Nine arrested in France over death of far-right studentAFP via Getty ImagesNine people have been arrested in France following an investigation into the murder of a far-right nationalist student by suspected militants from the far-left.Those detained include a parliamentary assistant for a deputy from the radical left France Unbowed (LFI) party.Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old maths student, died...

Push for $40 smartphones builds momentum, but still faces cost hurdles A push by a coalition of telecom operators, device makers, and industry groups to bring $40 smartphones to market — a price point seen as key to getting tens of millions more people online — is gathering momentum, but questions remain over whether manufacturers can produce such ultra-low-cost devices at scale. This week at...

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Proptech startup Smart Bricks raises $5 million pre-seed led by a16z For much of his career, Mohamed Mohamed worked at institutions — BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey — all of whom, he said, “treated real estate as a computational problem.” “They had proprietary data pipelines, internal valuation models, simulation tools, and increasingly, early AI systems supporting underwriting and...

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