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Google discontinues Google Translate in mainland China
Google has discontinued its Google Translate services in mainland China, removing one of the company’s few remaining services that it…
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UK-based blockchain gaming startup Improbable, which raised $500M from SoftBank in 2017, is close to raising £100M at a £3B+ valuation, up from £2.5B in 2018 (Financial Times)
Financial Times: UK-based blockchain gaming startup Improbable, which raised $500M from SoftBank in 2017, is close to raising £100M at…
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Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to Sweden’s Svante Pääbo for his discoveries on human evolution
Nobel Prize for medicine awarded to Sweden’s Svante Pääbo for his discoveries on human evolution For more updates check below…
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Nobel panel to announce winner of medicine prize
The winner, or winners, of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will be announced Monday at the Karolinska Institute…
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Kentik: Iran's three main mobile operators shut down service for about eight hours in the evening for 10 consecutive days, causing an uptick in landline traffic (Dan De Luce/NBC News)
Dan De Luce / NBC News: Kentik: Iran’s three main mobile operators shut down service for about eight hours in…
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NXP Semiconductors' CEO estimates the EU must invest €500B to hit its goal of a 20% global share in chips by 2030, well short of the EU Chips Act's €43B package (Tristan Fiedler/Politico)
Tristan Fiedler / Politico: NXP Semiconductors’ CEO estimates the EU must invest €500B to hit its goal of a 20%…
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New Pegasus attacks on Mexican activists and reporters from 2019-2021 found using 0-click exploits, after the new president called Pegasus a thing of the past (The Citizen Lab)
The Citizen Lab: New Pegasus attacks on Mexican activists and reporters from 2019-2021 found using 0-click exploits, after the new…
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From shutting down services only in Texas to letting users opt out of hateful content, tech companies are gaming out responses to the state's social media law (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: From shutting down services only in Texas to letting users opt out of hateful content,…
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Sources: Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10M from the crypto lender weeks before freezing customer accounts; one source says $8M was used to pay taxes (Kadhim Shubber/Financial Times)
Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times: Sources: Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10M from the crypto lender weeks before freezing customer…
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A look at the fake online traffic business, as some ad exchanges look the other way and advertisers are embarrassed to admit they purchased fraudulent inventory (Morgan Meaker/Wired)
Morgan Meaker / Wired: A look at the fake online traffic business, as some ad exchanges look the other way…
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