Selling physical items as NFTs, explained
A growing number of physical items are being immortalized in NFT form. What are the opportunities here… and the challenges that need to be addressed?
Month: September 2022
Hodlonaut’s Tweets a ‘Reckless Campaign’ Against Craig Wright, Lawyers Say, as Satoshi Trial Reaches Conclusion
Accusing the self-proclaimed bitcoin founder of being a mentally ill scammer shouldn’t be allowed in a democracy, Wright’s lawyers said on the final day of the Oslo trial.
This site tells you if photos of you were used to train the AI
Deepfakes, AI generated porn, and a thousand more innocent uses — there’s been a lot of news about neural network-generated images. It makes sense that people started getting curious; were my photos used to train the robots? Are photos of me in the image-generating training sets? A brand new site tries to give you an … Read more
CoinFund’s Seth Ginns on why the crypto downturn has spared early-stage startups
Crypto token prices have been trending downward for the past year, with BTC and ETH both down over 50% since last September. Yet despite the downturn in cryptocurrency prices, early-stage web3 startups have shown remarkable resilience in their valuations, Seth Ginns, managing partner and head of liquid tokens at digital asset investment firm CoinFund told … Read more
Apple to move 25% iPhone production to India by 2025, 20% iPad and Apple Watch to Vietnam, analysts say
Apple began assembling some of its devices in India and Vietnam a few years ago, slowly cutting its reliance on China. The Cupertino-giant is now gearing up to make the two nations key global manufacturing hubs, according to analysts at JP Morgan. In a report they sent to clients Wednesday, JP Morgan analysts said Apple … Read more
Meta and Google are cutting staff
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Raising a glass to Satoshi’s Place and the challenge of running Bitcoin businesses
A Bitcoin-themed bar and education center has popped up in Northern England —Cointelegraph swung by to interview the founder and raise a glass.
OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system
Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning. In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English. Countless organizations have developed highly capable speech recognition systems, which … Read more
Run machine learning enablement events at scale using AWS DeepRacer multi-user account mode
This post was co-written by Marius Cealera, Senior Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, Zdenko Estok, Cloud Architect at Accenture and Sakar Selimcan, Cloud Architect at Accenture. Machine learning (ML) is a high-stakes business priority, with companies spending $306 billion on ML applications in the past 3 years. According to Accenture, companies that scale ML across … Read more
Enable intelligent decision-making with Amazon SageMaker Canvas and Amazon QuickSight
Every company, regardless of its size, wants to deliver the best products and services to its customers. To achieve this, companies want to understand industry trends and customer behavior, and optimize internal processes and data analyses on a routine basis. This is a crucial component of a company’s success. A very prominent part of the … Read more
Análisis de Ethereum: una semana después de la fusión
Desde validadores hasta emisiones y tarifas, así está hoy Ethereum después del revuelo generado por la fusión.
A hacker used 2K Games’ support desk to send gamers malware
The Verge Hackers have really been targeting the gaming industry this week — and seem to have focused on companies linked to Take-Two Interactive. On Tuesday, game publisher 2K Games notified the public that an “unauthorized third party” had compromised its help desk platform and used it to send malicious links to customers. The disclosure … Read more
Dear Sophie: My EB-2 priority date will be delayed 2 years! What should I do?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Dear Sophie: Is … Read more
Voxel51 lands funds for its platform to manage unstructured data
Voxel51, a startup developing a platform to analyze unstructured data, such as images and videos, has raised $12.5 million in a Series A round led by Drive Capital, with participation from Top Harvest, Shasta Ventures, eLab Ventures and ID Ventures. Founder and CEO Jason Corso tells TechCrunch that the new capital will be put toward … Read more
Logitech announces a handheld console focused on cloud gaming
Logitech is unveiling a brand new device today that is both intriguing and easy to understand. The Logitech G Cloud is a handheld console that focuses primarily on cloud gaming services, such as Xbox Cloud Gaming and Nvidia GeForce Now. While Logitech is better known for its computer peripherals, webcams and gaming accessories, the company … Read more
Logitech’s G Fits can mold their ear tips to deliver made-for-you sound
Look familiar? Yep, these are practically identical to the UE Fits. | Image: Logitech Logitech thinks that console and PC gamers, not just audiophiles, might appreciate having custom-molded ear tips for enhanced bass and sound quality. The $229.99 G Fits, releasing in October, borrow the same party trick from the 2020 UE Fits: a one-time, … Read more
The new Astro A30 headset can pull in audio from three gadgets at once
The A30 has an onboard mic, letting you chat on phone calls without bringing along its long, detachable boom mic. | Image: Logitech Logitech has announced a new iteration of the Astro A30 wireless gaming headset, a product that’s gone without an update for several years. It’ll cost $229.99 when it releases in October. The … Read more
Logitech’s new key light could almost pass for a regular desk lamp
The Litra Beam sitting above a monitor. | Photo by Jon Porter / The Verge Logitech is introducing a new key light for streamers with a low-profile design that almost makes it look like a regular desk lamp. Rather than using a circular design like Elgato’s popular Ring Light or a square shape like the … Read more
Logitech’s G Cloud Gaming Handheld arrives in October for $349.99
Logitech’s cloud gaming handheld has Xbox integration. | Image: Logitech Logitech is officially announcing its G Cloud Gaming Handheld today after a teaser and a leak last month. The Android-powered $349.99 handheld will arrive in North America on October 17th, with access to the Google Play Store, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and Nvidia’s GeForce Now service. … Read more
Amazon brings its ‘Tap to Alexa’ accessibility feature to Fire tablets for the first time
Amazon today announced it’s bringing a new accessibility option to its new line of Fire tablets with the addition of “Tap to Alexa” functionality — a way to interact with the company’s Alexa voice assistant without actually speaking. The feature was first introduced in 2018 on the Echo Show, as a way for those with … Read more
Tether says new court order to produce USDT reserve backing is a ‘routine discovery matter’
The issue deals with a lawsuit that has been ongoing since October 2019.
Salesforce Genie brings data sharing to Amazon SageMaker and Einstein
Salesforce is the most successful SaaS company in the world. AWS is the biggest infrastructure player, and the two giants have gotten together over the years whenever it makes sense. As a couple of examples, the two signed an agreement in 2016 for Salesforce to use AWS infrastructure. In 2018, they got together to make … Read more
Hacking anything with GNU Guix
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