Follow us on Twitter: @GoafricaNetwork WASHINGTON — As Americans shop in the health insurance marketplace for a second year, President Obama is depending more than ever on the insurance companies that five years ago he accused of padding profits and canceling coverage for the sick. Those same insurers have long viewed government as an unreliable […]
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Follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs and videos with far greater accuracy than ever before, sometimes even mimicking human levels of understanding. Until now, so-called computer vision has largely been limited to
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork WHAT IS COLOGUARD? Cologuard is an easy to use, noninvasive colon cancer screening test based on the latest advances in stool DNA science. It can be used by men and women 50 years of age and older who are at average risk for colon cancer. Cologuard finds both cancer and
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Follow us on Twitter: GoAfricaNetwork When your server is a screen, you spend more money. Have you ever been to a Chili’s? Have you ever placed an order for the World-Famous Baby Back Ribs? Have you ever decided to, what the heck, make it a Full Rack, with some Homestyle Fries and Cinnamon Apples on the
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Chili’s, the casual-dining chain, will begin to offer customers access to tabletop computer screens at more than 800 locations in the U.S., starting Tuesday rolling out through early 2014. The Wall Street Journal reports customers will be able to use the tablets to order food and drinks, pay the bill,
Chief Technology Officer, Go Africa Network Inc. (Non-profit) Dr. Eric Fouh has over 10 years of experience in Computer Science. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. His research interests include web technologies, mobile technologies, digital libraries, and digital education. In his free time, Dr. Fouh enjoys sports, reading, exercising, and traveling. RESEARCH INTERESTS Learning Technologies,
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Or, if you don’t want to wait, you can buy this new model now for $149. Is it worth it? Think all the best tablet deals are for Android tablets? Think again. E Fun announced today that its new Nextbook 8 Windows tablet will sell for just $99 in Walmart
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork ATLANTA — This city would seem a peculiar place for sober conversation about the conduct of William T. Sherman. To any number of Southerners, the Civil War general remains a ransacking brute and bully whose March to the Sea, which began here 150 years ago on Saturday, was a heinous
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Follow us on Twitter: GoAfricaNetwork Two surveys – one low-tech and one high-tech – gathered data on phone habits among market traders and mobile bankers. A recent study by telecoms firm Ericsson predicts there will be more than 635m mobile telephone subscriptions in Africa by the end of the year, with this set to rise
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfriaNetwork.org Nigeria is no longer the preferred destination for oil exploration in Africa, the Managing Director\Chief Executive, Total Upstream Company in Nigeria, Elisabeth Proust, has said. Proust attributed this to stiff competition from East Africa with large volumes of gas discovered in Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and Angola. According to her, these
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