CFTC charges Uniswap, Brazil’s X ban, and more: Law Decoded
Uniswap Labs agreed to pay $175,000 in civil penalties and cease trading leveraged tokens following CFTC charges.
Month: September 2024
Apple’s iPhone 16 event: the 8 biggest announcements
Screenshot: The Verge Apple’s “It’s Glowtime” event has just come to a close. While the iPhone 16 was the headliner of today’s showcase, Apple had several other announcements to share, including some exciting new additions to its smartwatch and AirPods lineups. Here are all the biggest announcements from the event. The iPhone 16 adds two … Read more
Apple will make iOS 18 available to all users on September 16
You will get the iOS 18 update if you have an iPhone XR or later, or iPhone SE (second gen) or later. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
HackerNoon in Your Own Mother Tongue 🆕 ‼️ 77 Language Homepages for Technology Blog Posts
To have another language is to possess a second soul.” – Charlemagne In late 2022, we expanded HackerNoon into a multilingual platform. As LLMs have grown by magnitudes since then, AI generated translations have improved drastically. We’re excited to add 64 language translations for HackerNoon blog posts, bring the total possible language translations per story … Read more
Kamala Harris releases policy platform details — No mention of crypto
The Harris-Walz platform, “A New Way Forward,” included plans for tax cuts for working and middle-class Americans and encouragement of innovative industries.
Apple to release AI-focused macOS Sequoia September 16 in record time
The swift macOS Sequoia release deviates from Apple’s usual late September or October timeline for desktop OS updates. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Apple’s Voice Memos app will soon let you layer vocals on top of music
When the upgraded Voice Memos app rolls out, you’ll be able to sing over a track you recorded earlier — a guitar track, say — by tapping on a new “layer” button before you hit record. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor Predicts Bitcoin Price Will Rise to $13 Million
MicroStrategy holds more than 1% of the Bitcoin supply—and co-founder Michael Saylor sees enormous gains ahead for the asset.
The only thing better than Astro Bot is more Astro Bot… for free
Image: Team Asobi Astro Bot cannot stop winning — whether it be the hearts of fans and critics or racking up some of the highest review scores of a game this year. Now the game will continue its well-earned victory lap with the news that it’s getting DLC…for free…this year. Astro Bot director and Team … Read more
Apple’s Visual Intelligence is a built-in take on Google Lens
Finding out what kind of dog this is with Visual Intelligence. | Screenshot: Apple Apple has announced a new feature called Visual Intelligence that will be part of iOS 18’s Apple Intelligence suite of AI features “later this year.” The feature works much like similar features offered by other multimodal AI systems from Google or … Read more
The AirPods Pro 2 will soon double as hearing aids
The AirPods Pro 2 are also getting a five-minute hearing test feature. | Image: Apple Apple has announced a batch of hearing health updates coming to the AirPods Pro 2, including a new “clinical grade” hearing aid feature. The iPhone maker says the hearing aid functionality is still awaiting FDA clearance, but it expects the … Read more
Finally, a better Siri?
While consumers won’t get the full impact of the Siri upgrade until Apple Intelligence launches, Apple promises it will upend the user experience © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro models arrive with 6.3- and 6.9-inch displays, larger battery and new A18 Pro chip
The 16 Pro starts at $999, while the Pro Max runs $1,119 and up. Preorder opens Friday. The handsets start shipping on September 20. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Kalshi’s U.S. Election Markets Delayed Until Friday at Earliest
The judge in the prediction market’s court case against the CFTC has called a hearing Thursday over the regulator’s motion for a two-week delay.
Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro has a bigger screen, a new chip, and more pro recording options
Image: Apple Apple announced the iPhone 16 Pro lineup at Monday’s product event. The company’s new flagship smartphones have slightly bigger screens across both models: 6.3 inches on the iPhone 16 Pro and 6.9 inches on the iPhone 16 Pro Max (up from 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches, respectively, on the iPhone 15 Pro and … Read more
Price analysis 9/9: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP, DOGE, TON, ADA
Bitcoin bulls are trying to push the price back inside the range, indicating that the markets have rejected the breakdown.
AI-powered visual search comes to the iPhone
Visual intelligence will launch along with other Apple Intelligence features in beta in October for U.S. English language users. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Apple adds a dedicated camera button on iPhone 16
Pressing the button for the first time will open the camera app. You press it to take a photo and press and hold to start a video recording. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Plume debuts tokenized ‘Mineral Vault’ amid hunger for RWA yield, CEO says
According to Chris Yin, investor demand for RWAs is moving “upstream” from tokenized treasury bills to private alternative assets.
Apple announces its new A18 and A18 Pro iPhone chips
To nobody’s surprise, Apple today debuted its A18 system-on-a-chip, the successor to the A17 Pro chip it announced at its last iPhone event. If you recall, at that time, Apple only announced an A17 Pro, which was featured in the iPhone Pro and Pro Max models, leaving some to speculate that a regular A17 chip … Read more
Apple updates AirPods Max headphones with a USB-C port and new colors
Apple released a new version of its premium over-the-ear headphones, AirPods Max, on Monday during its 2024 Apple Event. The revamp replaces the AirPods Max’s lightning port with a USB-C port, and comes in five new colors: midnight, blue, purple, orange, and starlight. The updated version of Apple’s AirPods Max are still $549, and can … Read more
GenZ’s Toolkit for a New Bangladesh: Blockchain
Widespread corruption led to Bangladesh’s recent student-led revolution, toppling Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Blockchains can help secure it by offering greater transparency, says Sharmeen Shehabuddin, Social Media Lead at Consensys.
iPhone 16, Apple Intelligence and more: Everything revealed at Apple Event 2024
Apple’s biggest event of the year has arrived, and with it, the iPhone 16 lineup and a slew of AI-related updates for iOS 18. Apple Intelligence is expected to be the star of the Apple event this year, like it was at WWDC in June, despite the many anticipated hardware reveals like new Apple Watches, … Read more
Bitcoin Sucks! Let’s Make It Attractive
Let’s be honest: Bitcoin is pretty great in many different ways. Bitcoin has led to financial independence for many. From the odd one Bitcoin buyer in 2014 to the new “all-in-Bitcoin” savings guy. The latter is most well known because he took out a mortgage, maxed out his credit cards, and spent half of his … Read more