Month: August 2024
Saylor says BTC strategic reserve is ‘Louisiana Purchase’ moment for US
Michael Saylor previously forecasted that Bitcoin will reach approximately $13 million per coin by 2045.
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is coming to last-gen consoles
Cal Kestis returns to his last-gen roots soon. | Image: EA Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is officially available for preorder for the Xbox One and PS4 ahead of a September 17th launch, EA announced today. The game, which arrived on PC and current-gen consoles in April 2023, costs $49.99 on Xbox One and PS4, standard … Read more
Valour to launch digital asset ETPs in Kenya
Valour is moving out of Europe to the green pastures of Africa by way of passporting.
‘The Black Swan’ author says Bitcoin a poor hedge against market meltdown
Nassim Nicholas Taleb says gold still stands apart as a store of value.
WD announces enterprise 128TB SSD
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X is getting closer to launching its payment service
X (formerly Twitter) appears to be making progress on its upcoming payments system, bringing it closer to Elon Musk’s vision of turning X into an “everything app.” According to a recent finding by app researcher Nima Owji, the company is working on adding a “Payments” button to the navigation bar under the bookmarks tab. Owji, … Read more
Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-propelled aircraft takes flight
Dawn Aerospace’s rocket-powered aircraft soared to new heights in its latest test campaign, as the company looks to build what could be the highest-performance aircraft to take off from a runway. The series of three flights, which were completed in late July, saw the Mk-II Aurora vehicle achieve a maximum speed of Mach 0.92 and … Read more
Google Search is an illegal monopoly — what happens now?
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge A federal judge has ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly in the US. “The market reality is that Google is the only real choice” as the default search engine, Judge Amit Mehta said in his decision, and he determined it had gotten that way unfairly. It’s a … Read more
Ronin ‘white hat’ attacker returns $10M in ETH after apparent accidental front-run
The MEV bot returned nearly all of the funds, and the team claimed that $500,000 was being paid to it as a bounty.
Waymo expands robotaxi coverage in Los Angeles and San Francisco
Waymo, the Alphabet-owned self-driving car company, is adding another 10 square miles to its robotaxi service area to include cities surrounding San Francisco. The move, which adds Daly City, Broadmoor and Colma, pushes its total commercial service territory to about 55 square miles. Waymo said Tuesday it is also adding 16 square miles of new robotaxi … Read more
Structured Outputs in the API
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Data points to Ethereum price making a short-term rally to the $3.2K level
ETH’s onchain and derivatives data are looking stronger even as macroeconomic data remains concerning.
What is PolitiFi? The Wave of Political Meme Coins
Meme coins themed around leading politicians have emerged as another way for degens to gamble on emerging narratives.
Who Wrote the Blue Screens of Death
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