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China blocks Meta's $2B acquisition of AI startup Manus

Posted by SimplyUseless on Monday April 27, 2026 @08:23AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0v0gr2yz7o

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Cost of weight-loss drug Mounjaro could rise significantly

Posted by SimplyUseless on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:49PM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ylppp2vj9o

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YouTube Create – Bard's Generative AI

Posted by SimplyUseless on Friday September 22, 2023 @02:22PM
from the blog.youtube dept.

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/made-on-youtube-2023/

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Cisco acquiring cybersecurity company Splunk in cash deal worth $28B

Posted by SimplyUseless on Thursday September 21, 2023 @08:19AM
from the cnbc.com dept.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/21/cisco-acquiring-splunk-for-157-a-share-in-cash.html

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AI could replace equivalent of 300M jobs – report

Posted by SimplyUseless on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:17PM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65102150

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Farm laws: Sikhs being targeted by fake social media profiles

Posted by SimplyUseless on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @05:50AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-59338245

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Microsoft's passwordless plans lets users switch to app-based login

Posted by SimplyUseless on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:54AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58575954

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World’s 8 Richest People Now Have a Combined Net Worth of $1T – Technology News

Posted by SimplyUseless on Thursday April 15, 2021 @12:55PM
from the gadgets.ndtv.com dept.

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/richest-people-in-the-world-net-worth-usd-1-trillion-total-100-billion-each-jeff-bezos-elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-2412730

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Plex Closes $50M Financing Round, Looks to Scale AVOD Business – Variety

Posted by SimplyUseless on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:44AM
from the variety.com dept.

https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/plex-raises-50-million-funding-avod-1234950525/

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China hits Alibaba with record $2.8B fine for behaving like a monopoly

Posted by SimplyUseless on Saturday April 10, 2021 @11:59AM
from the edition.cnn.com dept.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/10/tech/alibaba-china-record-fine/index.html

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Japan's cherry blossom 'earliest peak since 812' points to larger climate crisis

Posted by SimplyUseless on Monday April 05, 2021 @03:16PM
from the edition.cnn.com dept.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/05/asia/japan-cherry-blossoms-climate-change-intl-hnk-scn/index.html

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How to deal with difficult people on software projects

Posted by SimplyUseless on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @10:48AM
from the howtodeal.dev dept.

https://www.howtodeal.dev/

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Elon Musk's Tesla buys $1.5bn of Bitcoin causing currency to spike

Posted by SimplyUseless on Monday February 08, 2021 @03:22PM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55939972

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Pakistan AND India dominate WHO's air pollution database

Posted by SimplyUseless on Friday November 06, 2020 @09:43AM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/05/india-pakistan-air-pollution-who

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Containers Are Linux (2017)

Posted by SimplyUseless on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:49AM
from the redhat.com dept.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/containers-are-linux

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Guy Who Reverse-Engineered TikTok Reveals the Scary Things He Learned

Posted by SimplyUseless on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:02PM
from the boredpanda.com dept.

https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/

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YouTube is facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of children

Posted by SimplyUseless on Friday June 19, 2020 @03:52PM
from the reddit.com dept.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/artkmz/youtube_is_facilitating_the_sexual_exploitation/

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The Time Is Now: The Supreme Court Must Allow Live Cameras

Posted by SimplyUseless on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @10:52AM
from the eff.org dept.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/time-now-supreme-court-must-allow-live-cameras-0

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Game AI Pro

Posted by SimplyUseless on Sunday February 02, 2020 @06:31AM
from the gameaipro.com dept.

http://www.gameaipro.com/

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Game AI Pro

Posted by SimplyUseless on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:38AM
from the gameaipro.com dept.

http://www.gameaipro.com/

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Weapon-spotting tech tested by Las Vegas casino

Posted by SimplyUseless on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:37AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-51178092/weapon-spotting-tech-tested-by-las-vegas-casino

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China makes it a criminal offense to publish deepfakes or fake news

Posted by SimplyUseless on Saturday November 30, 2019 @03:47AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/29/20988363/china-deepfakes-ban-internet-rules-fake-news-disclosure-virtual-reality

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Russia bans sale of gadgets without Russian-made software

Posted by SimplyUseless on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:41AM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50507849

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OxyPure is offering pure oxygen in New Delhi for less than $6 for 15 mins

Posted by SimplyUseless on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:40PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1195080919868043264

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NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa

Posted by SimplyUseless on Monday November 18, 2019 @03:52PM
from the nasa.gov dept.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-scientists-confirm-water-vapor-on-europa

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Re:GitHub for Mobile on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:26PM (#21530360)

Apple does not have his shit together yet on PWA.

https://medium.com/@firt/pwas-on-ios-12-2-beta-the-good-the-...

Re:GitHub for Mobile on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:27PM (#21529135)

Honestly, why wouldn't GitHub build a PWA version so the offline experience is fantastic. In fact, that's how Linus built Git. The saga is building app after app is getting ridiculous. It also frees developers to focus on building server-side functionality rather than 3x client app effort (web, iOS, android).

Re:Show HN: Serverless doc writing app built using Cloudflare Workers ... on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:44PM (#21326551)

Well done!

I hear a lot of complaints about serverless for performance and cost but I think this is exactly what Serverless is meant to do - Reduce upfront cost for low traffic and remove the barrier of managing infrastructure.

Many app welcome the benefits despite the tradeoffs.

App that automatically cancels subscriptions after free trial, launches in UK

Posted by SimplyUseless on Monday September 16, 2019 @04:28PM
from the bbc.co.uk dept.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49688309

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Crotalaria cunninghamii – Plant with leaves looking like birds on the tree

Posted by SimplyUseless on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:53AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotalaria_cunninghamii

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