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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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Prosus Ventures terminates its deal to acquire Indian payments company BillDesk for $4.7B in cash, saying "certain conditions precedent" were unfulfilled (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Prosus Ventures terminates its deal to acquire Indian payments company BillDesk for $4.7B in cash, saying…
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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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What if Musk loses the Twitter case but defies the court?
Twitter wants a Delaware court to order Elon Musk to buy the social media service for $44 billion, as he…
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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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