3+ hour, 1+ min ago  (497+ words) News Ghana Senior policymakers, regulators, telecom operators, and digital infrastructure providers are meeting in Accra on Wednesday for a closed-door session examining whether Ghana has the physical foundations needed to sustain artificial intelligence at scale, as the global technology conversation…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (335+ words) An artificial intelligence system developed at Columbia University can now locate individual sperm cells in men who have been told they produce none, opening a new path forward in the treatment of male infertility. The system, known as Sperm Track…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (215+ words) A Nigerian environmental technology startup has claimed the top prize at the 2025 Hedera Africa Hackathon, a competition that concluded on April 29, 2026, having officially become the largest Web3 hackathon ever staged anywhere in the world. Green Africa, a platform designed to track…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (235+ words) Scientists in Japan have found that waste crab shells from seafood processing can slow the breakdown of biodegradable plastics in seawater, a discovery that could help make marine-use bioplastics practical for the first time. The research focused on a biodegradable…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (269+ words) Africa has staged what organisers are calling the largest Web3 hackathon ever held globally, with more than 13, 000 developers competing across 20 African hubs for a prize pool of $1 million built around solving real infrastructure problems across the continent. The Hashgraph Association (THA),…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (396+ words) News Ghana A persistent and largely invisible problem in African artificial intelligence development has a new solution. Most AI systems cannot reliably identify which African language a piece of text is written in, a flaw that prevents those languages from…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (286+ words) Chemists at the Tokyo University of Science (TUS) in Japan have developed a new method to produce a class of highly versatile chemical building blocks used in drug development, replacing a hazardous process with a safer, milder alternative. The team,…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (123+ words) News Ghana The panel of judges included Kenyan wildlife conservation scientist and filmmaker Victoria Wanjohi, alongside documentary filmmaker Carlos Espinosa of Ecuador, digital producer Edliadi Mokhammad of Indonesia, and wildlife filmmaker Mayuresh Hendre of India. Rangelands, which include grasslands, savannas,…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (206+ words) Kenya has formally launched a national agriculture council designed to move the country beyond policy frameworks and into large-scale deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and bioengineering on its farms, signalling a strategic pivot in how the continent's food systems challenge…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (438+ words) News Ghana The world's tropical rainforests lost significantly less ground in 2025 than the record-shattering year before, but scientists warn the recovery is fragile and that worsening wildfires driven by climate change could quickly reverse recent gains. Global tropical primary rainforest…...