Enterprise AI startup, InstaDeep, with offices in Tunis and London, has acquired $100 million in Series B funding from Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. The company uses AI to develop decision-making systems for tackling real-world challenges. Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine-maker BioNTech, Chimera Abu Dhabi, Deutsche Bahn Digital Ventures, Google, G42, and…
Author: Smart Megwai
Smart Megwai
Smart is a technology journalist covering innovation, digital culture, and the business of emerging tech. His reporting for Innovation Village explores how technology shapes everyday life in Africa and beyond.
If you’re a Twitter user, you may soon be able to share tweets with a specific set of people. The “Close Friends” feature on Instagram allows you to do the same thing, though in Twitter’s case, you’ll be restricting your tweets to your “Flock”. Twitter once teased this feature last year, referring to…
The Africa’s largest lender by assets, has reported that 99 percent of its transactions in South Africa are now cashless. This, the report confirms, has helped to greatly reduce expenses for the organisation. When Standard Bank CEO Sim Tshabalala spoke with Bloomberg News editor in chief former Matthew Winkler at…
It is rumored that TikTok is working to bring back the ability to see who has viewed your profile in the past 30 days, which would give a better sense of how popular your videos are. It’s an opt-in feature that would allow users to see who is checking out their profiles. …
As part of its ongoing effort to help policymakers on the continent make the transition to a knowledge-based digital economy, the World Economic Forum released a new report, which is titled, “Attracting Investment and Accelerating Adoption for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa.” Developed in collaboration with Deloitte, the report was released…
People are familiar with the concept of 5G, but a new version known as C-Band is now being rolled out. 5G is a new technology that hasn’t been around for a long time, but it has a lot of good things about it. When it comes to mobile internet, reliability…
If you have a Windows PC, you can run Android games natively. Google Play Games on PC lets you save your game progress across all of your devices, without any OS or form-factor restrictions. This isn’t a new idea, but it’s still a big step. For a long time, the…
CEO Kris Marszalek of Crypto.com has today confirmed that 400 customer accounts were hacked by other people. He made this confession in an interview with Bloomberg TV. According to him, there were unauthorized transactions on these accounts. He, however, confirmed that his team had taken care of the situation and reimbursed everyone whose money was stolen from…
Yesterday, an internet browser for crypto fans was released by Opera. The Web3-focused browser includes an integrated crypto wallet and is designed to work with decentralised apps. Web 2.0 is a universe of interactive websites like Facebook and YouTube that host user-generated content. These platforms are owned by wealthy corporations, and…
Chari, an African startup based in Morocco, has just raised a bridge round at $100 million valuation. The E-commerce and Retail company is one of many start-ups in the B2B e-commerce space that digitises the FMCG market in countries like Morocco and Tunisia. (A bridge round is an interim financing round intended to…
In Kenya, Opibus, a Swedish-Kenyan tech startup, has just launched the first all-electric bus and the first African-designed electric bus ever to be introduced. This is a significant step towards the goal of mass-producing an electric bus built and engineered in-house for the pan-African market by 2023. A report by TechCrunch…
Some people don’t like the idea of people mining Bitcoin, but it looks like Intel might get in on the action by making a chip for that. Based on the most recent speculation, an Intel “Bonanza Mine” microprocessor may soon be unveiled. Only crypto miners would benefit from the powerful…
According to a report by FingerprintJS, the Safari web browser has a significant issue that allows unauthorised individuals and even Google User IDs to access a user’s browsing history. Since this flaw was discovered, Apple has been working on a patch that should be available soon. WebKit, the software that…
This is one of the biggest bids Microsoft has ever made for a game company. The company plans to buy Activision Blizzard for $95 per share, which would make the all-cash deal worth a whopping $68.7 billion. In terms of revenue, Microsoft says this deal would make it the “third-largest”…
Samsung has introduced a new in-house mobile CPU for smartphones, the Exynos 2200. Because it has a GPU with AMD’s rDNA 2 graphics architecture, it can do things like hardware-accelerated ray tracing. The relationship with AMD has been in the works for quite some time. In 2019, the two companies…
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 Ultra and the Galaxy S21 Plus and S21 Ultra both have ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, which isn’t as well known as it should be. As the first phones to use the wireless communication standard, the new phones join Apple’s iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 series as the…
Float, an African startup in Ghana, just received a major amount in funding. With a $17 million in investment, the fintech startup that supplies SMEs with credit facilities wants to expand its services and geographic reach. For the seed round’s financing, $7 million in equity and $10 million in debt were used for the financing.…
Good news! Twitter says you can now record your Space conversations on both iOS and Android devices. The new feature adds more value to your Spaces content, which can now be re-shared to get more attention. It will also make it easier to think about re-purposing your content in a…
We’ve all heard the term “encryption,” but what does it actually mean? It is very simple: “Encryption” is the process of putting information into a code. Text messages and emails, as well as banking details, cloud storage and more, can all be protected by this encryption method. This article will explain…
In terms of messaging apps, WhatsApp is by far the most popular, beating out its rivals Messenger, Signal, and Telegram. Because we share so much private information online, is the app safe to use, given how much we do? Should you be concerned about hackers or data leaks, even though…