While smartphones with built-in parental controls may give parents a measure of comfort, they’re too uncool for kids. Human Mobile Devices (HMD) addresses that problem with its new HMD X1 phone. The post New

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Britain’s competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.’s

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Foreign exchange fluctuations can make or break a business that trades across borders, but trying to respond to that can be tricky if you’re anything smaller than the world’s largest enterprises. Today, a startup

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Here’s a blast from the past: Digg, one of the web’s early news aggregators, is now back under the ownership of its original founder Kevin Rose. Notably, he’s being joined as co-owner by Reddit co-founder Alexis

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The SoftBank-backed chipmaker has signed an agreement with the Malaysian government to bolster the country’s chip design ecosystem. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Apple is challenging a U.K. Government data access order in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the Financial Times reports. The order targeted iCloud backups that are protected by end-to-end encryption. Last

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Darwinbox, an Indian startup building a SaaS platform for hiring, onboarding and employee administration, has raised $140 million to take on the likes of Rippling and Deel as it seeks to expand internationally,

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A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019 in

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Nvidia-backed data center company CoreWeave has acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases for an undisclosed sum. According to The Information, CoreWeave spent $1.7 billion on the transaction. Weights

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Last October, Meta dipped its toe into the world of facial recognition — an area where it has had a tricky track record — with an international test of two new tools: one to stop scams based on likenesses of famous

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