Bulgarian Ruja Ignatova allegedly defrauded investors out of $4bn with fake cryptocurrency scam A woman known as the “Cryptoqueen” who is accused of defrauding investors out of $4bn (£3.3bn) by selling a fake cryptocurrency has been placed on the FBI’s list of its 10 most-wanted fugitives. The story...
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Coming from a long line of Iowa farmers, David Savage always thought he would do research to improve crops. That dream died in college when it became clear that any genetic tweak to a crop would take at least a year to test; for some perennials and trees, it could take five to 10 years. Faced with...
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BRUSSELS, June 30 (Reuters) - Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has been targeted by a French consumer group and its peers in complaints to privacy watchdogs over its vast trove of users' personal data harvested via their Google accounts, European consumer organisation BEUC said on Thursday. In...
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WASHINGTON, June 27 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo on Monday stepped up pressure on Congress to approve $52 billion in funding for chipmakers to expand operations, warning that firms would abandon American expansion plans without the legislation. "Mark my words if...
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