Month: March 2023
Regulators Are Bringing the Multichain Era to a Close
The high cost of understanding multiple chain environments means enterprises are likely to stick to what they know, argues Paul Brody, head of blockchain at EY.
COBOL: Thinking about it wrong
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BetterHelp sold customer data while promising it was private, says FTC
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Online counseling company BetterHelp has agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it improperly shared customers’ sensitive data with companies like Facebook and Snapchat, even after promising to keep it private. The proposed order, announced by the FTC on Thursday, … Read more
Dashlane to support new third-party passkey sync feature in Android 14
Image: Dashlane Password manager app Dashlane is releasing a new feature that lets you create, store, and sync passkeys on smartphones running the upcoming Android 14 OS. A developer preview released last month adds new abilities to Android that let third-party password managers use the logins with compatible apps on the platform. A passkey, of … Read more
Bitcoin Price Holds Steady Above $23K As Silvergate Capital Crumbles
That Silverage’s troubles are not a negative catalyst for BTC’s price “has to be seen as a positive,” one analyst says.
MicroStrategy Says It Doesn’t Have Any Assets Custodied With Silvergate
Business software company Microstrategy (MSTR) said it has no assets custodied with Silvergate Capital (SI) and is in no other way financially linked to the bank other than a commitment to repay a loan in 2025, the company said on Thursday.
Elon Musk’s sustainability dreams for Tesla need to start in his own backyard
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the unveiling of the new Tesla Model Y in Hawthorne, California, on March 14th, 2019. | Photo credit should read FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images Last night, as he presented Tesla’s latest “Master Plan” to investors, Elon Musk attempted to cast his company as one that would usher … Read more
Accelerate hyperparameter grid search for sentiment analysis with BERT models using Weights & Biases, Amazon EKS, and TorchElastic
Financial market participants are faced with an overload of information that influences their decisions, and sentiment analysis stands out as a useful tool to help separate out the relevant and meaningful facts and figures. However, the same piece of news can have a positive or negative impact on stock prices, which presents a challenge for … Read more
Search for answers accurately using Amazon Kendra S3 Connector with VPC support
Amazon Kendra is an easy-to-use intelligent search service that allows you to integrate search capabilities with your applications so users can find information stored across data sources like Amazon Simple Storage Service , OneDrive and Google Drive; applications such as SalesForce, SharePoint and Service Now; and relational databases like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Using … Read more
Near Protocol Starts ‘Blockchain Operating System’ to Focus on User Experience
The aim for the platform is to act as a common layer for browsing and discovering Web 3 products.
Tesla’s Investor Day was kind of a dud — that’s okay
Image: Tesla Elon Musk isn’t ready to pull back the curtain quite yet. During the Q&A portion of Tesla’s Investor Day event in Austin, Texas, last night, Musk was repeatedly asked about the company’s next-generation low-cost electric vehicles. For years, Musk has been promising smaller, cheaper vehicles made possible by a more efficient, less expensive … Read more
Former NBA Player Baron Davis Says Celebs Will Be Drawn to ‘Utility’ Crypto Tokens
Following the SEC’s crackdown on celebrity-endorsed projects, the serial entrepreneur says celebrities jumping into crypto are more likely to focus on their core fan group with a project that provides real utility and reward opportunities.
Picard has resurrected one of Star Trek’s best villains
Worf interrogates a new friend (enemy). | Photo by Trae Patton / Paramount Plus We’re three episodes into the final season of Star Trek: Picard, and it’s now much, much clearer exactly what kind of enemy Picard and company are facing. Continue reading…
Embracing “Old” Tech
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FTX Has ‘Massive Shortfall’ in Assets, Say Bankruptcy Lawyers
So far, $2.2 billion in assets have been identified in the wallets of accounts associated with FTX.com, of which only $694 million are in the most liquid assets.