Photos: Africa's fastest growing economies Tanzania – The East African nation is predicted to grow by 6.4% this year. The country has sustained strong economic growth in the last decade, averaging between 6 to 7% according to the World Bank . Hide Caption 5 of 8 Photos: Africa's fastest growing economies Ghana – Ghana was previously the fastest growing economy in Sub-Saharan Africa, but has slowed. Although, a sharp increase in oil production has helped support economic growth in the country. Hide Caption 6 of 8 Photos: Africa's fastest growing economies Benin – The West African country, Benin, is expected to have economic growth of around 6%. Hide Caption 7 of 8 Photos: Africa's fastest growing economies Burkina Faso – The landlocked West African country is also expected to experience economic growth of 6%...
Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, which launched on top of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy on Tuesday , is going farther out into the Solar System than originally planned. The car was supposed to be put on a path around the Sun that would take the vehicle out to the distance of Mars’ orbit. But the rocket carrying the car seems to have overshot that trajectory and has put the Tesla in an orbit that extends beyond the Red Planet’s path. However, the Tesla won’t be making it to the asteroid belt, as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk originally claimed . After launch, the Tesla cruised through space for a good six hours — a trip that was also live-streamed by SpaceX . This “coast” phase was meant to show off a special orbital maneuver for the US Air Force before the rocket completed one final engine burn in space and put the car on its final orbit. It looks like that burn might have happened somewhere over Southern California, as some people in the area started reporting sightings...
Meet Penny, an AI tool that can predict wealth from space If a machine could design the perfect city, what would it look like from space? Image: REUTERS/NASA/Tim Peak Since emerging as a species we have seen the world through only human eyes. Over the last few decades, we have added satellite imagery to that terrestrial viewpoint. Now, with recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), we are not only able to see more from space but to see the world in new ways too. One example is “Penny”, a new AI platform that from space can predict median income of an area on Earth. It may even help us make cities smarter than is humanly possible. We’re already using machines to make sense of the world as it is; the possibility before us is that machines help us create a world as it should be and have us question the nature of the thinking behind its design. Penny is a free tool built using high-resolution imagery from DigitalGlobe, income data from the US census, neural ...
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