Dr. DeepMind
Google’s DeepMind algorithm has proven to reduce incorrectly diagnosed breast cancer cases. In a US study, it reduced false negatives by 9.4%, where… Read More
Fact-a-day archive
Do we really have a vaccine?
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced preliminary results of a new COVID-19 RNA vaccine which has been shown to… Read More
Don’t forget climate change
Global lockdowns in 2020 reduced pollutants such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides by between 10 and 30 percent. However,… Read More
Fetch me that asteroid!
On 20 Oct 2020 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe took a sample of rock from the Bennu asteroid 330m km away from… Read More
MAPS will update this: Use of SASSA Grant Cards
10 million South Africans (25% of adults 15+) made use of a SASSA government grant card in 2016 (AMPS 2015B… Read More
MAPS data is out: Cellphone Access
As of 2016, of the 39.7m South Africans with cellphones, about 42%, 21% and 10% had a Nokia, Samsung and… Read More