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Starling Bank has been fined £29m by the UK financial watchdog for failings in its financial sanctions screening system. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Wednesday that Starling, worth over $3bn, repeatedly breached a requirement to not open accounts for “high-risk” customers. According to the regulator, Starling’s jump in users from 43,000 in 2017 ...
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You can now purchase a test that will tell you whether you are sick with COVID or the flu -- no prescription required. Read more ›
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Guests booked on a Royal Caribbean cruise can use Royal Up to bid on an upgraded cabin. I spent $100 and won a deluxe interior stateroom. Read more ›
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Shuhei Yoshida will step down from PlayStation in January 2025, after more than 30 years at the company. Read more Read more ›
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PayPay and Alipay+ announced an extended partnership at the Singapore FinTech Festival 2024, to increasing merchant coverage across Japan. PayPay, Japan’s leading QR payment operator, and AliPay+, Ant International’s mobile payment method that helps merchants reach shoppers in Asia, will now connect over three million local merchants to the global payment ecosystem. The extended partnership... Read more » Read more ›
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Black Friday bargains bring you a 25% discount off this Herman Miller gaming chair. Read more ›
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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images Microsoft says it isn’t using customer data from its Microsoft 365 apps to train its AI models. The clarification addresses reports circulating online in the last few weeks claiming Microsoft required Word and Excel users to opt out of training the company’s AI systems. The confusion arose from a privacy setting in Microsoft Office that toggles “optional connected... Read more ›
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Mike Manalac has worked in the tech hubs of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and now Chicago. Here are his thoughts on each place and why one stood out. Read more ›
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Qualcomm's interest in acquiring Intel is cooling due to the complexity of the deal, Intel's debt, and regulatory hurdles. However, according to Bloomberg, Qualcomm may still explore acquiring certain divisions of Intel to expand into markets like PCs and networking. Tom's Hardware reports: [T]he proposed acquisition faced significant obstacles, including Intel's $50 billion debt, dropping CPU market share, and its struggling semiconductor manufacturing unit, an area where Qualcomm lacks expertise.... Read more ›
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Trump's early tariff announcements on Mexico, Canada, and China are just the "opening move," wrote one trade-focused attorney. Read more ›
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"You don't have to keep a human being alive, which means you can be a lot faster and you can move a lot more quickly," Andreessen told Joe Rogan. Read more ›
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Get your holiday reading (and gifting) in order with early Black Friday deals on books. Find Gregory Maguire's "Wicked" for just $10 at Walmart. Read more ›
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Back in February, ZTE announced its first flip-foldable – the ZTE Libero Flip. That device then made its way to the global market as the nubia Flip, and we now have our first look at its successor – the nubia Flip 2 (NX732J), which appeared in certification listing on China’s TENAA agency. nubia Flip 2 (NX732J) Flip 2 will offer a redesigned look with a substantially larger 3-inch AMOLED cover... Read more ›
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Daring Capital, a UK impact investor network, has invested €1.2 million in purpose-driven startups during its first year. Launched in August 2023 by Jem Stein, the company has prioritised support for female founders, who received 95% of the capital, and 76% to Black and Racially minoritised founders. The investment aims to back overlooked entrepreneurs building ... Read more ›
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Rotterdam Havens-based Value Group (Value Maritime and Value Carbon) announced on Monday, November 25, that it has secured €2M from Energietransitiefonds Rotterdam (‘ETF-R’). The ‘Energietransitiefonds Rotterdam’ is a €100M investment fund of the City of Rotterdam. The fund finances innovative companies and large sustainable projects that can contribute to Rotterdam’s energy transition and circular economy. ... Read more Read more ›
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Yesterday, we saw a 10-second clip on Reddit showing the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra with its flat design and slightly rounded corners. Now, we are looking at more images of the Galaxy S25 Ultra coming from the same source via Reddit user GamingMK and Android Authority. The images show us the bottom of the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra, having a USB-C port flanked by an S-Pen slot, speaker, microphone, and... Read more ›
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The CDC lowered the age for the pneumonia vaccination from 65 to 50 and recommended an extra COVID shot to some people. Here's everything to know. Read more ›
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The US gave Ukraine permission to hit Russia with long-range missiles, as it had long wanted. But the delay meant Russia was able to prepare. 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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The owner of the Daily Mail has acquired a major stake in an artificial intelligence start-up as publishers look to generative AI in search of new streams of revenue. DMG Media, which also owns the Metro, the I newspaper and the New Scientist magazine, has invested in ProRata.ai, a company that aims to pay publishers ... Read more ›
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New safer electric buses have begun their London rollout today on the 358 route powered by tram-like pantograph technology. The technology means drivers can charge the buses in as little as six minutes at either end of the 15-mile route, removing the need to return to garages to recharge. This comes as part of Mayor ... Read more ›
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A ‘myopic’ focus on concerns over equity splits in university spin-outs has been ‘put to bed’ one year on from the publication of a government-commissioned review, one of its authors has said. Doctor Andrew Williamson, Managing Partner of Cambridge Innovation Capital and co-author of the independent review of university spin-out companies, said concerns over the ... Read more ›
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HSBC Innovation Banking has poached Citi star Emily Turner as its new CEO as the lender at the centre of Britain’s tech ecosystem marks a new chapter in its growth. Turner departs her role at Citi as Head of Business Development, ending a 13-year career at the top US bank. Over the past decade, Emily ... Read more ›
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A clean tech startup is converting sawdust and woodchips into natural alternatives to essential chemicals in an effort to reduce the reliance on fossil fuel-derived products. Scotland-based Sonichem is working towards opening its first commercial plant in 2027, aiming to process up to 15,000 tonnes of forestry material a year as the UK government looks ... Read more ›
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Chris Ballance is the co-founder and CEO of Oxford Ionics, a startup developing a “trapped-ion” approach to quantum computer technology. In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Ballance discusses why founders should focus on the challenges they don’t understand as much as those that they do, motivating teams with a vision they can believe in and ... Read more ›
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In May 2024 UKTN released a regional tech report in partnership with KPMG putting a spotlight on the innovation, strengths and challenges faced by the Scottish tech industry. To explore the topic further, UKTN and KPMG brought together a group of experts in all things Scottish tech for a panel discussion on how the local ... Read more ›
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The cryptoasset market has surged these past few weeks, fuelled no doubt by the electoral victory of the newly pro-crypto Donald Trump and the elevation of longtime blockchain advocate Elon Musk to presidential confidant. Musk’s preferred coin Doge, for which his unofficial cabinet role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency was named, jumped ... Read more ›
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Revolut’s new network of vending machines could soon make their way to the UK after a successful European rollout. The machines, which offer free debit cards to prospective customers, have already been installed across a host of European airports including in Milan, Rome, Porto, Brussels and Helsinki. Revolut, which gained a provisional UK banking licence ... Read more ›
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