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More than 4,000 delegates from 80 countries are expected to converge in Kigali on the 7th of May for the Transform Africa Summit 2018.The summit will bring together African leaders, private sector players, representatives of development partners that are active the ICT field, among others.Up to 22 H ...
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Running under the theme, Sustainable Industrial Development, this year’s edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair packed up a lot in innovations that we as Africans could put to good use.A lot of emphasis was talked about and placed on agriculture and the command agriculture programme in Z ...
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An e-commerce retailer is injecting millions of dollars into a fledgling small-car startup in Phoenix.Overstock.com (Nasdaq: OSTK) is purchasing $2.5 million worth of common stock in Phoenix-based Elio Motors (OTC: ELIO) at $2.75 a share in a private placement. The deal was announced April 24.Elio i ...
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Perkbox allows you to stretch your money further

There are lessons for any start-up in the success of Perkbox.The employee perks and engagement platform seem to have cracked the winning formula of providing a subscription-based product with mass market appeal.It has over 500,000 employees from 8,000 customers on its platform, made over £30 millio ...
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What’s the best way to keep our screens clean? The first, and obvious answer, is to keep our hands themselves free of grime. But there may be another option: self-cleaning coatings created by materials scientists.Recently, Anish Tuteja, a materials researcher at the University of Michigan, develop ...
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For the first time, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved an artificial intelligence diagnostic device that doesn’t need a specialized doctor to interpret the results. The software program, called IDx-DR, can detect a form of eye disease by looking at photos of the retina.It works like ...
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Qualcomm is introducing a new line of chips today that are custom-made for smart cameras. The new line is called the Vision Intelligence Platform, and it’s meant to get AI features, extreme low-light image processing, image stabilization, and computer vision abilities into more cameras — and to ...
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NASA knows how to make it rain?

There are many odd conspiracy theories propagated in social media that claim NASA, the federal government and others are manipulating the climate or controlling our minds using "chem-trails" or HAARP. If you google either of these, get ready for an interesting experience. The reason that this viral ...
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People who are worried about whether their designer luggage will make it onto the baggage carousel at their destination need be concerned no longer: upscale maker Louis Vuitton has just released a tracking device, which is yours for a few hundred dollars.The Louis Vuitton Echo is on sale now for $37 ...
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Intel announced its first Core i9 processor for desktops last year.Now, Intel is announcing its first Core i9 chip for laptops, with what it claims is “the best gaming and creation laptop processor Intel has ever built.”The top-of-the-line model being announced today is the Intel Core i9-8950HK, ...
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