The “appropriateness” of Google’s sister company’s plan for a “digital city” in Toronto has been questioned. A panel set up to scrutinise Sidewalk Labs’s plan has asked it to explain what the benefits would be for citizens in collecting large amounts of data. The company wants to build a sensor-laden, eco-friendly neighbourhood with all the…
Clearview AI, a start-up with a database of more than three billion photographs from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, has been hacked. The attack allowed hackers to gain access to its client list but it said its servers had not been breached. Most of its clients are US law enforcement agencies who use its facial-recognition software…
ZIMBABWEAN football yesterday plumbed to an all-time low after the Confederation of African Football (Caf) ordered the men’s national team, the Warriors to play its forthcoming matches away from home due to dilapidated stadiums which have been deemed not up to standard, the Daily News reports. This comes at a time the dire state of…
THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (Fao) yesterday said ending poverty and hunger in African countries, including Zimbabwe, now requires innovative thinking since recurring droughts and erratic rains have become the new norm. Addressing delegates during a session on the nexus between hunger and sustainable development, Fao assistant director-general and regional representative for Africa, Abebe Gabriel,…
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says it has identified properties worth over US$7 billion which are proceeds of criminal activities stashed outside the country. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday, Zacc chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo said the process of recovering the properties is already underway. She was, however, quick to point out that the…
MDC president Nelson Chamisa and top party officials were yesterday banned from attending the court hearing of organising secretary Amos Chibaya and deputy Sibusisiwe Masara causing a scene that resulted in heavy deployment of police at the Harare Magistrates’ Courts. Chibaya and Masara appeared before Harare magistrate Gloria Takundwa and made an application for exception…
VICE President Kembo Mohadi has withdrawn an application for the dismissal of his ex-wife Tambudzani Muleya’s application for review of a ruling by a magistrate who dealt with the VP’s application for a protection order. Muleya had accused the magistrate of bungling legal procedures, after the court official ruled in Mohadi’s favour. Mohadi had approached…
AS THE country’s economic woes continue to bite, it has also emerged that Zimbabwe is losing billions of American dollars yearly due to its high incidences of sexual and other gender-based violence (SGBV), the Daily News reports. This comes as Zimbabwe is struggling to meet its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets — which were adopted…
A NEW economic blueprint that is set to replace the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) will be launched in September, according to the Finance ministry. The ministry said the National Development Strategy (NDS) will cover the period 2021 to 2025, while its successor NDS2, will run from 2026 to 2030. The TSP was rolled out in…
GOVERNMENT says machete-wielding artisanal miners going by the moniker MaShurugwi, who are wreaking havoc in various mining towns around the country, are sponsored by wealthy individuals. Giving oral evidence to the joint sitting of parliamentary portfolio committees on Mines and Mining Development and Defence as well as the thematic committee on Peace and Security yesterday,…
