Month: July 2021
ZTE’s newest under-display selfie camera looks slightly improved
Last year’s Axon 20 5G from ZTE was the world’s first commercially-available phone to put a front-facing camera underneath its display. It was an impressive step forward for phone technology but there was one big problem: the camera sucked. It took lousy pictures and the module distorted the display in…
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AMD’s still on target to release Zen 4 CPUs and RDNA 3 GPUs in 2022 AMD Ryzen
AMD’s CEO has confirmed that the company is on schedule to get both its next-gen Zen 4-based processors and RDNA 3 graphics cards out next year. Lisa Su provided the update in a conference call following AMD’s latest financial results for Q2 2021, as Wccftech spotted. Su said: “We remain…
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Field Intelligence targets 11 African cities to expand its pharmacy inventory-management service
Pharmacies in Africa struggle with access to finance, but inventory management is really what bogs them down. How do pharmaceutical retailers know how much stock they need? How do they know which products to stock at a given time? How do they know what products aren’t selling? At the moment,…
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Sky broadband outage forces swathes of UK customers offline Sky Q
UK broadband provider Sky has been hit by outages across the UK, sending users offline in a host of areas around the country. User reports of Sky outages have skyrocketed over the past few hours. There had been a couple of hundred reports over the evening of July 27, but…
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Patchwork Health raises £3.5M to fix the staff scheduling disaster inside stressed hospitals
The tyranny of the Excel spreadsheet continues, and especially in rostering staff. Nowhere is this more acutely felt in today’s COVID-pressured hospital wards, which are now depleted not just by the disease but by staff burnout from patchy-over or under-scheduling of staff hours. Two doctors realized this and decided to…
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Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital leads $20M investment in Brazilian healthcare startup Pipo Saude
Pipo Saude, a startup that developed a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits for Brazilian companies, has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital led the round, marking the first time the New York-based venture firm has led an investment in a…
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