New Ripple president says her job is to continue to scale amid crypto winter
Veteran Ripple executive and former general manager Monica Long said the company has seen record growth in recent months despite crypto winter.
Month: January 2023
Amazon Fresh is more than quadrupling how much you’ll need to pay to get free grocery delivery
You’re going to have to buy a lot more to get free delivery. | Image: Amazon Starting at the end of February, if you want to get free grocery delivery through Amazon Fresh, you’re going to have to buy a lot more stuff. Currently, for the Amazon Prime subscriber-only service, you’ll get free delivery with … Read more
TradFi and DeFi come together at Davos 2023: Finance Redefined
Decentralized finance meets its traditional counterpart at Davos, with a growing cross-pollination between the two.
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How US police use digital data to prosecute abortions
In late April, police in Nebraska received a tip saying 17-year-old Celeste Burgess had given birth to a stillborn baby and buried the body. Officers soon learned that her mother, Jessica Burgess, and a friend had helped her with transportation and burial. The police issued citations for concealing the death of another person and false … Read more
Decentralized Exchange Vela’s DXP Token Surges Ahead of Beta Release on Arbitrum
The utility token has rallied 50% in the past 24 hours and more than doubled since Wednesday ahead of the release of its widely anticipated beta version next week.
NFT Collection Azuki’s Twitter Account Hacked, Leading Followers to Malicious Link
Hoshiboy, the co-founder of the popular anime-inspired project, told CoinDesk that the team is in touch with Twitter to resolve the issue.
Google 101: how to format text in Google Docs
Samar Haddad / The Verge Google Docs has become a very useful word processing tool — a lot better than it was only a few years ago — but some of its more useful features may not be immediately obvious. For example, you would think that all the ways available to provide specialized text, such … Read more
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The best deals on TVs for Super Bowl LVII
A deal on a TCL 6-Series TV offers a whole lot of bang for the buck. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s almost time for the Super Bowl, the only game that functions more akin to an annual holiday in the US than a mere sporting event. This means there are bound … Read more
The best Twitter alternatives worth checking out
We’ll be straight with you. There’s no 1:1 Twitter replacement, not yet and possibly not ever. Still, there are plenty of social apps that might still be worth substituting into your obsessive timeline-checking routines if you’re done with Twitter for whatever reason (we can think of plenty). Twitter’s current situation — advertisers leaving, Nazis logging … Read more
New York Assembly introduces crypto payments bill for fines, taxes
The bill clarifies that state agencies can legally agree to accept cryptocurrency payments and that these agreements should be enforced by the courts.
Why Real Regulatory Change In Crypto Has Not Happened
Legislators need to educate themselves on Web3 if they care about protecting consumers, Steven Eisenhauer, chief risk and compliance officer at Ramp, writes.
This sick new desk from Steelcase costs almost $10,000 and might be worth it
The one problem with this desk is that it demands a Smith Corona, not a MacBook, which would make writing these articles difficult. | Image: Steelcase It’s not often that furniture makes a splash in The Verge’s newsroom (okay, it does happen occasionally), but when one of my colleagues dropped in Gizmodo’s article about Steelcase’s … Read more
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Opinion: 3 tips for trading Ethereum this year
It’s a hard year to trade, but there are measures you can take to increase the likelihood you’ll succeed if you want to trade Ether.
Aptos Labs CEO Says NFTs Will Push Boundaries of Previous Generation Blockchains
Mohammad Shaikh, co-founder of the layer 1 blockchain, says in 2023, he predicts NFTs will be used as a means of payment and will also go mainstream, via big brand partnerships.
Comcast says Peacock is about to hit ‘peak losses’ after losing nearly $1 billion last quarter
Comcast revealed that the service lost $978 million in Q4 despite gaining 5 million new subscribers. | Image: Peacock Comcast published its fourth quarter 2022 earnings on Thursday, reporting that the company had managed to exceed analyst projections for the year despite losing broadband and video subscribers and widening losses from its Peacock streaming service. … Read more
Crypto Biz: A peek into BlockFi’s secret financials (it’s not pretty)
How much exposure does BlockFi have to Sam Bankman-Fried failed enterprises? A lot, according to accidentally leaked financials.
Atomos tows a $16M load of funding to create tugboats in space
You may not have known that space needs tugboats, but now you do — and Atomos Space just closed a $16.2 million Series A investment, which will enable the company to complete its demonstration mission where it will show off its docking and towing capabilities. The company is building a series of Orbital Transfer Vehicles … Read more