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Apple secures first states to support digital driver’s licenses, but privacy questions linger

Apple’s plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards, subway tickets, and student IDs. Next on Apple’s

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Anima, a no-code tool that turns designs into code, raises $10 million Series A

Anima, the YC-backed platform that turns designs into code, has today announced the close of a $10 million Series A financing. The round was led by MizMaa Ventures with participation from INcapital an

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GOP lawmaker threatened officials while trying to enter Afghanistan: report

Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R) allegedly threatened U.S. Embassy staffers in Tajikistan when requesting assistance in transporting a large amount of cash into the c

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Taliban: Doha against isolation, India talks, Tajikistan cautious

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (L) and Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed give a press conference in Doha, Qatar, August 31, 2021. /CFP Qatar warns isolating Taliban could further de

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Uncertainty looms on first day after U.S. exit from Afghanistan

With the last U.S. military plane departing before Monday midnight, America's chaotic and bloody flight in Afghanistan finally came to an end, but things are far from over.Criticism over the chaotic

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EU maritime transport emissions must be cut sharply: report

Maritime transport emissions must be drastically cut further if the European Union hopes to become carbon neutral by 2050, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) warned Wednesday.In 2019, maritim

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IAG-2021: Chinese teams claim victory in Safe Environment Relay Race

A Chinese soldier continues onto a second lap after receiving a "baton" from his teammate in the Safe Environment Relay Race held in Korla, northwest China's Xinjiang U

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Over 1,000 illegal migrants rescued off Libyan coast in past week: IOM

FILE PHOTO: Migrants are seen on a boat as rescue operation is conducted within the scope of the Turkish Naval Task Group, in the Mediterranean TCG Gediz Frigate, which was performing a reconnais

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Tribe and Arkam back Jar app to help millions in India start their savings journey

Even as hundreds of millions of people in India have a bank account, only a tiny fraction of this population invests in any financial instrument.Fewer than 30 million people invest in mutual funds or

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6 tips for establishing your startup’s global supply chain

Startups are hard work, but the complexities of global supply chains can make running hardware companies especially difficult. Instead of existing within a codebase behind a screen, the key components

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Sales experience platform Walnut raises $15M to improve product demonstrations

Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform.Founders Yoav Vilner and Danni Friedland started the company in July 20

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Windows 11 launches October 5

Microsoft offered a broad “Holiday 2021” release date when it announced Windows 11, back in June. Of course, it didn’t specify precisely which holiday. Perhaps the company was aiming for World Teacher

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Spotify officially launches Blend, allowing friends to match their musical tastes and make playlists together

Spotify today is officially rolling out its shared playlist feature called Blend to global users, with a few changes. Earlier this summer, Spotify had first launched the new shared playlist experience

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Rattle raises $2.8M from Lightspeed and Sequoia to modernize enterprise sales stack

Tech employees build amazing consumer-facing apps for the world. But for their internal communications, they are stuck using applications that don’t play well with one another.This is a problem since

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Nine cyber attacks on UK's transport sector missed by mandatory reporting laws

The thresholds set for the mandatory reporting of cyber incidents across the energy, transport, health, water, and digital infrastructure sectors are so high that few if any incidents are actually being reported to government.

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Gatik expands autonomous box truck operations to Texas with $85 million in new funds

In the two years since Gatik AI came out of stealth, the autonomous vehicle startup has launched pilots with Walmart and Canadian retail giant Loblaw in its bid to prove that self-driving technology c

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South Korea passes ‘Anti-Google law’ bill to curb Google, Apple in-app payment commission

After a number of delays, South Korea’s National Assembly today voted to approve the passage of its “Anti-Google law.” Nicknamed after the search giant but more wide-ranging, the law will prevent Goog