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Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ

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Central Eurasia names its 2026 Road to Battlefield winners: Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ

Cerberus, WeGlobal AI, and LOOQ took the top three spots at the regional final of Road to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 2026 and will represent Central Eurasia in the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this…

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Switzerland takes a Swiss Army knife to Microsoft 365

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Switzerland takes a Swiss Army knife to Microsoft 365

Two divisions of Switzerland’s government are shifting from Microsoft 365 to open-source openDesk. Here’s why.

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Scientists unlock secrets of ancient Egyptian materials with proteomics

Scientists unlock secrets of ancient Egyptian materials with proteomics

Credit: Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm Credit: Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm The precise composition of ancient Egyptian paints, binders, adhesives, and similar materials…

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Atiku: We’re restoring subsidy, but moving it from importation to production

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has accused the Tinubu Presidency of deliberately distorting concerns raised by Dangote Refinery in an attempt to discredit his production subsidy proposal, saying the refinery’s warning against…

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China’s car exports beat last year’s record with four months to go

China’s car exports beat last year’s record with four months to go

China exported more than 6.2 million passenger cars in the first eight months of this year, beating its full-year total for 2025 with four months to spare, while domestic sales fell 25.6% in August. Europe absorbed much of the growth…

BookTok influences what you read, even if you aren't on social media

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BookTok influences what you read, even if you aren't on social media

BookTok is said to have cut out the step between author and reader. But what does that mean through the filter of a social media algorithm?

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Nigeria: Lagos Fashion Week Looks Beyond The Catwalk To Fashion's Future

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Nigeria: Lagos Fashion Week Looks Beyond The Catwalk To Fashion's Future

[Bird Story Agency] A new coalition is challenging African fashion to turn its long traditions of repair, reuse and community production into a modern industrial strategy that keeps more jobs, knowledge and economic value on the continent.

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Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Oracle’s proposed investment in 2 gigawatts of renewable energy projects for New Mexico comes as local opposition could delay development of the Project Jupiter data center that Oracle is building for OpenAI. The two tech companies are…

GoMining Launches GoMining Gifts, a Bitcoin Miner You Can Send as a Present in One Link

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GoMining Launches GoMining Gifts, a Bitcoin Miner You Can Send as a Present in One Link

Every December the same small tragedy plays out in wallets and kitchen drawers across the world. Somebody buys a gift card. Somebody receives it. The card sits half-used or entirely forgotten until it is worth nothing to anyone. Americans…

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Chabad cancels Rosh Hashanah event in Phuket due to security concerns

Times of Israel

Chabad cancels Rosh Hashanah event in Phuket due to security concerns

Some 500 Thais demonstrate at site of holiday dinner to be attended by Israelis, after days of protests on the island and in Bangkok, some of which carried antisemitic undertones The post Chabad cancels Rosh Hashanah event in Phuket due to…

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Europe’s first truly driverless robotaxi is running in Croatia, on Chinese software

Europe’s first truly driverless robotaxi is running in Croatia, on Chinese software

Pony.ai and Verne have started fully driverless passenger rides in Zagreb, the first anywhere in Europe, with nobody in the driver’s seat and Uber taking the bookings. The pair want more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, but the only…

Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

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