Month: April 2024
First Employee: My Journey From Solopreneur to Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is a difficult path with unique challenges to overcome. Let’s dive into the nitty gritty of it using my experience in this journey; Background I have learned a lot in my twelve years of hiring and firing employees. It is hard going from zero to one, and it’s the same for hiring. Hiring is … Read more
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How We Built a Debit Card From Scratch in Only 4 Months
In just four short months, an ambitious journey from concept to reality unfolded as we embarked on the creation of a unique debit card solution. This is the article we wish we’d read! I’m Daniel Ishigami, a self-taught developer and entrepreneur based in London, and the co-founder of Fana. Along with my partner Robin Yan, … Read more
How to Get Started With Bitcoin Runes: A Guide to Etching, Minting and Trading
Bitcoin Runes tokens are taking over the network, but they can be tricky to handle. Here’s a guide on how to get started with Runes.
Petlibro’s new smart refrigerated wet food feeder is what your cat deserves
Ding, ding, ding! Dinner is served. Fresh out of the cold tin can. Petlibro, a pet tech startup that designs automatic food and water dispensers for cats, launched its first refrigerated smart feeder on Thursday. The company’s new “Polar Wet Food Feeder” aims to solve a widely known problem among pet owners: how to keep … Read more
Carv raises $10M Series A to help gamers monetize their data
Carv, a data layer platform that lets web3 gaming and AI companies, as well as gamers, control and monetize their data, has raised a $10 million Series A round led by Tribe Capital and IOSG Ventures. Carv’s new round comes approximately five months after it received a strategic investment led by HashKey Capital. The startup … Read more
Turkey tops the world in stablecoin buying share vs. GDP
Stablecoin purchases in Turkey amount to 4.3% of GDP, the highest among global economies, according to Chainalysis.
Avail Data Availability Integrated by Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, StarkWare, ZkSync
The chains’ users will be able to opt in or out to use Avail for data availability, to stash the reams of data produced for all their transactions taking place.
Anyone want to buy TikTok?
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge It was going to happen, and then it wasn’t going to happen, and then it happened. The United States Congress passed a bill that would either ban TikTok or force it to be sold, and President Joe Biden signed it. So… what now? TikTok could sue, and win, and … Read more
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NFTs Are Looking To Make A Comeback. What Does The Market Need?
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) took the digital world by storm in recent years, providing a novel foundation for extreme innovation in digital art, collectibles, and other assets using blockchain technology. However, after an initial frenzy of excitement and exorbitant sales, the NFT market experienced a significant slowdown. Now, signs are pointing to a potential resurgence. But … Read more
Microsoft needs to win back trust
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images The world’s largest tech company has a security problem. A series of high-profile security incidents have rocked Microsoft over the past few years, and a scathing report from the Cyber Safety Review Board recently concluded that “Microsoft’s security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul.” … Read more
Unlock the Secrets of AI: How Rivalz Is Transforming Data Integrity Forever!
Redefining AI Data Provenance In the fast changing field of artificial intelligence and decentralised networks, a new actor has emerged: Rivalz. This revolutionary platform is more than simply a technology development; it is a leader in AI data provenance. Imagine a world in which each bit of data has a clear and verifiable past, similar … Read more
First Mover Americas: Bitcoin Drops Below $64K, Ether Falls
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for April 25, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
Memecoins are like a ‘risky casino’ — Andreessen Horowitz exec
The chief technology officer of VC firm Andreessen Horowitz said that memecoins are like risky casinos that deter real builders from the crypto ecosystem.
Palm OS and the devices that ran it
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‘Buy Bitcoin’ Notepad Held Behind Janet Yellen Sells for $1M
The iconic sign was held before cameras during a televised House Financial Services Committee hearing in 2017.
How blockchain-based voting can restore trust in the electoral process
Brian Rose also aims to implement a new London cryptocurrency to promote financial education in the Greater London area.
Ex-NSA hacker and ex-Apple researcher launch startup to protect Apple devices
Two veteran security experts are launching a startup that aims to help other makers of cybersecurity products to up their game in protecting Apple devices. Their startup is called DoubleYou, the name taken from the initials of its co-founder, Patrick Wardle, who worked at the U.S. National Security Agency between 2006 and 2008. Wardle then … Read more
Leveraging LLMs for Generation of Unusual Text Inputs in Mobile App Tests: Study and Background
:::info This paper is available on arxiv under CC 4.0 license. Authors: (1) Zhe Liu, State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Game, Beijing, China Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; (2) Chunyang Chen, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; (3) Junjie Wang, State Key Laboratory of Intelligent … Read more