Unleashing Africa’s retail transformation
The African retail landscape is under immense pressure. Consumers are more digitally savvy and price-conscious than ever, and expect brands to offer convenience, personalisation, and value. About half of consumers will switch brands if their expectations are unmet, compelling retailers to continuously innovate and improve. Industry growth is tapering down across
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Hi, thanks as always for reading TechCrunch. We want to talk with you quickly about something important. We’ve discovered that scammers are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads and reaching out to companies, pretending to be our staff when they absolutely are not. These bad actors are using our name
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This came out a few weeks ago, but I just learned about it today and I think it’s hilarious. Duncan Haldane posted on X a screenshot of Google Gemini having a meltdown. I quit. I am clearly not capable of solving this problem. The code is cursed, the test is
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At one time Bayesian statistics was not just a minority approach, it was considered controversial or fringe. When I was in grad school, someone confided in me that he was a closet Bayesian. He thought the Bayesian approach to statistics made sense, but didn’t want to jeopardize his career by
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Read moreRIP, Microsoft Lens, a simple little app that’s getting replaced by AI
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For 20 years, startups have come to TechCrunch Disrupt to meet their first investors, land their biggest partnerships, and spark the idea that takes them to the next level.
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The multi-modal tool, which includes speech, text and images, runs inside Google Cloud’s Vertex AI environment.
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Following concerns about safety, Instagram head Adam Mosseri reassured users that the feature is opt-in, and noted that some people are “confused” about how the feature works.
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