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When engineers are building software, they often run into issues around testing it without using actual customer data. Creating a meaningful test set can be time-consuming and challenging. Tonic.ai, a startup that helps engineers create synthetic data sets is trying to fix that, and today the company announced a $35 million Series B. Insight Partners […]

September 29, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s federal cybersecurity watchdog, the BSI, is conducting a technical examination of a mobile phone manufactured by China’s Xiaomi Corp, a spokesperson for the interior ministry told Reuters on Wednesday. The spokesperson did not provide further details on what kind of examination the agency was carrying out. Lithanua’s state […]

September 29, 2021 By Ahmad Ghaddar, Olesya Astakhova and Alex Lawler LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) -OPEC+ is likely to stick to an existing deal to add 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) to its output for November when it meets next week, sources said, despite oil hitting a three-year high above $80 a barrel and pressure from consumers […]

September 29, 2021 By Donny Kwok and Anne Marie Roantree HONG KONG (Reuters) – Scrambling to avoid defaulting on its debts, cash-strapped China Evergrande Group said on Wednesday it plans to sell a 9.99 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) stake in Shengjing Bank Co Ltd to a state-owned asset management company. Shengjing Bank, one of the […]

September 29, 2021 BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel congratulated Olaf Scholz, the leader of the Social Democrats, on his election success, a government spokesperson said in a written statement on Tuesday. In the national election, the SPD came marginally ahead of her conservative bloc, leading some in her party to say they should […]

September 29, 2021 By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Chinese language community news groups in Australia are publishing news censored by translators they use in China to avoid potential repercussions in Beijing, an Australian think tank said. A report by the Lowy Institute found that staff working in mainland China exercised self-censorship when translating news […]

September 29, 2021 By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) – Staff of Hong Kong’s embattled public broadcaster were ordered on Wednesday to support the national security and interests of the Chinese and Hong Kong governments, the broadcaster reported, a move certain to stoke fears over press freedom in the city. The only independent, publicly funded […]

September 29, 2021 By Elizabeth Piper and William James BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) – British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer promised on Wednesday to win back voters lost to Prime Minister Boris Johnson by prioritising key workers and balancing the books, a break with leftist supporters who heckled him during a conference speech. After a low-key […]

September 29, 2021 PARIS (Reuters) – The French government could present new measures to tackle rising energy bills in the coming days, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday. Energy prices have been rising sharply around the world over the last few months, adding to inflationary pressures and threatening to dent consumers’ confidence. On Monday, […]

September 29, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday that Turkey is shielded from a gas crisis, which has gripped Europe, thanks to the Russian-built TurkStream gas pipeline. Speaking at the start of talks with Erdogan in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin also […]

September 29, 2021 LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – France accused Britain of playing politics with post-Brexit fishing rights on Wednesday after London and the Channel Island of Jersey refused dozens of French fishing boats licences to operate in their territorial waters. Britain said it was open to further discussion with the boats it had rejected, adding that […]

Employee leave benefits are a complicated web of company and government policies, and Cocoon is out to bring clarity and simplicity to both the employer and employee experience. The platform launched Wednesday across all 50 states and is designed for any type of employee leave, like parental, medical, caregiver or bereavement. It factors in all […]

Russian authorities have arrested and detained Ilya Sachkov, the co-founder and chief executive of Group-IB — one of the biggest cybersecurity companies in the country — on charges of treason. Details about Sachkov’s detention remain unclear but it was reported by Russian media as authorities searched the company’s offices, reports Reuters. State news agency Tass […]

September 29, 2021 By Aida Pelaez-Fernandez and Inti Landauro MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s inflation surged to a 13-year-high in September as consumer prices rose a higher than expected 4% year-on-year, official data showed on Wednesday, adding pressure on the European Central Bank to potentially tighten its policy. The highest reading since September 2008, when the rate […]

September 29, 2021 (Reuters) -Buyers of Apple’s new iPhone 13 face longer-than-expected delivery times because of a wave of COVID-19 infections in Vietnam, where components for the device’s new camera module are assembled, Nikkei Asia said. The disruption, which could ease as soon as mid-October, is linked to a constriction in supplies of modules for […]

September 29, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia threatened on Wednesday to block Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube after Russian state-backed broadcaster RT’s German-language channels were deleted, and said it was considering retaliating against German media. YouTube said on Tuesday that RT’s channels had breached its COVID-19 misinformation policy, a move Russia’s Foreign Ministry described as “unprecedented information aggression”. […]

September 29, 2021 By Devik Jain (Reuters) – Nasdaq futures jumped 1% on Wednesday as technology stocks led a rebound after concerns about inflation and rising Treasury yields drove one of Wall Street’s worst selloff of this year. Shares of heavyweights Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, Apple and Google-parent Alphabet Inc rose between 1% […]

September 29, 2021 (Corrects her to his in 3rd paragraph) OSLO (Reuters) -Norway’s Socialist Left Party said on Wednesday it had pulled out of talks to form a majority coalition government following this month’s election, a move likely to lead to the formation of a minority centre-left administration. Labour, the Centre Party and the Socialists […]

September 29, 2021 By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize could go to exiled Belarusian dissident Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, climate activist Greta Thunberg, or a media watchdog such as Reporters without Borders (RSF), Norwegian experts on the prize said on Wednesday. The winner of the $1 million prize, arguably the world’s top […]

September 29, 2021 By Gabriel Crossley and Shivani Singh SHENYANG, China (Reuters) – China on Wednesday demanded railway companies and local authorities raise their game in shipping vital coal supplies to utilities, as regions key to the world’s no. 2 economy grapple with power cuts that have crippled industrial output. The order, handed down from […]