Africa Roundup: Nigerian fintech gets $360M, mints unicorn, draws Chinese VC

November 2019 could mark when Nigeria (arguably) became Africa’s unofficial capital for fintech investment and digital finance startups. The month saw $360 million invested in Nigerian focused payment ventures. That is equivalent to roughly one-third of all the startup VC raised for the entire continent […]

23 Best Cyber Monday 2019 TV and Soundbar Deals: Samsung, Vizio, and More

With Dolby Vision support, gorgeous 4K resolution, and Roku’s fantastic interface built in, TCL’s 5-Series is our favorite affordable TV you can buy this year. Samsung 55-Inch Q60 Series TV (2019) for $698 ($500 off) Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart Samsung’s quantum dot-enabled QLED TVs have […]

Astronomers find stellar black hole so large it shouldn’t exist

The team used China’s Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) to find stars orbiting objects that are seemingly invisible — a technique that had been proposed back in 1783, but hadn’t really been possible until recently. They then used both the US’ Keck […]