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Sean Atitsogbe, Sean the Science Kid, Receiving a STEM Award in February 2025

SciTech

  Sean Atitsogbe, 10, from Lilburn, Georgia, USA also known as "Sean The Science Kid" is a science prodigy, educator, and aspiring Neurocardio surgeon. A highly social media influencer, he has been teaching science to his followers and the public, reaching millions of followers and earning awards and honors, including as a STEM advocate. He is also a member of Mensa International, an organization for high-IQ individuals, and qualified for high education. In February 2025,  Sean Atitsogbe  was awarded the 2025 STEM for All Youth STEM Leader Award.  Hence AfroAmerica Network has included Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner on the list of Most influential Black Persons as of 2025.  Hence AfroAmerica Network has included Sean Atitsogbe aka "Sean The Science Kid",  on the list of Most influential Black Persons as of 2025 (see AfroAmerica Network Most Influential Black Persons as of 2025).

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Apple 2024 It's Glowtime Event

Biz Tech

Apple's "It's Glowtime" event kicked off on Monday 9/9/2024 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. As expected, the event focused on  iPhone 16, Apple Watch, and AirPods, with new or updated models unveiled.  The iPhone 16 Pro are now bigger, faster, with more memory,  improved cameras, and  Apple Intelligence. The following products were unveiled:  iPhone 16, Apple Watch Series 10, Apple Watch Ultra 2, AirPods 4, AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods Max.

Read more … Apple's Glowtime Event: iPhone 16, Apple Watch, AirPods and Apple Intelligence

Apple WWDC Event on June 10-14, 2024

Biz Tech

Apple launched the 2024 annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) event on June 10, 2024 at 10:00 AM PCT.  Like in previous annual WWDC, and as reported in AroniSmart's previous coverages (AroniSmartIntelligence™ Technology: Ready for Apple's WWDC 2024 Event and AI Revolution) ,  the event focused on the future versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS and updates on the new innovation Vision Pro Headset.  But there was even a more new uncovered plan:   Apple Intelligence focusing Artificial Intelligence (AI).  The major announcements included the new macOS 15, known as MacOS Sequoia, which is replacing macOS Ventura,  iOS 18, iPadOS 18, tvOS18, watchOS11, visionOS 2 and more.

Read more …Apple's WWDC 2024: AI Platforms, Vision OS 2, MacOS Sequoia, iOS18, iPadOS18, watchOS 11, Apple...

Apple WWDC Event on June 10-14, 2024

Biz Tech

On Monday, June 10-14 , 2024 starting at 10 a.m. Pacific Time,  Apple, Inc ( AAPL ) will  hold the annual Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, or WWDC.  The event is  held every June at Apple's  Apple Park  spaceship in Cupertino, California.  The event is the  stage for Apple's numerous software platforms, including  the new versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS.

Meanwhile, Apple stock price has been on a rollercoaster, reaching high levels, fueled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) dynamics and plans.

Read more …AroniSmartIntelligence™ Technology: Ready for Apple's WWDC 2024 Event and AI Revolution

AroniSmartIntelligence in Action: Electric Car and Battery Innovation Major Players

Green Tech

Lithium, a critical component in electric vehicle batteries,  is in high demand.  The demand for lithium  has been rising, as the share of electric vehicles has been increasing.  In fact, major dominating technology companies in the last five years include those leveraging electric cars and new batteries. However, the market for battery-grade lithium is way larger, beyond Electric vehicles. In fact most of portable electronics, the laptops and tablets and smartphones depend lithium-ion batteries.  The key major player for Lithium production  is the African continent. Hence, the question iis whether Africans, especially leaders are ready?

Read more …Africa - GreenTech: Are African Leaders Ready for World Powers Competing for Africa's Strategic...

Apple 2023 Fall Event Wonderlust

Biz Tech

As expected Apple held its 2023 annual Fall event on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, starting at 10:00 AM PT. During the event,  the new products long rumored were all confirmed,  including iPhone 15, Apple Watch Series 9, and some accessories such as iPhone Cases, Apple Watch bands , USB-C, AirPods Pro Case (see previous articles here:  AroniSmartIntelligence™ Technology: Ready for Apple's Wonderlust Event  and Apple's Fall 2023 Event: iPhone 15, Apple Watch 9, iOS17, iPadOS17, tvOS17, watchOS 10, and More).

Read more …Apple's Fall 2023 Wonderlust Event: iPhone 15, Apple Watch 9, iOS17, iPadOS17, tvOS17,...

AroniSmartIntelligence Stock Market Indices Time Series Support Vector Machine, Neural Network and NLP Sentiment Analysis

Investing

In Q2 2025 and Early Q3 2025, stocks across industries continued to experience, yet, resilience and reached new records, despite a great decline in early Q2 2025, due to uncertainty about the impact, on the US and World economy, of  political and economical dynamics in the US  and on-going wars and conflicts around the World. Following the sudden decline in early April 2025, the stock market  recovered and  resumed the trends  built on  the dynamics of Q3 - Q4 2024. Hence, overall,  in Q1 and Q2  2025, the  market had continued to remain on the foundations of  Q4 2024. Now, in the middle of Q3 2025, the challenges to the stock market  appear to be looming,  with most the key market indices, including S&P 500 (^GSPC), Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI,  NASDAQ Composite (^IXIC), and Russell 2000 (^RUT), having suddenly significantly declined from the records reached  in July 2025. Hence,  starting in Q3 2025, the expectations and market sentiments appear to suggest that the stock market performance may adjust to the dynamics that could lead to increasing market volatility, including inflation, US trade tariffs, political events and wars around the world, and other challenges that started in early Q2 2025 and were fueled as  Q3 2025  was experiencing new records.  On August 1, 2025, AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the NLP, Text and Sentiment Analysis, Machine Learning Econometrics and Time Series capabilities and Dominance Analysis of AroniSmartInvest ™ and AroniSmartIntelligence™, looked at the stock markets news and trends.

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US-Africa Summit Washington 2014

Economy

African heads of state and business leaders have gathered in Luanda, Angola, for the  US - Africa  Business Summit convened in Luanda, Angola, starting in June 22, 2025. Close to 1500 attendees from around 40 countries attended, including 14  presidents and prime ministers of African countries.   The theme of the summit is "Pathways to Prosperity: A Shared Vision for U.S. - Africa Partnership." The focus of the Luanda Summit is to uncover, expand, and strengthen the business partnerships of the US with Africa.

Read more …USA - Africa - Angola: 2025 US-Africa Business Summit in Luanda, Angola, a Pathway to Prosperity

AroniSmart™ Tech: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Money

Big Tech Companies have been engaged on the road to Artificial Intelligence.  The technology focus have been shifting from Machine Learning to  Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Some technology companies have been publicly announcing their plans, including  hiring engineers, statisticians, mathematicians, designers, and others  with a background or interest in Machine Learning but pushing further to Generative AI. The move to Generative AI is a major step in AI itself. As they shape its strategy, advance their plans,  achieve their goals, and reach their vision  in  AI, the expected windfalls are humongous .  Already, some companies like META, Apples, and most recently NVIDIA have started to harvest the results. 

Read more …AroniSmart™ Tech: Race for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Among Big Tech Companies Gaining Momentum...

AroniSmart Stock Performance Analysis with Sentiment and Dominance Analysis

Investing

Stocks across  all sectors, especially in Tech, Healthcare, Financial Services,  Energy,  and Consumer  have been delivering differential returns over the last years including  in 2021, 2022, and Q1- early Q4 2024. Most stocks reached  heights in December 2021.  Then, in 2022 and up to mid-Q1 2023, the  stock growth became broadly negative across most sectors, except energy. The major stock market indices were also impacted.  Since then, many stocks across all sectors, along with the key  market indices have been on the rise, on a path to reaching the 2021 levels.  In a sample of key stocks to watch, as identified by AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning, Econometrics,  and NLP capabilities AroniSmartIntelligence™ and AroniSmartInvest™, most stocks have shown resilience and sometimes outperforming most of the other  stocks and the  key stock market indices.  As the end of Q4 2023 is reached , almost all the stocks, along with the key indices have reached  highs, even aiming at  their record highs.

 AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning Time Series capabilities, including Support Vector Machine,  and Dominance Analysis of AroniSmartIntelligence™ and AroniSmartInvest™,  has looked at the trends  of the stock prices of 21  selected  companies  between Q4 2021 and  Q4 2023 and came up with insights and  projections on the dynamics.   This is the Part 2 of the analysis. The findings captured in Part 1 may be seen here: AroniSmartIntelligence™ in Action: Stock Performance Analysis with Sentiment Analysis, Support Vector Machine and Dominance Analysis in Q4 2023 - Part 1.

Part 2 insights are presented below (for disclaimer and terms, check AroniSoft website).

Read more …AroniSmartIntelligence™ in Action: Stock Performance Analysis with Sentiment Analysis, Support...

AroniSmart Stock Performance Analysis with Sentiment and Dominance Analysis

Investing

Stocks across sectors, especially in Tech, Healthcare, Financial Services,  Energy,  and Consumer  have been delivering differential returns over the last years including in 2021, 2022, and Q1- early Q4 2024. Most stocks reached  their record highs in December 2021.  Then in 2022 and up to mid-Q1 2023,  stock growth has become broadly negative across most sectors, except energy. The major stock market indices  were also impacted.  Since then, many stocks across all sectors, along with the key  market indices have been on the rise, trying to reach the 2021 levels.  A sample of key stocks to watch, as identified by AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning  and NLP capabilities of AroniSmartIntelligence™ and AroniSmartInvest™,  have shown resilience and sometimes outperforming most of the stocks and the stock market indices.  

 The stock market lost momentum since December 2021 while the oil industry has gained  following the  increasing market volatility, inflation, interest rates, world events,  and other dynamics.  AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning Time Series capabilities, including Support Vector Machine, Econometrics,  and Dominance Analysis of AroniSmartIntelligence™ and AroniSmartInvest™,  has looked at the trends  of the stock prices of 21  selected  companies  between Q4 2021 and  Q4 2023 and came up with insights and  projections on the dynamics.   The insights are presented below (for disclaimer and terms, check AroniSoft website).

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AroniSmartIntelligence Dominance Analysis of Apple Adjusted Close Price Series

Investing

Stocks across industries have been experiencing an upward momentum since the beginning of Q3 2023.  Some stocks have completely recouped the losses  and reached  their high levels observed in 2022.  Technology, Beverages,  and Semi-conductors stocks including Apple Inc. (NYSE: AAPL), Meta (NYSE: META), Nvidia (NYSE: NVDA), Advanced Micro Devices(AMD), Tesla(NYSE :TSLA), The Home Depot (NYSE: HD),  Lowes (NYSE: LOW), Pepsi Cola (NYSE: PEP) and Exxon (NYSE: XOM) have been delivering  strong  returns in Q3 2023, similar to those in  the year 2021 and Q1 2022.  The oil industry has remained resilient during the period, with Crude Oil (CL=F) and Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) around the levels reached in late 2022.  Banking and Pharmaceuticals stocks  have remained almost flat or experienced some headwinds. The stock market indices have shown similar trends and patterns.  The stock market appears to face off  the  previous  increasing market volatility, inflation, world events,  and other dynamics since late Q2 2022.  AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the Machine Learning Time Series capabilities, including Support Vector Machine,  and Dominance Analysis of AroniSmartIntelligence™ and AroniSmartInvest™,  has looked at the trends of  the stock price of AAPL vs  the stock prices of 20  selected  companies  and market indices between Q4 2021 and  Q3 2023 and came up with insights and  projections on the dynamics.   The insights are presented below (for disclaimer and terms, check AroniSoft website).

Read more …AroniSmartIntelligence™ in Action: Stock Performance and Momentum Analysis of stocks in Tech,...

AroniStatMobile™ : Mobile Statistical Reference Tool for iPad®

AroniStatMobile

A new version of  AroniStatMobile™ is available in  App Store®. The new version of  AroniStatMobile™  available in  App Store® has multiple features and is a must have for people learning Statistics or needing  a quick  Statistics reference.

  AroniStatMobile™ is a quick smart statistical reference tool on iPad®. It is intended for beginners, students of statistics,  and advanced statisticians, including Data Scientists, Machine Learning Experts, Econometricians, Actuarial scientists and many more.

Read more …AroniStatMobile™: Version 5.x of AroniStatMobile™, the Leading Mobile Statistics Reference for...

AroniSmartIntelligence™: Charts, Graphs and Plots Capabilities

AroniSmartLytics

In the last version 15.x of AroniSmartIntelligence™, available on Apple's App Store®, an optimized  A/B Bayesian Testing capability was implemented (see the introduction and background on A/B Test in AroniSmartIntelligence™ and Optimized Bayesian A/B Testing Capabilities - Implementation and Execution in the New Version 15.x here).  Following the implementations and even before, many users have continued to request a dedicated capability or module  in AroniSmartIntelligence™  focused on charts, graphs, and plots. Although most modules have their own charting and plotting capabilities addressing the requirements  to support data science, statistical and other frequentist analytics and Machine Learning, especially  in Statistical Inference, Segmentation, and  Regression, Econometrics, and Time Series Analytics, this new capabilities  would focus just on charting and plotting to better understand the data and explore data (EDA) before conducting advanced analytics. Hence, a new module Charts, Graphs and Plots has been implemented  in the latest version of AroniSmartIntelligence™.

Read more …AroniSmartIntelligence™: Improved Charts, Graphs, and Plots Capabilities in the New Version 15.x

AroniSmartIntelligence™: A/B Bayesian Test Capabilities

AroniSmartLytics

A/B Bayesian Testing is a new capability implemented in version 15.x of AroniSmartIntelligence™ available on Apple's App Store® (see the introduction and background on A/B Test in AroniSmartIntelligence™ here). A/B Testing is a statistical methodology that involves randomly splitting an experiment into two groups with the goal to find what works better. For example, in digital marketing where the objective is to test which version of a banner, an e-mail, or  a web page leads to a higher  conversion rate,  a user base is split into two groups. Each of the two groups is showed a different version of the  web page, an app, or an e-mail. The goal is to see if the modified version has a higher impact on user behavior, conversion rates, increased sales, etc. A/B testing has become a key analytical methodology in machine learning  and data science across industries, in the technology in general, given its effectiveness to help test hypotheses and  get reliable analytics to support better informed decision making and drawing conclusions about any numerical data driven hypotheses.  

Read more …AroniSmartIntelligence™: Optimized Bayesian A/B Testing Capabilities - Implementation and...

AroniSmartIntelligence™: A/B Bayesian Test Capabilities

AroniSmartLytics

AroniSmartIntelligence ™ is one of the most advanced analytics tools with Machine Leaning, Data Science, Statistics, Econometrics,  NLP Text and Sentiment analysis, Neural Network, and Support Vector Machine capabilities. To support Hypothesis Testing, Design and Analysis of experiments, Marketing Campaign and Digital Marketing Assets Analyses,  and Marketing Mix  analysis, a new capability has been added to the new version 15.x of AroniSmartIntelligence ™: A/B Bayesian Test. Hence, the new AroniSmartIntelligence version will also include the critical capability. complementing the usual  frequentist hypothesis testing  and statistical inference  tools. 

A/B testing has become a key analytical methodology in machine learning  and data science across industries, in the technology in general, given its effectiveness to help test hypotheses and  get reliable analytics to support better informed decision making and drawing conclusions about any numerical data driven hypotheses. 

Read more …AroniSmartIntelligence™: Optimized Bayesian A/B Testing Capabilities in the New Version 15.x

Sentiment, Some Highlighted Stocks and Key Word Tags on May 29, 2023

Aroni in Action

On Tuesday May 30, 2023, AroniSmart™ team, leveraging the NLP, Text and Sentiment Analysis, Machine Learning  Econometrics and Time Series capabilities and Dominance Analysis of AroniSmartInvest ™ and AroniSmartIntelligence™, looked at the stock markets news and trends. Since the beginning of the year, the stock market has been volatile,  with seesaw movements driven by the news around the world, the fears of recession, the resilience or weaknesses of some sectors, the inflation worries,  Ukraine wars, Chinese companies, and economical forecasts. From the analysis, the team came up with insights and highlights on key stocks and market sentiments. Below are the key stocks highlighted and expected to weight heavily in investment decisions at the end of Q2 2023 and the associated sentiment analysis results.

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AroniSmartIntelligence™: Decision Tree Module

AroniSmartLytics

AroniSmartIntelligence ™ is one of the most advanced analytics tools with Machine Leaning, Data Science, Statistics, Econometrics,  NLP Text and Sentiment analysis, Neural Network, and Support Vector Machine capabilities. To support NLP Text and Sentiment analysis, a new capability has been recently added: Speech-to-Text Transcription. Now the AroniSmartIntelligence version will also include a critical capability: Decision Trees, complementing the usual Bayesian Network  and Regression classification tools. 

Decision Trees will help solve the various problems related to classification built on big data and fuel data science insights. 

Read more …AroniSmartIntelligence™: Optimized Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics, and Data Science...

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