Sunday, May 9, 2021

How publishers are using tech, including AI-generated voices for audiobooks, Google Lens AR, and Amazon's novella app Kindle Vella, to entice young readers (Jennifer Alsever/Fortune)

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US firm Valmont, which makes irrigation equipment, to buy Israel's Prospera Technologies, maker of AI-based sensors and cameras for monitoring crops, for $300M (Shoshanna Solomon/The Times of Israel)

Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel:
US firm Valmont, which makes irrigation equipment, to buy Israel's Prospera Technologies, maker of AI-based sensors and cameras for monitoring crops, for $300M  —  Maker of AI-based sensors and cameras to help farmers monitor crops was founded in 2014, had raised $22 million from investors



WhatsApp has new stickers for Mother’s Day: How to download and send

The second Sunday of May is traditionally celebrated as Mother's Day. To mark the day, WhatsApp has rolled a new sticker pack for Mother's Day. Titled 'Mama Love', the sticker pack is available for download on both Android and iOS platforms. https://ift.tt/2RA6Sso

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...