How to Harness the Power of Crypto to Aid Communities Rebuilding After Natural Disasters
The industry’s swift response in times of need highlights the need for compatibility between crypto and the traditional financial system.
Month: February 2023
Razer launches new Blade 15, and it’s still 16:9
Unlike the Blade 16, the 2023 Blade 15 keeps the same aspect ratio we’ve seen on Blades past. | Image: Razer Razer has launched a new Blade 15 model refreshed with Intel’s 13th Gen processors and Nvidia’s RTX 4000 GPUs. The company announced a 16-inch Razer Blade a few weeks ago, and some assumed that … Read more
Bitcoin Price Remains Lower After Release of FOMC Minutes
The U.S. central bank raised its benchmark fed funds rate by 25 basis points at its most recent meeting.
Bitcoin Core Developer Marco Falke Steps Down From Maintainer Role
Falke was Bitcoin Core’s most prolific contributor, with more than 2,000 commits over seven years.
Salmonella-in-eggs controversy
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BlackRock Starts Metaverse-Themed ETF Despite Waning Investor Interest
Meta, Apple and Nvidia are top holding for the ETF.
Poste.io – Complete Mail Server
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Tesla announces new engineering headquarters in California
Image: Sean O’Kane / The Verge Tesla announced a new engineering headquarters in California, with the company saying it would take over office space in Palo Alto formerly occupied by Hewlett Packard. Tesla CEO Elon Musk made the announcement Wednesday alongside California Governor Gavin Newsom (D), who called the announcement “another proof point of the … Read more
Binance Shifts to ‘Semi-Automated’ Process to Manage Reserves of Tokens It Issues: Bloomberg
Reserves for these tokens had previously been mixed with customer funds.
Was trading NBA Top Shots actually like trading stocks? A lawsuit will decide
Image: NBA Top Shot NBA Top Shot developer Dapper Labs and its CEO, Roham Gharegozlou, will face a lawsuit accusing the company of selling unregistered securities in the form of its “Moments,” which are non-fungible tokens for sports fans. Despite Dappers’ lawyer’s claims that “Basketball cards are not securities. Pokémon cards are not securities. Baseball … Read more
Ode to Samuel Delany
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LinksDAO to Bid on Scottish Golf Course Following Vote
The decentralized autonomous organization will make an offer on the 18-hole Spey Bay Golf Club, worth about $900,000.
Meet the mushroom that could one day replace plastic
Tinder bracket fungus / hoof fungus / horse’s hoof (Fomes fomentarius) on a fallen tree trunk in Belgium. | Photo: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Here’s one more reason to love a good mushroom: one day, you might be able to make headphones, memory foam for shoes, or even aircraft exoskeletons with it. Researchers … Read more
Coinbase discloses recent cyberattack targeting employees
No customers’ funds or information were impacted, according to the company. Coinbase’s engineering team believes the attack is associated with a sophisticated phishing campaign.
Here’s what Messenger’s BeReal-ish ‘Roll Call’ looks like
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge We’re now getting a look at Meta’s “Roll Call” feature that would let you “see what everyone is up to in a group chat” via their front and back cameras, thanks to screenshots posted by analyst Matt Navarra on Twitter. References to the feature, which is like a … Read more
Data Science has a tooling problem
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Artifact, the AI-powered news app from Instagram’s co-founders, is now open to all
Image: Artifact Instagram’s co-founders are throwing open the doors to their new personalized news app, Artifact. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger’s new app launched last month with a waitlist, but now anyone on iOS or Android can download Artifact to try it for themselves. Despite the pedigree of Artifact’s creators, it hasn’t revolutionized the way … Read more
Google stopping coding competitions
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