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Nigerian cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card has secured a US$1.5 million seed funding round to help it expand to more new markets. Founded by Chris Maurice, Justin Poiroux and Munachi Ogueke, Yellow Card offers users multiple payment options, low fees and competitive rates, and has already seen strong uptake in Nigeria, where it has over 35,000 [...]
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Ahead of the 17 Ultra's official announcement taking place on December 25, Xiaomi has revealed that the phone comes with a physical zoom ring around its circular camera island. This will let you control zooming in a very tactile way. Interestingly, the official name of the phone seems to be Xiaomi 17 Ultra by Leica, and as rumored countless times before, it will feature the iconic red dot Leica logo... Read more ›
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Tahmina Watson's law firm assists with employment visas. She advises all visa holders with a valid stamp to return to the US immediately. Read more ›
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CBS News, Bari Weiss, and "60 Minutes" are at the center of a debate after a segment on El Salvador's CECOT prison was pulled. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Two years ago, Lizmary Fernandez took a detour from studying to be an immigration attorney to join a free Apple course for making iPhone apps. The Apple Developer Academy in Detroit launched as part of the company's $200 million response to the Black Lives Matter protests and aims to expand opportunities for people of color in the country's poorest big city. But... Read more ›
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Samsung has delayed the end of its DDR4 production line due to increased demand, and is expected to earmark output for a client signing an NCNR contract with the company. Read more ›
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The only known complete copy of Unix v4 has been recovered from a tape found at the University of Utah. Read more ›
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A reported attempt by a covert Chinese lab to reverse-engineer an EUV lithography scanner underscores that, despite access to scattered components, replicating ASML's EUV tools is effectively impossible without recreating the company's entire global supply chain, optics ecosystem, and proprietary software built over decades. Read more ›
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A new type of dealmaking is on the rise in Silicon Valley as Nvidia reaches a non-exclusive deal with a chip startup and hires its top engineers. Read more ›
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Red Lobster CEO Damola Adamolekun described the first few days joining the company after its bankruptcy. "People are beat down," he said. Read more ›
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The Trump administration targeted EU figures over platform regulation, triggering backlash from Macron and digital regulators. Read more ›
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Ukraine uses ground robots to fire at Russian targets and attack positions while its own soldiers stay at a safer distance. Read more ›
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The Ukrainians are "are very happy being slow" as they know they need to secure everything, a British military officer told BI. Read more ›
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Someone in the UK has just pulled off a heist — only, that it was completely legal and at a Costco. A prebuilt PC worth $4,863 was bought for just $2,431, featuring flagship parts all around like an RTX 5090, a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 64 GB of DDR5 6000 MT/s RAM that costs at least $700 just on its own. Read more ›
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"In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we're missing when we stop taking risks," writes author Janus Rose in an article for 404 Media. Here's an excerpt: There are lots of advantages to the cassette lifestyle. Unlike vinyl records, tapes are compact and super-portable, and unlike streaming, you never have to worry about a giant company suddenly taking them away from you. They can be... Read more ›
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Microsoft has denied any plans to rewrite Windows 11 using AI and Rust after a LinkedIn post from one of its top-level engineers sparked a wave of online backlash by claiming the company's goal was to "eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030." Galen Hunt, a principal software engineer responsible for several large-scale research projects at Microsoft, made the claim in what was originally a hiring... Read more ›
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Amazon finds itself caught between two competing impulses as AI shopping agents from OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and Microsoft mushroom across the e-commerce space -- block them to protect its dominant position, or partner with them to avoid being left behind. The company has largely played defense so far. Amazon recently updated its website code to block external AI agents from crawling it, and as of this week had blocked 47... Read more ›
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Starting at around 1PM ET on December 24, Steam experienced an outage that impacted users ability to access the game store and play games online. Valve didn’t acknowledge the outage publicly, but SteamDB’s unofficial Steam Status page reported that the Steam Store, Steam Community, and Steam Web APIs were all offline.DownDetector received over 6,000 outage reports around 1:15PM ET, and Steam is also inaccessible from Valve’s mobile apps. The outage... Read more ›
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The new BitLocker implementation offloads encryption and decryption to dedicated crypto engines on supported SoCs, delivering faster storage performance and reduced CPU usage. Read more ›
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Ahead of CES 2026, Samsung has announced the 2026 range of Odyssey gaming monitors. There are a total of five models and they offer features such as 6K glasses-free 3D support and up to 1,040Hz refresh rate. Samsung has introduced the Odyssey 3D, the Odyssey G6, and three variants of the Odyssey G8. Starting with the Odyssey 3D (G90XH), Samsung claims it is the world’s first gaming monitor to offer... Read more ›
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