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Apple To Allow Alternative App Stores For iOS Users In Brazil(2025-12-24 20:00:22)

Apple will allow alternative iOS app stores and external payment systems in Brazil after settling an antitrust case with the country's competition authority, following a lawsuit brought by MercadoLibre back in 2022. Thurrott reports: Yesterday, Brazil's Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica (C...
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European Leaders Condemn US Visa Bans as Row Over 'Censorship' Escalates(2025-12-24 15:00:09)

European leaders including Emmanuel Macron have accused Washington of "coercion and intimidation," after the US imposed a visa ban on five prominent European figures who have been at heart of the campaign to introduce laws regulating American tech companies. From a report: The visa bans were imposed...
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Why Are There No Large Market Cap Companies Globally in Edtech?(2025-12-24 10:00:08)

Goldman Sachs, in a note this week, via India Dispatch: There are various reasons that explains this: (i) A large part of the global education spend goes towards formal education (schools, colleges and universities), which are typically either run by governments or are not-for-profit institutions; ...
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What Might Adding Emojis and Pictures To Text Programming Languages Look Like?(2025-12-24 05:00:04)

theodp writes: We all mix pictures, emojis, and text freely in our communications. So why not in our code? That's the premise of "Fun With Python and Emoji: What Might Adding Pictures to Text Programming Languages Look Like?" (two-image Bluesky explainer; full slides), which takes a look at what mix...
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Inside Uzbekistan's Nationwide License Plate Surveillance System(2025-12-24 00:00:04)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Across Uzbekistan, a network of about a hundred banks of high-resolution roadside cameras continuously scan vehicles' license plates and their occupants, sometimes thousands a day, looking for potential traffic violations. Cars running red lights,...
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