Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The first complete treatment for hepatitis C that requires taking only one daily pill won approval Friday from the Food and Drug Administration. The drug, called Harvoni and developed by Gilead Sciences, could shorten the duration of treatment and provide the first all-oral regimen for many patients. The new drug […]
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork FlickPay, Snapscan and Zapper might sound like a foreign language – yet these are the apps used by a fast growing group of consumers in South Africa who have bought into the world of mobile payment. Mobile phone providers, merchants, financial institutions and consumers represent the fast-growing ecosystem centred on
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork.org The Tech4Africa “un-conference” is underway at the SciBono Discovery Center, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg. IT News Africa caught up with Gareth Knight, creator of Tech4Africa in order to discuss the concept of the USD $50 smartphone as well as its impact on Africa. When the $50 smartphone hits there will
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Go Africa! At Harlem 116th street (Street Festival) on July 18th, 2015 (Event ID:169974) Go Africa Network Inc. Is proposing to 1 day street festival within the boundaries of Adam Clayton Powell (7th Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (Eighth Avenue) on 116 street on July 18th in the year 2015 between the hours of 10am –
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork When it comes to the future of computing, there is one major known and a principal unknown. The known, with almost guaranteed certainty, is that the next era of computing will be wearables. The unknown, with commensurate guaranteed uncertainty, is what these wearables will be and where on your body
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork A man in Sweden has become the first recipient of a mind-controlled prosthetic arm that is directly interfaced with muscle, bone and nerves. A Swedish amputee has become the first person in the world to be fitted with a prosthetic that directly interfaces with his bone, muscle and nerves, and
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Follow us on Twitter at: @GoAfricaNetwork TALLINN, Estonia — The centuries-old city center here looks quaintly antique, with well-worn cobbled streets lined by medieval buildings at nearly every turn. But the people have fully embraced the digital world, enthusiastically adopting public and private online services — offering a snapshot of a society that lives first
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Just seven months ago, executives at the biotechnology company Chimerix were receiving death threats after refusing to provide its experimental drug to a 7-year-old boy who was close to dying from a viral infection. The refusal set off a fierce social media campaign and subjected the company to unfavorable news
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Zoeticx has written middleware which can unify data from any current provider into a single common format. Their newly released API provides easy access to that middleware, enabling developers to easily write applications against multiple databases storing records in different formats. There are currently over 350 competing formats for storing
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Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Amelia, experts say, is “the next level up” from IBM’s Watson supercomputer. In 1998, an independently wealthy New York University doctoral student gave up his assistant professorship in math and founded a company to build software that could mimic the human brain—a “cognitive” platform that could learn a job, not
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