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• New technology reveals some birds have specific ‘migration buddies’

  Though much is known about where and when birds travel, a lot less is known about the composition of flocks and how long they stay together. Do birds come together in flocks by chance? Do they actively choose flock members? It’s difficult to understand groups without being able ...

  • The Conversation

• Why Alexa and Siri won't function as robot helpers

  “Alexa, are you ready to have a body?” Steady advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing have made digital assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa increasingly capable of performing complicated voice commands under different circumstances. But does ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Trying to quit your phone addiction? There's an app for that

  We’re squandering increasing amounts of time distracted by our phones. And that’s taking a serious toll on our mental ...

  • The Conversation

• This AI tool is translating 2,000 African languages in a bid to boost local economies

  A digital platform called OBTranslate that aims to translate more than 2,000 African languages to enable rural dwellers to gain easy access to global markets has been launched. According to its creator, 63 per cent of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa do not have ...

  • Royal Uche

• Here's how you can apply experience-design to your everyday life

  The other day a coworker and I were chatting about our phone’s home screens and the way we organize our app icons. We spent a good amount of time describing to one another our implicit rules on how we prioritize homepage icons, how we choose apps that will sit on the edge ...

  • Fabricio Teixeira

• Beneath Tesla's delusional PR, there is a visionary car company

  Elon Musk makes it easy to dismiss his grandiose — unhinged, even — descriptions of his product plans. But if ...

  • Jean-Louis Gassée

• Understanding the rising popularity of China’s rural influencers

  Beginning in 2016, China saw the sudden and meteoric rise of the short video social media platform Kuaishou 快手. The app had been quietly accumulating a following since its launch in 2011, focusing on half-organic, half-algorithm-driven growth and ignoring traditional media ...

  • Trivium UB

• Slimy fish mucus can help chemists develop new antibiotics — here's how

  One day in the future, you may take a pill to treat an illness – and owe your recovery to the tiny microbes that flourish ...

  • The Conversation

• The Earth’s magnetic north pole is shifting rapidly, but the northern lights will stay where they are (for now)

  Like most planets in our solar system, the Earth has its own magnetic field. Thanks to its largely molten iron core, our ...

  • The Conversation

• This tiny flashing kit can break your bad online security habits

  The number of cyber attacks is estimated to have risen by 67% over the last five years, with the majority of these data breaches ...

  • The Conversation

• Fake Facebook accounts are influencing African elections

  Facebook has issued a statement on how it removed fake accounts originating from Israel that ran Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts that carried false information looking to influence elections in several African countries. This forms part of Facebook looking to redeem ...

  • iAfrikan News

• If you lose a body part, other bits get a sensory boost – thank you, brain

  When you wake up in the middle of the night in total darkness, it can feel as if you have auditory superpowers. Suddenly, ...

  • The Conversation