenah, has revealed that she buried her husband one month ago. According to her, ever since my husband kicked the bucket I knew him as a...
Convict-Spotting Algorithm Criticised
An experiment to see whether computers can identify criminals based on their faces has been conducted in China. Researchers trained an algorithm using more than 1,500 photos of Chinese citizens,...
Police Can’t Overrule Pockets of Chaos During Elections – Cephas Arthur
The Ghana Police Service is ready to ensure peace during the 2016 elections, but cannot overrule pockets of violence, the Public Relations Director of the service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur has...
Ashesi University Junior Selected As Judge For World Robot Olympiad 2016
When a lecturer at Ashesi asked Kojo to describe himself in a word, he didn’t have to think long about it?—?“robotics” was the natural and apt response. Several years earlier in high school,...