Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi says regulators have lifted a ban on new user registrations, signaling an end to a longrunning regulatory crackdown — China's ride hailing giant Didi Global said in a statement on Monday that it would be allowed to resume new user registration, after a more than year-long ban that curbed its growth.
Source: the CEO of Clearco, which offers capital to e-commerce firms for a cut of future revenue, resigns as growth at the well-funded startup grinds to a halt — The CEO of Clearco, which provides capital to e-commerce businesses in exchange for a cut of future revenue, has resigned the post …
Europe's rapid delivery market has consolidated down to three companies: Getir, the largest player that operates in seven European countries, Flink, and Gopuff — Rapid grocery delivery apps are leaving the continent, putting the Turkish startup on top. But, its reign is anything but stable.
A look at VR support groups and communities helping members process cancer diagnoses and death, question their marriages, turn over childhood traumas, and more — Welcome to “Death Q&A,” a space with a unique combination of anonymity and togetherness, where avatars discuss what weighs on them most heavily.
Adding touchscreens to Macs is paramount to Apple's goals of unifying software and services on its devices and keeping up with a younger, touch-first generation — Apple's upcoming move to Macs with touch screens is about the future of its user base. Also: The company kicks …
Two years after the Bahamas launched the world's first CBDC, the Sand Dollar's adoption has been sluggish as FTX's demise only fuels digital fiat skepticism — Before FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried made the Bahamas synonymous with the crypto crash, the country was known as a pioneer of digital fiat.
Researchers detail reproducibility issues in health care AI; a 2021 review found health-related ML models perform especially poorly on reproducibility measures — Emily Sohn is a freelance journalist in Minneapolis, Minnesota. — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar
How Elon Musk's Twitter moderation cuts boosted hate speech outside the US and Canada, where 75%+ of the service's 280M DAUs live, including in Japan and India — With 75 percent of its audience outside the U.S. and Canada, the impact of Elon Musk's moderation cuts has been great elsewhere
Customs data shows China's chip imports fell 15% in 2022 to 538.4B units, the first annual drop since at least 2004; imports grew 17% in 2021 and 22% in 2020 — China's imports of integrated circuits declined in 2022 for the first time in almost two decades.
An FTX lawyer told the Delaware bankruptcy court that SBF asked FTX cofounder Gary Wang to create a secret backdoor to let Alameda borrow $65B of clients' money — - Bankruptcy lawyers said Sam Bankman-Fried's Alameda had access to a $65 billion credit line from FTX.
Amazon is testing $12/year Prime Lite in India with free two-day delivery and ad-supported Prime Video in SD; Prime costs $18/year or $2.20/month in India — Amazon is quietly piloting a new tier for its Prime membership in India, providing customers with access to popular benefits such as free …
A look at Congo's Virunga National Park, which is running a Bitcoin mine that uses power from a hydro plant to pay salaries and build infrastructure projects — In an attempt to protect its forests and famous wildlife, Virunga has become the first national park to run a Bitcoin mine.
A bankruptcy judge lets FTX sell its derivatives exchange LedgerX, clearing company Embed, and European and Japanese operations to raise money for creditors — - FTX can begin selling its business units to raise money for creditors, a bankruptcy judge overseeing the case ruled on Thursday.
Jacob Judah / Financial Times : Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, h...
