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In 2014, financial intelligence units across the European Union received almost a million suspicious transaction reports. Around ten per cent of them were investigated further. Roughly one per cent of criminal proceeds were confiscated. Europol, publishing those figures in 2017, noted that the ten per cent had not moved since
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We are currently building ROLL Beauty, an app that lets users lean their smartphone against a wall, sit on a chair, and do a full 360-degree rotation in about 8 seconds. Users can then drag through the recording to review their hair from the front, side, and back—making it
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Software is completely changing. The cost of building something is a race to zero, but the cost of getting an audience and distribution isn’t getting easier or cheaper. Software was always the hard part and the thing that companies built moats around. If you had an idea, it would
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Hackathons are THE BEST way to drive real developer engagement and adoption. There’s nothing second to a hackathon when it comes to building developer relations. It’s a win-win recipe where developers win prizes and validation while driving adoption for companies. It’s a win-win: developers get prizes and
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Quantum Security You Can Verify, Not Believe: After 74 Days of Post-Quantum Blocks in Production, QoreChain's QOR Begins Trading on MEXC August 20 While the industry writes quantum resistance into roadmaps, QoreChain points to a transaction hash: the first transfer in blockchain history secured end to end with
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I’ve been running an AI agent on a Raspberry Pi 5 for the past three months. It writes code, browses the web, manages my email, and even deployed a production SaaS to a DigitalOcean droplet last week. The whole setup costs zero dollars in API fees because every inference
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OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced widespread scrutiny after an unreleased model hacked another AI company. As it prepares for an IPO,
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Uber has put Baidu’s driverless robotaxis on its app in Dubai. Book an UberX or an Uber Comfort there now and the app may match you with an Apollo Go vehicle that has nobody in it. A dedicated “Autonomous” option raises the odds for anyone who wants one on
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Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin appears to have gone fully driverless. Over the past fortnight, every one of the 170 rides logged by an independent monitoring project ran with no human safety monitor on board, across 54 different cars. Two days earlier, a passenger filmed one of those cars
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Waymo has published what is in the boot of its robotaxis. A blog post on Thursday set out the architecture of its onboard computer, introduced a custom 5-nanometer chip of its own design, and named the seven suppliers it builds the system with. The company calls it the first look
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Slack launched a coding product on Thursday. Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write, review and ship software together. The work happens inside the chat app rather than in a separate browser tab. The mechanic is simple. Tag a coding agent from any conversation and it
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Winners & losers: G.Skill has started paying customers who joined a $2.4 million class action settlement over claims that it misled buyers about the speeds of its DDR4 and DDR5 memory. Those
