Cape Town has won the bid to host the 2028 World Robot Olympiad International Final, marking the first time the flagship robotics competition will be held on the African continent. The event will showcase robotics talent and innovation from competitors worldwide.
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An MIT Technology Review investigation found over 1,050 people died within range of U.S. border surveillance towers between 2015 and early 2026, despite the government spending billions on AI-enabled systems designed to detect migrants and enable rescue responses. The analysis reveals that surveillance failures and delayed or
MIT Technology Review's investigation found that people have died near US border surveillance towers despite AI-enabled detection systems, with cases involving undetected crossings, broken equipment, and failed agent responses. The article proposes four reforms: conducting comprehensive audits of deaths near the virtual wall, improving migrant death tracking
MIT Technology Review and Times of San Diego conducted a 15-month investigation using AI and data analysis to map deaths near US-Mexico border surveillance towers, analyzing nearly 4,000 migrant death cases against surveillance tower locations and timelines. The investigation used Anthropic's Claude API to extract
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