Often when one thinks or writes about urbanisation in Africa, mega-cities or primary cities like Lagos, Nairobi, Addis Ababa or Kampala, come to mind. Little, however, is written about places like Gabés in Tunisia, Touba-Mbacké…
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National Bank of Romania board room In November 2021, Mario Marcel – then governor of the Central Bank of Chile – appeared before a Chilean constitution committee.1 Among the battery of questions he faced about the…
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You wouldn’t know it from the torrential rains that have inundated large parts of New South Wales and Queensland this year, but average late-autumn rainfall over southeast Australia has declined significantly since the 1990s. Less…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker feeds chickens with maggots at a Biomagg office in Depok, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, November 23, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana By Chen Lin and Bernadette Christina SINGAPORE/JAKARTA…
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LaMDA is Google’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot. Blake Lemoine, a Google AI engineer, has claimed it is sentient. He’s been put on leave after publishing his conversations with LaMDA. If Lemoine’s claims are true,…
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What if your insurer was tracking your online data to price your car insurance? Seems far-fetched, right? Yet there is predictive value in the digital traces we leave online. And insurers may use data collection…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — Speculation before fact: It’s the reason for price moves that get overdone in any market, particularly commodities. What if 25% of the current oil price is made up…
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Increases in the domestic price of fuel are big news in South Africa, with the price of petrol, diesel and paraffin reaching new highs. The underlying reason for the price increases is movements in the…
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Powell gets second term, Brainard becomes vice-chair The US Senate voted 80-19 on May 12 to confirm Jerome Powell for a second four-year term as the chair of the Federal Reserve. President Joe Biden had…
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Leaders of several Pacific nations met in Fiji last week to strengthen ties and promote unity in the region. The Pacific faces numerous challenges, such as the threat of climate change and major powers jostling…
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