Partnership with Hashed and BDAN aims to modernize local currency system and attract global fintech participation South Korea’s Naver Financial is nearing the launch of its first stablecoin wallet, “Silk Pocket,” in Busan. The wallet has completed its initial development and is currently undergoing final tests ahead of its scheduled rollout next month. According to local reports, Silk Pocket will be designed specifically for everyday payments and local use cases, targeting Busan residents as its first users.

MARKHAM, Ont. – Extendicare Inc. announced that its wholly owned home-healthcare subsidiary, ParaMed Inc., has entered into an agreement to acquire all the equity interests of CBI Home Health LP and CBI (GP) 3 Inc. and their respective subsidiaries. The acquisition will be completed for a cash purchase price of $570 million, subject to customary adjustments, plus approximately $13.6 million in estimated lease liabilities.

The Regional Sustainable Development Forum (RSD Forum) has announced its return for a second edition scheduled for 29 and 30 November 2025 at Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development under the auspices of the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports and Ministry of Environment. The forum, powered by Aspire Community Transformation (a subsidiary from Aspire Consulting International), serves as a collaborative platform where CSR experts, media professionals, civil society organizations, private sector entities, youth advocates, sustainable development experts and educational institutions work together.

One month after Google announced that it would be trading Assistant for Gemini in Google Home smart home products, Amazon has confirmed the launch of its Alexa+ AI-powered assistant in Canada. What is Alexa+? Replacing traditional Alexa, Alexa+ provides a natural, conversational experience that is more personalized to each individual user. It’s compatible with virtually any “newest” model Amazon Alexa-enabled device, including smart speakers and displays.

HungerBox, a provider of technology platforms for corporate cafeterias and food courts, reported a 33% rise in gross transaction value (GTV) for the 2024-25 fiscal year. In a statement, HungerBox said its GTV for FY25 was Rs 885.9 crore, up from Rs 663.3 crore in FY24. The revenues for FY25 touched Rs 82 crore, a 26% increase over FY24. Founded in 2016 by Sandipan Mitra and Uttam Kumar, the company said the EBITDA or operational profit for FY25 came in at Rs 9.2 crore, which was an annual increase of 47% driven by higher transaction volumes and operational efficiency.

New reporting from CNBC’s Yun Li shows how that view is being shaped by research from Phil Clifton, his long-time colleague Michael Burry is turning his attention to artificial intelligence, and new reporting from CNBC’s Yun Li shows how that view is being shaped by research from Phil Clifton, his long-time colleague and the successor to his investment operation. In a segment aired on Nov.

Desk mount monitor arms are a handy piece of hardware. Whether you want to free up some desk space or like the versatility of movement, they are very versatile. The HUANUO DS7 brings all of these handy and convenient features to you at a price that isn’t going to empty your wallet. Estimated reading time: 10 minutes This review is a short one, and I won’t mince words.

After 30 years, vehicle safety is entering a new era. From 2026, ANCAP will refresh its vehicle rating criteria – a notable update that strengthens how it evaluates the safety of new cars across the Stages of Safety: Safe Driving, Crash Avoidance, Crash Protection and Post-Crash. This approach reorganises safety assessment based on the Haddon Injury Prevention Matrix, which examines what happens before, during and after a crash.

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The U.S. Justice Department and RealPage reached an agreement Monday to settle a 2024 lawsuit that claimed the software provider enabled landlords to collude to raise rent prices beyond free market levels. The settlement, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, is subject to court approval.

November 25, 2025 – Li Auto Chairman and CEO Li Xiang posted a video on social media today announcing that the company will launch Li Auto AI Glasses, describing them as “the best artificial intelligence accessory for Li Auto.” Li also revealed that an AI smart speaker is under consideration, aiming for broader coverage of Li Auto’s AI capabilities across its user base.

Quantum and semiconductors are on the top of EIC’s priority list for deep-tech innovation. IQM Quantum Computers, headquartered in Finland, and Zadient Technologies, based in France, are receiving the first-ever equity investments under the European Innovation Council (EIC) Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) scale-up scheme. Launched last year, the STEP scale-up scheme offers financial support to start-ups and SMEs with investments of between €10m to €30m.

This weekend, Andrej Karpathy, the former director of AI at Tesla and a founding member of OpenAI, decided he wanted to read a book. But he did not want to read it alone. He wanted to read it accompanied by a committee of artificial intelligences, each offering its own perspective, critiquing the others, and eventually synthesizing a final answer under the guidance of a "Chairman."

Ten years ago, raising €1 million in Copenhagen was enough to make waves in the region’s tech scene. Today, the Nordics are turning out billion-dollar companies like Lovable — which hit $200M in revenue just 12 months after launching.  Dennis Green-Lieber, founder of AI-powered customer intelligence platform Propane, has had a front-row seat to that shift over the last 15 years.

Coinstore is excited to announce the listing of SWAGG (SWAG GOLD), a groundbreaking Real World Asset (RWA) token fully backed by U.S. gold reserves. By combining the stability of physical gold with blockchain transparency, SWAGG offers a secure and reliable digital asset for investors seeking intrinsic value and protection against currency volatility. Gold-Backed Digital Currency: Stability Meets Transparency SWAGG — short for “Secured With American Gold” (S.W.A.G.) — is a digital token pegged directly to gold.

Lipedema (sometimes spelt as lipoedema) is a chronic condition that affects millions of people worldwide, yet it remains widely underdiagnosed and often misunderstood. Although it was first identified over 80 years ago, lipedema is still commonly mistaken for other conditions, such as obesity or lymphedema. Misdiagnosis can delay correct treatment and lead to ineffective advice on weight loss or symptom management, and increase the risk of complications such as ulcers, infections and damage to the lymphatic system.

Photo by: Province of British Columbia, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, via Flickr TORONTO — Rachel Doran,  executive director of Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the release of the CleanBC review panel’s recommendations to the B.C. government on how to improve its CleanBC climate plan. “The province’s CleanBC plan was created seven years ago, and since then climate-change-causing emissions in the province have declined by around 9% on a per capita basis for the most recent year we have data, a reminder that real action produces real results.

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Korean tech giants deepen collaboration to lead next-generation wireless infrastructure using AI-RAN technologies Samsung Electronics and SK Telecom have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop next-generation 6G technologies, signalling a major step toward building AI-native wireless infrastructure. The partnership centres on artificial intelligence-based radio access network (AI-RAN) technology, which is expected to become a critical foundation for ultra-fast and energy-efficient 6G communication systems.

Photo credit: DexertoOne box, untouched since leaving the factory 8 years ago, sold for $42,500. That’s the price of a sealed physical copy of Fortnite, the Xbox One edition from 2017 that started the battle royale craze before the world knew what was coming. This was the standard retail release, with the Storm Master Weapon Pack sticker on the cover, sealed and graded a perfect Wata 10 A++.

This October marked fifteen years since the sweeping 2010 constitutional reform that reshaped the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Curaçao and Sint Maarten became autonomous countries, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba became special municipalities, and Aruba continued with its separate status achieved in 1986. Hawaii’s Annexation & Legal Status In fact Curacao has been annexed by the corporate tourist industry, which are now in full control of the islands (foreign business) …

Tencent Hunyuan has released HunyuanOCR, a 1B parameter vision language model that is specialized for OCR and document understanding. The model is built on Hunyuan’s native multimodal architecture and runs spotting, parsing, information extraction, visual question answering, and text image translation through a single end to end pipeline. HunyuanOCR is a lightweight alternative to general VLMs such as Gemini 2.5 and Qwen3 VL that still matches or surpasses them on OCR centric tasks.

A Nova Scotia woman is warning parents to monitor their kids’ activity on school-issued laptops after her daughter was targeted by predators on one. Speaking to CBC News, a woman (whom the outlet didn’t name so as to protect her daughter’s identity) says she discovered inappropriate messages on the Chromebook provided by the school to her 14-year-old. On it, she found “things that were very sexual in nature,” and “self-harm related,” along with messages and conversations with individuals outside of the school system with her kid’s school-issued email address.

Nov 26, 2025The Hacker NewsSoftware Security / Patch Management If you're using community tools like Chocolatey or Winget to keep systems updated, you're not alone. These platforms are fast, flexible, and easy to work with—making them favorites for IT teams. But there's a catch... The very tools that make your job easier might also be the reason your systems are at risk.

About a month ago I found myself on a panel alongside Jackie Cooper, the founder of Edelman’s Gen Z Lab. Edelman, a communication agency, found themselves creating the special department after hearing that clients were confounded on how to deal with the group, both as customers and as employees. The Lab’s findings are worth checking out because both chime with what you might have thought but also challenge it.

This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That’s the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What’s the connection with KDE? And how has this turned into a successful company? Watch to find out! Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right on our YouTube Channel? Have someone you’d like us to interview?