Startups have sought to use technology to digitize processes in Africa’s B2B e-commerce and retail space over the past couple of years. While many focus on moving products and providing credit, issues around cash overdependency haven’t been tackled at scale. Here’s why this is a critical problem. When traditional distributors move goods from manufacturers and…
Indian digital services company Jio Platforms, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has made an investment of $15 million in Silicon Valley-based tech startup Two Platforms (TWO) for a 25% equity stake. Two Platforms is an artificial reality (AR) company with focus on building interactive and immersive AI experiences. “We are impressed with the strong…
Meal deliveries in Vietnamese cities typically take less than half an hour, but grocery deliveries are lagging behind, sometimes taking up to two to three hours, says Rino founder Trung Thanh Nguyen. By creating a vertically-integrated logistics infrastructure centered around “dark stores,” or stores set up for order fulfillment only, Nguyen says Rino can cut…
The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the arrest of a married couple in connection with conspiring to launder cryptocurrency worth $4.5 billion that was siphoned during the hack of the virtual currency exchange Bitfinex in 2016. Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31, both of New York, are alleged to have…
There are better performing mesh systems than D-Link’s M15 AX1500, but its attractive price makes it worth considering. D-Link announced the mesh system towards the end of last year as part of its Eagle Pro AI series. As of writing, a pack consisting of a router and two nodes is around £155 ($210). For a WiFi…
There are better performing mesh systems than D-Link’s M15 AX1500, but its attractive price makes it worth considering. D-Link announced the mesh system towards the end of last year as part of its Eagle Pro AI series. As of writing, a pack consisting of a router and two nodes is around £155 ($210). For a WiFi…
There are better performing mesh systems than D-Link’s M15 AX1500, but its attractive price makes it worth considering. D-Link announced the mesh system towards the end of last year as part of its Eagle Pro AI series. As of writing, a pack consisting of a router and two nodes is around £155 ($210). For a WiFi…
Immersive, mixed-reality experiences and the metaverse will change life, work, and everything else. Last year, Mark Zuckerberg revealed Facebook’s next move—its evolution to Meta, a social technology company. Meta describes the metaverse, an immersive VR (virtual reality)-enabled space that allows users to interact with a computer-generated environment, as “the next evolution of social connection.” Could…
Refresh 2022-02-09T19:54:56.902Z (Image credit: Nintendo) With about two hours to go before the Nintendo Direct begins, there’s not much we can say definitively about the livestream yet. However, Nintendo fans are excited to learn more about The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2. We don’t know whether this game will be coming or…
SpaceX chief Elon Musk has sent a team of Starlink engineers to the South Pacific to help get Tonga back online after a recent volcanic eruption severed the only cable connecting the island nation to the internet. With repairs to the undersea cable still ongoing, and a population desperate to contact loved ones overseas, several…
