Month: May 2020
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20’s biggest rival may be a stylus-toting Google Pixel phone
Is 2020 the year of the stylus? In January Samsung unveiled its first affordable stylus phone, the Galaxy Note 10 Lite, and soon after Motorola launched its first stylus phone in years, the Moto G Stylus – and now it looks like Google could be working on a Pixel phone…
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OnePlus will temporarily disable ‘X-ray’ camera filter that sees through plastic and clothes
OnePlus will temporarily disable a camera filter on the OnePlus 8 Pro after users discovered they could use it to see through certain plastics and clothes. Although the company has stressed that the “Photochrom” filter cannot see through thick materials, it apologized for “creating privacy concerns and causing troubles for…
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African countries need ‘startup acts’ more than ever to support innovation
National initiatives catalyze growth in the region’s burgeoning tech sector Adedana Ashebir 7 hours Adedana Ashebir Contributor Adedana Ashebir is regional manager for Africa for Village Capital, which has supported more than 100 entrepreneurs and 15 entrepreneur support organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2012. As the fallout from COVID-19 continues…
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Sony and Microsoft team up on AI-powered cameras
Sony and Microsoft are working on AI-powered cameras together. The two tech giants have announced that they’re embedding Microsoft Azure’s AI capabilities into Sony’s new image sensor, the IMX500, which comes with an onboard AI chip that processes in… Source
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Key Huawei chip supplier stops taking orders after new US sanctions
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has reportedly stopped taking orders from Huawei following the latest round of sanctions by the US government. Huawei has been on the US ‘non-entity’ list since 2019, a status which bans it from doing business with American tech firms on…
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TikTok parent ByteDance leads $6M round in financial AI startup Lingxi
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has added Lingxi, a Beijing-based startup that applies machine intelligence to financial services such as debt collection and insurance sales, to its ever-expanding portfolio of investments. The AI startup has raised a $6.2 million Series A round co-led by ByteDance and Rocket Internet, the German accelerator…
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