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UN officials have called for breaking the excessive dependence of African countries on the export of their raw mineral resources. The call was made Tuesday in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 60th anniversary pre-event themed “Maximizing Africa’s potential: Leveraging demand for critical minerals to…
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A Tesla shareholder filed a lawsuit on Thursday (May 30) accusing CEO Elon Musk of insider trading when he sold over US$7.5 billion of shares of the electric car maker in late 2022, saying the billionaire entrepreneur sold the shares before potentially disappointing production and delivery numbers were made public. Shareholder Michael Perry, in the…
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Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State has explained that the ongoing revolutionizing of the agriculture sector in the state is to ensure that it becomes a mainstay of the state’s economy. He said the government was taking full advantage of the factors of sufficient rainfall, fertile and vast availability of lands in the state.…
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U.S. carmaker Tesla broke ground on a mega factory in Shanghai on Thursday to manufacture its energy-storage batteries, Megapacks, a project hailed by the company as a “milestone.” The latest move underscores Tesla’s commitment to investing in the world’s second-largest economy, defying the rhetoric of “decoupling” and “de-risking” from China ratcheted up by some U.S.…
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Abstract This chapter aims to establish a positive vision for the technology-enhanced learning design field. It commences by summarizing the current state of technology-enhanced learning research, as established by the previous analysis, in order to clarify the foundations upon which the field can build. The future of learning technology is considered, in the first instance,…
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The Council of the European Union (EU) announced on Tuesday that ministers from the EU member states have given their final approval to the bloc’s artificial intelligence (AI) act. The vote by the ministers comes two months after EU lawmakers endorsed the AI legislation, originally drafted by the European Commission in 2021, with several key…
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The total output value of China’s satellite navigation and positioning service industry reached 536.2 billion yuan (about 74.2 billion U.S. dollars) in 2023, up 7.09 percent year on year, according to a white paper published Saturday. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Location Based Services (LBS) Association of China issued this year’s white paper…
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A new mega factory project of U.S. carmaker Tesla Inc. has been granted a construction permit, according to the management committee of Lingang new area of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone. As Tesla’s first energy storage mega factory project outside the U.S. market, it is located in the Lingang new area and expected…
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China’s automobile manufacturing industry registered strong expansion in the first quarter (Q1) of this year, latest data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers showed. During the period, the sector’s industrial added value rose 9.7 percent year on year, 3 percentage points higher than that for China’s overall manufacturing industry, according to the association. The…
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Sri Lankan cabinet has endorsed the national digital strategy 2030, featuring six key points with the aim of a connecting digital government, State Minister for Technology Kanaka Herath said on Thursday. The official told the media that the initial focus is on infrastructure, connectivity, access, skills, literacy, industries and jobs. He said emphasis is placed…
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“There’s no such thing as overcapacity,” Tang Jin, a senior researcher at Japan’s Mizuho Bank, told Xinhua in a recent interview, highlighting the global consensus and trend towards green and low-carbon pursuits, as well as the burgeoning development of electric vehicles worldwide. Tang pointed out that among about 90 million units in annual global sales…
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The Sri Lankan government will draft a national cyber security act in May, State Minister for Technology Kanaka Herath said Thursday. During a press conference at the Presidential Media Center, he added that Sri Lankans maintain 74 million accounts across all social media platforms. This increased the need for a national cyber security act, he…
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Airline Finnair has said it is pausing flights to Tartu in eastern Estonia for the next month, due to GPS disturbances in the area. “Finnair will suspend its daily flights to Tartu, Estonia, from 29 April to 31 May, so that an alternative approach solution that does not require a GPS signal can be put…
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OpenAI, the developer of the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, has opened its first office in the Asian region in the Japanese capital, Tokyo. “We chose Tokyo as our first Asian office for its global leadership in technology, culture of service, and a community that embraces innovation,” said company in an official statement. Company’s CEO Sam…
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The UN chief said on Friday he is “deeply troubled” by reports of Israeli military’s use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in its bombing campaign in Gaza. Stating that AI is used as a tool for target identification, particularly in densely populated residential areas, resulting in a distressing number of civilian casualties, Antonio Guterres said: “No…
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Meta introduced its new artificial intelligence (AI) training chip Wednesday that supports new generative AI products and services. The US-based global tech firm said its next generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator, called MTIA, is part of the company’s growing investment in its AI infrastructure that will complement its existing and future AI infrastructure to…
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