Facebook has shut down two artificial intelligences that appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood. According to the Independent, a UK based newspaper, t he two chatbots came to create their own changes to English that made it easier for them to work
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Dangote Cement, Africa’s largest cement producer, has announced its unaudited results for the six months ended 30th June 2017, posting a 12.6 percent increase in sales volume across Africa. In the financials released on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange indicated that the increase in sales volume showed a
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Amazon founder and Jeff CEO Bezos overtook Bill Gates to become the richest person in the world on Thursday morning July 27, with a fortune topping $90 billion for the first time ever. When markets opened Thursday, Bezos had a net worth of $90.6 billion, putting him $500 million ahead
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US Vice President Mike Pence is already planning his inauguration in anticipation of President Donald Trump's removal from office in an impeachment, Congresswoman Maxine Waters has said. "Mike Pence is somewhere planning an inauguration. Priebus and Spicer will lead the transition," Democratic Representative Waters tweeted on Sunday, referring to former
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A deputy ICT director at the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission in Kenya has gone missing, the electoral agency’s chairman Wafula Chebukati revealed on Sunday. “The last communication from him is an SMS text sent to one of his colleagues at around 3 am on Saturday morning. The content of
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A gunman and a police officer were killed in an attack on the home of Kenya’s deputy president in the western town of Eldoret, a senior administrator said Sunday, just more than a week before a national election. Deputy President William Ruto and his family were not at home at
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Zimbabwe's 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe, declaring "I am not dying," sought Saturday to brush aside growing concerns about his health after his wife urged him to name a successor. Mugabe's medical trips to Singapore have become frequent in recent years, fuelling questions about his health. His last visit was early this month for
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Billionaire Nigerian businessman Aliko Dangote has fallen from being the 51st richest person in the world to the 105th, according to the 2017 Forbes Rich List. Forbes magazine reports that Mr Dangote's wealth dropped from $15.4bn (£11.8bn) in 2016 to $12.2bn this year, due to Nigeria's currency being devalued. Mr Dangote,
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Barclays has set aside an extra £700m to meet compensation claims for mis-selling payment protection insurance, BBC reports. The news came as the bank said costs related to the sale of part of its Africa unit had pushed it into a £1.2bn (Shs5.6bn) loss in the first half of the
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North Korea has hailed as a success its latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), describing it as a "stern warning" for the US. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the test proved that the entire US was within striking range, state media reported. The launch came three weeks
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