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Kick ICT, a Scottish information technology service provider, has secured a “significant investment” from LDC, a private equity investor that is part of Lloyds Banking Group. The new investment from LDC marks the successful exit from previous Kick ICT backer Business Growth Fund (BGF), which invested £8.7m into the company in November 2021. BGF said ...
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Mistral AI releases content moderation API powered by its Ministral 8B language model. The €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 » Read more ›
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Taylor Swift's self-published "The Eras Tour Book" was released exclusively at Target on Black Friday. Read more ›
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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 “Make Amazon Pay,” 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 “labor abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy.” The demonstrators are petitioning the company,... Read more ›
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From 3rd January 2025, Riot Games will ban content creators for bad "off-platform conduct". Read more Read more ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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Hulu's incredible Black Friday deal is going on through Monday. Lock in one year of Hulu for just $1 per month, or bundle with Disney+ for $3 per month. That's not a typo. Read more ›
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Sony’s PlayStation 5 “slim” 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 ›
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Pure Telecom, the Irish-owned fibre broadband and telecoms company, has officially opened a multisensory room for children visiting Children’s Health Ireland at Connolly. The room and services were entirely funded by Pure Telecom’s fundraising initiatives for Children’s Health Foundation. Children’s Health Foundation raises vital funds to support sick children and their families in Ireland. It […] Read more ›
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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 ›
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Illustration: The Verge You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a robot clean your floors. Here’s our pick of the most cost-effective bots you can buy right now. Continue reading… Read more ›
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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the recently leaked design of the iPhone 17 "Air" and iPhone 17 Pro. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos Earlier this week, a report from The Information's Wayne Ma revealed that the iPhone 17 Air will have a thickness of between 5mm and 6mm, which would make it the thinnest iPhone ever. In comparison, iPhone 16... Read more ›
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Now is the best time to grab that iPad Mini or the best TV ever that you've been eying all year. Read more ›
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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 reading… Read more ›
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Whether you want a new streaming device to upgrade an aging TV or you want to outfit a new projector with one, Black Friday deals can make it so you spend less on that new set-top box or dongle. One of the best deals we’ve seen on streaming gear is on the latest Roku Ultra, which is on sale for $79, or $21 off its usual rate. That’s an all-time-low... Read more ›
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Apple’s new M4 MacBook Pro is a great computer for its usual $1,599. It’s 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 ›
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Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency. Read more ›
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Riot Games added some new clauses to its Terms of Service that could put some players in hot water for unbecoming behavior that occurs “across the various places that touch their gaming experience.” Players can face penalties, suspensions and even “Riot-wide bans” if they are caught violating these new rules. The new clauses first appeared on Riot’s Privacy Notice and TOS on Tuesday. Creators have until January 3, 2025 “to... Read more ›
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London’s 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 ›
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Monzo co-founder and former CEO Tom Blomfield has blasted competition regulators as “religious zealots” amid proposals to force Google to sell its Chrome browser. Last week, the US Department of Justice proposed a major breakup in Google’s business structure that would see the tech giant forced to sell the world’s most popular web browser to ... Read more ›
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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 ›
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Cryptoassets are “here to stay”, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury Tulip Siddiq has said in a speech outlining the government’s approach to regulating the industry. 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 “seemed quiet”, ... Read more ›
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This week’s 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 shouldn’t necessarily be considered the main goal for British businesses and why Labour’s budget isn’t as damning for entrepreneurs ... Read more ›
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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. 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. ... Read more ›
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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. Tom Oldham, who most recently worked as the chief investment officer at the carbon credit fund manager Mombak, will oversee Monzo’s financial strategy as the company plans to expand overseas. “I’ve been a ... Read more ›
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A surge in the demand for data centres driven by the adoption of AI technology has made the “increased power needs” the “biggest challenge” faced by the industry, according to Glasgow-founded cloud solutions group Iomart. Speaking to UKTN, Iomart CEO Lucy Dimes said that despite AI hype kicking off in 2022, the company, which provides ... Read more ›
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A university spinout seeking to transform the energy capacity of batteries has raised $4.6m (£3.6m) in a fresh funding round. 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 ›
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Carbon utilisation company Barton Blakeley has announced a £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 ›
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