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BTS Island In the SOEM Beginner's Guide: Tips to start your island adventure with your BTS crew!

BTS Island: In the SOEM is a match-three game where you can build up your BTS island. The whole BTS crew has shipwrecked on an island! Here is everything you need to know to help them out!Please enabl...

May 2023

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PhonePe expands new funding to $850 million

General Atlantic has poured another $100 million into PhonePe, four months after leading a $350 million investment in the Indian fintech startup that has so far raised $850 million in an ongoing finan...

May 2023

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Explore Alternate Timelines In LotR: Heroes Of Middle Earth

LotR: Heroes Of Middle Earth is out to grab on Google Play today, and it's a game that's attracted our attention a little. Yes, I know, franchise tie-ins might make you squirm, and there's no shortage...

May 2023

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Kenya's Fingo partners with Ecobank, launches neobank on the back of $4M investment

Yesterday, Fingo, a YC-backed Kenyan fintech, launched its neobank, which it developed in collaboration with Pan-African financial institution Ecobank Kenya. The Ecobank subsidiary unveiled the neoban...

May 2023

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African payment service provider Nomba raises $30M, backed by Base10 Partners and Shopify

Nigerian payment service provider Nomba has raised $30 million in a pre-Series B investment to support the delivery of bespoke payment solutions for African businesses. The round, which values the com...

May 2023

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Lyft layoffs arrive, GM kills off the Chevy Bolt and Tesla makes a 'deep fake' defense

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here -- just click The Station -- to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscrib...

May 2023

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Beef Cast Controversy: Actor David Choe lands in Serious Trouble

Resurfaced footage from a 2014 podcast episode is causing controversy for Netflix's well-known show "Beef." Actor David Choe is seen recounting in explicit detail a story about sexually assaulting a b...

Apr 2023

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Operant is changing the way you secure cloud native applications

Containers and micro services may not be a new concept at this point, but lots of companies are struggling with the transition to cloud native applications, and the impact of that approach on their se...

Apr 2023

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Crypto exchange Coinbase sues SEC over rulemaking petition

Coinbase has filed a petition to compel the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to respond to a months-old petition that asks whether the securities regulator would allow the industry to be regula...

Apr 2023

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Beau Is Afraid production designer Fiona Crombie doesn't really know what's in the attic, either

The plot of A24's Beau Is Afraid is a rather straightforward one. But unlike some of director Ari Aster's other films, Beau Is Afraid leaves many of the questions it poses very unanswered and made all...

Apr 2023

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What to Do When One Child Thinks They're the 'Bad Kid'

It can happen innocently enough. One child is a determined rule-follower, the other is a risk-taker. The oldest is a leader, the youngest is a clown, and the middle child is insecure. You slyly refer ...

Apr 2023

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Now valued at $500M, Cosmose ditches Stripe to adopt Near's crypto solution

For all the investment speculation and hype, cryptocurrency has so far struggled to find meaningful use cases. Now there's some effort from Singapore to turn the general public into crypto adopters th...

Apr 2023

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Regal's 'Surround-Screen' Movies Are Just $3 a Ticket Right Now

When one large movie screen isn't enough, ScreenX is here to surround you with the most visual film experience possible--and for one day, you can try it yourself for just a few bucks. Participating Re...

Apr 2023

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Whoops, using crypto and cannabis don't mix after all

Life comes at you fast. A couple of months ago I wrote how Smoakland was testing a loophole to sell cannabis by credit card. The test failed, apparently."Upon further review, it has come to our attent...

Apr 2023

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All the Ways Your Bank Will Try to Rip You Off

You probably think of your bank as a place to stash your money, and it's easy to forget that the bank is only happy to take it because they can use it to make more money. Mostly they do this by using ...

Apr 2023

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Genshin Impact Sumeru Update: What makes Nahida absurdly broken

Ever since Nahida, the Dendro Archon was released in version 3.2, she has been a staple of almost every Dendro team. An overwhelming majority of players swear by her ...

Apr 2023

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Spotify is shutting down its live audio app Spotify Live

Spotify is shutting down its live-audio app Spotify Live, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The company says it will continue to explore live features on its main platf...

Apr 2023

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Oscilar emerges from stealth to fight transactions fraud with AI

Confluent co-founder Neha Narkhede today announced a new fintech company, Oscilar, that's developing an "AI-driven" platform to help financial institutions protect online transactions from fraud and t...

Mar 2023

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This Week in Apps: TikTok goes to Congress, apps connect to ChatGPT, Microsoft's mobile games store plan

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as co...

Mar 2023

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This human-size robot now has 'eyes' that show people where it's going

Agility Robotics has taken the wraps off its next-gen bipedal bot, which comes with some noticeable upgrades -- namely, a cylindrical head and two animated LED "eyes." In a press release, the company ...

Mar 2023