At the core of CompressionX is a proprietary algorithm designed to compress data without loss. Unlike traditional utilities, which apply generic methods across file types, CompressionX uses entropy ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa will open a new inquest into the 1977 death in police custody of iconic anti-apartheid figure Steve Biko, state prosecutors said Wednesday. The inquest will be ...

The Virginia National Guard held a ceremony in Powhatan Monday to mark the overseas deployment of the 180th Engineer Company to the Horn of Africa. Ford has a persistent problem that is costing a ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

In this video, BloombergNEF metals and mining head Kwasi Ampofo discusses how Africa could leverage its mineral wealth on the global economic stage. Mineral security has become national security and ...

The heart and soul of suites by Bach and Handel are often found in the slow, central sarabande, said to be a dance of Spanish origin. In Bach’s cello suites, the sarabande stops time. Watch Yo-Yo Ma ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

South Africa imports more than 70 per cent of its oil from Nigeria, Acting High Commissioner and Consul General of the Republic of South Africa, Bobby Moroe, has said. Speaking at the Outward Selling ...

Overproduction in China has led to slashed prices, and buyers on the continent are taking advantage to sharply increase investments in clean energy. By Somini Sengupta China’s solar exports to Africa ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...

Lidar data allows the identification of more subtle consequences of a disaster, including fault line shifts, volcanic eruptions, and mudslides. The wildfires that swept through Los Angeles County in ...

On the infrastructure front, a consortium of Chinese banks led by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China reportedly provided 85 percent of the funding for the twenty towers in the central ...