Monthly Archives: August 2022

Project Nexus: Mitigate California Droughts And Generate Power

California’s Project Nexus has been discussed since 2021 and is now set to debut this October, at least as a Pilot, which is supposed to demonstrate the benefits of installing solar panels canopies over canals to avoid losing water to evaporation while generating energy. Proponents of the projects say covering California’s canals with solar panels…

Android-powered Logitech G Gaming Handheld leaks

Logitech’s forthcoming cloud-based handheld games console has been leaked, with images and an accompanying name: the Logitech G Gaming Handheld. Back at the start of August, we reported on the news of an exciting new collaboration between Swiss computer peripheral maker Logitech and Chinese video game publisher Tencent Games. The two companies are working together…

Kenyan fintech Pezesha raises $11M backed by Women’s World Banking, Cardano parent IOG

Access to finance remains a key growth constraint for small businesses, with data showing a $330 billion financing deficit for the small enterprises that make up 90% of Africa’s businesses. This is the gap that Kenya’s embedded finance fintech Pezesha seeks to bridge as it expands into Nigeria, Rwanda and Francophone Africa following a $11…

Tony Ornato, the Secret Service official who ran Trump’s security detail, quits the agency ahead of his interview with DHS investigators about January 6: report

Tony Ornato was the Secret Service agent in charge of then President Donal Trump’s security detail. Alex Wong/Getty Images Tony Ornato, the Secret Service agent who ran Donald Trump’s detail, has retired from the agency. Ornato was central to Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony about Trump’s behavior on January 6, 2021. He was set to be interviewed…

Dubai-based Stake raises $8 million to let people across the globe invest in local properties

Dubai-based startup Stake is offering retail investors from across the globe to buy fractions of rental property in UAE’s marquee city and earn regular income. The startup, found in 2020, claims that because of Dubai’s real-estate rules it has managed to attract investing users on the platform from over 80 countries in the world. The…

Alan Dershowitz says lawyers are telling him they won’t defend Trump because they don’t want to be ostracized or ‘canceled’

Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence was raided by the FBI on August 8. Mario Tama/Getty Images Dershowitz said he had “concerns” about the caliber of Trump’s legal team. He said, however, that six other lawyers had contacted him to say they wouldn’t defend Trump. Dershowitz cited being “canceled” for defending Trump as a top…