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China's AI unicorns like Megvii, which thrived on government contracts for facial recognition, are now facing challenges amid US sanctions and cheaper tech (Will Knight/Wired)

Will Knight / Wired: China’s AI unicorns like Megvii, which thrived on government contracts for facial recognition, are now facing challenges amid US sanctions and cheaper tech  —  Companies such as Megvii thrived on government contracts for facial recognition, but they face challenges from US sanctions to cheaper tech. China's AI unicorns like Megvii, which

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In China, investors and bankers say SoftBank's involvement, once a sign of promising prospects, is now viewed as a red flag that a company was likely overvalued (Kane Wu/Reuters)

Kane Wu / Reuters: In China, investors and bankers say SoftBank’s involvement, once a sign of promising prospects, is now viewed as a red flag that a company was likely overvalued  —  HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – For SoftBank Group Inc, financial technology firm OneConnect’s IPO should have been a vindication of an aggressive China investing

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Instagram's limit of allowing one web link for users as a "Link in Bio" is a slow knife – a subtle, pervasive attempt to kill the open web (Anil Dash)

Anil Dash: Instagram’s limit of allowing one web link for users as a “Link in Bio” is a slow knife – a subtle, pervasive attempt to kill the open web  —  We don’t even notice it anymore — “link in bio”.  It’s a pithy phrase, usually found on Instagram, which directs an audience to be

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Researchers claim they used 3D masks and photos to deceive facial recognition systems used by Alipay, WeChat Pay, Schiphol Airport, and train stations in China (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: Researchers claim they used 3D masks and photos to deceive facial recognition systems used by Alipay, WeChat Pay, Schiphol Airport, and train stations in China  —  Masks and simple photographs are enough to fool some facial recognition technology, highlighting a major shortcoming in what is billed as a more effective

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Reliance Industries has acquired an 85% stake in NowFloats, an Indian startup that helps small businesses and individuals build an online presence, for ~$20M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Reliance Industries has acquired an 85% stake in NowFloats, an Indian startup that helps small businesses and individuals build an online presence, for ~$20M  —  Reliance Industries, one of India’s largest industrial houses, has acquired a majority stake in NowFloats, an Indian startup … Reliance Industries has acquired an 85% stake

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How the concept of free shipping forces small e-commerce businesses to eat the cost of shipping, as large sellers like Amazon do so at scale (Amanda Mull/The Atlantic)

Amanda Mull / The Atlantic: How the concept of free shipping forces small e-commerce businesses to eat the cost of shipping, as large sellers like Amazon do so at scale  —  How retailers hide the costs of delivery—and why we’re such suckers for their ploys  —  It was a pair of feather earrings that helped

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Yosys Fronts for Xilinx ISE

We always marvel at how open-source tools can often outstrip their commercial counterparts. Yosys, the open-source tool for Verilog synthesis, is a good example. Although the Xilinx ISE design suite is something close to abandonware, a lot of people still use it because it supports older FPGAs the newer tools don’t. Its Verilog parser is

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