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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

Did you get hacked in 2017? In a time when metadata is used by governments to kill their adversaries , and Internet service providers are allowed to sell their customers’ Internet usage to the highest bidder, a good virtual private network goes a long way towards hiding your traffic from surveillance of all kinds.

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South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent

TechCrunch

Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. Chinese internet giant Tencent led the round, with other investors Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund participating. From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

TechCrunch

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. Like the internet, it is a reality we will interact with, in all parts of life: at home, in the office, in cars, or out in public.

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YC-backed Curacel unveils new API platform that enables tech-led businesses to offer insurance

TechCrunch

Mascot’s entrepreneurial journey started in 2017, when he helped hospitals digitize records. And so we built the system for them,” said Mascot. Lack of trust due to delays or denial due to the manual processing of claims are also contributing to the low uptake. Insurance companies were losing a lot of money to fraud.

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ZirooPay raises $11.4M to scale its mobile POS solutions for retailers across Nigeria

TechCrunch

The number of POS terminals in Nigeria grew from 150,000 in 2017 to 543,000 in April 2021, according to Statista. In Nigeria, POS terminals are used to process card payments at retail locations as well as for agency banking purposes, a branchless banking system where agents act like human ATMs.

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Triaging modern medicine’s cybersecurity issues

The Parallax

And they say it’s high time for the entire health care ecosystem, from clinicians to hospital systems to insurers, to scrub in and get to work on better protecting medical data and devices. Critical systems at heart of WannaCry’s impact. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things? The problem with ‘just patching’.

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Verizon’s VPN: security boon or privacy boondoggle?

The Parallax

As with any VPN (including that of Avast, which sponsors The Parallax ), Verizon’s new app works by rerouting your Internet traffic to appear to come from another Internet Protocol address. Unlike some other VPNs, including Private Internet Access and NordVPN , it doesn’t work across multiple devices or platforms.

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