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Africa’s newest fintech unicorns are winning by keeping their feet on the ground

29 December 2024 at 07:00

Africa’s tech ecosystem just got a boost of attention, with South Africa’s TymeBank and Nigeria’s Moniepoint both raising funds in recent weeks at valuations of over $1 billion and joining the coveted unicorn pantheon. But those valuations don’t just reflect investor confidence. They signal the success they’ve had in taking disruptive fintech models originally developed […]

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Architecting one of the year’s most ambitious films

29 December 2024 at 07:00
A still of Adrien Brody in The Brutalist
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Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour saga is a tale of one man’s journey through architecture and assimilation β€” and one of the year’s best films. The director tells The Verge how he got away with it.

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Permira’s Brian Ruder talks AI, Squarespace acquisition, and the value of co-leadership

29 December 2024 at 06:00

It has been a busy year in the private equity realm, with countless big-money acquisitions unfolding. The take-private space specifically has seen some sizable transactions, with private equity firms spearheading more than a dozen billion-dollar deals for public tech companies. London-headquartered Permira was a key protagonist, joining Blackstone to acquire European online classifieds group Adevinta […]

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After 60 years of spaceflight patches, here are some of our favorites

29 December 2024 at 04:00

The art of space mission patches is now more than six decades old, dating to the Vostok 6 mission in 1963 that carried Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova into low-Earth orbit for nearly three days. The patch for the first female human spaceflight showcased a dove flying above the letters designating the Soviet Union, CCCP.

That patch was not publicly revealed at the time, and the use of specially designed patches was employed only infrequently by subsequent Soviet missions. NASA's first mission patch would not follow for two years, but the practice would prove more sticky for missions in the United States and become a time-honored tradition.

The first NASA flight to produce a mission-specific patch worn by crew members was Gemini 5. It flew in August 1965, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad on an eight-day mission inside a small Gemini spacecraft. At the time, it was the longest spaceflight conducted by anyone.

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As Birth Rates Plummet, Women's Autonomy Will Be Even More at Risk

29 December 2024 at 01:00
Nations are more focused than ever on declining populations. Women, along with gender and sexual minorities, will see their rights come under fire.

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Viewers of Quantum Events Are Also Subject to Uncertainty

28 December 2024 at 23:00
The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at onceβ€”an insight with potentially major ramifications.

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