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Kenya might be heading to a major economic recession as the government struggles to finance its deficit. The transport sector continues to pay the heaviest price as the government through the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) has chosen to increase fuel prices. Kenyans turned to social media to complain about the increase. According to a statistical survey conducted by Nation Media Group comparing the fuel prices of the three East Africa countries, Kenya’s price was the highest. The average petrol price in Kenya is Kshs.122.81, in Tanzania is Kshs.93.67 and in Uganda is Kshs.116.22. Kenya’s debt of about Kshs.9 trillion has already hit the ceiling. Earlier this year, the government of Kenya indicated that it had planned to raise the debt to Kshs.12 trillion. Kenyans should brace for tougher times ahead as they will bear the burden of financing the loan, which might take eons to repay. Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani recently claimed that the governmen...

Cloudflare has unveiled a new feature that enhances privacy-focused web analytics to meet its clients’ metric targets. The tech firm opened the first brand of its new “privacy-first web analytics last December.” In order to meet the demands of its customers, Cloudflare released three new features, on Monday. According to Cloudflare blog post , the requested features which have been availed include: supporting Single-page Applications, adding multiple websites to an account and showing Core Web Vitals in web Analytics. The new release is based on the feedback that was received after the launch of the “privacy-first analytics.” The Company offers popular analytics to businesses with the aim of tracking visitor behavior and retarget them with ads in exchange for free analytics. The new dispatch allows webmasters to use web analytics to add up to 10 websites. In previous release, web analytics was only used to measure one website. The service has the option of using web analyti...

Data science is one of the most sought disciplines in the field of technology due to the rapid growth of data in terms of volume, complexity and velocity. The surging demand of data scientists prompted Nvidia Deep Learning Institute to unveil Accelerated Data Science Teaching Kit for trainers . The first version of Accelerated Data Science Teaching Kit for qualified trainers was released by NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute on February 2021 to develop the best data science solutions that meets the increased demand for data skillsets. The kit was co-developed by Polo Chau of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Xishuang Dong from Prairie View A and M University.  In report published by NVIDIA, Chau stated that: “Data Science unlocks the immense potential of data in solving societal challenges and large-scale complex problems across virtually every domain, from business, technology, science and engineering to healthcare, government and many more.” The free teaching conten...

Gone are the days when images with missing parts could never be reconstructed with realistic approach. NVIDIA AI team came up with innovation that can predict and fill missing parts of a photo with realistic results. At least 55,000 incomplete images of different sizes and shapes were generated to train the deep neural network. The team unveiled its state-of-the-art deep learning model in 2018 that has the ability to edit images through reconstruction of incomplete parts. In order to train their deep neural network, the research team generated over 55,000 masks of different sizes and shapes. They then used 25,000 masks with holes to test the dataset. For the enhancement of accuracy, the holes were categorized into six divisions based on the input images. Nvidia’s AI imaging technique can edit and reconstruct images, even if its parts are completely erased. Before Nvidia’s innovation, Adobe Photoshop was widely used to recreate images. Unlike Adobe Photoshop, Nvidia’s techni...

Kenya decided that they will not appear in international court over the maritime border case pitting the country against Somalia . According to a local publication, the decision was prompted after the emergence of claims of bias against a Mogadishu-linked judge and the refusal of the international court to delay proceedings due to Covid-19. Somalia had filed a case at the international criminal of justice (ICJ) in 2014, accusing Kenya over intrusion on its maritime territory. However, Kenya was swift and strongly defended its territorial integrity.  The government of Somalia under the leadership of the embattled president Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has in the recent years taken a more hostile approach towards Kenya president Uhuru Kenyatta   accusing him of meddling in its internal affairs. The decision to withdraw the case was communicated by Kenya’s attorney general Paul Kihara on March 11, a few days before the commencement of the hearing on March 15. The decisi...

Google introduces new ‘career certificate’ courses that will enable participants to wade into high-paying jobs without necessarily earning a university degree. Most of the courses will take about six months to complete, unlike most degree programs which take up to around four years to complete. High education would likely be ‘disrupted’ with Google’s program in four disciplines namely: user experience (UX) design , data analytics , project manager and or IT support professional .  Google explores effective means to give learners everything they require to get employed in their chosen fields at a cost of $39 per month. The total cost will be up to around $240 or lower, depending with how fast one finishes each course. Upon completion, graduates can share their resume directly with employers such as Verizon, Walmart, Accenture, Deloitte, Bayer and Anthem among others. Google proclaimed that it will open apprenticeship program to aid certificate holders to gain more sk...

Facebook AI is seeking an alternative approach to ensure fairness in decisions made by machine learning systems. The tech giant explores a distinct method to apply algorithmic fairness techniques to complex and large-scale production systems. In a research paper dubbed “Fairness on the Ground: Applying Algorithmic Fairness Approaches to Production Systems,” the Company reconnoiters the expertise of integrating fairness applications into complex and large-scale production systems meant to benefit other disciplines facing similar problems. The research conducted by Facebook AI construes statistical measures of fairness such as calibration and equality of odds to reasonable practical approach. The research isn’t the first one to identify the challenges facing complex systems. According to Facebook AI team, “the challenges of bias in supervised machine learning models are most likely to be studied problem in algorithmic fairness.”  In conclusion, the study presented a holis...