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HSBC will take on the likes of Wise and Paysend with the launch of its new multi-currency payments app Zing. The London-headquartered bank said Zing allows customers to hold 10 different currencies and access low-cost international transfers and foreign spending in over 30 currencies. HSBC will compete with the fintechs that popularised the modern cross-border ...
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Mistral AI releases content moderation API powered by its Ministral 8B language model. The ā¬6 billion-valued European AI startup has backing from tech giants Nvidia and Microsoft. The European artificial intelligence powerhouse Mistral AI has announced the release of its new content moderation API, marking a step in its mission to deliver sovereign AI solutions.... Read more Ā» Read more āŗ
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Samsung DeX has had a good run, but One UI 7 will mark its end of the Windows app. Read more āŗ
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From 3rd January 2025, Riot Games will ban content creators for bad "off-platform conduct". Read more Read more āŗ
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Taylor Swift's self-published "The Eras Tour Book" was released exclusively at Target on Black Friday. Read more āŗ
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Tom King became a counterterrorism officer in the CIA after 9/11. He quit to focus on being a father, using the opportunity to turn his cover into his career. Read more āŗ
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Amazon workers across the world have gone on strike for Black Friday, according to the labor advocacy group UNI Global Union. The protests, dubbed āMake Amazon Pay,ā are scheduled to last until December 2. Strikes are happening everywhere, from the US to Australia and Nepal. There are also demonstrations happening in more than 20 countries over ālabor abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy.ā The demonstrators are petitioning the company,... Read more āŗ
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Remember the iconic 1974 Dodge Monaco from the equally iconic movie, "The Blues Brothers?" You might also recognize it as the "Bluesmobile." Read more āŗ
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Meta is said to be planning a fiber-optic subsea internet cable that will span the world and could cost north of $10 billion. The project, which was originally reported by subsea cable expert Sunil Tagare, could be formally announced early next year. However, sources linked to Meta told TechCrunch that the project is in the early stages. Only a few contractors would be capable of building out that infrastructure and... Read more āŗ
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At 45% off, this smart lamp transforms any room into a showpiece with colors and musicānow at its lowest price ever. Read more āŗ
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There are Black Friday deals on kinds of tech goodies already available. But how about snapping up a TV that doesn't look like a TV when it's not in use? Rather than a large black rectangle that dominates a room, Samsung designed its Frame TVs to fade into the background, making them look like framed art when you're not watching anything or playing games. Several 2024 The Frame models are... Read more āŗ
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Pure Telecom, the Irish-owned fibre broadband and telecoms company, has officially opened a multisensory room for children visiting Childrenās Health Ireland at Connolly. The room and services were entirely funded by Pure Telecomās fundraising initiatives for Childrenās Health Foundation. Childrenās Health Foundation raises vital funds to support sick children and their families in Ireland. It [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Illustration: The Verge You donāt have to spend a fortune to have a robot clean your floors. Hereās our pick of the most cost-effective bots you can buy right now. Continue readingā¦ Read more āŗ
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Sonyās PlayStation 5 āslimā is smaller than the original PS5 but packs 1TB of storage and a pair of front-facing USB-C ports. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Black Friday is brimming with great deals on new games, including older titles you can purchase for pennies on the dollar and recent hits that might be hard to justify at full price. You can usually find great... Read more āŗ
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Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency. Read more āŗ
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Microsoft announces Azure Boost DPU, its first in-house data processing unit for cloud workloads. Read more āŗ
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Amazon typically saves the best discounts on its own gear for Prime Day or Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and it hasnāt deviated from that plan this year. Itās even gone so far this time to discount a new Echo Show smart display it just debuted barely a week ago. Now you can get the new Echo Show 21 for $360, which is $40 off its usual price. Amazon revealed... Read more āŗ
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Appleās new M4 MacBook Pro is a great computer for its usual $1,599. Itās even better if you nab it for $1,399. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge A laptop is one of the larger tech purchases for most people, so Black Friday is a good time to make that investment. Windows laptops, MacBooks, and even Chromebooks all have their regular cadence of discounts and sales... Read more āŗ
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Photo illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge From simple fitness bands and rugged sports watches to rings, these are the best trackers you can get. Continue readingā¦ Read more āŗ
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Londonās transport board has vowed to take legal action against e-bike rental operators whose cycles get in the way of pedestrians and vehicles as it steps up efforts to combat obstructed pathways. Under updated guidance on dockless e-bike and e-scooter rental published today, Transport for London (TfL) has warned it will impound vehicles that get ... Read more āŗ
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Monzo co-founder and former CEO Tom Blomfield has blasted competition regulators as āreligious zealotsā amid proposals to force Google to sell its Chrome browser.Ā Ā Ā Last week, the US Department of Justice proposed a major breakup in Googleās business structure that would see the tech giant forced to sell the worldās most popular web browser to ... Read more āŗ
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On Saturday night, over 1,000 Revolut customers were gathering in a basement auditorium in central London for a special event. The Canary Wharf-based company was marking a significant milestone: in just a decade since it was founded, it had reached a mind-blowing 50 million customers. Eager not to pass up the chance for a blow-out ... Read more āŗ
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Cryptoassets are āhere to stayā, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury Tulip Siddiq has said in a speech outlining the governmentās approach to regulating the industry.Ā Speaking at the Tokenisation Summit hosted by City and Financial Global, Siddiq assured the crowd that while regulatory developments in the UK for the crypto sector have āseemed quietā, ... Read more āŗ
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This weekās podcast guest is Suranga Chandratillake, general partner at Balderton Capital, who discusses why narratives about the UK underperforming in funding compared with the giants in the US might not be fair, why more unicorns shouldnāt necessarily be considered the main goal for British businesses and why Labourās budget isnāt as damning for entrepreneurs ... Read more āŗ
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A Lancaster-based manufacturer of tech products for the maritime industry has proposed delisting from the Aquis exchange amid concerns that it does more harm than good.Ā OTAQ, which was listed on the London-based challenger stock exchange in 2018, warned that the share price volatility, limited flexibility and limited access to investors were harming the business.Ā ... Read more āŗ
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Monzo has brought on a former executive from Brazilian fintech Nubank as its new group CFO following the departure of James Davies.Ā Tom Oldham, who most recently worked as the chief investment officer at the carbon credit fund manager Mombak, will oversee Monzoās financial strategy as the company plans to expand overseas.Ā āIāve been a ... Read more āŗ
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A surge in the demand for data centres driven by the adoption of AI technology has made the āincreased power needsā the ābiggest challengeā faced by the industry, according to Glasgow-founded cloud solutions group Iomart.Ā Ā Ā Speaking to UKTN, Iomart CEO Lucy Dimes said that despite AI hype kicking off in 2022, the company, which provides ... Read more āŗ
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A university spinout seeking to transform the energy capacity of batteries has raised $4.6m (Ā£3.6m) in a fresh funding round.Ā Cambridge-based Moylon, which was founded earlier this year, hopes to use sulphur, one of the most abundant elements on Earth, to develop lithium-sulphur batteries, which it claims have much higher energy density than traditional lithium-ion ... Read more āŗ
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Carbon utilisation company Barton Blakeley has announced a Ā£2.4m funding round led by Elbow Beach Capital. The Harpenden-based company has developed a chemical process designed to convert CO2 emissions into clean energy and synthetic silica, promising to save over 1 kilo-tonne of carbon per year. The fresh funding will allow the company to deploy its ... Read more āŗ
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