October 2, 2023
Teen influencer “Lil Tay” has made a dramatic return to social media after a five-year absence — and a false report of her death earlier this year — dropping a slickly produced music video. “It’s been five years and ya’ll still broke,” she said in an Instagram video. “Your girl is back. Five years and
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The Islamic Republic of Iran’s representative in Lebanon issued the first public announcement of the Iranian regime’s role in the mass murder of American military and diplomatic personnel in the early 1980s in Beirut. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) first located and translated the bombshell interview with Sayyed Issa Tabatabai, who serves as the
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Private Equity-Venture Capital (PE-VC) funds invested $6 billion (across 139 deals) in India-based companies during the quarter ended September 2023 (Q3 FY23), shows data from Venture Intelligence, a research service focused on private company financials, transactions, and their valuations. This represents a 15% decline compared to the same period in 2022 (which saw $7 billion
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France’s competition authority raided Nvidia‘s local offices this week on suspicion the chipmaker engaged in anticompetitive practices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The French competition authority, which disclosed the dawn raid on Wednesday, did not say what practices it was investigating or which company it had targeted, beyond saying it was in the
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Syrian Kurdish fighters and American forces have captured a senior member of the Islamic State group, a militant described as one of its “key facilitators,” the force said Friday. Mahmdouh Ibrahim al-Haji, also known as Abu Youssef, was taken into custody on Thursday in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, according to the U.S.-backed Syrian
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A British Airways pilot was suspended and eventually fired after he was reported for drinking and using cocaine the night before a return flight to London. Mike Beaton, a pilot with British Airways, had a night off after a flight to Johannesburg last month that he used to indulge in large amounts of alcohol and
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The European Union is examining alleged anticompetitive abuses in chips used for artificial intelligence, a market which Nvidia dominates, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. To understand if there could be the need for future intervention, the European Commission has been informally collecting views on potentially abusive practices in the
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A view of a plastic model of a stomach during an interview with Doctor Thomas Horbach, specialist in surgery, visceral surgery and nutritional medicine on Novo Nordisk, which will start selling its hugely popular obesity drug Wegovy in Germany later this month, in Munich, Germany, July 17, 2023. Christine Uyanik | Reuters Drugmakers spent nearly
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Apple staff met with Chinese officials in recent months to discuss concerns over new rules that will restrict the U.S. tech giant from offering many foreign apps currently available on its app store in the country, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The officials told Apple that it must strictly implement the rules which
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI and former Apple designer Jony Ive are in talks with investment major SoftBank to raise $1 billion to make AI hardware devices, according to a report in the Financial Times. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Ive and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son are in discussions to build an “iPhone of artificial intelligence”, with funding
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