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MariBank, Singapore tech giant Sea Group’s digital bank, has launched in Singapore to select members of the public as it rolls out its services progressively. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Southeast Asian tech giant Sea Limited on Monday posted its first profitable year amid efforts to defend market share against

Jaap Arriens | NurPhoto | Getty Images Bitcoin jumped to start the week, edging even closer to its all-time high after the rally took a breather over the weekend. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 6% at $66,660.91, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it rose to as much as $67,567.98, its highest level since

BARCELONA, Spain — Alef Aeronautics, a SpaceX-backed flying car firm, says it has reached 2,850 preorders for its futuristic electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle. Alef Aeronautics, which is based in San Mateo, California, said preorder numbers recently hit a fresh record after previously reporting 2,500 preorders for its two-seater flying car, the Alef Model

Passengers ride in an electric Waymo full self-driving technology in Santa Monica Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images Alphabet’s Waymo robotaxi unit won approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand service to parts of Los Angeles and the Bay Area, according to a notice posted to the regulator’s website

Dr. Marc Harrison, who’s now CEO of HATCo, speaking at the Healthy Returns conference in New York City on May 21, 2019. Astrid Stawiarz | CNBC Dr. Marc Harrison is a different kind of venture capitalist. He’s not looking for the next Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. He’s not hanging out at startup demo days.

Ute Grabowsky | Photothek | Getty Images Computer science is not a new major at top schools, but with AI jobs in high-demand, there’s a growing list of colleges and universities offering a four-year “AI” degree specifically. These programs generally move beyond the foundations of computer science to home in on topics such as machine

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. Dustin Chambers | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI executives disputed claims Elon Musk laid out in a lawsuit on Thursday, and said the Tesla CEO is upset that he’s no longer part of the artificial intelligence startup.

Dell CEO Michael Dell Getty Images Dell is having its best day since founder Michael Dell brought the company back to the stock market in 2018. Shares of the PC and server manufacturer surged 29% on Friday to $121.88, after the company posted fiscal fourth-quarter results that beat estimates. That tops the stock’s 21% gain

Researchers inside the semiconductor fabrication lab at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Science, in Bangalore on June 30, 2018. Manjunath Kiran | Afp | Getty Images India has approved building three semiconductor plants with investments of more than $15 billion as the country aims to become a major

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Crypto prices rose Thursday as bitcoin and ether headed for their strongest month in more than three years. Bitcoin was last higher by more than 1% at $61,150.88 on the final day of February, according to Coin Metrics. On Wednesday, it surged to $64,000 at one point, before a

Tesla Roadster Courtesy: Tesla Six years ago, Elon Musk hyped a next-generation Roadster, the name of Tesla’s debut car from 2008. A refreshed version was never produced, but Musk is once again promising a new Roadster is on the way. “Tonight, we radically increased the design goals for the new Tesla Roadster,” Musk wrote on

Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Bitcoin continued its surge on Wednesday, shooting above $63,000 for the first time since November 2021. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by 7% at $61,138.00, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it rose to near $64,000. It’s now sitting just below its

Chinese technology firm Honor will launch a foldable flip phone this year, CEO George Zhao told CNBC at Mobile World Congress 2024. It marks the company’s first foray into the vertical-folding style of smartphone that has been popularized by brands like Samsung and Motorola. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images BARCELONA — Honor will launch

The Airbnb logo is displayed on the Nasdaq digital billboard in Times Square in New York on Dec. 10, 2020. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images When prosecutors announced the plea deal late last week of Shamoon Rafiq, who ran a $10 million scheme that duped investors into buying into pre-IPO tech companies such

An Apple Vision Pro mixed reality (XR) headset is seen at Apple store in New York, United States on Feb. 3, 2024. Fatih Aktas | Anadolu | Getty Images Online brokerage firm eToro is exploring ways to bring its retail trading app to augmented and virtual reality headsets from Apple and Meta, the company’s CEO

After pulling its artificial intelligence image generation tool on Thursday due to a string of controversies, Google plans to relaunch the product soon, according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Google introduced the image generator earlier this month through Gemini, the company’s main suite of AI models. The tool allows users to enter prompts to