Bot Swarms · April 2014Gaffe level: Typo
Five Bucks Bought 4,000 Fake Facebook Friends, the Times Found
A Bits reporter bought thousands of fake friends and followers for pocket change, exposing the bot bazaar behind social influence. Popularity, it turned out, had a clearance price.
Source: ZeroFox
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