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Bengaluru-based fintech Slice, which was valued at ~$1.5B in 2022, secures a rare approval from India’s central bank to merge with North East Small Finance Bank (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based fintech Slice, which was valued at ~$1.5B in 2022, secures a rare approval from India’s central bank to merge with North East Small Finance Bank  —  Indian unicorn fintech Slice is merging with North East Small Finance Bank, they said Wednesday after receiving the approval …

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TikTok plans to stop facilitating e-commerce transactions on TikTok Shop in Indonesia on October 4 to comply with the country’s regulations on social commerce (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: TikTok plans to stop facilitating e-commerce transactions on TikTok Shop in Indonesia on October 4 to comply with the country’s regulations on social commerce  —  – Social media company reacts to government’s fresh restrictions  — New rules are setback for firm in TikTok Shop’s biggest market

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Recharts: Intro to JavaScript charting

The JavaScript ecosystem includes many charting libraries, but it’s tough to create a full-featured charting API that performs well in real-world usage. This article is a hands-on introduction to one of the good ones. Recharts is a React-specific incarnation of D3, a well-vetted framework. To test it out, we’ll use price and volume data for cryptocurrencies. Set

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10 Pythons for every programming need

When you choose Python for software development, you get a large language ecosystem with a wealth of packages covering all manner of programming needs. But in addition to libraries for everything from GUI development to machine learning, you can also choose from a number of Python runtimes—and some of these runtimes may be better suited

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The Python developers clinging to Python 2

Python 3 was by far the choice over Python 2 in a late-2022 survey of more than 23,000 Python developers, but the percentage of respondents using Python 2 actually ticked up compared to the previous year. Results of the sixth annual Python Developers Survey, conducted by the Python Software Foundation and software tools maker JetBrains,

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Stockholm-based Brite Payments, which offers open banking payments and payouts, raised a $60M Series A led by Dawn Capital; Headline and Incore invested as well (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Stockholm-based Brite Payments, which offers open banking payments and payouts, raised a $60M Series A led by Dawn Capital; Headline and Incore invested as well  —  The move towards Open Banking payments, especially in the EU, effectively kicked-off the FinTech boom.

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Sony researchers: skin tone measures adopted by Google, Meta, and others for their image algorithms don’t properly capture the red and yellow hues in human skin (Paresh Dave/Wired)

Paresh Dave / Wired: Sony researchers: skin tone measures adopted by Google, Meta, and others for their image algorithms don’t properly capture the red and yellow hues in human skin  —  Google, Meta, and others test their algorithms for bias using standardized skin tone scales.

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The Browser Company updates Arc with GPT 3.5 and Anthropic features: Ask ChatGPT, Tidy Tab Titles, Tidy Downloads, Five-Second Previews, and Ask on Page (David Pierce/The Verge)

David Pierce / The Verge: The Browser Company updates Arc with GPT 3.5 and Anthropic features: Ask ChatGPT, Tidy Tab Titles, Tidy Downloads, Five-Second Previews, and Ask on Page  —  At some point, if you’re a company doing pretty much anything in the year 2023, you have to have an AI strategy.  It’s just business.

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Filing: the SEC asked a federal judge on October 3 to deny a Coinbase motion seeking the dismissal of SEC’s lawsuit by citing a court ruling in Ripple’s favor (Reuters)

Reuters: Filing: the SEC asked a federal judge on October 3 to deny a Coinbase motion seeking the dismissal of SEC’s lawsuit by citing a court ruling in Ripple’s favor  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday asked a federal judge to deny a motion from Coinbase Global (COIN.O) …

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