We bring you a selection of interesting news from around the world\u2026<\/p>\n
What\u2019s a VPN\u2014And How Does It Actually Work?<\/p>\n
As part of the deal announced on Thursday, Global Payments will sell its issuer solutions unit, which offers card processing and account services, to FIS for $13.5 billion.<\/p>\n
Dominos Pizza offered free pizza for life (100 pizzas yearly for 100 years) to anyone who tattooed their logo on their body. The marketing team expected maybe 3-4 people would actually do it.<\/p>\n
It was once the Indian start-up world\u2019s shining star, but Ola is now battling a multitude of crises.<\/p>\n
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other chat surfaces now use search to power answers. AI chat is converging with search.<\/p>\n
The rental company, which also owns the Dollar and Thrifty brands, said in notices on its website that the breach relates to a cyberattack on one of its vendors between October 2024 and December 2024.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not your personal computer that uses all this energy, though. Or your smartphone. The computations we increasingly rely on happen in giant data centres that are, for most people, out of sight and out of mind.<\/p>\n
Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million, to the United States from India, after it stepped up production there in an effort to beat President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n
Scientists are just beginning to understand the important connections between the health of seabird nesting colonies above water and reef ecosystems below.<\/p>\n
Analog forms of communication are far from dead. US indie brands are capitalizing on a dedicated customer base that has had to look abroad for special stationery goods.<\/p>\n
In the history of startup funding, SoftBank\u2019s announcement yesterday that it is backing an investment of up to $40 billion in OpenAI is in a league of its own. No other financing even comes close.<\/p>\n
\u2026at least it can still be referred to as the \u2018BSOD\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n
A few days ago, 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., bringing a dramatic end to one of the most iconic names in consumer biotech.<\/p>\n
Future versions of the Apple Watch could feature a foldable display to rival the functionality of a smartphone, according to a recent patent application by Apple.<\/p>\n
The roar of the Zambezi is deafening as millions of gallons of water crash over rocks and tumble-down rapids. But there\u2019s another sound cutting through the trees of the Zambian bush \u2013 the unmistakable high-pitched whine of a bitcoin mine.<\/p>\n
The European country might have the 5th strongest passport in the world, but they also have the most gorgeous passport now, with this new design unveiled by Geneva-based studio RETINAA.<\/p>\n
78% of organizers say in-person events are their most effective marketing channel.<\/p>\n
Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.<\/p>\n
\u201cA complex matrix of factors are all conspiring against and placing pressure on the sector, making for a perfect storm for nightclubs,\u201d<\/p>\n
What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? Or have a private conversation in public without other people hearing you?<\/p>\n
OpenAI has launched a more powerful version of its o1 \u201creasoning\u201d AI model, o1-pro, in its developer API.<\/p>\n
Bank of America has informed clients that their names, account details, addresses, contact information, date of birth, social security numbers, and other government IDs were all exposed when documents were left outside in an unsealed container.<\/p>\n
Apple is a little behind others in adding live translation to the AirPods, as Google brought the feature to its very first pair of Pixel Buds in 2017, and later expanded it to the Pixel Buds Pro in 2022. Other companies, like Meta and Humane, have attempted live translation with their wearables as well, though the results proved pretty inconsistent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe backdoors had varying custom capabilities, including active and passive backdoor functions, as well as an embedded script that disables logging mechanisms on the target device,\u201d Google-owned Mandiant said in a report.<\/p>\n
A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Bel\u00e9m.<\/p>\n
US consumers were the least comfortable with personalized advertising among 17 markets surveyed, with British and French coming in next. Consumers in Hong Kong, India and the United Arab Emirates were the most comfortable with personalized ads.<\/p>\n
Skype, the video-calling service that had hundreds of millions of users, is closing in May, its owner Microsoft has said.<\/p>\n
The chip seeks to address one of the biggest stumbling blocks to the development of quantum computers \u2013 making them error free.<\/p>\n
Apple\u2019s apparent solution could hand the company a major competitive advantage.<\/p>\n
The landscape of the digital asset industry is changing rapidly. Moreover, those shifts have seen a growing likelihood that financial services entities will enter the evolving cryptocurrency market. That was confirmed this week by Bank of America CEO who recently said they are preparing to launch their own USD-pegged crypto stablecoin.<\/p>\n
Amazon has unveiled Alexa+, an overhauled version of its virtual assistant with which it hopes users will share \u201cjust about anything\u201d.<\/p>\n
Kellogg\u2019s recent See You in the Morning campaign has sparked a lively debate: is it a masterstroke or a brand mishap?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were very early adopters in something that felt crazy [at the time], and now social media feels crazy,\u201d Jack Constantine, the brand\u2019s chief digital officer, said.<\/p>\n
Dubai-based cryptocurrency firm Bybit said hackers stole $1.5bn (\u00a31.1bn) worth of digital currency in what could be the biggest crypto theft in history.<\/p>\n
Apple is taking the unprecedented step of removing its highest-level data security tool from customers in the UK, after the government demanded access to user data.<\/p>\n
The two-track plan includes establishing a settlement platform using central bank money and creating a long-term solution for using central bank money in digital ledger-based transactions, involving foreign exchange settlement among other international financial use cases.<\/p>\n
The iPhone 16e has the same processor as the larger iPhone 16, Apple said, with similar storage options, though a lower spec elsewhere, including fewer cameras.<\/p>\n
While brands experimenting with logo placement is nothing new, a growing number of companies are embracing this approach. In recent months, Heinz, Kellogg\u2019s, Tesco and McDonald\u2019s have all deleted or disguised their logos in outdoor advertising campaigns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is new era of progress,\u201d says French president ahead of third AI summit in Paris.<\/p>\n
AI growth and competition push water and energy demand, with consumption set to double by 2026.<\/p>\n
Apple is working on a new version of the AirPods Pro that uses external cameras and artificial intelligence to understand the outside world and provide information to the user. This would essentially be the smart glasses path \u2013 but without actual glasses.<\/p>\n
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\n Global Payments agrees $24.25 billion Worldpay deal as industry heavyweights shift focus As part of the deal announced on Thursday, Global Payments will sell its issuer solutions unit, which offers card processing and account services, to FIS for $13.5 billion.
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