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Gift Guide 2024: The best gadgets for new home owners

In August, I did something I never imagined myself doing: I bought a house. After spending most of my adult life in New York City, I moved a couple of hours north to the Hudson Valley. It’s been every bit … Continue reading

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Your Data, Always Within Reach – 2TB of Lifetime Cloud Storage Is $89

Say goodbye to recurring fees and complicated systems with FileJump’s straightforward and secure cloud storage platform—with lifetime access to your files.

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Meta taps US, UK universities to test VR in education, creates digital twin ‘metaversities’ in Europe

As part of an ongoing effort to embed virtual reality (VR) in education, Meta has launched a new partnership with a slew of universities in the U.S. and U.K., designed to provide feedback on a new product that Meta hopes … Continue reading

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Silicon Valley’s General Catalyst makes first investment into Saudi Arabia through fintech Lean Technologies

Saudi Arabia’s fintech startups have raised over $1.84 billion in venture capital investments since 2018, according to the kingdom’s SME authority.

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From self-driving cars to AI that writes enterprise software: Cogna founder raises $15M

A founder who was an early mover in the race to build autonomous vehicles has raised $15 million for his next act: a startup that claims its AI can write enterprise software on its own. Cogna — as the U.K.-based … Continue reading

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Swiggy’s public debut will test India’s appetite for $1B+ IPOs

Swiggy’s upcoming IPO on Wednesday will finally give many analysts a public comparable for what has been long considered to be the Indian internet stock: Zomato. It will also test the nation’s appetite for IPOs that can scale past the … Continue reading

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FTX sues crypto exchange Binance and its former CEO Zhao for $1.8 billion

The litigation marks the latest escalation of tensions between two of the biggest names in crypto, after the meteoric collapse of FTX rocked the market.

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Bitcoin tops $82,000 as crypto euphoria over Trump win shows no sign of waning

Bitcoin hit another high on Monday, as the rally in cryptocurrencies continued following President-elect Donald Trump’s election win.

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Brazilian fintech Tako emerges from stealth with sizable seed round led by a16z and Ribbit Capital

Running payroll is hard in any country, but perhaps especially so in Brazil thanks to consistently changing laws and extremely influential unions that make it significantly harder to get it right. Fernando Gadotti struggled with this as the co-founder and … Continue reading

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‘I was moderating hundreds of horrific and traumatising videos’

The BBC speaks to social media moderators, whose job it is to find and remove distressing and illegal content.

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