Month: October 2022
Binance signs MoU with Kazakhstan to fight financial crime
Binance claimed that its compliance infrastructure is among the best in the world which has helped them gain regulatory approval even in countries where they were deemed illegal until last year.
Apple SIM can no longer activate new cellular data plans on iPads
Support for new cellular plan activation using Apple’s own SIM was removed on October 1st. | Image: MacRumors Apple SIM technology is no longer available to activate new cellular data plans on iPads. The Apple SIM, first introduced by Apple in 2014, is a programmable SIM card that could be configured with different operator profiles, … Read more
Loop raises $60M to send EV charging infrastructure for a Loop
Electric cars are great and all, but internal combustion engines (ICE) have one thing going for them: comprehensive, well-oiled infrastructure that means you can add 300 miles of range to your car, in 5 minutes, at any of 65,000 or so gas stations. Compare that with the one-hour stop at only about 6,000 high-speed charging … Read more
Kim Kardashian charged by SEC for pushing crypto, reaches $1.26M settlement
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging Kim Kardashian for “unlawfully touting” a “crypto security,” the agency announced on Monday morning. The SEC says that Kardashian was in violation of its rules when she promoted a “crypto asset security offered and sold by EthereumMax” without the necessary disclosure that she was paid to … Read more
US SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Promoting EthereumMax
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Kim Kardashian with unlawfully touting EthereumMax without disclosing the payment she received.
Deliveroo tweaks ‘dark store’ model to let grocery shoppers in the door
In the latest quick commerce headspinner, Deliveroo is experimenting with expanding its rapid grocery business by opening a new type of ‘dark store’ in Central London. As well as functioning as a mini warehouse where Deliveroo staff pick orders for couriers operating on its platform to collect and deliver locally to app users, the new … Read more
With $17M in funding, Immerok launches cloud service for real-time streaming data
In 2011, the Apache Software Foundation released Flink, a high-throughput, low-latency engine for streaming various data types. A decade later, a startup called Immerok — founded by David Moravek, Holger Temme, Johannes Moser, Konstantin Knauf, Piotr Nowojski and Timo Walther — has developed an Apache Flink cloud service called Immerok Cloud, which is serverless — … Read more
Bitcoin Investment Firm NYDIG’s CEO Robert Gutmann Departs
Bitcoin investment company NYDIG has promoted executives Tejas Shah and Nate Conrad to be its new CEO and president respectively.
Geely’s Europe expansion continues, Argo robotaxis on the Lyft app and Tesla AI Day takeaways
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Bitcoin Is Digital Scarcity
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Range-Bound Bitcoin Reminds Crypto Twitter of 2018 Lull That Ended With 50% Crash
Prominent crypto commentators say they’re worried bitcoin’s price consolidation indicates a deeper slide is coming, just as it did four years ago.
Stablecoin Issuer Tether Increases US Treasury Portfolio, Cuts Commerical Paper Holdings to Below $50M
The firm had said it plans to bring its commercial paper holdings to zero by the end of the year.
Boeing-backed Wisk Aero reveals a four-seater autonomous air taxi
Air taxi startup Wisk Aero unveiled its sixth-generation aircraft, an all-electric four-seater that can fly without a human pilot. The Boeing-backed company said it will seek approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to carry passengers as part of a commercial air taxi service. Wisk, which was formed in 2019 as a joint venture between Boeing … Read more
The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken
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Tim Cook is latest CEO to question the ‘metaverse’
Tim Cook at the recent iPhone 14 launch. | Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images While Meta funnels billions into CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pitch for the metaverse, Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks most people couldn’t even define the metaverse, let alone spend long periods of time living their lives inside of it. “I always think it’s … Read more
Ether staking is too difficult, community members claim
Some are arguing that it would be healthy to admit that Ether staking is not for everyone yet.
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Maserati’s GranTurismo Folgore will be its first EV
The Folgore EV is one of three GranTurismo models coming. | Image: Maserati Maserati is releasing new details on its redesigned GranTurismo luxury performance coupe, and offers some fresh tidbits on the upcoming all-electric version of it. Announced in March, The GranTurismo Folgore will be the automaker’s first EV, and will launch ahead of its … Read more
South African startup Talk360’s seed funding hits $7M after new backing
Months after the initial close of its seed round, Talk360, a South African Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) startup, has raised an additional $3 million, bringing the total investment raised in the round to $7 million. Talk360’s latest investors include Allan Gray E2 Ventures (AGEV), Kalon Venture Partners, E4E Africa, Endeavor, existing lead investor HAVAÍC, … Read more