StreamAlive picks up $1.58M to build engagement tools for livestreams

January 31, 2024

StreamAlive, an audience engagement application for livestreams, virtual meetings and in-person events, secured $1.58 million in pre-seed funding, the company announced today. From webinars, live-streamed town halls and virtual work meetings to Twitch streams, online classes, and in-person conferences, there are plenty of instances when audience engagement tools are beneficial. They not only allow presenters […]

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SpaceX will launch the Starlab private space station using Starship

January 31, 2024

Starlab, the private space station being developed by Voyager Space and Airbus, will go to orbit onboard a SpaceX Starship rocket before the decade is out, the companies announced Wednesday. Starlab is one of a handful of private space station initiatives currently under development. These projects have gained major funding from NASA, under a new […]

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Oura launches a new feature to mesure your resilience against stress

January 31, 2024

Smart ring maker Oura is rolling out a few features called Resilience, which measures how much can users withstand stress. The company is measuring resilience using parameters like stress load during the daytime and recovery during the day and night (sleep). It doesn’t assign a score but categorizes resilience into five types: Limited, Adequate, Solid, […]

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The Download: shipping China’s EVs, and new greener magnets

January 31, 2024
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why the world’s biggest EV maker is getting into shipping Earlier this month, a massive ship picked up over 5,000 electric cars from two ports in northern and southern China. Five days later,…

Despite glimmers of profit, most African neobanks remain in the red

January 31, 2024

It was only just over a year ago that McKinsey described Africa’s financial technology landscape as a “hotbed for investment.” Fast forward to today, and startups on the continent are facing many of the same problems plaguing fintechs in more mature markets like the U.K. and the U.S.: valuations are tanking, growth is flagging, revenue targets […]

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