Executives at Coinbase, Visa and Mastercard said they plan to support multiple stablecoins, suggesting Open USD is another payments rail rather than a direct replacement for USDC.
The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It’s a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities. Trips can also spur hard feelings from uninvited influencers, trigger criticism from the public, and project a certain frivolousness. Usually it is fast … Read more
Lenovo’s Legion Go S with SteamOS. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Memory and storage prices will be inflated for the foreseeable future, so we’re always happy to find a good deal on capable gaming hardware, like this discount on the Lenovo Legion Go S with a Z2 Go processor and SteamOS. Normally … Read more
Hank Green, a popular YouTuber and science communicator, said he is stepping back from production amid intense criticism over his use of AI. Green described his AI usage as “not healthy,” but stressed that he used it for finding research sources and not to write scripts. Much of the ensuing firestorm in this corner of … Read more
Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company’s bid to scale its self-driving technology across the United States, U.K., and Europe.
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With great power comes great responsibility… to not justify ads in the name of movie promotions. | Image: BMW / Sony Pictures When a premium car brand like BMW says it has a “special surprise” in store for drivers, I’d expect something more luxurious than having a movie commercial beamed onto the dashboard. That’s exactly … Read more
The first Qwen Max model with public weights is free to download next week. Alibaba’s own scorecard says the Americans still win on code.
Samsung seeks to turn 800 million Galaxy phones into wallets for digital assets and blockchain payments, backed by a deeper play in crypto infrastructure.
The custody giant is expanding beyond safekeeping by adding staking services, allowing eligible institutional clients to earn yield on proof-of-stake assets.
Bingers is a new TV and movie tracker that revives the social features fans loved with TV Time, while adding support for importing their viewing history.
The Brazil-based crypto asset manager will liquidate its U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF later this month, ending a fund that entered the market in 2024.
Bitcoin built on $64,000 as hopes of the Strait of Hormuz reopening to oil traffic sent the S&P 500 index to a record $70 trillion market cap.
A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to blockchain-monitoring firms.
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal requested the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission probe Trump’s memecoin.
T-Mobile is launching a new financing option that will allow you to pay for a device, taxes, and fees over 36 months. In an update on Tuesday, T-Mobile says its new Equipment Installment Plan (EIP) Flex 36 requires no upfront payment and will come with a 0 percent APR for a limited time. Even if … Read more
Extracting insights from dozens of websites often means manually checking each one, a process that quickly becomes overwhelming. Design teams need to track competitor products, marketing teams want to monitor content trends, and product managers need to stay on top of market intelligence. But doing this manually means someone has to visit sites, copy content, … Read more
A 16-year agreement secures 121 megawatts of AI computing capacity in Norway, highlighting how crypto mining companies continue to pursue new revenue streams beyond Bitcoin.
Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool will let fans create AI-generated covers and remixes of participating artists’ music while ensuring artists opt in, receive credit, and are compensated.
Payments will run on the bank’s proprietary blockchain and be routed automatically through its existing client interface.
Go 1.24 introduces a transformative redesign of its map implementation, shifting from the traditional bucket + overflow-chain model to a Swiss Table-inspired design. This transition addresses long-standing inefficiencies in cache locality and memory usage, which have historically limited Go’s scalability in memory-intensive applications. The old model, while functional, suffered from pointer-chasing—a mechanical process where the … Read more
After previewing HDR10 Plus Advanced late last year, Samsung’s not-Dolby Vision 2 spec will launch globally on Amazon’s Prime Video this month. The first TVs announced with support are Samsung’s 2026 lineup, which will be able to make use of the extra metadata to deliver more precise HDR that is optimized for what you’re watching, … Read more
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed.
The acquisition, which was first announced in June, brings Vibe.co into Walmart Connect, Walmart’s connected TV advertising platform.
Texas announced new a audit on data centers that could slow approval for new facilities seeking to connect to the state energy grid. Governor Greg Abbott (R) on Monday directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to verify and audit new data center proposals, writing that … Read more
For decades, literacy rates in the United States remained relatively stable. While nearly all Americans can read and write at a basic level, recent assessments paint a more concerning picture: students’ reading proficiency has declined significantly, particularly in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred … Read more
An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla’s car business.
The Asus Chromebook Plus CX34 is a dependable laptop that doesn’t cost a fortune, despite being nearly three years old. It’s cheaper than usual right now, and you have a few options in the sub-$400 range. The option with the most storage is currently on sale for $399.99 (about $100 off recent prices) at Amazon. … Read more
One reason complex systems are hard to reason about is that catastrophic failures are often not caused by a single broken component. Instead, they emerge from the way seemingly healthy components interact. A retry mechanism can amplify load instead of helping recovery. An autoscaler can make a correct decision based on stale metrics. Two automated … Read more