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TechCabal The Ugandan founders who don’t want farmers waiting for rain

The duo founded Drought Guard Africa in 2023, which designs and installs climate-smart irrigation, clean water, and solar energy s...

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TechCabal From war zones to Kenya’s markets: How an ex-soldier built a $1bn lender

How a former British Army officer arrived in Kenya with little experience in finance and built a lender that has disbursed more th...

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TechCabal Nomba, Synafare target 300 Nigerian businesses with $1.4 million solar financing

Nomba and Synafare have announced a ₦2 billion ($1.4 million) lending commitment to finance solar energy systems for businesses in...

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TechCabal What ₦100,000 in Nigeria’s biggest bank stocks became in 8 months

Nigerians are putting more of their hard-earned money into the stock market than ever before. But what has that money actually ear...

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TechCabal 👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – OPay to NGX?

In today's edition: Quizzes || OPay reportedly eyes the NGX || Coronation sells part of its SPAR stake || Who secured the bag? 💰

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TechCrunch AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10

A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York's West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, T...

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TechCrunch Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, pre...

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TechCrunch Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company

Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the company said in a filing on Thursday.

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TechCrunch Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral

Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

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TechCrunch Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data

Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children under 13 to train and test age-detection models, h...

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TechCrunch YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases

The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for creators, and for Amazon, the move puts its massive...

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TechCrunch Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at Google

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI...

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TechCrunch ATF declares ‘major incident’ as ransomware gang claims hack

The ATF is the latest federal government agency in recent years to notify Congress of a "major incident" involving its cybersecuri...

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TechCrunch OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to a...

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TechCrunch Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist

Google teamed up with the Pokémon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.

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TechCrunch Fashion startup Atorie raises $9.5M to bring consumers luxury goods without the markup

Shoppers can visit the Atorie website and buy handbags or clothes made from the same material — and coming from the same factory —...

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TechCrunch Hoomanely’s building a smart feeding bowl and an AI platform to help owners spot when their pup is sick

Hoomanely has developed a smart bowl to measure and record dogs' feeding data, then tells owners if behaviors change.

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TechCrunch Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more

The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helpi...

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TechCrunch Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learni...

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TechCrunch Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in town

Former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates said in a LinkedIn post that the company is not trying to re-create Twitter.

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TechCrunch Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale

Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movement...

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TechCabal Redmi Note 17 Pro Max: Release date, price and specs

Table of contents Redmi Note 17 Pro Max at a glance Release date Price Specs Redmi Note 17 vs Redmi Note 17 Pro vs Redmi Note 17 P...

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TechCabal Kenya’s EV push gets boost as NCBA, BasiGo seal financing deal for 1,000 vehicles

NCBA Group has partnered with BasiGo to finance 1,000 electric vehicles, giving public transport operators, businesses, and instit...

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TechCrunch Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used...

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