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TechCrunch Ember’s new temperature-controlled mug makes my nightly tea ritual even better

The biggest change about Ember's new mug is that you no longer have to open the app to adjust your drink’s temperature.

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TechCabal Cracking the Nigerian syllabus: How Ex-UNILAG students engineered an exam cheat-code

UniBeta uses AI to help Nigerian university students prepare for exams.

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TechCabal Why an Ethiopian nurse swapped her scrubs for software

Medanit is a digital healthcare platform that is aiming to make healthcare easier to access in Ethiopia.

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TechCabal JAMB’s Canadian ambition: A $20 ticket to a system parents fought to leave

JAMB plans to offer its entrance exam in Ottawa from 2027, using Nigeria’s diplomatic mission rather than building a new facility....

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TechCrunch Mark Wahlberg wants to take on the longevity-startup crowd with an affordable gym concept

Mark Wahlberg, who once sank money into a gym chain that got kicked off the NYSE, is now building his own, and he promises you’ll...

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TechCrunch Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in...

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TechCrunch Porsche’s electric Macan Turbo is an automotive existential crisis

The 2026 Porsche Macan Turbo EV is a two-row crossover with 630 horsepower and a 100-kilowatt-hour battery.

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TechCabal Six years after Stripe, Paystack is learning to keep money

Six years after Stripe's historic acquisition, Paystack is pivoting from moving money to keeping deposits to survive currency deva...

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TechCrunch India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

The agents got in through credentials and connection settings left exposed in app configurations, public code repositories, and ov...

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TechCrunch An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet

Amulya Vishwanath, who spent seven years leading product marketing for NVIDIA’s robotics platforms, says robotics is currently in...

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TechCrunch Veritas expands its anti-counterfeit chip to jewelry, trophies, and fragrance bottles

Counterfeiters are getting better at replicating brands' marks and passing off dupes, known as "superfakes," as genuine items. A s...

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TechCabal Inside Roqqu’s plan to tokenise Nigeria’s stock market

Roqqu wants to make Nigerian stocks available to global investors through blockchain-based tokens. Its plan could expand foreign p...

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TechCrunch Mark Wahlberg on using AI in film ‘the right way’ and being open to an AI clone carrying on his legacy

Actor and angel investor Mark Wahlberg says he's OK with using AI in filmmaking, provided it's used "to enhance what you're doing....

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TechCrunch In ‘You Can See Everything,’ Elizabeth Holmes meets her equal in comedian Nathan Fielder

Nathan Fielder's documentary about disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has created a constellation of colliding personas that...

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TechCrunch Tressfecta wants to make hair braiding a less arduous task for hairstylists

Tressfecta builds products for textured hair. Its first project is a tool called Plait Pilot that helps braiders with the initial...

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TechCrunch Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them

According to Elorian's evaluations, Glimpse outperforms even GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captio...

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TechCrunch Waymo’s robotaxis are headed to Canada

The company will start off by testing its self-driving vehicles on Toronto's streets.

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TechCrunch Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever

The data comes from Vercel's AI gateway, a unified API service similar to OpenRouter.

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TechCabal Onafriq shuts down its Nigerian agent banking business after five years

Baxi was one of Onafriq's large bets on Nigeria's offline payments economy, built around the idea that a vast network of agents co...

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TechCabal The hurdles facing contactless payment adoption across Nigeria

Nigeria has the technology for contactless payment, yet it remains underused as consumers stick with cash, cards, and transfers.

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TechCrunch Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’

Replit CEO Amjad Masad envisions a future of “self-driving companies,” where AI agents handle day-to-day tasks and people focus on...

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TechCabal Therapy now, payment later: Mytherapist.ng introduces financing, expands in-person sessions

The offering is part of a relaunch the company calls Mytherapist.ng 2.0, which also introduces in-person sessions at Café One, a c...

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TechCabal Isaac Sesi: The Ghanaian engineer learning that invention is only half the battle

Isaac Sesi spoke to TechCabal on his journey building tools to help farmers reduce post-harvest losses, improve soil health, and i...

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TechCabal Africa’s jobs problem is bigger than unemployment

With more than a third of employed Africans living in working poverty and 84.4% working informally, having a job does not necessar...

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