Month: January 2021
Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020
As a turbulent week in the capital world, we’re taking a look at something a bit slower moving: venture capital trends in Africa during 2020. The Exchange has long explored quarterly and yearly data regarding the North American, European and Asian venture capital markets, along with data on particular startup…
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Tweaking COVID-19 vaccines will keep them effective against new variants
Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts have cautioned that the first batch of vaccines created against the virus might not be the last. Like all viruses, this one would mutate, and eventually, those mutations could make the virus different enough that a different vaccine would be needed…
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Cadeera is doing AI visual search for home decor
In recent years we’ve seen a whole bunch of visual/style fashion-focused search engines cropping up, tailored to helping people find the perfect threads to buy online by applying computer vision and other AI technologies to perform smarter-than-keywords visual search which can easily match and surface specific shapes and styles. Startups…
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EU ‘falling behind’ US and South Korea on 5G null
Europe is falling behind the US and Asia when it comes to 5G development and rollout, according to the European Telecommunications Network Operators Association (ETNO). The industry body’s 2021 ‘State of Communications’ report, prepared by Analysys Mason, found that although the number of European covered by at least one 5G…
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Samsung Mobile’s head of camera R&D wants your phone to ‘personalize’ your photos
Samsung announced its first Galaxy S smartphone in the heady days of 2010, and at the time people were too jazzed by its 4-inch Super AMOLED screen and 1GHz processor to fret much about its cameras. The same could be said of Samsung itself — the comp… Source
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The ‘Justice League’ Snyder Cut debuts March 18th on HBO Max
HBO Max is preparing to finally release the Snyder Cut and fans won’t have to wait much longer to get their eyes on director Zack Snyder’s true vision for Justice League. The retooled version of the superhero blockbuster will hit the streaming servic… Source
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