DeFiance Capital’s Arthur Cheong Is Raising Money for a New Fund: Sources
The fund will focus on liquid crypto investments and targets raising about $100 million, a person familiar with the matter said.
Month: September 2022
The KitchenAid mixer has burly levers that still offer refined control
A lever counts as a button, right? Roll with me on this one. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It took me joining a baking club to realize just how good my KitchenAid stand mixer’s controls are. Ever since I got it a few years back, I’ve admired the simplicity of its … Read more
XRP y MKR suben mientras BTC y ETH se mantienen estables a la espera de la inflación de EE. UU.
XRP escaló por encima de su media móvil de 200 días y MKR alcanzó su máximo de tres semanas. Una cifra más alta que la prevista del PCE, el indicador de inflación preferido de la Fed, podría inyectar volatilidad en los mercados.
After six seasons, Community will get its movie
Community Season 6 Episode 609 “Grifting” Danny Pudi, Alison Brie, Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, and Ken Jeong | Photo by Justin Lubin / Yahoo / Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television After making improbable returns for its fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons, Community will deliver on a long-running joke / promise with a movie, but this … Read more
Chinese automaker Geely snaps up 7.6% stake in Aston Martin
Geely Holding Group acquired a 7.6% share of British luxury automaker Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings, helping cement the Chinese company’s stake in luxury and European brands. Geely will not get a board seat in the deal, but that hasn’t seemed to matter in its past dealings. Geely, which owns Lotus and its the largest … Read more
Bitcoin surges above $20K after 6% BTC rally gains steam ahead of the monthly close
Classic volatility accompanies the final hours of the month, with $20,000 representing the battleground between bulls and bears.
Don’t Penalize Crypto in Banking Rules, Futures Industry Group Says
Planned capital requirements for bitcoin could make it harder to curb risks and undermine financial reforms, the industry group is to tell the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
Fintech App Eco to Convert User Balances From US Dollars to USDC
Eco will use digital settlement-service platform Zero Hash to custody the stablecoins.
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Unified data preparation, model training, and deployment with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler and Amazon SageMaker Autopilot – Part 2
Depending on the quality and complexity of data, data scientists spend between 45–80% of their time on data preparation tasks. This implies that data preparation and cleansing take valuable time away from real data science work. After a machine learning (ML) model is trained with prepared data and readied for deployment, data scientists must often … Read more
VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges
Are you ready to rumble, TechCrunch style? Twenty of the most promising and creative early-stage startups — chosen from the elite Startup Battlefield 200 — will bring the heat for $100,000 in the world-renown Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to … Read more
Apple’s new M2-powered MacBook Air is cheaper than ever
The MacBook Air models with both 256GB and 512GB of storage are on sale. | Image: Dan Seifert / The Verge If the deal on the 512GB M2-powered MacBook Air we featured earlier this week was too spendy for you, fret not, because Apple’s base model is currently even cheaper. Right now, Amazon and Best … Read more
UK startup Arrival’s unique ‘microfactory’ produces its first electric van
Arrival’s first production verification van at its microfactory in southern England. | Image: Arrival Arrival, an electric vehicle startup based in the UK, announced that its so-called “microfactory” based in southern England has produced its first production verification vehicle. The news comes as the company is reportedly in talks to raise money so it can … Read more
How to cancel your account at Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and others
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Let’s face it: many of us don’t pay enough attention to what streaming services we are subscribed to — and paying for — especially now, when there are more and more services vying for our attention, it’s easy to go for a trial subscription, or to decide that … Read more
YouTube TV users can now subscribe to standalone networks without a base plan
YouTube TV launched a new option that allows subscribers to purchase add-ons without subscribing to the full channel offering in the service’s Base plan. With this new à la carte plan, subscribers can access more than 20 add-on channels, from Showtime and HBO Max to NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and Starz among others. This confirms … Read more
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How NFTs and the Metaverse can keep fashion luxurious
Luxury in the metaverse isn’t just exclusive to owning the biggest land plot or the best NFT avatar — it’s more than that.
The FBI says it caught an ex-NSA employee trying to sell top-secret intelligence documents
The Verge The NSA, as a rule, wants to employ people who are good at spying. But according to the FBI, one former employee tried to turn the tables on the agency and was caught in the act. Per details released by the Department of Justice this week, a Colorado resident was arrested Wednesday and … Read more
Spotify keeps making it harder for me to listen to music
Nick Barclay / The Verge Thursday morning, I woke up in a haze and decided to listen to ambient music while I drank my first cup of coffee. The night before, I’d saved an album to Spotify, but when I fumbled through the panels of the desktop app, I couldn’t find it. The menu was … Read more
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin to Post Sixth Straight September Loss, but LINK and UNI Manage Gains
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Sept. 30, 2022. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
The first trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities looks like just the thing for Halloween
Guillermo del Toro presents his Cabinet of Curiosities. | Image: Netflix Guillermo del Toro is finally ready to show off the first proper trailer for his intriguing Netflix anthology called Cabinet of Curiosities. The series is made up of eight stories with names like “Graveyard Rats” and “Dreams in the Witch House,” and the first … Read more