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Apple will charge more to swap your iPhone 16 Pro battery

September 16, 2024
Apple has hiked the price of its battery repair service for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. Now, it will cost $119 to get your battery replaced in either phone — a $20 jump over its older fee. The price remains the same for the standard and “Plus” models, as do those for last year’s phones, as MacRumors notes.battery repair service The company doesn’t seem to have started charging more…
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CryptoNews

FBI Seizes Websites Linked to Crypto Recovery Fraud

September 16, 2024
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s San Diego office has seized websites linked to three fraudulent cryptocurrency recovery services. The scam preys on victims of crypto fraud by promising recovery of lost funds, often charging significant fees without delivering…
CryptoNews

Brazil Police Bust $9.7B Crypto Rings, Use AI to Spot Tax Fraud

September 16, 2024
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compendium of Latin America’s most relevant crypto and economic news from the past week. In this issue, Brazilian police dismantle $9.7 billion crypto laundering rings, Brazil uses an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to detect tax fraud linked to cryptocurrency, and Latam’s neobank Nubank halts trading of its coin. Operation Niflheim: Brazilian Authorities Crack…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

Kia's low-cost EV3 is about to get even better with new variants on the way

September 13, 2024
Kia confirmed plans to launch new AWD and GT variants for its electric EV3 SUV. The EV3 is the first of Kia’s new low-cost EV lineup as it looks to challenge industry leaders. It’s been almost a year since Kia first took the sheets off the EV3 during its first annual EV Day last October. After opening orders this summer in Korea with prices starting at just $30,700 (KRW 42.08 million), Kia’s…
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AI & RoboticsNews

LLaMA-Omni: The open-source AI that’s giving Siri and Alexa a run for their money

September 13, 2024
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an AI model that could change how we interact with digital assistants. The new system, dubbed LLaMA-Omni, enables real-time speech interaction with large language models (LLMs), promising to transform industries from customer service to healthcare. LLaMA-Omni, built on Meta’s open-source Llama 3.1 8B Instruct model, can process spoken…
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