Month: June 2024
Bitcoin futures premium hits 7-week high: is the rally sustainable?
Bitcoin flirted with $70,200 on June 3, but traders fear excessive leverage might be a double-edged sword.
Japanese billionaire pulls plug on private ‘dearMoon’ lunar Starship mission
The Japanese billionaire who commissioned SpaceX for a private mission around the moon on a Starship rocket has abruptly canceled the project, citing ongoing uncertainties around when the launch vehicle will be ready to fly. “I signed the contract in 2018 based on the assumption that dearMoon would launch by the end of 2023,” Yusaku … Read more
There Is a Second Best: Bitcoin Bull Michael Saylor Softens on Ethereum
In the wake of spot Ethereum ETF approvals, the MicroStrategy founder appears to be warming to the notion of a crypto industry bigger than just Bitcoin.
Instagram is testing ‘unskippable’ ads that you can’t scroll past
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is testing “ad breaks” that force you to stop and look at an ad for a period of time before you can continue scrolling. Several X and Reddit users reported seeing the feature, and Instagram spokesperson Matthew Tye confirmed to The Verge that ad breaks are being … Read more
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People are using AI music generators to create hateful songs
Malicious actors are abusing generative AI music tools to create homophobic, racist, and propagandic songs — and publishing guides instructing others how to do so. According to ActiveFence, a service for managing trust and safety operations on online platforms, there’s been a spike in chatter within “hate speech-related” communities since March about ways to misuse … Read more
Biden vetoes House and Senate votes on SEC’s anti-crypto resolution: Law Decoded
United States President Joe Biden has vetoed a resolution that would have overruled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121.
VC Roundup: OKX Ventures wants to onboard ESG, bring AI on-chain
This edition of Cointelegraph’s VC roundup features Cysic, WeatherXM, GaiaNet, Switchboard, API3, and Scrypt.
The Moral Economy of the Shire
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What to expect from Apple’s AI-powered iOS 18
As WWDC 2024 nears, all sorts of rumors and leaks have emerged about what iOS 18 and its AI-powered apps and features have in store. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Crypto fund inflows hit $2B in May led by BTC — CoinShares
Weekly inflows into crypto funds totaled $185 million for the last week in May, with monthly investment fund inflows reaching $2 billion.
Bitcoin, Ethereum Funds Attract Another $185 Million Amid ETH ETF Hype
Crypto funds worldwide have brought in $15 billion so far this year, with most of the fresh cash flowing into Bitcoin spot ETFs.
GM’s Cruise is testing robotaxis in Dallas again
Dallas is the second city that Cruise is easing its way back into after pulling its entire U.S. fleet late last year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Wisconsin Pension Plan Likely to Invest Much More in Bitcoin ETF, Marquette Professor Says
The first quarter addition of two spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to the portfolio of Wisconsin’s pension plan was likely just the beginning for that U.S. state’s investments into crypto, said David Krause, a professor of finance at Milwaukee-based Marquette University.
Amazon’s Project PI AI looks for product defects before they ship
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s Project PI, or “Private Investigator,” setup combines generative AI and computer vision to “see” damage on products or determine if they are the wrong color or size before the item gets sent to customers. The way it works is that products on their way to customers go … Read more
After raising $100M, AI fintech LoanSnap is being sued, fined, evicted
The company has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Sonos Ace review: A high-priced contender
The Ace are a contender in a crowded market, but they’re still in search of that magic bullet to truly let them stand out from the pack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Coinbase Donates $25 Million to Fairshake to Defeat ‘Anti-Crypto Candidates’
Fairshake has nearly doubled its fundraising haul in recent weeks, to $160 million, following donations from Coinbase, Ripple, and Andreessen Horowitz.
PHP Development: Creating Toggleable Laravel Routes with Attributes
Attributes offer the ability to add structured, machine-readable metadata information on declarations in code: Classes, methods, functions, parameters, properties, and class constants can be the target of an attribute. I believe the definition is on point, and I’m confident most developers reading this article have encountered attributes at least once. If you haven’t, they are … Read more
Samsung sues Oura preemptively to block smart ring patent claims
Samsung isn’t waiting for Oura to hit it with patent suits. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Samsung isn’t waiting around for Oura to file any patent claims over its forthcoming smart ring. Instead, it’s preemptively filed its own suit against Oura, seeking a “declaratory judgment” that states the Galaxy Ring doesn’t infringe … Read more
Create Spellbinding Parallax Effects with GSAP for Your Website
Have you ever come across a website that made you scroll over it again just to see the motions and transitions and made you GASP, thinking how hard it must be to create these amazing animations? One such animation I saw on keploy website, the parallax effect, made me go through their Developer section twice! … Read more