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(Reuters) – Baltimore police and U.S. marshals continued searching on Wednesday for the man suspected of killing Pava LaPere, a 26-year-old tech executive who was found dead at her apartment building on Monday. EcoMap Technologies, the company that LaPere cofounded, announced it would hold a vigil in her honor at Baltimore’s Washington Monument on Wednesday evening. Baltimore acting Police Commissioner Richard Worley on Tuesday said that an arrest warrant had […]

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank governor Roberto Campos Neto on Wednesday said policymakers are aiming to tighten cryptocurrency regulation and subject brokerages to their supervision. Speaking during a hearing in Congress, Campos Neto emphasized regulators will scrutinize the backing of cryptocurrencies and associated activities, given the significant surge in cryptocurrency imports by Brazilians. Data released by the central bank this week revealed cryptocurrency imports jumped by 44.2% from January […]

By Katie Paul and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -A Meta Platforms executive overseeing the company’s efforts to develop its own chips for artificial intelligence work is leaving her position at the end of the month, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Alexis Black Bjorlin, vice president of infrastructure at Meta and a veteran of chip companies Broadcom and Intel, headed a team charged with designing a custom chip to […]

BERLIN (Reuters) -Volkswagen was hit by a major IT outage on Wednesday, the company said, adding that production at the carmaker’s namesake brand had come to a halt as a result. The company said that the whole group, which includes the Porsche AG and Audi brands, was affected. Volkswagen said there had been an unspecified “IT malfunction of network components” at the carmaker’s site in Wolfsburg, its global headquarters. “The […]

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Swedish furniture maker IKEA will this week open its biggest South American store in Colombia, as part of an international expansion plan which includes growth in Peru and Chile with an investment worth $600 million, an executive said on Wednesday. The Colombia store, to be opened on Thursday in the capital Bogota, will be the first in the country and will span three floors with 40 exhibition […]

By Katie Paul and Anna Tong MENLO PARK, California (Reuters) -Meta Platforms introduced the company’s first generative AI products for consumers, including a chatbot that can generate both text responses and photo-realistic images, at an event on Wednesday where CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave an update on his plan to build an immersive metaverse. Earlier in the presentation Zuckerberg said the latest Quest mixed-reality headset would start shipping on Oct. 10. […]

ATHENS (Reuters) – In the mud and debris of the flooded village of Metamorfosi in central Greece, 60-year-old farmer Athanasios Kostis is throwing out the memories of a lifetime. “All my memories are here. Now it is all totally destroyed. We have thrown out everything away,” Kostis told Reuters. Storm Daniel, Greece’s most intense since records began in 1930, swept through Thessaly for three days this month, killing 16 people […]

(Corrects title to EU Commission president in paragraph 11) ATHENS (Reuters) -In the mud and debris of the flooded village of Metamorfosi in central Greece, 60-year-old farmer Athanasios Kostis is throwing out the memories of a lifetime. “All my memories are here. Now it is all totally destroyed. We have thrown out everything away,” Kostis told Reuters. Storm Daniel, Greece’s most intense since records began in 1930, swept through Thessaly […]