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Solar power magnate Gautam Adani and others indicted over alleged $250M bribery scheme
21 Nov 2024
Billionaire Gautam Adani and several executives at his company, the Indian conglomerate Adani Group, have been indicted over an alleged scheme to pay more than $250 million in bribes to Indian officials in exchange for contracts to a 12 gigawatt solar power project. The indictment, unsealed Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn, charges Adani, his […]
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‘PDF to Brainrot’ study tools are a strange iteration on a TikTok trend
21 Nov 2024
Several AI-based study tools are capitalizing on a “PDF to Brainrot” trend, which will read the text of a document you upload over “oddly satisfying” videos, like ASMR clips of mixing paint and cutting soap, or gameplay footage from Minecraft and Subway Surfers. Then, students can listen to an automated voice read their textbooks to […]
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Fusion startup Tokamak Energy attracts $125M for its egg-like reactor design
20 Nov 2024
Startups pursuing fusion power have benefitted from AI's insatiable thirst for electricity.
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Another VC-backed fintech, Earnin, faces crackdown over allegedly ‘predatory’ loans
20 Nov 2024
The attorney general for the District of Columbia is suing instant payday loan fintech Earnin for “deceptively marketing and providing illegal high-interest loans,” the AG alleges. Earnin allows its users to get loans against paychecks. It advertises that users can get $150 a day, up to $750 per pay period, with “no interest, credit check […]
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It’s not just you, Reddit is down
20 Nov 2024
Social media platform Reddit is experiencing an outage this afternoon, resulting in thousands of users being unable to access its website and app. Reddit confirmed that it’s currently investigating the issue, according to its status page. We discovered the outage ourselves when attempting to visit the homepage, which displayed a black screen with the message: […]
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FTX CTO Gary Wang avoids prison time
20 Nov 2024
Not every former top FTX executive is heading to prison. Gary Wang, former FTX chief technical officer, was spared prison time by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan today. Judge Kaplan praised Wang’s cooperation with federal authorities. Wang testified against former FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried at his trial last fall. Wang pleaded guilty to […]
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‘Rare joy’ as war-hit Sudan reaches African football showpiece
20 Nov 2024
Football fans in Sudan, a country torn apart by war, are savouring a rare moment of pride after the national team qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations finals. The feat, achieved at the expense of Ghana, one of the continent’s traditional powerhouses, comes despite the team having to play all their matches abroad and […]
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US charges five accused of multi-year hacking spree targeting tech and crypto giants
20 Nov 2024
The five alleged hackers are accused of stealing millions of dollars in crypto, and corporate data from several victims all over the world.
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‘Eternal’ Nadal leaves legacy as he retires from tennis
20 Nov 2024
Rafael Nadal said early Wednesday he had left a sporting and personal ‘legacy’ after retiring from professional tennis, as tributes flooded in for the 22-time Grand Slam winner. The 38-year-old’s glittering and historic career came to a close as Netherlands defeated Spain in the Davis Cup and Nadal gave an emotional speech that ran over […]
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SADC election observers’ vehicle involved in car accident
20 Nov 2024
The Windhoek City Police have confirmed an accident involving a vehicle of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) election observers in Windhoek on Wednesday. The observers are currently visiting Namibia for next week’s elections. Superintendent Marceline Murapo said the accident involving three vehicles took place at around 17h00 at the corner of Mandume Ndemufayo Avenue […]
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May Mobility to test driverless shuttles in Ann Arbor
20 Nov 2024
May Mobility is slowly advancing its driverless capabilities. The startup this week launched a small-scale deployment of autonomous shuttles, which will drive themselves along a fixed route without a human safety driver present. May will initially deploy one to two autonomous Toyota Sienna minivans to ferry employees and “invited guests” across a 2-square-mile area of […]
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Benchmark invests $19M in New Lantern, a smarter way for radiologists to use AI
20 Nov 2024
Shiva Suri gained a unique perspective into how radiologists work when he quarantined and shared a home office with his mom, a well-regarded radiologist. “I watched her work day in and day out, and she was wasting about seven to eight hours on boring workflow tasks,” Suri said. “Only 5% of her time, she had […]
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Led by Anduril, defense tech funding sets a new record this year
20 Nov 2024
Defense tech startups have raised almost $3 billion so far in 2024, surpassing the previous record from 2022 of $2.6 billion.
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Messenger gets HD video calls, AI backgrounds, and more
20 Nov 2024
Meta is introducing new features for Messenger, its messaging app, including AI-powered noise suppression. Messenger is getting HD video calls and voice isolation, both of which can be enabled via the call settings menu. HD calls are now the default for calls placed over Wi-Fi, Meta says, and an option for calls over cellular. Messenger […]
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DuckDuckGo calls for EU to widen its Digital Markets Act probe of Google
20 Nov 2024
Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has urged the European Union to widen its Digital Markets Act (DMA) investigation into Google, claiming the search giant is in breach of several areas where the bloc has yet to formally probe the company’s compliance. The EU’s flagship market contestability rulebook has been in force on a handful of tech […]
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