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Google launches a Pixel Diagnostic App and English-language repair manuals in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and European countries where Pixels are sold (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches a Pixel Diagnostic App and English-language repair manuals in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and European countries where Pixels are sold  —  Besides the new Repair Mode introduced with Android 14 QPR1 and the December Feature Drop, Google is widely launching a new Pixel Diagnostic App and repair

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Intel unveils the Core Ultra H and the Core Ultra U series, its first mobile processors based on the Meteor Lake platform, designed for ultra-portable notebooks (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: Intel unveils the Core Ultra H and the Core Ultra U series, its first mobile processors based on the Meteor Lake platform, designed for ultra-portable notebooks  —  Intel has released their first mobile processors based on their highly anticipated Meteor Lake platform, the Core Ultra H and the Core Ultra U

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Sources: LinkedIn shelves its effort, announced in 2019, to relocate its data centers out of its physical facilities and into Azure, a setback for Microsoft (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Sources: LinkedIn shelves its effort, announced in 2019, to relocate its data centers out of its physical facilities and into Azure, a setback for Microsoft  —  – LinkedIn called off a plan to move technology to Microsoft Azure, a setback for its parent company, which is chasing Amazon Web Services.

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Mexico City-based Kapital, which offers financial visibility tools to SMBs, raised a $40M Series B and $125M debt, after raising a $20M Series A in May 2023 (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Mexico City-based Kapital, which offers financial visibility tools to SMBs, raised a $40M Series B and $125M debt, after raising a $20M Series A in May 2023  —  Bank and technology platform Kapital continues to rake in venture capital, grabbing another $40 million in Series B dollars and $125 million in

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A look at Koolau Ranch, Mark Zuckerberg’s 1,400-acre, $270M+ compound in Kauai, Hawaii, with a 5,000 sq. ft. underground shelter, a project shrouded in secrecy (Guthrie Scrimgeour/Wired)

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired: A look at Koolau Ranch, Mark Zuckerberg’s 1,400-acre, $270M+ compound in Kauai, Hawaii, with a 5,000 sq. ft. underground shelter, a project shrouded in secrecy  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building a sprawling, $100 million compound in Hawaii—complete with plans for a huge underground bunker.

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Elon Musk wants to open a university in Texas

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Image: Getty Images Elon Musk is planning to open up a university in Austin, Texas, according to a report from Bloomberg. A tax filing for Musk’s charity, The Foundation, reveals that the billionaire wants to contribute $100 million to build STEM-focused primary and secondary schools before opening a

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Three Polish hackers say they fixed trains allegedly bricked by manufacturer Newag after an independent repair shop worked on them; Newag denies bricking them (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Three Polish hackers say they fixed trains allegedly bricked by manufacturer Newag after an independent repair shop worked on them; Newag denies bricking them  —  After breaking trains simply because an independent repair shop had worked on them, NEWAG is now demanding that trains fixed by hackers be removed from

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The best new features in C# 12

C# 12 arrived in November with .NET 8, bringing several new features—primary constructors, collection expressions, inline arrays, and more—that make it simpler and easier to write more efficient code. Just as we walked through the .NET 8 highlights previously, in this article we’ll take a close look at the key new features in C# 12.

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Bengaluru-based B2B e-commerce startup Udaan raised $340M led by UK retail bank M&G, its first equity raise since 2021 and one of India’s largest rounds in 2023 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based B2B e-commerce startup Udaan raised $340M led by UK retail bank M&G, its first equity raise since 2021 and one of India’s largest rounds in 2023  —  The investment arm of the UK retail bank M&G has led a funding of $340 million into Udaan, a business-to-business e-commerce startup …

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UK-based Qogita, an e-commerce wholesale marketplace for the health and beauty sectors, raised an €80M Series B led by Dawn Capital, for €119M raised in total (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: UK-based Qogita, an e-commerce wholesale marketplace for the health and beauty sectors, raised an €80M Series B led by Dawn Capital, for €119M raised in total  —  Qogita – a two-sided ecommerce wholesale marketplace aimed at retailers largely in the health and beauty sectors …

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