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Steve Wozniak is starting another company, 45 years after co-founding Apple with Steve Jobs

Steve Wozniak is starting a second company, 45 years after he co-founded Apple in Steve Jobs’ parents garage in 1976.

This time, Wozniak is starting a business in the green tech and blockchain space called Efforce, according to a statement released Friday.

Efforce, which has been in stealth mode for almost a year, is a marketplace for corporate or industrial buildering owners to have “green” projects funded.

Drone Privacy Laws Around the World: Surfshark Maps it Out

Drone privacy laws vary all around the world — and what might get you a great shot in one country could get you jail time in another.


Surfshark, a digital security firm, introduces Mapped: The state of drone privacy laws in (nearly) every country.

Drone privacy is serious business – and what gets you a great image in one country could get you a jail term in another. Finding these laws, however, is hit or miss – so this new research from Surfshark is a great place to start for world travelers.

Mars Personalised Petcare: High Tech, Genetics and Wearables

AI, Genetics, and Health-Tech / Wearables — 21st Century Technologies For Healthy Companion Animals.


Ira Pastor ideaXme life sciences ambassador interviews Dr. Angela Hughes, the Global Scientific Advocacy Relations Senior Manager and Veterinary Geneticist at Mars Petcare.

The global petcare industry is significantly expanding, with North America sales alone expected to hit US $300 billion by 2025. And while we may associate the Mars Corporation, the world’s largest candy company, with leading confectionary brands like Milky Way, M&M’s, Skittles, Snickers, Twix, etc. They also happen to be one of the world’s largest companies in pet care as well.

Dr. Angela Hughes, is the Global Scientific Advocacy Relations Senior Manager & Veterinary Geneticist at Mars Petcare. Dr. Hughes is both Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, and a PhD with a focus in Canine Genetics, both from the University of California, Davis. Dr. Hughes also serves as Veterinary Genetics Research Manager of Wisdom Health, a business unit of Mars Petcare, which has developed state-of-the-art genetic tests for companion animals, leading to revolutionary personalized petcare. She also serves as a Veterinary Geneticist of Hughes Veterinary Consulting, focused on small animal and equine genetics and with a special interest in small animal reproduction and pediatrics.

Dr Hughes is published in multiple academic journals, including the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and has contributed chapters for publication in Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal Practice: Pediatrics and Large Animal Internal Medicine.

‘It’s disgusting’: CFIB CEO slams Toronto, Peel lockdowns as unfair for small businesses

The president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) blasted new lockdown measures ordered by Ontario in Toronto and Peel Region, saying it’s unfair that smaller businesses must limit sales to delivery and curbside pickup while big box retailers remain open to the public.

“I’m absolutely shocked that the Ford government would go down this road,” Dan Kelly said in an interview on Friday. “To allow big box stores and even department stores like The Bay to remain open while shutting down every single little independent retailer in Toronto and Peel – I can’t imagine on what planet that’s fair.”

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced on Friday that the two hot spots will be entering lockdown, effective Monday.

Seizing Our Singularity Future

As we build the gateway in and out of Africa, preparing people for the future, application and ethical usage of science and technology in the age of exponential growth is a major concern for us.

We help institutions, organizations, and corporates to train, instruct, and design future based courses and programs for the future as it exponentially becoming faster than we think.

Our book was developed for a course on “Exponential Technologies and Business Opportunities in the Age of Singularities” for the Tekedia Institute USA with an extension in Africa as part of a Mini Masters of Business Administration program (mini MBA).

This volume is a contribution from Edward Hudgins, Ph.D., Brent Ellman, Chogwu Abdul, and Gennady Stolyarov II (edited by Edward Hudgins) which offer insights that will benefit any individual who comes about their lives and the future of their families, friends, neighbours, and countries.