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Crypto market sheds $180 billion in a day as bitcoin slides further from $100,000 milestone

Bitcoin’s price retreated further from the psychologically important $100,000 milestone as investors booked profits from the token’s post-U.S. election gains.

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MrBeast says game show allegations ‘blown out of proportion’

Beast Games is set to stream next month amid allegations contestants were mistreated on set.

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Apple ordered to open up in-app purchases in Brazil

Brazil’s antitrust regulator Cade has ruled that Apple must lift restrictions on in-app purchases within 20 days, Reuters reports. Otherwise, if the iPhone maker doesn’t comply, it faces fines of $43,000 per day. This decision is the result of a … Continue reading

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Say goodbye to ‘dockless’ e-bike parking in London following new rules to reduce bike mess on streets

London is putting the brakes on the mess of electric bikes that litter the streets of the city. Today, the local transportation authority, Transport for London, announced a new enforcement policy that will restrict parking for the tens of thousands … Continue reading

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Is This New AI Better Than ChatGPT?

With preset prompts, a built-in Chrome extension, and unlimited usage, it might be the best new AI tool.

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Google to test plain ‘blue link’ results for hotel searches in EU markets in latest DMA twist

Google has announced it’s making more changes to how it displays search results in the European Union in response to continued complaints that it’s failing to comply with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). This will include what it bills … Continue reading

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Intel and Biden Administration finalize $7.86B deal to fund domestic chip manufacturing

The U.S. Department of Commerce today confirmed it has awarded $7.865 billion to chip giant Intel under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, a federal statute signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022 to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing. … Continue reading

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Huawei launches first phones capable of running its new self-developed operating system

Huawei launched the Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro and Mate 70 Pro+ and foldable Mate X6 on Tuesday that can run HarmonyOS NEXT, its self-developed operating system.

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EV charging platform Ampeco raise $26M Series B, as demand for charging soars

We last covered EV charging platform Ampeco in 2023 when it raised a Series A round of $13 million. Today it’s raised $26 million in a Series B funding led by Revaia, a growth equity investment fund. That takes its … Continue reading

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Cradle builds out its protein-design AI platform (and wet lab) with $73M in new funding

Using AI to accelerate biotech is fast becoming standard practice, and companies offering services to deploy the tech quickly are seeing big uptake and new investment. Cradle is one of these, focused on protein design — and it just raised … Continue reading

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