Thursday, February 22, 2024

Hohm Energy to scale adoption of rooftop solar across South Africa, backed by $8M seed

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In the face of South Africa’s worsening energy crisis, marked by increasingly severe power shortages, implementing daily electricity rationing has become imperative to avert the risk of a nationwide grid collapse. According to the state-owned power generator Eskom, the country witnesses a significant power deficit, surpassing 6,000 megawatts on occasion. This situation is similar in […]

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US health tech giant Change Healthcare hit by cyberattack

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U.S. healthcare technology giant Change Healthcare has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems. In a brief statement, the company said it was “experiencing a network interruption related to a cyber security issue.” “Once we became aware of the outside threat, in the interest of protecting our partners and patients, we took immediate action to disconnect […]

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Varda Space, Rocket Lab nail first-of-its-kind spacecraft landing in Utah

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A spacecraft containing pharmaceutical drugs that were grown on orbit has finally returned to Earth today after more than eight months in space. Varda Space Industries’ in-space manufacturing capsule, called Winnebago-1, landed in the Utah desert at around 4:40 p.m. EST. Inside the capsule are crystals of the drug ritonavir, which is used to treat […]

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Lucid Motors will only build 9,000 EVs in 2024 after once predicting it would ship 90,000

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Lucid Motors plans to build just 9,000 electric vehicles in 2024, only 500 to 1,000 more than it made in 2023, as it struggles with demand for its luxury sedans. If it sticks to that number, that means Lucid will wind up building around 10% of the 90,000 EVs it predicted it could make and […]

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Uber CEO says firm to explore integration with India’s ONDC

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Uber has signed a memorandum of understanding with an Indian government-supported program that aims to make transportation and business more accessible across the South Asian region. The ride-hailing giant said Thursday that it will explore an integration with the network to expand the range of its mobility offerings on the Uber app. This is a […]

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Backed by Chinese carmaker Great Wall, Haomo raises $14M for autonomous driving tech

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After a few years of funding frenzy, autonomous driving companies in China are experiencing a slowdown in investment. Some companies are still hauling in capital, though the era of bankrolling several hundred million dollars in a single round has mostly passed. Haomo.ai, an autonomous driving startup backed by Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor, has raised […]

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Instagram launches its marketplace to connect brands and creators in 8 new countries

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Instagram said today that it is expanding its marketplace tool to connect brands with creators for paid partnerships or ads in eight new countries. The new markets that will get access to this marketplace include Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Japan, India, and Brazil. The company first started testing this platform in the […]

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Antler’s founder on its vertical AI bet in Southeast Asia

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A growing roster of vertical AI startups is emerging in Southeast Asia to serve sectors ranging from seafood to finance. Singapore-based venture capital firm Antler recently made a bet on 37 of them, investing $5.1 million in total for pre-seed deals. This included a strategic partnership with Khazanah, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, which invested into […]

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Musk’s X withholds accounts, tweets in India to obey orders

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X, formerly known as Twitter, said Wednesday it is withholding specific accounts and posts in India, action it said the firm disagrees with, in response to executive orders issued by the Indian government. Non-compliance with the executive orders, X said, would have subjected the firm to “potential penalties including significant fines and imprisonment.” X’s Global […]

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Samsung is bringing Galaxy AI features to more devices

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Samsung is bringing its Galaxy AI features to more devices through a new One UL 6.1 update coming in late March, the company announced today. The features are coming to the Galaxy S23 series, S23 FE, Z Fold5 and Z Flip5, as well as Tab S9 Ultra, Tab S9+ and Tab S9. The AI features […]

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Reesa Teesa’s ‘who tf did I marry’ TikToks are like an audiobook

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TikTok’s latest viral superstar is Reesa Teesa, a Georgia woman who posted fifty videos — just under ten minutes long a piece — chronicling her tumultuous relationship with her ex-husband. That’s over six hours of content, all about a stranger’s experience living with a compulsive liar. But millions of viewers are eating it up, clinging […]

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US health tech giant Change Healthcare hit by cyberattack

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Varda Space, Rocket Lab nail first-of-its-kind spacecraft landing in Utah

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Loora wants to leverage AI to teach English

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Of the professions in danger of being replaced by AI, language teacher is certainly up there. That’s not necessarily because it’s a good idea. AI, some employers have decided — including Duolingo, recently — is a reasonable enough stand-in for human experts when it comes to language instruction. Despite the fact that AI-translated text tends […]

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India’s PhonePe launches Android app store with Amazon, Meta and Microsoft apps

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Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are among the top brands whose apps are available on the Indian fintech PhonePe’s Indus Appstore, an app store for the Android mobile operating system, launched Wednesday in challenge to Google’s monopoly in its largest market by users. Indus Appstore supports 12 regional languages and features over 200,000 apps — including […]

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