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Egypt’s customer engagement platform for F&B brands in MENA, Koinz, raises $4.8M seed

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Founded in 2018 by Hussein Momtaz , Ahmed Said , and Abdullah Al Khalidi , Koinz set out to solve two major problems in Egypt’s food aggregation industry. By collecting real-time data and leveraging a digital rewarding system designed to drive customers to deepen their relationship with restaurants. million seed round.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO

Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. An agent is part of an AI system designed to act autonomously, making decisions and taking action without direct human intervention or interaction. Let’s start with the basics: What is an agent?

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The Special Olympics embarks on digital journey to empower its athletes

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We started on our digital transformation over the course of the last year or two and are working to reduce our digital sprawl and towards a singular ecosystem that allows us to have a complete view of our systems and our data, with a focus of being digitally capable and ready by 2030, Cook says.

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a16z, Avenir and Google back South African mobile games publisher Carry1st in $20M round

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Cordel Robbin-Coker , Lucy Hoffman and Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu founded Carry1st in 2018. The company started as a game studio where it conceptualized, developed (from system designs to artwork and engineering), and launched mobile games.

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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Article – the design of XPRS Article – the case for Networks of Workstations. Computer security Systems design Server Real-time computing Software deployment Elasticity and information technology Storage area network Workstation. 99% of all new chips use RISC architecture since 2018. Final Words.

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Autonomous flight startup Merlin Labs nabs $105M and US Air Force partnership

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Roughly a year ago, Boston-based Merlin Labs emerged from stealth with an autonomous flight system designed to be installed in existing aircraft. While Merlin told TechCrunch at the time that it had “hundreds” of test flights under its belt, the company’s system lacked certification from the U.S.

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Jiobit launches an improved version of its kid (or pet) tracker, the Jiobit Next

TechCrunch

A Chicago-based startup, Jiobit , wanted to make a better child location tracker than the bulky smartwatches and other insecurely designed products already on the market. So in 2018, it launched its own modular kid tracker — a small dongle of sorts that could be tied to shoelaces, belt loops, or school backpack, for example.

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