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Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Huawei Technologies has launched the DigiTruck in Teso Sub-region in eastern Uganda to equip youth, farmers, and local district officials with digital skills, officials said in a media release on Oct.3. “Digitruck project would create sustainable livelihood opportunities for the informal sector by enabling …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries has blamed the private sector for the low uptake of agricultural solar equipment. Despite the efforts by the government to encourage the use of solar equipment in agricultural processes, the uptake has been very low, despite …

This year’s laureates “have succeeded in producing particles so small that their properties are determined by quantum phenomena. The particles, which are called quantum dots, are now of great importance in nanotechnology,” said the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Stockholm, Sweden | Xinhua | Three scientists, Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has started the process of laying down the infrastructure for G6 Internet, which is expected to be implemented in the country next year, amidst concerns that it may not be used to generate wealth. Speaking at the TechnoServe’s Inaugural Entrepreneurship Stakeholder’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The right-to-information activists have challenged the Government to respect citizen’s right access to information and restore Facebook, one of the online social networking services owned by American technology giant, Meta Platforms. It follows a ban on Facebook imposed by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in January …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In an era dominated by digital advancements, Hello World, a UK based charity organization providing solar-powered, internet-enabled education hubs in Uganda, is now taking new strides to close the digital divide and empower communities. Founder and CEO Katrin McMillan says extending internet access to youth, …

Musk said that the most profitable mining platform in the past three years is here As more players enter the cryptocurrency space, mining becomes more complex and requires more computing power. As a result, many people who used to mine cryptocurrencies using their own hardware are now finding it unsustainable …

    Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans will get a chance to showcase the leap into a new era of innovation at the National Science Week to take place from the 6th to the 11th of November 2023. President Yoweri Museveni will be chief guest at the event at …

Los Angeles, US | Xinhua |  NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, returned Bennu asteroid sample to Earth on Sunday. This marks America’s first sample return mission of its kind and “will open a time capsule to the beginnings of our solar …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Airlines is set to start direct flights to Mumbai, India on October 7. Mumbai will bring the number of international flights by the national carrier to two after Dubai, with Guangzhou, China also planned in November, according to the management. The airline, code …