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Google\\u2019s offering up to $1.5m to anyone who can identify bugs in its new chip for Android smartphones. This is a especially high reward but Google\\u2019s just one of a host of big well-known companies running bug hunting programmes. But is this the best way for big business to protect its new tech?

AI in Africa\\nDoes Africa need a different approach to AI \\u2013 yes according to Professor Alan Blackwell of the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University in England. He\\u2019s just started a sabbatical year across Africa working with AI experts \\u2013 we spoke to him on the first leg of his trip at the Bahir Institute of Technology (BIT) in the North West of Ethiopia.

Wi-fi on the bus\\nBeing online when travelling on the bus in parts of Kenya and Rwanda is not new, but now it is also possible in parts of South Africa as BRCK launch their public internet service there.

Nanotech tracing stolen cars\\nAround 143,000 vehicles worldwide were reported as stolen in 2018 according to Interpol. In the UK, only half are recovered. Now nanosatellites could be a new tool in retrieving stolen cars. Digital Planet\\u2019s Izzie Clarke has more.

Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

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