Bot Swarms · January 2016Gaffe level: Rampage
Bots Were Eating $8.2 Billion of the Ad Industry's Lunch Every Year
Fraudulent bots generated fake ad impressions that siphoned billions from advertisers, and everyone in adtech quietly looked the other way. The most engaged audience on the internet turned out to be scripts.
Source: TechCrunch
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