There’s something of a trend around legacy software firms and their soaring valuations: Companies founded in dinosaur times are on a tear, evidenced this week with SAP‘s shares topping $200 for the first time. Founded in 1972, SAP’s valuation currently sits at an all-time high of $234 billion. The Germany-based enterprise software provider was valued … Read more
The 10th-gen Kindle Paperwhite may lack USB-C and don a smaller display, but it still nails the basics. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Lately, it seems as though the biggest happenings in the E Ink world revolve around large note-taking devices like the Kindle Scribe and color offerings such as the … Read more
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The new holographic display could give NFTs the Pokemon Go treatment.
Crypto platforms will need to report transactions to the Internal Revenue Service, starting in 2026. However, decentralized platforms that don’t hold assets themselves will be exempt. Those are the main takeaways from new regulations that the IRS and U.S. Department of Treasury finalized Friday — essentially implementing a provision of the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and … Read more
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As part of a legal settlement, the Detroit Police Department has agreed to new guardrails limiting how it can use facial recognition technology. These new policies prohibit the police from arresting people based solely on the results of a facial recognition search, or on the results of photo lineups conducted immediately after a facial recognition … Read more
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Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition using technologies that can increase longevity, cognition, and well-being. In this interview, SingularityNET founder and CEO Dr. Ben Goertzel discusses his background in the transhumanist movement and how AI, and AGI will play a part.
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Introduced in Ethereum’s Dencun upgrade, blobs are a new data storage space that makes rollups cheaper and more efficient.
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A Redbox machine from 2015. Redbox’s owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, filed for bankruptcy protection overnight. This comes at the tail end of a month in which the DVD rental company defaulted on loans, saw an order for its cars to be repossessed, and missed payroll for employees. Chicken Soup for the Soul … Read more
You’ve just installed a fresh Laravel application, booted it up, and got the welcome page. Like everyone else, you try to see how it’s rendered, so you hop into the web.php file and encounter this code: <?php use IlluminateSupportFacadesRoute; Route::get(‘/’, function () { return view(‘welcome’); }); It’s obvious how we got the welcome view, but … Read more