Our next stop on the road to autonomous cars is a look at the lane departure warning and prevention technology that helps modern drivers stay safely in their lanes.
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Amazon’s big 10-inch tablet delivers serious media chops for less than half the cost of Apple’s basic iPad.
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Ometria, a customer marketing platform which says it’s “AI-powered” has raised $6m in Series A funding. US-based Summit Action led the round, along with an investment syndicate backed by individuals with roles inside some key retailers. Ometria has now raised a total of $11m to accelerate the development of its customer marketing platform, which, it claims, enables retailers… Read More
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Jumia, the dominant e-commerce company in sub-Saharan Africa, is expanding the small business loan program it launched earlier this year into every country where the company operates. Working with the San Francisco-based lender Branch, Jumia began offering start-up loan for small businesses in May. The loans were pegged to vendors sales history with Jumia and projections for the future… Read More
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Season 1 of “Stranger Things” was all about ’80s fan service, but this time around we want it to go even further. Bring on Alf!
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Here we are in Nairobi, Kenya. For the first time, TechCrunch is hosting a conference in Africa. We have an amazing lineup of speakers who all share a ton of knowledge and expertise about technology in Kenya and Africa in general. But the real star of the show is going to be the Startup Battlefield.
15 startups are going to compete to win the Startup Battlefield competition and earn best of show. Read More
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A website flaw allowed access to a customer’s data by guessing their phone number, Motherboard reports.
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Alibaba Group announced today that it plans to invest more than $15 billion over the next three years into a global research and development initiative called Alibaba DAMO Academy. The Chinese tech giant said the program, which it is currently recruiting 100 researchers, will help it reach its goal of serving two billion customers and creating 100 million jobs by 2036, while also… Read More
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It’s been a long while coming but Uber’s chief rival in India is finally raising a big round, and joining the billion-dollar round club at the same time. Ola today announced that it has closed $1.1 billion in fresh financing. That’s the largest funding round in the company’s six-year history and its first major raise since November 2015 when it closed $500 million… Read More
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The discovery led US officials to order federal agencies to remove the company’s products from their networks, the New York Times reports.
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