It seems the demand for Safaricom’s M-Pesa payment product never eases. Since its 2007 launch in Kenya, the fintech app has commanded over 70% of…
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A seafloor vent called a “white smoker” spews mineral-rich water into the ocean and serves as an energy hub for living creatures. Some scientists think…
Media playback is unsupported on your device “What if [they] are trying to kill off as many people as possible” reads one Facebook post. “Eventually,…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. In the forests of the night lies a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 3583, imaged here by…
Weeks after Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, private equity firm Silver Lake is following suit. Silver Lake announced on Monday…
And fires back with ‘we do for free what meatspace distributors charge for’ argument Google’s Australian tentacle has hit back at Australia’s plan to plan…
An India-based startup that has built a Shopify -like platform for coaching centers to accept fees digitally from students, and deliver classes and study material…
Even as COVID-19 cases mount, companies are making plans to reopen. Everyone is keen to get back to work, but epidemiologists caution that a rush…
Artist’s rendition of NASA”s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars. Credit: NASA/GSFC Mars had a global magnetic field much earlier—and much…
When Roger Lee, the co-founder of Human Interest, heard that San Francisco imposed shelter-in-place orders, he started blogging about layoff news and posting crowdsourced lists…
Researchers from University of Pennsylvania published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that explains that the device people use to communicate can affect the extent…
Jon Evans Contributor Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book…
Statistics and probability can sometimes yield mind bending results. Statistics is a useful tool for understanding the patterns in the world around us. But our…
Oversharing on social media threatens your online security, warns Dan Lin. “We cannot go out and socialize during this pandemic, so people are turning to…
Ultracold atomic lab at Swinburne University of Technology. Credit: FLEET Sound waves reveal the unique properties of an ultracold quantum gas, a model system for…
As the world grows increasingly connected, growing concern regarding the influence of artificial intelligence (AI) has been bubbling to the surface, affecting perceptions by industries…
Creating and controlling on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars is a key goal of scientists around the world. Production of…
Some big M&A is afoot in Israel in the world of smart transportation. According to multiple reports and sources that have contacted TechCrunch, chip giant…
Entomology professor Adam Dolezal and his colleagues found that infection with the Israeli acute paralysis virus increases the likelihood that infected bees are accepted by…
The 3D printer developed at TU Graz melts metal powder using high-performance LED light sources and then processes it into components in additive manufacturing. Credit:…