Algorithms · June 2019Gaffe level: Typo
Secret Trust Scores Judge Everyone Without Appeal
Companies quietly scored consumers on fraud and trustworthiness using thousands of data points, with no way to check or contest the grade. Your reputation, computed in secret.
Source: Gizmodo
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