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Egyptian consumer credit startup Blnk has raised a US$32 million debt and equity funding round to further build out its AI-powered lending infrastructure and finance its fast-growing portfolio of customers. Co-founded in 2021 by Amr Sultan and Tarek Elsheikh, Blnk is an AI-enabled digital consumer finance platform that empowers merchants with an onboarding and instant [...]
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Rejoice, two of the biggest contributors to the AI movie trailer problem on YouTube have been taken down. Read more ›
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The Justice Department released new documents related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. Read more ›
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Newly released documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein probe reveal some of the high-profile figures who rubbed elbows with the financier. Read more ›
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Fortnite will not be returning to iOS in Japan next year "as promised" because, according to Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney, Apple has allegedly launched "another travesty of obstruction and lawbreaking". Read more Read more ›
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Valve has begun the final phase of its plan to end Steam support for 32-bit versions of Windows, with a December Steam client update that changes how the platform runs on modern systems. Read more ›
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After 18,000 hours of simulated use, RTINGS' longevity test reveals fascinating insights into the TVs that dominate our markets today. While OLED has clearly overcome its reliability woes to become the least vulnerable panel type, LCDs with local dimming are still competitive and fare better than their unified-backlight brethren. Read more ›
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A reporter at Mother Jones writes about a $169 alarm clock with special lighting and audio effects. But to use the features, "you need to pay an additional $4.99 per month, in perpetuity." "Welcome to the age of subscription captivity, where an increasing share of the things you pay for actually own you." What vexes me are the companies that sell physical products for a hefty, upfront fee and subsequently... Read more ›
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The history of innovation at Mercedes-Benz goes back to the invention of the car itself. For most of that time, innovation has gone hand in hand with classism. Mercedes typically introduces new tech on its most-expensive cars first, allowing it to trickle down to more-affordable models once some of the development costs are amortized. Now ... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from 9to5Linux: After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla's new CEO that Firefox will evolve into "a modern AI browser," the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser... What was not made clear [in Tuesday's comments by new Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo] is that Firefox will also ship with an AI kill... Read more ›
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GenAI and LLMs almost got a soft pass to enter the Nebula Awards, but the sci-fi/fantasy writing community shut that down. Read more ›
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While every site you've ever visited in 2025 seems intent on summarising your year even for things you absolutely don't need to be summarised (the cards I completed in Asana this year? Uh, no thanks), there's one wrapped message you probably won't be getting this year: Xbox. Read more Read more ›
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Although moving to a small beach town in a different country had its perks, it was lonely. I struggled to fit in as neither a local nor a tourist. Read more ›
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China has brought online a national experimental research network designed to support experimentation on future network designs and to improve data transmission quality. Read more ›
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You'd think things would be slowing down heading into the holidays, but this week saw a whirlwind of Apple leaks and rumors while Apple started its next cycle of betas following last week's release of iOS 26.2 and related updates. This week also saw the release of a new Apple Music integration with ChatGPT, so read on below for all the details on this week's biggest stories! Top Stories iOS... Read more ›
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When a friend invited me to play a new game called REPO earlier this year, I thought I was wasting my money - not because the game looked bad, but because it looked like Lethal Company. The surprise-hit 2024 co-op survival horror game has players wander through unnerving ruined structures collecting trash while evading monsters. […] Read more ›
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The most affordable Steam Deck, the $399 LCD model, is not available in the US. And, according to the Steam Deck site, it won't be coming back. Underneath the listings for the various models is a note that says: We are no longer producing the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model. Once sold out, it will […] Read more ›
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Long before opioids flooded communities, something else was quietly changing—and it may have helped set the stage for today’s crisis. A new study finds that as church attendance dropped among middle-aged, less educated white Americans, deaths from overdoses, suicide, and alcohol-related disease began to rise. The trend started years before OxyContin appeared, suggesting the opioid epidemic intensified a problem already underway. Read more ›
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If you still haven't bought into the Steam Deck craze, it'll cost you a little extra to take the plunge now since Valve is only offering OLED models. Valve announced in a note on its Steam Deck page that it's "no longer producing the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model," adding that "once sold out, it will no longer be available." As of this article's publishing, the $399 Steam Deck with... Read more ›
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Avatar: Fire and Ash has proven itself the best movie in James Cameron's sci-fi film franchise with its new ideas, themes, and character developments. Read more ›
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Valve announced on the Steam page that it's discontinuing the $399 LCD Steam Deck, saying that it's only available until stocks last. Read more ›
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