Faustine Ngila

Turkish ground handling company Çelebi Aviation will begin providing ground handling services to Turkish Airlines at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport from Aug. 1 under a new agreement, expanding its presence in East Africa.

In this interview with Impact Newswire, Ashish Dsa, co-founder and CTO of New York-based Voice AI company Arbor, discusses whether recent advances in large language models, speech recognition and generative AI are finally making Voice AI practical for Africa's diverse linguistic landscape. While global investment in voice assistants and conversational AI has accelerated, most progress has been concentrated in high-resource languages such as English, Mandarin, Spanish and French. Africa, with more than 2,000 languages, limited speech datasets, diverse dialects and widespread code-switching, continues to pose significant technical challenges for Voice AI developers.

In this interview with Impact Newswire, Richard Vincent, Co-Founder of London-based Fundamental XR, discusses how virtual reality is transforming ophthalmic surgical training and helping address one of Africa's biggest healthcare challenges: the shortage of skilled eye surgeons. As healthcare systems increasingly adopt immersive technologies to accelerate medical education, Vincent explains how VR simulation enables trainee surgeons to repeatedly practice complex procedures in a risk-free environment before entering the operating room, improving surgical readiness while reducing dependence on scarce mentors, operating theaters and laboratory resources.

Readers rated short stories generated by artificial intelligence higher than those written by humans when they believed the stories were authored by people, according to a study that adds to growing evidence that AI can match or exceed human performance in some creative tasks.

Israel has launched a tender to build a national quantum computer and unveiled two additional artificial intelligence initiatives as it seeks to strengthen its technological capabilities and remain competitive in the global race for advanced computing.

Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on public blockchains grew by more than 50% in the first half of 2026 to about $34 billion, even as activity across broader on-chain cryptocurrency markets weakened, according to a

Construction of Google's planned $15 billion data centre campus in southern India is facing mounting opposition from environmental groups concerned about water use and the project's proximity to a protected wildlife sanctuary, creating an early challenge for the U.S. technology giant's biggest investment in the country.

Researchers in Japan have identified objective physiological markers linked to stress in surgeons performing robot-assisted operations, findings that could help improve surgical training, operating-room design and physician well-being as robotic procedures become more common.

Violent attacks targeting cryptocurrency holders stole an estimated $30 million in digital assets during the first half of 2026, putting the year on track to surpass last year's record as criminals increasingly turned to kidnappings and home invasions, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says.

Scientists have used artificial intelligence to generate new viruses from scratch that can infect bacteria and help overcome antibiotic resistance in laboratory tests, a breakthrough that researchers say could advance medicine but also raises biosafety concerns.