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Temasek fund backs India startup bringing AI technology to farms
CropIn, an artificial intelligence and data-based agritech startup, has raised US$20mil (RM80.21mil) in a funding round led by Temasek Holdings Pte-backed ABC World Asia, as the coronavirus pandemic accelerates the adoption of digital technologies in farming.
FarmVille is dead: Remembering the game everyone used to play on Facebook
Do you remember how much time you used to spend on FarmVille?
India’s protesting farmers expand battlefront to social media
In a standoff between farmers from India’s northern breadbasket and the government that has convulsed the country, the farmers have a 21st-century ally: a handful of supporters scattered around the world running a Twitter handle.
Apple’s shifting supply chain creates boomtowns in rural Vietnam
Not long ago Vietnam’s Bac Giang province was one of the nation’s poorest regions, known for producing rice, lychees and poultry dubbed “running chicken”. That was before the global tech supply chain shifted its way.
5G’s arrival tees up patent fights in market set to grow 12,000%
Battles unfolding on several continents over who profits from connected cars, smarthomes, and robotic surgery may dwarf the size and scope of the tech industry’s first worldwide patent war – the one over smartphones.
Land hunters: App matches Zimbabwe's farmers with vacant plots
Zimbabwe's app aims to make the search for land easier and cheaper by letting farmers use their smartphones to find out everything they need to know about vacant plots around the country.
Questions swirl about possible racial bias in Twitter image function
Social media giant Twitter said on Sept 21 it would investigate its image-cropping function that users complained favoured white faces over black.
Drone maker hurt by US-China rift, opening door to US rivals
Skateboarders, surfers and mountain bikers used to be the target customers for California startup Skydio, a maker of high-end drones that can home in on people and capture their movements on video all by themselves. Now US police officers, firefighters and soldiers are interested in the self-flying machines.
Amazon.com bans foreign sales of seeds in United States amid mystery packages
Amazon.com Inc said it has banned foreign sales of seeds in the United States after thousands of Americans received unsolicited packages of seeds in their mailboxes, mostly postmarked from China.
The Week That Was: A taste for better connectivity
Rural areas are on the fast track to 4G while China has lost its appetite for mukbang videos.
