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The legal action is the latest lawsuit that in which plaintiffs allege that a bot provided counsel to a user that ultimately led to their death . In this case, Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Chinese software engineer living in…
The platform was hit by a $6.3bn theft on Thursday, which has since been described as the biggest heist in history. Experts identified North Korea as the probable culprit . Binance initially froze withdrawals as it…
Last week, the company agreed to purchase 29.5 hectares (73 acres) of land at Dorman Point on a site owned by Teesworks, a local private-public partnership. The deal was first reported by Sky News. The deal followed…
Indirect talks in Doha ran into a third day on Sunday with Qatar trying to negotiate the release of more than $6bn in Iranian assets, which could lead to the reopening of the strait of Hormuz and the restart of…
Instead, these are the words of the former chancellor Rachel Reeves, in a lecture six months ago. Reeves has taken a more thoughtful approach on how to come to terms with life outside government than some of her fellow…
The 22-year-old was finishing college and was a newly elected councilwoman in Menomonie, a city of about 17,000 in the lush plains of north-western Wisconsin . Weeks into the new job, she was invited to a meeting with…
The UK government has drawn up plans to allow students arriving from the continent to pay the same fees as British students, sources say, and is willing to spend hundreds of millions of pounds compensating universities…
The broadband provider has not finalised the number of roles to be cut but it is likely be a sizeable chunk of its 16,000-strong workforce, the BBC understands. Virgin Media O2 has billions in debt on its balance sheet…
The cryptocurrency exchange was hit by the theft on Thursday, forcing it to suspend withdrawals as it raced to fix the platform and investigate how hackers breached the system. Binance began a phased reopening on Sunday…
The City of London Corporation is an administrative body with responsibility for London’s central financial district, headed by the Lord Mayor. The list identifies the UK’s most powerful people of African, African…