Month: March 2021
Nordetect’s system to monitor soil and water for indoor agriculture raises seed funding
As indoor farming expands, a number of new companies are cropping up to provide better data and monitoring tools for the businesses aimed at improving efficiencies and quality of indoor crops. One of these companies, the Copenhagen-based Nordetect, is entering the U.S. market with around $1.5 million in funding from…
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Motorola is once again trying to make your phone into a PC Motorola
Motorola is taking another stab at making mobile phones that can turn into desktop PCs a thing. The company has unveiled a new feature for its Edge+ smartphone, called Ready For, and it’s essentially its version of the Samsung DeX, albeit with a few interesting perks of its own. The…
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is a brief respite in a post-Thanos world
For the vast majority of Bucky Barnes’ 106 years on Earth, his life has consisted of running from fight to fight without a second to sit down and simply exist. Now, Bucky Barnes is faced with a new reality he doesn’t know how to navigate — what happens after the…
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Facebook’s New Wearable Gestures Toward Computing’s Future
This week, we discuss Facebook’s wrist-worn concept, and what it says about the company’s plan for new human-computer interactions. Source
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‘Anti-capitalist’ Verkada hacker charged by US government with attacks on dozens of companies
A Swiss computer hacker named Till Kottmann has been charged by the US government with multiple accounts of wire fraud, conspiracy, and identity theft. The indictment accuses Kottmann and co-conspirators of hacking “dozens of companies and government entities,” and posting private data and source code belonging to more than 100…
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Nigeria’s Termii raises $1.4M seed led by Future Africa and Kepple Africa Ventures
Ideally, it is expected of every business to reach its customers effectively. However, that’s not the case as limiting factors that hinder proper digital communication come into play at different growth stages. Termii, a Nigerian communications platform-as-a-service startup that solves this problem for African businesses, announced today that it has closed…
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