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Animals Crossing: AI Helps Protect Wildlife Across the Globe

NVIDIA AI Blog

million acres of rhino habitats, and has recently expanded to help conservation efforts in Kenya and Namibia. The startup, which uses the Ai2 EarthRanger platform, protects more than 1.2 Wild Me supports over 2,000 researchers across the globe running AI-enabled wildlife population studies for marine and terrestrial species.

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Finclusion raises $20M to build out credit-led neobank offering across Africa

TechCrunch

The fintech intends to grow existing operations in South Africa, Eswatini, Kenya, Namibia and Tanzania and expand into Mozambique and Uganda. Despite this growth, Finclusion only has 28,000 customers with active loans outstanding, almost 10% of the total customers the company has served since 2018. With over 1.2

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Give a shirt: Changing slacktivists into activists

ASU Lodestar Center

Sadly, slacktivism – actions performed via the Internet in support of a political or social cause but regarded as requiring little time or involvement ( courtesy of the Oxford Dictionary ) – is the popular avenue of support when it comes to contemporary activism. He wasn’t able to sustain activism, and it eventually wilted into slacktivism.

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Jambo raises $7.5M from Coinbase, Alameda Research to build “web3 super app” of Africa

TechCrunch

Although users of Axie Infinity and other guilds only earn an income while playing games under a revenue-sharing model, Jambo is taking a two-sided approach by allowing its users to do so when they partake in web2 and web3 activities. For instance, users can save their data spend when they use Jambo.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A network of grandchildren was activated. This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. For weeks after the storm, the same network that helped rescue my parents has remained active on text, email, and social media. How did it happen?

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Conquering a Cruel Continent for a Cause

Tech Soup

The Namib Desert in Namibia (has the highest sand dunes on earth). Stand with me and let's do more than talk about the problem, let's be active in finding solutions." The Sahara Desert in Egypt (the hottest desert on earth). The Gobi Desert in China (the windiest desert on earth). " He's Just Getting Started.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

owners of Mercedes models that use MBUX will be able to opt into a beta program starting June 16 activating the ChatGPT functionality. Browsing is available on both the iOS and Android ChatGPT apps. June 15, 2023 Mercedes is adding ChatGPT to its infotainment system U.S.

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