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Farmshine teaches farmers climate-smart agriculture techniques and helping them secure higher contract prices for their produce and has received funding of USD 250,000 from the US-based impact investor Gray Matters Capital’s which will aid in the hiring and training of field agents, and to further develop the platform to connect the agriculture ecosystem. The funding marks the second investment by the impact investor in the agri-tech space in Kenya after previously funding B2B start-up Taimba in July this year as the fifth African start-up added to its portfolio which includes Rwanda’s ARED, Ghana’s Redbird Health Tech and Nigeria’s Sonocare in the last two years....

To look for a reliable donation platform is worth a considerable amount of thought, irrespective of the size of your organization. If you are already investing in that and it has led you here, Donorbox might be the perfect place for you. It is the best fit for your fundraising needs. And here’s why: Smooth Checkout: Checkouts can be time-consuming, but Donorbox cuts that down for you. It has a swift and reliable checkout system....

After all the technical data about the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 5G and the Galaxy Z Flip3 5G recently surfaced, GizNext was able to publish the official brochures on the two smartphones before the official presentation of the two folding flagships on August 11, so it is already clear how Samsung will market the devices. The Galaxy Z Fold3 5G focuses on the rugged case-both. The exterior display and the back of the device are protected from scratches by rugged Corning Gorilla Glass Victus....

Asides some very few programs like the She Leads Africa (SLA), there are none others that gives a nod to the rise of females in business. While this isn’t supposed to be so, it is how we have found it, and it isn’t cool at all. In the entrepreneurship world, there seem to be a general focus on the men. While they should be acknowledged, we also believe the women deserve as much, probably more support and acknowledgement....

Sunny Varkey founded the Global Teacher Prize, which was won in 20219 by Peter Tabichi, Maths and Physics teacher at Keriko Secondary School, Pwani Village, Nakuru, Kenya. According to Mr. Sunny Varkey, Chairman and Founder of TMRW and GEMS Education, “Quality education is the great equaliser. It bridges the gap between the rich and the poor and gives us the greatest opportunity to improve the state of our world. “We have built this platform to be accessible and affordable for Government funded schools throughout the world to help improve learning outcomes wherever we can....

The new task buttons once rolled out, will allow users to add to-do list items more easily. The tasks give users a single destination to keep track of important tasks in G Suite. The app aims to bring in all reminders from Inbox/Gmail, Calendar, and Assistant under one roof. Tasks can be accessed from the right-hand add-on panel in Gmail and Google Calendar, Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Users can set up tasks to repeat monthly, weekly and even daily....

Several programs that let you alter the colour and theme of websites have been found to be extensions used by dishonest people to steal personal information online. By careless online users, these extensions have been downloaded millions of times. According to Nati Tal from Guardio Security, who discovered the “Dormant Colors” campaign, there were at least 30 different variations of this extension that were a part of the campaign for both Chrome and Edge....

By 2025, the cable, which is set to arrive in Lagos, Nigeria, on Friday, April 29, 2022, will have boosted internet speeds by nearly six times, reduced internet costs by 21%, and created 1.6 million jobs. The cable, named after Nigerian-born writer and abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, will play a key role in satisfying Nigeria’s current and future international connectivity demands, as well as supporting the country’s digital transformation. In the last five years, Nigeria has produced five startup unicorns....

It ended with a high note session of a Startup Launchpad, a program that makes it easy for the very best startups to launch, market, and showcase their products to potential customers. The program is geared towards helping startups successfully launch their innovations and share their stories. Giving startups the opportunity to validate ideas, connect to early stage investors, create awareness and drive impact. Amongst those involved were the diverse group of startups from the around the region....

WhatsApp, the most popular encrypted messaging service in the world has been constantly adding new features to the cross-platform messenger service in an attempt to increase its userbase. After working on features like multi-device support that is now in beta testing, the company recently released a new view once mode for images and videos. The service is now working on adding support for a new feature – the ability to edit images from WhatsApp Web on the desktop....

While studying at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the sisters saw a gap which they quickly by carefully moved to fill. “We spotted a gap in the international market for affordable, ethical and design-led pieces,” Sisi told TechMoran. “Locally there was also a gap for fashion-forward pieces that were affordable and made in Kenya. We therefore design ethical, accessible design-led pieces made right here in Nairobi for both markets....

Big Data Specialist – Who Is This? There is an opinion that a Big Data specialist is a super professional, a superman with a huge number of different skills. To some extent, this is true, because, among other things, he must have a good understanding of business. Of course, it is difficult for one person to know everything at all, so we most often work in teams – this is much more productive....

The phone will sport a 1.5K AMOLED display with a “flexible screen” that will show itself in curved sides. It will be powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset and will have 12GB of RAM. The main camera is set to have 200MPand a large battery that supports 100W charging. The launch of the 80 Pro+ is expected to be alongside a vanilla Honor 80 with a Dimensity 1080, and an Honor 80 Pro with a Snapdragon 778G and is expected to debut in China by the end of December....

According to various universities of the US, the role of AI regarding the current crisis has been boiled down into three intermediate stages. They are, To find treatments by possessing a large amount of dataBy reducing the spread of COVID-19By treating the ill patients. Apart from this, the health care workers have shown their super efforts after being aided with the latest technologies. The tools of AI have been seen prominent that has helped in showing the cases of COVID-19 through hotspots....

Today, we wonder whether an automated workforce could have cushioned us from the damage to the economy caused by Covid-19. If we had contactless purchasing options at the stores, could they have cushioned human cashiers? The evidence is overwhelming that indeed technology protects us in more ways than one. Support of Labor Forces In January 2020, the World Economic Forum’s report indicated in a statement that approximately 6.1 million opportunities in the world would be created in 2020 and 2022 from professions in the automation industry and other technological applications....

Blockchain technology first emerged in 2009 and has become a disruptive technology that goes beyond the crypto world. This technology is becoming widely used in a range of software applications across various industries. Cryptographic ledgers have become the technology of choice for secure transactions within software applications, beyond cryptocurrency transactions. Cryptographic Ledgers Defined A blockchain is defined as a distributed database comprised of a collection of blocks of data. Each of these blocks has a timestamp and a cryptographic link to a previous block, as well as the other data it may store....

Planning ahead It’s easy to break down and understand how much you should aim for to make money every week, take a look at it this way. Say you plan to work 50 weeks a year. Manage your time To make $50 an hour, you need to use your time wisely and carefully. For example, don’t waste an hour driving to a stationery supply shop. This is a waste of your routine to save $20 on stationery....

With iMessages, you choose who gets to be part of the conversation. Here is how you can add and remove people in group iMessages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Add someone to a group text message Remove someone from a group text message Note that you can only remove someone from a group iMessage if there are already three or more people in the group. Anyone in a group iMessage can add or remove someone from the conversation....

A system dubbed ‘Service By Appointment’ was recently introduced, where you have to book an appointment to visit select Huduma Centre Service points with the aim of getting government services. The previous system where you had to queue for long hours to get services proved to be challenging as it was not efficient and led to wastage of time, thus had to be got ridden off. Currently, the Huduma Appointment system has been rolled out only at the GPO and Thika branches and in due time the system will be implemented in other centres countrywide....