Bot Swarms · June 2014Gaffe level: Typo
120 Fake Twitter Bots Fooled Thousands of Real Users Into Following Them
Brazilian researchers unleashed 120 socialbots on Twitter, and 69% dodged spam filters while racking up 5,000 followers. The bots even outscored academics on Klout, which tells you everything about Klout.
Source: Sambad English
AI Avatars Translate Speech Into Kenyan Sign Language in Real Time
Kenyan engineer Elly Savatia built Terp360, an AI platform that translates speech into Kenyan Sign Language in real time using 3D avatars, with more than 2,300 signs recorded alongside deaf Kenyans. It won the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, and the team has released an open dataset of nearly 12,000 sign-language motion sequences.
Source: The Eastleigh Voice