Month: August 2024
Trump Releases Yet Another NFT Collection—This One Shows Him ‘Holding Some Bitcoins’ and Dancing
Donald Trump’s fourth digital card collection has arrived, with 360,000 potential NFTs offered—and bits of his suit from the Biden debate.
Pavel Durov Arrest: Is This a Fight Against Crime or an Attempt to Censor Telegram?
Pavel Durov was detained at Paris Le Bourget airport while leaving his private jet. The price of TON cryptocurrency fell from $6.74 to $5.64 (more than 15%) amid news of Durov’s arrest. Together with Durov there was a girl and his bodyguard. He flew to France from Azerbaijan. The French television channel TF1 reported from … Read more
FOMO HOUR 188 – TON CONTINUES TO FALL
BlackRock ETF sees biggest inflow in 35 days. BTC ETFs have 12 straight days of inflows. ETH ETFs have 8 straight days of outflows. ETH/BTC ratio continues to hit new lows. Russia to start using crypto for trade this week. Stablecoin TVL hits ATH of $168bn. Durov faces several serious charges in France. Telegram also … Read more
Dyson’s back with a smarter hair curler
The new Dyson Airwrap i.d. now connects to a smartphone app. | Image: Dyson The Dyson Airwrap is getting an upgrade. The new Airwrap i.d. will now feature three new attachments, Bluetooth connectivity, and personalized curling sequences via a smartphone app. It’ll also come in two types: one for straight to wavy hair, and another … Read more
Heat-related deaths are on the rise, but they don’t have to be
A cooling center in Sacramento, California, on July 3rd, 2024. | Photo: Getty Images Heat-related deaths are on the rise in the US, according to a new analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The number of heat-related deaths recorded in the US jumped 117 percent between 1999 and 2023, it finds. … Read more
Calls to release Binance exec intensify after 6 months in Nigerian detention
Binance CEO Richard Teng and family members have called for action, claiming Tigran Gambaryan has been unjustly detained in Nigeria since February.
OpenTelemetry SDK: Concepts & Design
Intro OpenTelemetry is an observability framework and an active CNCF project that provides a vendor-neutral and tool-agnostic way to collect observability signals across your heterogeneous system. In this blog post series, we will dig into two big questions: how OpenTelemetry instrumentation works on the application side taking Python’s SDK as an example. We will touch … Read more
Trump Unlikely to Drop Out of ABC Debate With Harris Despite Threats: Polymarket Traders
The mics likely won’t be muted, the market believes.
Why Software Updates Can Lead to Cyberattacks — and What to Do
Software updates are essential for keeping systems running and patching known vulnerabilities, so how can they lead to cyberattacks? Surprisingly, there are several ways attackers, insider threats, or even end users can turn an innocuous fix into a cyber threat. What are the risks of updating? More importantly, how can people protect their data and … Read more
Lyft follows in Uber’s footsteps with a rider verification program
In an effort to improve its security measures, Lyft announced Tuesday a new rider verification pilot program to help drivers verify riders’ identities and ensure that they are indeed who they say they are. Starting today, Lyft’s new program is rolling out to nine markets, including Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Phoenix, and Seattle. The … Read more
SOON closes funding round for Solana-based layer 2
Backers hail from Solana Labs, Coinbase Ventures and Celestia, among others.
Breaking Barriers in AI: Insights from Aditi Godbole, a Senior Data Scientist at SAP
:::tip HackerNoon editorial team has launched this interview series with women in tech to celebrate their achievements and share their struggles. We need more women in technology, and by sharing stories, we can encourage many girls to follow their dreams. Share your story today! ::: Tell us about yourself! I am Aditi Godbole—a Senior Data … Read more
CME to launch bite-sized Bitcoin ‘Friday’ futures in bid for retail
Each futures contract is sized at one-50th of 1 BTC.
Bitcoin Mining Is So Rough a Miner Adopted Michael Saylor’s Successful BTC Strategy
Marathon Digital, the largest publicly traded miner, is buying bitcoin in the open market, despite acquiring the digital assets at a discount via mining.
Bitcoin exchanges are witnessing the third-biggest net daily outflow of 2024
Bticoin dip-buying is top priority for some exchange users as BTC price highs give way to sell-offs elsewhere.
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The Noonification: Transformers: Age of Attention (8/27/2024)
How are you, hacker? 🪐What’s happening in tech this week: The Noonification by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our top 5 stories of the day, every day at noon your local time! Set email preference here. ## Expanding Design Exploration: Exploring Feature Spaces Beyond Parametric Boundaries By @tomascbzn [ 6 Min … Read more
Snapchat finally launched an iPad app
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Thirteen years after launching on the iPhone, Snapchat has finally brought its app to the iPad. In an update note on Monday, Snapchat announced that it now offers native support for the iPad, allowing the app to fill your entire screen for the first time. Until now, iPad … Read more
Gameplay Galaxy raises $24M seed round for Web3 gaming platform
Blockchain Capital and Merit Circle backed the additional funding, bringing the total raised in the round to $24 million.
TechCrunch Minute: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is returning home empty
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are stuck aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after their test flight on Boeing’s Starliner went awry. This weekend, NASA announced that these astronauts will remain aboard the ISS until February, when SpaceX’s Dragon will retrieve them as part of the crew-9 mission. Eight months is a long time … Read more
Instagram adds what photos have always needed: words
Image: Instagram Instagram will now let you add text to your photos right from the post editor, meaning you won’t need to edit your photos in a separate app just to add some text. A bit of text might help your post stand out from the rest of the photos on your feed — or … Read more
Key Endpoints For Blockchain APIs: Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, And Solana
Hey there! I have been for a long time in dApps developement and I know on my own how it is difficult to get started with blockchain APIs. Especially with their endpoints. I decided to gather the most important endpoints for Ethereum, Binance, Bitcoin, Ploygon, and Solana blockchains in this article. I tried to be … Read more