Adobe’s Project Stardust is a sneak preview of its next-gen AI photo editing engine
The latest version of Adobe’s Project Stardust AI photo editor already thoroughly leaked earlier this month, but at its MAX conference, the company now officially launched this project as a sneak preview of what a next-generation AI-powered photo editing engine could look like. Powered by Firefly Model 2, which is
Read moreServiceNow adds integration with BlackBerry UEM
ServiceNow has added integration with BlackBerry’s UEM endpoint management suite to its digital workflow solution. The free solution, which integrates into ServiceNow’s Flow Designer, will help reduce administrative burdens on IT teams across the most frequently leveraged device management tasks while maintaining the highest levels of security, the companies said
Read moreShadow launches Windows-based cloud PCs for $9.99 per month
While Shadow is better known for its high-end cloud PCs with a dedicated Nvidia GPU, the company is introducing a new tier called Shadow PC Essential. As the name suggests, Shadow isn’t targeting gamers with this offering. This is a computer in the cloud that runs Windows and that you
Read more8 Million South Africans Now Have a TymeBank Account
TymeBank, one of the world’s fastest growing digital banks, announced today that it has onboarded eight million customers as at 6 October 2023, which means one in every five eligible* South Africans now has a TymeBank account. Commenting on this latest milestone, TymeBank CEO Coen Jonker says: “We are immensely
Read moreRansomware gang threatens to release stolen CDW Corp. data
The LockBit ransomware gang is threatening to release data on Wedneday stolen from CDW Corp., a major IT reseller and services provider in the U.S., Canada and the U.K.. The Register says it was told by a gang member that Lockbit made the decision because negotiations over the ransom fee
Read moreLiquid Intelligent Accelerates Digital Transformation in Tanzania
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has partnered with wingu.africa a pioneer provider of carrier-neutral data center services in Tanzania. The company is also the foremost specialist carrier-neutral data center group in East Africa to introduce the second Azure Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) stack. This
Read moreCameroonian Fintech Emerges as Winner of 2023 Ecobank Challenge
Koree from Cameroon is the Ecobank Fintech Challenge competition’s first ever female-led fintech winner having beaten eight other finalists to claim the top prize of US$50,000; Wolf Technology from Democratic Republic of Congo came in second, winning US$10,000, while Kenya’s Flexpay Technologies were the second runner-up, taking home US$5,000; the
Read moreHarbour secures $15M to streamline and automate contract drafting
Contract management startup Harbour today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round that had participation from Getty Images co-founder Jonathan Klein, Scribble Ventures and The Palmer Company. Bringing Harbour’s total raised to $20 million, the new funds will be put toward growing the startup’s team
Read moreGutsy launches with huge $51M seed to bring process mining to security
Twistlock was founded in 2015 with the idea of securing the nascent cloud native computing environment, a notion you could argue was well ahead of its time. When the company was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2019 for $410 million, it turned out that wasn’t the end of the
Read moreTabbyML, an open source challenger to GitHub Copilot, raises $3.2 million
The race to create AI assistants that help humans write computer code is heating up. TabbyML, built by two ex-Googlers, has secured $3.2 million in seed funding to work on its open source code generator. In contrast to GitHub’s Copilot, a self-hosted coding assistant like TabbyML has the advantage of
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