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StockX, an online market place which specializes in reselling limited-edition sneakers, has raised $110 million from investors to fund its expansion and poached Scott Cutler from eBay as its new chief executive, it said on Wednesday.

Canadian software maker BlackBerry Ltd reported a smaller quarterly loss on Wednesday, benefiting from its acquisition of cybersecurity firm Cylance.

The fate of thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold drugmakers responsible for fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic hinges in part on a thorny legal question: Can a company use a bankruptcy to stop lawsuits from cities and states?

Hackers working for China's Ministry of State Security broke into networks of eight of the world's biggest technology service providers in an effort to steal commercial secrets from their clients, according to sources familiar with the attacks.

Kim Kardashian West's new shapewear brand, Kimono, has been live less than 24 hours — but it's already angered a lot of people.

Kardashian West took to Twitter on Tuesday to announce her latest range of products. "Kimono is my take on shapewear and solutions for women that actually work," she wrote.

The problem? "Kimono" is already a word. And it means something completely different.

Finally I can share with you guys this project that I have been developing for the last year.
I’ve been passionate about this for 15 years

Kimono is my take on shapewear and solutions for women that actually work.

Photos by Vanessa Beecroft pic.twitter.com/YAACrRltX3

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) June 25, 2019 Read more...

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Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing said on Wednesday it would expand its partnership with Guangzhou Automobile Group Co Ltd (GAC Group) to areas such as ride-hailing operations and autonomous driving.

Bitcoin jumped to an 18-month high on Wednesday, a surge analysts said was caused by nervous traders looking for safety in alternative investments and expectations that Facebook's Libra could turn cryptocurrencies mainstream.

EU antitrust regulators will investigate whether U.S. chipmaker Broadcom uses exclusivity restrictions to block rivals in the TV and modem chipsets markets, a move that could lead to hefty fines for the company and an order to end such practices.

Before deepfakes and alternative facts, the online world was already telling us fibs. In our series Lies the Internet Told Me, we call 'em all out.

As Snapchat "pretty" filters and Facetune retouching rose in popularity over the last few years, it must've felt like your social media feeds turned into a modern reboot of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 

Instagram used to be populated by normal (if carefully curated) pictures of your friends and family on vacation, a hike, or at a party. Then seemingly overnight, one by one, they were replaced by weird, poreless alien baby-face versions of themselves. Read more...

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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Wednesday launched an English-language website for its Tmall Global marketplace aimed at merchants, in an attempt to double the number of international brands on the platform to 40,000 in the next three years.

A recent teaser showing an Oppo phone with the front camera completely hidden under the display piqued our interest: Could the Chinese company be the first to launch a smartphone that's all screen on the front, without any clumsy solutions such as notches or pop-up cameras?

Now, at MWC Shanghai, Oppo has officially unveiled its under-display camera tech, and while it certainly looks interesting, some questions remain. 

Oppo calls the technology USC (short for Under-Screen Camera), and claims it's a "customized camera module that captures more light while leveraging optimized algorithms and AI learning to improve camera performance."  Read more...

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Tesla Inc's vice president of production in charge of all vehicle manufacturing at Fremont factory, Peter Hochholdinger, is not at the automaker anymore, news website Electrek reported on Wednesday, citing a source familiar with the matter.

The Swiss government aims to make it easier for patients to get medical marijuana, proposing on Wednesday to allow prescriptions for cannabis to treat people suffering from cancer or other serious conditions.

A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday questioned how major social media companies like Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google unit use algorithms and artificial intelligence to serve up new content to keep users engaged.

A Nigerian judge on Wednesday adjourned until Oct. 29 a case to resolve a $2 billion tax dispute between South African telecoms company MTN Group and Nigeria's attorney general.

It's officially time to start getting excited, Breaking Bad fans.

Since late 2018, there have been some frankly wonderful rumours about the possibility of a Breaking Bad movie. It started with anonymous Hollywood Reporter sources, then escalated when series lead Bryan Cranston essentially confirmed the news in a radio interview.

SEE ALSO: Aaron Paul returns to a life of crime in the 'Westworld' Season 3 trailer

And now we've entered the mysterious tweet phase.

After a few months of silence on the sequel front, both Cranston and co-star Aaron Paul tweeted the exact same image on Tuesday evening. Read more...

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Over the weekend, columnist E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of sexual assault in the 1990s. The president denied the accusation, saying "it never happened," and offered up quite the response: "She's not my type."

Trump's lack of compassion was seized upon by late night show hosts, including Stephen Colbert, who slammed Trump for giving this "very, very bad reason why he's innocent."

"So it didn't happen because she's not his type. That is the sound of a man realising in mid-sentence that he's not talking to Billy Bush," said Colbert.

Importantly, The Late Show host also called out the way media covered the accusation, and New York Post, beware. Read more...

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