Before banks, nuns lent money: how convents helped power medieval Vienna’s economy

Less expected, perhaps, is who helped make this system work. Alongside merchants and elites, communities of nuns quietly ...
Mashable

Microsoft launches new personal AI agent, Microsoft Scout

Microsoft Scout is a new AI agent thats available today to early-access Microsoft 365 customers. Credit: Samuel Boivin / Shutterstock Microsoft delivered major AI announcements this year at its annual ...
MLive

Ruth Mott Foundation invests nearly $1 million to expand lending access for Flint entrepreneurs

FLINT, MI -- The Ruth Mott Foundation announced a nearly $1 million investment to bring expanded lending and business support services to Flint entrepreneurs who’ve been shut out of traditional ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft investigates Office Apps, Teams file access issues

Microsoft says an ongoing incident is preventing users of its Teams collaboration platform and Office for the web cloud-based productivity suite from opening files. "We're investigating reports that ...
KQED

Saws, Sewing Machines and Telescopes: The Surprising Things on Loan From Your Library

This story is part of How We Get By, a KQED series exploring how people are coping with rising costs in the Bay Area and California. Find the full series here. An Arturia DrumBrute is a sleek analog ...
Forbes

FBI Warns Microsoft Users—New Attack Gains Access To Accounts

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. New FBI warning for Microsoft users. The FBI issued a warning on May 21, as a new AI-powered ...
Government Technology

For the Struggling, Hot Spot Lending Is an Internet Lifeline

For families with tight budgets, checking out a mobile broadband hot spot from the library is a workable, if temporary, home Internet solution. The city of Belen, N.M., makes mobile hot spot devices ...
CoinDesk

Stripe-backed Tempo taps $7.5 billion DeFi lender Morpho to expand beyond payments

Tempo, a Stripe and Paradigm-backed blockchain focused on stablecoin payments, is integrating Morpho's $7.5 billion DeFi lending marketplace to add borrowing and yield products to its network. The ...
The Daily Gazette

DEC launches I BIRD NY Library Lending Program

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Amanda Lefton recently announced the launch of the I BIRD NY Library Lending Program. The program will expand access to free ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Before He Was a Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin Founded the Lending Library. Now His Belongings Are on Display There Before Heading to Auction

A receipt from a book sale, discussions of tax negotiations and a mortgage register may not seem worthy of display in their own right. But throw in records of the early electricity experiments that ...
CoinTelegraph

Space and Time rolls out virtual vaults for institutional onchain lending

The data blockchain securing onchain finance projects looks to provide lenders and borrowers with agreement-specific collateral solution. Space and Time (SXT), a level-1 data blockchain that secures ...
Insider Monkey

SoFi Technologies (SOFI) Launches New Digital HELOC – Expands Home Lending Access

SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFI) is one of the 10 New Contenders for S&P 500 Index. SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SOFI) announced the launch of a new, fully digital Home Equity Line of Credit ...