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Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and RuPay cards will soon be accepted in France as NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) on Thursday announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with French payment services company Lyra Network. The new development comes months after NPCI partnered with firms including Discover Financial Services (DFS) of the US, Bhutan's Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), Japan Credit Bureau (JCB) of Japan, and Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS) of Singapore to expand UPI and…

Researchers have created a device that can read and decipher brain signals, allowing amputees to control the arm using only their thoughts.A University of Minnesota research team has made mind-reading possible through the use of electronics and AI.Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have created a system that enables amputees to operate a robotic arm using their brain impulses rather than their muscles. This new technology is more precise and less intrusive than previous methods.The majority of…

Sea Group's e-commerce arm Shopee, which shut its India operations in March, is laying off staff across Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, media reports said on Tuesday.According to DealStreetAsia, the layoffs have hit employees across several of the company's Southeast Asian markets and Shopee has emailed those affected by the layoffs."Shopee's payments arm ShopeePay and food delivery business ShopeeFood are also said to be facing cuts," the report noted.The move by the company is reportedly aimed…

Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: Pakistan-based Dastgyr, which is building an e-commerce service, raised a $37M Series A, the country's largest-ever, led by telecom Veon's venture arm — Pakistan's Dastgyr Technologies Pvt., which aims to create an e-commerce platform similar to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. for emerging markets … Faseeh Mangi / Bloomberg: Pakistan-based Dastgyr, which is building an e-commerce service, raised a $37M Series A, the country's largest-ever, led by telecom Veon's venture…

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Arduino, maker of open-source microcontrollers for hardware developers, raised a $32M Series B from Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Arm, Renesas, and Anzu — Best known for its open source microcontrollers that have been wildly embraced by the developer community, Arduino now has its sights firmly set on the enterprise world. Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Arduino, maker of open-source microcontrollers for hardware developers, raised a $32M Series B from Robert Bosch Venture…

Last updated: June 10th, 2022 at 15:01 UTC+02:00 Some interesting reports and official news in the world of Samsung began emerging over the past week. And since today is Friday, we’re once again discussing some of the more exciting bits of information in a new SamMobile Podcast. Episode 10 is out now, and as usual, you can catch up with our show on our YouTube and Spotify channels. We have a returning guest for this episode — George Chachanidze from Snappy-Tech –who previously joined us for Episode 3. For the 10th…

Source: Daniel Bader / Android Central Apple announced a slew of updates to Mac with macOS Ventura at WWDC this week, including a new feature that will let users take advantage of Rosetta inside ARM Linux virtual machines. macOS Ventura will let users run x86_64 Linux binaries under ARM Linux using the same Rosetta translation software that lets users run Intel apps on Apple silicon. From Apple: In macOS 13 and later on Mac computers with Apple silicon chips, the Virtualization framework supports Rosetta in ARM Linux…

SoftBank is still looking to offload ARM after the failed acquisition bid from Nvidia. Qualcomm is interested, but after regulators killed the Nvidia deal over concerns that it will harm competition, there is no hope for a straight acquisition. Instead, the company has a different plan – or should we say an old plan, since reports from two years ago indicated that Samsung was considering a similar idea. The plan is to build a consortium of companies, each of which will own a small chunk of ARM. “You’d need to have…

Qualcomm, the company behind Snapdragon chipsets, wants to buy ARM, the company behind every chipset powering the device near you. There is one problem, but Qualcomm seems to have a solution. Remember how Nvidia's plan of acquiring ARM was shut down when regulators denied the deal saying it would create a monopoly, and even Qualcomm was not happy with the acquisition by Nvidia. Well, now Qualcomm wants a chunk of ARM, but it may not be able to do so alone, so it is planning a consortium to buy ARM from Softbank.Softbank…

In 2020, rumors claimed that Samsung was one of the many companies interested in acquiring British chipmaker ARM. Samsung remains open to mergers and acquisitions in the chip industry as it seeks to consolidate its hold on the market. It was believed at that time that even if Samsung doesn’t buy ARM outright, it might acquire a significant shareholding in the company. That didn’t happen and ultimately, NVIDIA announced in September 2020 that it would acquire ARM for $40 billion. The deal failed since the regulators felt…