Nepal joins a growing list of countries banning TikTok
Another country is banning TikTok, the ByteDance-owned short video behemoth with over one billion active users around the world. Nepal, which has a population of close to 30 million people, has banned TikTok. The decision, first reported by the New York Times, came shortly after the Himalayan country introduced a rule
Read More2 Senior Appointments at Exclusive Networks Africa
Two recent senior appointments at Exclusive Networks Africa aim to bolster the management team within the South African and SADC regions of the company, a globally trusted cybersecurity specialist for digital infrastructure. Exclusive Networks Africa distributes its solutions through an extensive, reputable, and solution-focused partner base across the continent. Anton
Read MoreFirms unprepared for AI’s ‘massive’ energy requirements: Pure Storage
Data storage vendor Pure Storage, in association with Wakefield Research, released a new report today that identifies the hurdles organizations across industries face both in adopting artificial intelligence (AI), and unveiling what it described as the “the often overlooked energy requirements of this advanced technology.” According to a release, the
Read MoreRational solution to Korteweg–De Vries equation
Students seeing differential equations for the first time expect every equation to have a nice closed-form solution, because up to that point in their education nearly every problem they’ve seen has been contrived to have a nice closed-form solution. Once you resign yourself to the fact that a differential equation
Read MoreEtaily is a “one stop solution” for consumer brands that want to enter Southeast Asia
E-commerce in Southeast Asia grew rapidly during the pandemic, and that momentum is continuing. A McKinsey report found that between now and 2026, the market is expected to triple at compound growth rate of 22%, hitting $230 billion in gross merchandise volume. Not surprisingly, global brands are eager to enter
Read MorePebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon
Pebble, a startup that took on Twitter and failed, has returned from the dead — as a Mastodon instance, it seems. The company announced last month that it was shutting down its Twitter/X alternative citing the increasingly competitive landscape, X’s ability to retain users and its own failure to gain
Read More‘Deepwashing’ risks dampening progress in European climate tech investing
Craig Douglas Contributor Craig Douglas is a partner at World Fund and an adviser to the EU Commission on Energy policy. World Fund invests in climate technologies with significant climate performance potential (CPP). Today, deep tech companies — companies creating cutting-edge, transformative technologies based on scientific breakthroughs and R&D, and
Read MoreExxon wants to drill enough lithium out of Arkansas to power 1M EVs per year
Fossil fuel giant Exxon is betting its U.S. lithium operation will power a new generation of electric cars. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of tons of “recoverable” lithium, which could go to use in batteries for cars, handhelds and renewable energy storage, a 2021 U.S. Geological Survey said. Yet,
Read MoreObskur’s Character Creator and marketplace streamlines VTubing
To stream as their ethereal alter ego, Mai, a VTuber known as M41H41, typically had to juggle at least four to seven different programs. Running all of them at once, however, was both mentally exhausting and a burden on their computer, which could overheat mid-stream. If a program crashed, they’d
Read MoreUse LinkedIn to raise a Series A
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