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[NAIROBI, SciDev.Net] Sleeping sickness has been killing people across Africa for generations. A disease with no vaccine, spread by the bite of a tsetse fly, it was once treated with injections of an arsenic derivative, a cure that could be as dangerous as the illness itself. By 1998, it was infecting 40,000 people a year. Last month, the single oral-dose medicine Acoziborole Winthrop (acoziborole) became the newest and simplest weapon against the disease when it was given the nod for approval by European regulators. The treatment was developed by French pharmaceutical company Sanofi in partnership with the Geneva-based Drugs for…

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says he’s not anti-AI. He can’t be. “I run a frickin’ tech company,” he told the audience at the SXSW conference in Austin this week. Still, the founder of the creator platform has limits. Conte doesn’t think AI companies should be able to train their models on the work of creators without compensation, calling their decision to dub this “fair use” a “bogus” argument. Conte’s SXSW talk positioned AI as another moment within the ongoing cycle of disruption that creators have been through many times before in the internet age. Like the transition from buying music…

Carl Pei, co-founder and CEO of Nothing, is imagining a future beyond the iPhone — and it’s a device powered by AI agents, not running apps. “In terms of AI in software, I think people should understand that apps are going to disappear,” said Pei, whose consumer electronics brand makes unique smartphones and other accessories. “So, if you’re a founder or a startup and your app is like where the core value lies, that will be disrupted whether you like it or not.” Pei made these comments during an interview at the SXSW conference in Austin on Wednesday. The founder…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was years ahead of the market when he pushed the company to start tinkering with building AI-specific chips back in 2010, more than a decade before the current buzz around AI. A similar move in 2020 — doubling down on data center networking with a strategic acquisition — has led to one of the company’s most lucrative and quickly growing divisions, but with little fanfare. In just a few years, Nvidia’s networking business, designed to connect data centers, has grown into the company’s second-largest revenue driver behind compute. Last quarter, it reported $11 billion in revenue, a…

San Francisco, CA, March 18, 2026 –(PR.com)– General Vision, Inc. (GV), the San Francisco, California-based pioneer of neuromorphic AI and creator of the NeuroMem® neuromorphic AI platform, today announced that it has joined the Lattice Semiconductor Partner Network. The collaboration unites General Vision’s industry-leading trainable, responsible, and explainable AI silicon with Lattice Semiconductor’s industry-leading low power, small form-factor FPGA solutions — creating a uniquely powerful combination for edge AI applications that demand real-time inference, lifelong learning, and ultra-low energy consumption.”Joining the Lattice Partner Network is a natural and exciting milestone for General Vision. Lattice has built exactly the kind of low…

Wednesday 18 March 2026 6:12 pm Employers have spent years embedding software into hiring processes A former Google Cloud executive has put AI hiring and its consequences under renewed scrutiny in a US courtroom.The unnamed ex-Big Tech employee’s testimony revolved around how automated, agentic systems are increasingly shaping recruitment decisions, not at the final interview stage, but much earlier, where candidates are filtered, ranked and, in many cases, excluded.Employers have spent years embedding software into hiring processes, from basic applicant tracking systems to more advanced models designed to assess ‘fit’ or predict performance. What has changed, however, is just how…

Emergency services were called to the riverside, near Clyde Street, shortly before 7am this morning. They cordoned off the area and officers were spotted guarding the tape. Images taken by the Glasgow Times also showed police vehicles around the patch of land. Flight-tracking data revealed two helicopters circling repeatedly over Glasgow city centre, with their path concentrated along the River Clyde corridor. These are believed to have been involved with the search. Around 7pm – 12 hours after the initial callout – Police Scotland confirmed that the body of a man was recovered. The death is being treated as unexplained…

Mr MacCreanor told the jury if McCullagh had an innocent explanation for his actions, they would have heard itNatalie McNally was murdered in her home in 2022The man accused of murdering Natalie McNally “lied and lied again”, a barrister has told Belfast Crown Court.The jury in the trial of Stephen McCullagh has been told the prosecution case is “strong and compelling”.Ms McNally, 32, was 15 weeks pregnant when she was killed at her home in Lurgan on December 18, 2022.Her partner, Stephen McCullagh, 36, of Woodland Gardens in Lisburn, is on trial accused of murdering her.He has denied the charge.Delivering…

There is a huge change happening in the traditional gym grind. For a long time, the fitness industry was known for rows of treadmills, heavy weight machines and the “one-size-fits-all” group class. But as we get closer to 2026, a new wave of SportsTech startups is breaking down this old model and replacing it with one that is based on highly personalised data. The disruption is no longer just coming; it’s here. AI coaches that change your reps in real time and smart rings that put your nervous system ahead of your calendar are just two examples. This is how…

A dispute over more than $172 million in Bitcoin has moved forward in the UK’s High Court of Justice, where a man alleges his estranged wife stole thousands of coins from his hardware wallet using covert surveillance inside their home. Court filings show that Ping Fai Yuen, a UK resident, held 2,323 Bitcoin in a Trezor hardware wallet in 2023.  On Aug. 2 of that year, the full balance was transferred without his knowledge. The funds were later split across 71 separate addresses through a series of transactions. No movement has been recorded since Dec. 21, 2023. Yuen claims his…