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The most popular Google Doodle games

Google Doodle has been an integral part of the search engine experience for quite some time, but did you know there are also some you can play? That’s right. A host of popular Google Doogle games are available to kill your boredom at the office. Google archives these old doodles on a separate page, and

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New LoRA Distance Record: 830 Miles!

The LoRa radio communication system is useful for low-bandwidth communication, and as many readers will be aware its special skill lies in delivering long range. For most of us that range tops out at a few miles, but pushing the limits of what is possible for LoRa has resulted in some significant records falling. Most

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Instacart raises its proposed IPO price range, seeking to sell 22M shares at $28 to $30 each, up from $26 to $28 each, in the wake of Arm’s successful IPO (Niket Nishant/Reuters)

Niket Nishant / Reuters: Instacart raises its proposed IPO price range, seeking to sell 22M shares at $28 to $30 each, up from $26 to $28 each, in the wake of Arm’s successful IPO  —  Grocery delivery app Instacart on Friday raised the proposed price range for its initial public offering, revising its terms to

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Revolut appears to have withdrawn its application for a US banking license, after saying in 2021 that it filed a draft; it has 500K+ retail customers in the US (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: Revolut appears to have withdrawn its application for a US banking license, after saying in 2021 that it filed a draft; it has 500K+ retail customers in the US  —  Revolut, a leading UK fintech, withdraws its application for a US banking license.  Despite this, the company continues to expand its

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Sources: ByteDance and the US restart their negotiations over TikTok’s operations, as calls to ban the wildly popular app have faded ahead of the 2024 election (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: Sources: ByteDance and the US restart their negotiations over TikTok’s operations, as calls to ban the wildly popular app have faded ahead of the 2024 election  —  Calls to ban the wildly popular app have faded ahead of the 2024 election  —  TikTok’s China-based parent company …

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Apple plans a software update for iPhone 12 in France to address radiation concerns, says “this is related to a specific testing protocol” used by the regulator (Elizabeth Pineau/Reuters)

Elizabeth Pineau / Reuters: Apple plans a software update for iPhone 12 in France to address radiation concerns, says “this is related to a specific testing protocol” used by the regulator  —  Apple said on Friday it would issue a software update for iPhone 12 users in France, in what seemed to offer …

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Sources: TSMC has told its suppliers to delay the delivery of high-end chipmaking equipment, as the chipmaker grows increasingly nervous about customer demand (Reuters)

Reuters: Sources: TSMC has told its suppliers to delay the delivery of high-end chipmaking equipment, as the chipmaker grows increasingly nervous about customer demand  —  Taiwan’s TSMC (2330.TW) has told its major suppliers to delay the delivery of high-end chipmaking equipment …

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X partners with Au10tix to launch government ID-based account verification for paid users; verification is not yet available in the EU and the UK (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X partners with Au10tix to launch government ID-based account verification for paid users; verification is not yet available in the EU and the UK  —  X, formerly Twitter, has launched government ID-based account verification for paid users to prevent impersonation and give them benefits such as “prioritized support.”

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London-based fintech Hyperjar, which offers digital payments, planning, and personalized rewards platform, raised a $24M Series A (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: London-based fintech Hyperjar, which offers digital payments, planning, and personalized rewards platform, raised a $24M Series A  —  London-based fintech, Hyperjar, raises $24 million for expansion.  Known for its digital wallet and personalised rewards, Hyperjar partners with top brands to offer unique discounts and savings.

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Playtika agrees to acquire Innplay Labs, a mobile game studio in Israel, for an upfront fee of $80M and as much as $300M in total (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Playtika agrees to acquire Innplay Labs, a mobile game studio in Israel, for an upfront fee of $80M and as much as $300M in total  —  Playtika has agreed to acquire Innplay Labs, a mobile game studio in Israel, for an upfront fee of $80 million and as much as $300

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A look at the race to build tools to identify AI-generated text and evade detection, such as GPTZero and WorkNinja, which were built by college students (Christopher Beam/Wired)

Christopher Beam / Wired: A look at the race to build tools to identify AI-generated text and evade detection, such as GPTZero and WorkNinja, which were built by college students  —  And college students are developing the weapons, quickly building tools that identify AI-generated text—and tools to evade detection.

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