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Intellectual Property In AI – Who Owns It? 

Today at 16:06 PM, via iAfrica

As artificial intelligence moves rapidly from experimentation into core business operations, organisations are rushing to deploy AI tools across customer service, operations and internal workflows. But in the race to adopt the technology, many companies are overlooking a critical question:  Who actually owns the intellectual property created by these systems? Dawood Patel, CEO of Helm, […]

Politics

Mchunu challenges committee report, alleging prejudicial findings

Today at 13:25 PM, via Mail & Guardian

Parliament’s ad hoc committee defended the evidence leaders’ draft report after suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu objected to the findings that he dismantled the PKTT without consultation and for nefarious reasons

Education

Trump’s justice department is weaponizing civil rights laws against students of color | ReNika Moore

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Claims of discrimination at UCLA and Yale show how laws meant to foster inclusion are being used for the opposite

The Department of Justice’s civil rights division was once known as the crown jewel of the agency, but under Trump it has become just another tool of this administration’s politicized and racialized attacks targeting Black, Latino and other people of color. The latest examples...

Education

South Africa: Putting UCT Global Surgery On the World Stage

Today at 13:56 PM, via AllAfrica

[UCT] In June 2019, Professor Salome Maswime took a leap of faith when she and her husband, Gundo Vhusani Maswime, packed their two young sons, Farai and Taurai, into a car and left Johannesburg. Professor Maswime came to the University of Cape Town (UCT) to assume the newly created position of head of Global Surgery. At the time she was a team of one, but her mandate was simple: dream big and...

Education

South Africa: Tackling Transformation in Research At UCT

Today at 13:54 PM, via AllAfrica

[UCT] The University of Cape Town (UCT) Employment Equity Cluster 10 Collective (EEC 10) recently hosted a colloquium in commemoration of Africa Month. This to facilitate deep conversation and reflection on how institutional structures, systems and practices enable or constrain a more just, inclusive and future-oriented research ecosystem.

Science/Tech

ISS Astronauts Told To Prepare For Possible Evacuation Over Air Leak

Today at 17:20 PM, via Slashdot

NASA ordered astronauts on the International Space Station to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for possible evacuation after a worsening air leak in the Russian Zvezda service module’s transfer tunnel. The Guardian reports: The four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-12 mission on the station — two US astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut — received orders from NASA mission...

Science/Tech

Scientists make sourdough bread using yeast found in 5,000-year-old mummy

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Team now plans to see if they can use yeast strains harvested from Ötzi the Iceman to brew beer too

Scientists have baked a sourdough loaf of bread using yeast strains harvested from a 5,000-year-old mummy and now plan to see if they can use them to brew beer too.

The yeast came from Ötzi the Iceman, a famous corpse remarkably preserved by being frozen in Alpine ice near the Italy-Austria...

Science/Tech

Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?

Today at 17:00 PM, via Wired

Microsoft’s AI products aren’t selling and Github’s been plagued with troubles. WIRED spoke with VP Scott Hanselman about whether the company is in catch-up mode.

Health

1 in 4 births in England now by emergency C-section

Today at 11:12 AM, via BBC News

A quarter of all babies in England are now delivered by emergency caesarean operations, BBC analysis shows – marking a significant rise over the last five years.

Health

How Gold Is Driving the Spread of Ebola

Today at 11:04 AM, via New York Times

Mining has been the lifeblood of this remote Congolese hill town for decades. Now, it is fueling the spread of a devastating outbreak.