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A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?

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WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App

They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said. The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.

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Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

Either way, let’s not be in denial about it.

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Car sharing giant Zoomcar says hacker accessed personal data of 8.4 million users

The personal data includes customer names, phone numbers, and car registration numbers.

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Meta is finally bringing ads to WhatsApp

Meta’s plans to make WhatsApp a big business involve online ads, marking a major change for the communications app whose previous owners shunned advertising.

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WhatsApp to start showing more adverts in messaging app

People who link their WhatsApp account to Facebook or Instagram will see personalised ads.

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Taiwan blacklists China’s Huawei and SMIC, further aligning with U.S. trade policy

Taiwan has added China’s Huawei and SMIC to its trade blacklist in a move that further aligns it with U.S. trade policy and comes amid tensions with Beijing.

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Aspora gets $50M from Sequioa to build remittance and banking solutions for Indian diaspora

India has been one of the top recipients of remittances in the world for more than a decade. Inward remittances jumped from $55.6 billion in 2010-11 to $118.7 billion in 2023-24, according to data from the country’s central bank. The … Continue reading

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Race to mine metals for EV batteries threatens marine paradise

Photographs appear to show how nickel mining damaged one the world’s most diverse marine environments

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The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’

While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their Brunello Cucinelli vests for Army Reserve uniforms, a quieter transformation has been underway in the U.S. Navy. How? Well, the Navy’s Chief Technology … Continue reading

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