In recent weeks the controversies surrounding Chinese telecom giant Huawei seem to mount every day. From New Zealand to Japan, and from Europe to the long-suspicious United States, countries balk at the idea of using Huawei equipment in their communications networks. In China and Canada, the arrest of a top…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
Africa’s endangered rhinoceros population is getting help from its animal friends and neighbors in a new high-tech program designed to protect the rhino from poachers. The system relies on the Internet of Things to monitor conditions on the Welgevonden Game Reserve in South Africa by fitting zebra, wildebeest and impala…
Daniel Jones is a technology entrepreneur who’s been living in Kinshasa for the past five years. Now, Jones – whose two decades’ worth of technology skills were honed at the highest levels – is ready to launch bext360. The technology company offers a coffee-supply platform that uses blockchain, artificial intelligence and the…
Liberians struggling to connect to the Internet have been dealing with DDoS attacks related to a Mirai malware infection, the same botnet-driven cause of several large-scale Internet access disruptions since the open-source malware code was publicly released. It’s the same type of attack that blocked access to Twitter, Netflix and…