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Ventures Platform, one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors, has raised another $64 million

Ventures Platform, one of Africa’s most active early-st...

The Lagos-based firm and one of Africa’s most active early-stage investors is ta...

Anker-backed hybrid RV startup Evotrex comes out of stealth

Anker-backed hybrid RV startup Evotrex comes out of ste...

Evotrex joins startups like Lightship, Pebble, and Grounded in trying to disrupt...

Perplexity to pay Snap $400M to power search in Snapchat

Perplexity to pay Snap $400M to power search in Snapchat

Snap said today that it has signed a deal with AI-powered search engine Perplexi...

Google Maps upgrades navigation in India with Gemini, safety alerts

Google Maps upgrades navigation in India with Gemini, s...

India becomes the second market after the U.S. to get Gemini-powered navigation ...

Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text

Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models ...

Diffusion models already power AI image generators, but Inception thinks they ca...

Why Benchmark made a rare crypto bet on trading app Fomo, with $17M Series A

Why Benchmark made a rare crypto bet on trading app Fom...

The founders of Fomo, a consumer crypto trading app that launched in May, took a...

Spotify now lets you see weekly listening stats

Spotify now lets you see weekly listening stats

Spotify is adding new feature called "Listening stats" that will show users week...

Google warns criminals are building and selling illicit AI tools - and the market is growing

Google warns criminals are building and selling illicit...

AI tools are being specially built for cyber crime, new Google research warns.

YouTube TV and Disney stand-off branded an ‘antitrust issue’ by broadcaster – here's what could happen next

YouTube TV and Disney stand-off branded an ‘antitrust i...

The CEO of one of the US' biggest TV station groups, Sinclair, has shared that t...

Cameroon social media ban sees Proton VPN signups skyrocket by 3,000%

Cameroon social media ban sees Proton VPN signups skyro...

Social media platforms have been blocked in Cameroon amid escalating post-electi...

Letterboxd is down –here's what we know about the movie app's outage

Letterboxd is down –here's what we know about the movie...

The movie app and social network Letterboxd is having problems –here's what we k...

IKEA just launched 21 affordable new smart home gadgets – here’s the full list of lights, sensors, and more

IKEA just launched 21 affordable new smart home gadgets...

IKEA has decided to revamp its smart home product range, and it looks like there...

Fairphone’s sustainable, repairable noise-cancelling headphones are finally coming to the US. Here’s why you should pay attention

Fairphone’s sustainable, repairable noise-cancelling he...

These headphones are built to be better for the environment and for your conscie...

Apple's $1 billion AI gamble might be too late to tempt users back to Apple Intelligence

Apple's $1 billion AI gamble might be too late to tempt...

Apple and Google are about to sign a lucrative AI deal, but can Gemini fix Apple...

Watch those typos - email mistakes are causing significant security issues

Watch those typos - email mistakes are causing signific...

Emails sent to the wrong address cause quite a lot of trouble and rake up billio...

Valve just made Steam Deck downloads much easier – and I hope this feature comes to all SteamOS handhelds

Valve just made Steam Deck downloads much easier – and ...

Valve has just released a new Steam Deck 'display-off low-power download' update...