Since its launch in 2018, Carry1st, a publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised funding from investors such as Google via its Africa Investment Fund and Avenir Growth Capital. It’s also received backing from top-tier funds focused on web3 and gaming:...
There’s plenty of vendors in the managed database services market — and plenty that are well financed. SingleStore last October raised $30 million to bring its database tech to new customers. There’s also EdgeDB, which landed $15 million in November ahead of the launch of...
According to recent reports, Amazon is developing a standalone app for watching sports. The move signals Amazon’s continued push toward investing in Prime Video and live sports content. If released, the standalone app would better highlight Amazon’s sports content, which is currently included in the...
OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. Point-E can produce 3D models in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU. Point-E doesn’t create 3D objects in the traditional sense. Rather, it generates...
Lensa AI’s popularity has had a notable impact on the App Store’s Top Charts. The photo and video editing app recently went viral over its new “magic avatars” feature, powered by the open source Stable Diffusion model, allowing users to turn their selfies into styled...
Lensa AI’s popularity has had a notable impact on the App Store’s Top Charts. The photo and video editing app recently went viral over its new “magic avatars” feature, powered by the open source Stable Diffusion model, allowing users to turn their selfies into styled...
Magazine reading app Flipboard is becoming the latest contender in the battle to relocate some of the online conversations taking place on Twitter onto its own platform instead. The company announced that Flipboard’s curators will be able to publish original content into their magazine in...
Amazon is bringing a TikTok-like shopping experience to its app. The company announced the launch of Inspire, a new short-form video and photo feed that allows consumers to explore products and ideas and shop from content created by influencers, brands and other customers. The feature...
Fizz is the newest and hottest mobile app on the college market. Available only for college students, users can only access the Fizz community for their own college. On the app, students can publish text posts, polls and photos without a username or identifying information...
Remix, a startup developing an open source web framework has been acquired by Shopify. Remix CEO Michael Jackson said that Remix will receive “long-term backing and support” from Shopify that will allow it to “grow faster” and “sharpen its focus on performance and scalability.” Remix...
