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Most scams reported to finance app Revolut Ltd. in the UK last year started their journey on Meta Platforms Inc. social media, with most money lost to “get-rich-quick” investment schemes. The London-based fintech found 60% of UK scam cases came from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, dwarfing other platforms and frauds conducted by telephone. Revolut found a similar trend across Europe, where 61% of scams originated on Meta services.Woody Malouf, Revolut's head of financial crime, said Meta platforms were “being used as a…

The adoption of renewable sources of energy is of paramount importance. It is a key catalyst to decarbonization, and it has the potential to make India an innovation hub. India’s engineering and R&D (ER&D) is rapidly becoming the fastest-growing segment in the IT sector.India’s role in technology innovation has been game-changing, especially over the past few years. In the digital era technology is constantly evolving, giving chances for industries to…

KHARKIV, UKRAINE—In an SUV pockmarked by shrapnel, Mykola Shulga wends his way along the Kharkiv highway, dodging concrete barriers and antitank obstacles scattered along the road like giant toy jacks. On the northern outskirts of his broken city, he reaches the ruins of Pyatykhatky, an academic enclave set amid oak and maple groves. “This was one of the most beautiful areas of Kharkiv,” he says, on a brisk October day. Before the war, it…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, Dec. 6. I’m Ryan Fonseca. Our Golden State, particularly SoCal, is an ideal environment for an array of sports and athleticism. Outside of the big leagues and their organized youth and adult versions, it’s a hot spot for swimmers, surfers, skaters, pickleballers and, as I learned this week, fencers.Times sportswriter David Wharton is one of those modern swordsmen. He became enamored with fencing after seeing it live during the 2012 London…

Election misinformation is spreading on TikTok ahead of the US midterms despite the company's policies. Election misinformation is spreading on TikTok ahead of the US midterms despite the company's policies -- and watchdogs are concerned about its effect on young voters as more Americans use the platform as a source of news.Posts spreading unfounded claims of voter fraud, falsehoods about mail-in ballots and misleading videos about different state laws have found a home on the immensely popular app. Perhaps more…

Joanna ScuttsDuckworth, £20, pp416Heterodoxy was its name. Founded in Greenwich Village in 1912, it had 25 charter members that included socialites and socialists, among them writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Inez Milholland, whose beauty inevitably made her a poster girl for suffrage, and Grace Nail Johnson, an anti-lynching advocate and the club’s only black woman. From the clothes they wore to the causes they championed, be it labour rights or free love, these women were out to forge a new way of living. Though…