Africa’s average Internet penetration sits at almost 20 percent lower than the world average of 54.4 percent. Some of the continent’s nations barely register in the connected context, including Eritrea at 1.4 percent, Chad at 5 percent, and Burundi at 5.5 percent. In Ghana, coverage is arou...
Life plays out much as it always has on the great plains of Kenya’s Maasai Mara, but the latest generation of Maasai are gradually changing the face of modern safari — with greater empowerment for female guides and local communities as a whole.
This central antenna meant that the phone in your car needed a powerful transmitter -- big enough to transmit 40 or 50 miles (about 70 kilometers). It also meant that not many people could use radio telephones -- there just were not enough channels. The genius of the cellular system is...
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Pakistan has long-been touted as tourism’s "next big thing," but alarming headlines have often discredited those predictions. There are economic, political and security problems, and a mixed reputation beyond the country's borders. However, this is where visitors will find some of the most hos...
history. The agriculture sector was one of the first industries to make use of satellite data, starting in 1972, when Landsat first began returning regular images of the Earth. The link-up is only natural, given the size of modern farms and the advantages to be gained by seeing them from...
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While these satellitesconcern astronomersdue to their impact on observations, they’ve captured the public's imagination. The Starlink satellite train is often mistaken for UFOs because of its otherworldly appearance. However, this striking formation is short-lived; as the satellites ascend to theirope...
But these larger commercial shipping containers are likely to be diverting because "big ships present a much more viable target than a lower free board ship like [an oil] tanker." How Houthi rebel attacks are affecting the world In July 2021 a container ship was wedged in the Sue...
China has completed its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, or BDS, becoming the fourth country in the world with a global navigation network, the other three being GPS of the U.S., GLONASS of Russia and Galileo of Europe. As the name suggests, the global navigation sate...