First Mover Asia: Centralized Exchange Tokens Post Solid Gains in January Despite SEC Interest; Bitcoin, Ether, in the Red.
The tokens of Binance, Crypto.com and KuCoin are all comfortably in the green over the past month.
Month: January 2023
GM has started producing the Hummer EV SUV
Image: GM General Motors has started production on the Hummer EV SUV at its Factory Zero in Michigan, according to Nicole Schmitz, a spokesperson for the company. The Detroit Press reported Monday that customers could start receiving their orders by the end of Q1. That lines up with GM’s FAQ stating that the SUV will … Read more
Hotai Motor exposed thousands of iRent customer documents
Taiwanese automotive conglomerate Hotai Motor exposed reams of personal customer data from its car rental and carshare unit, iRent, until a security researcher found the data online last week. Even then, it took the company a week — and the intervention of the Taiwanese government — to act. Hotai Motor is one of the largest … Read more
Put a (smart) ring on it: Monavo on why its health wearable will put women first
Monavo Heath turned heads at CES with an Ouroubouros-esque smart ring designed for women. In the crowded field of fitness wearables, where the mainstream heavy hitter of the Apple Watch heads up a very long tail of typically less pricey and/or more specialist activity tracking bracelets and bands all keen to claim their own patch … Read more
Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250M bail guarantors to be made public, says judge
A Jan. 30 ruling could see the identities of the two individuals who signed on as sureties for Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250 million bond become public, subject to appeal.
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EthBoy NFT Painting Continues to Evolve With Fourth Edition
The generative artwork, which depicts Vitalik Buterin in a harlequin suit, changes every day in response to external data.
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Paramount Plus and Showtime become ‘Paramount Plus with Showtime’
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Paramount’s merging its Paramount Plus streaming service and premium Showtime channel, as first reported by The Hollywood Reporter. In an internal memo, CEO Bob Bakish announced the company’s rebranding its Showtime channel as Paramount Plus with Showtime. Paramount confirmed the change in a post on Twitter, noting that … Read more
AV company Aurora hires president ahead of commercial launch
Aurora Innovation said Monday it has hired Ossa Fisher as president as the autonomous vehicle company prepares to commercially launch its self-driving trucks business next year. The company said Fisher, who was most recently president and chief operating officer of education tech company Istation, will be based in Dallas. Aurora is headquartered in Pittsburgh and … Read more
Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony are reportedly all skipping E3 2023
Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are all skipping the revitalized E3 convention in June, according to a new report from IGN. E3 will be back as an in-person conference in Los Angeles after not happening at all in 2022, and I personally was hopeful that the big three console … Read more
Alameda Seeks to Recover $446M in Crypto Paid to Voyager After Lender’s Bankruptcy
Defunct crypto trading firm Alameda Research – one arm of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s former empire – wants to regain around $446 million transferred to bankrupt lender Voyager Digital prior to Alameda’s own bankruptcy filing, a new lawsuit says.
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Judge Rules Identities of 2 Parties Who Backed Sam Bankman-Fried’s $250B Bond Can Be Revealed
A number of media companies filed to get the court to release the names of the people who co-signed Bankman-Fried’s $250 million bail bond.
VitaDAO Closes $4.1M Funding Round With Pfizer Ventures for Longevity Research
The decentralized autonomous organization is raising funds for research on technologies that target human aging.
How Bitcoin mining saved Africa’s oldest national park from bankruptcy
The Virunga National Park’s Bitcoin mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo monetizes surplus energy for conservation efforts.
Bitcoin Suffers Largest Daily Plunge Since November to Sink Below $22.6K as Fed Meeting Looms
The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was recently down over 4.5% amid ongoing worries about inflation and the size of the next interest rate hike.
Daily Crunch: Marqeta acquires fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $275M
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Kicking off the week, we’ve been thoroughly enjoying Runa Sandvik’s story about how U.S. police use digital data to prosecute abortions in our post-Roe-v.-Wade world. The TL;DR is that healthcare in the … Read more
Bitcoin Suisse Chairman Says EU Won’t Ban Crypto, But It May Seek to Contain It
Luzius Meisser, chairman of the Swiss crypto firm, weighs in on why the E.U. is likely to try to build a firewall around crypto rather than prohibit its use altogether.
Max Q: A very Virginia affair
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! In this issue: Rocket Lab enters a new era with Virginia launch SpaceX moves closer to Starship’s first orbital flight test News from Quindar, AstroForge and more Rocket Lab’s Electron lifts off from U.S. soil for the first time Rocket Lab — and the United States — got … Read more
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition plays great on console
Image: Microsoft / World’s Edge Age of Empires II is extremely special to me. The game came to me by accident at 16, and it has remained a great gaming love of mine ever since. I played Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition on Xbox to see if, after all these years, I could rekindle … Read more