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JPMorgan Gold Desk ‘Spoofing’ Cheated Market, Ex-Trader Says
JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s gold trading and sales team was so focused on making money that they scammed the market…
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Google to Slow Hiring for Rest of Year, Alphabet CEO Says
Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to slow hiring for the remainder of the year in the face of a potential economic…
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Animoca Brands Raises Additional $75M, Nudging Valuation to $5.9B
Non-fungible token (NFT) and metaverse investor Animoca Brands has raised a further $75 million at a valuation of $5.9 billion.…
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WeChat Is China’s Most Beloved (and Feared) Surveillance Tool
Imagine for a second life before smartphones. Simple tasks—ordering takeout, staying in touch—become frustratingly difficult, never mind dealing with emergencies.…
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Meta launches Sphere, an AI knowledge tool based on open web content, used initially to verify citations on Wikipedia
Facebook may be infamous for helping to usher in the era of “fake news”; but it’s also tried to find…
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Microsoft still plans to block Office macros by default after temporary rollback
Microsoft is still planning to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in Office apps. The software giant rolled…
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First Company Applies to Make Birth Control Pill Available Without a Prescription in the U.S.
ince the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and set off a cascade of abortion bans around the country, access to contraception has…
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China Box Office Enjoys $61 Million Weekend as ‘Detective Vs Sleuths’ Opens Second
Hong Kong-made crime action film “Detective Vs Sleuths” earned a solid $23.1 million (RMB155 million) in its opening at the…
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ING Bank Spins Off Its Cryptocurrency Custody Platform to GMEX Group
Netherlands-based ING Bank has spun off Pyctor, its cryptocurrency custody and post-trade infrastructure platform, which becomes a service offering within…
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Your crypto wallet is the key to your Web3 identity
Digital identity has been a fraught subject since the earliest days of the internet. Web2 bridged the gap between people’s…
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