Bot Swarms · March 2016Gaffe level: Typo
Infibeam's IPO Got a Chorus of Paid Tweeters Singing Its Praises
Ahead of its IPO, Infibeam paid a small army of Twitter users to hype the listing, turning the timeline into a sponsored love letter. The stock market pitch came with a hashtag and an invoice.
Source: FactorDaily
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