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Be Prepared to Deliver Digital Value

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Some leaders prefer to hang back and let others be the guinea pigs. We don’t invest in potential, we invest in known solutions to help with our members’ critical problems,” Tom advises. Modernizing processes solves many customer service problems.” Don’t wait for others to test the water for you. I’ll offer a caveat.

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Quris combines AI with ‘patient on a chip’ to speed drug development and reduce animal testing

TechCrunch

The necessity of animal testing is a sad one for the process of drug discovery, but there’s seemingly no good alternative to mice, even though they’re not particularly accurate human analogues. That allows effective testing to be done with a handful of chips rather than, say, 500 mice.

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Greywing launches Crew Change to help shipping companies navigate COVID-19 regulations

TechCrunch

Called Crew Change, it is used to help shipping companies manage testing, quarantine and other COVID-19 regulations for their crew members. Crew Change draws on data from S5 Agency World , a global port agency, to keep on top of quarantine, testing and vaccination requirements, which are constantly changing.

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Zeraki, a Kenyan edtech providing digital solutions for school admin, raises $1.8M

TechCrunch

We have also brought back focus on [the once dormant] digital learning platform, and also tested a number of products like timetabling,” he added. Zeraki is also looking to enter 10 new markets over the next three years, after scaling in Kenya, Uganda and Guinea, where it currently operates. “We’re Image Credits: Zeraki.

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

TechCrunch

Sugar came into the human diet roughly 10,000 years ago as sugarcane, which is native to New Guinea and parts of Taiwan and China. The horrors of slavery may be the most damning legacy of industrial sugar, but it’s far from the only problem caused by the human craving for sweeteners. The bitter history of the sweetest ingredient.

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Facebook is turning VR into a platform — but some indie developers fear its power

The Verge

We’re basically guinea pigs.’ But he suspected Facebook was testing its own streaming feature — and that at Connect, it would make his version obsolete. We’re basically guinea pigs — building cool stuff to see what works.”. Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole. But in 2020, developer Guy Godin was nervous.

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Listen to Your Data: Lessons from a Multilingual Text Message Campaign

NTEN

What's hard is finding a customer who wants to be a guinea pig as we explore new avenues of outreach. RI4A is almost as committed to rigorous A/B testing as they are to immigration reform. RI4A is almost as committed to rigorous A/B testing as they are to immigration reform. RI4A quickly rectified the problem.