Coinbase integrates Apple Pay for all Onramp apps
The integration requires no action from app developers and is currently live for all users.
Month: December 2024
Bitcoin Mining Revenue Rises as Public Firms Reap Sizable Stock Gains: JP Morgan
As Bitcoin surged to new all-time highs in November, miners saw revenues spike—and publicly traded mining firms won big.
Apple’s AirTags are cheaper than they’ve ever been for Cyber Monday
Apple’s AirTags are cute and convenient. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Whether you want to quickly locate your bag at the airport or keep a closer tab on your keys, Apple’s AirTags are incredibly useful. And right now, you can buy four of the versatile location trackers for an all-time low of … Read more
Oil giants blocked a treaty to curb plastic pollution, but countries will try again
Plastic waste on a beach in Iki, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, on Friday, October 29th, 2021. | Photo: Getty Images International negotiations to create a legally binding treaty to stem the tide of plastic pollution ended in a stalemate on Monday — pushing talks past their initial deadline and into next year. More than 100 countries … Read more
Fidelity, Schwab, Citadel-Backed Crypto Exchange EDX Markets Appoints New CEO
EDX Markets, the institution-only crypto exchange that started operations in June 2023 with support from Wall Street giants like Fidelity, Charles Schwab and Citadel Securities, has appointed its current chief technology officer, Tony Acuña-Rohter, as CEO. Wall Street veteran Jamil Nazarali, the founder and current CEO of the exchange, will move to the position of … Read more
AWS bets on liquid cooling for its AI servers
It’s AWS re:Invent this week, Amazon’s annual cloud computing extravaganza in Las Vegas, and as is tradition, the company has so much to announce, it can’t fit everything into its five (!) keynotes. Ahead of the show’s official opening, AWS on Monday detailed a number of updates to its overall data center strategy that are … Read more
Jeff Bezos backs AI chipmaker Tenstorrent
AI hardware startup Tenstorrent raised nearly $700 million in new funding. Tenstorrent raised a $693 million Series D round that values the company at more than $2.6 billion, Bloomberg first reported. The round was led by Samsung Securities and AFW Partners. Other investors including Hyundai and Jeff Bezos’s Bezos Expeditions, among others. The Toronto-based company … Read more
Nike Is Killing Its Ethereum NFT Sneaker and Avatar Company RTFKT
Three years after being acquired by Nike and launching both digital and physical sneakers featuring the iconic swoosh, RTFKT is closing down.
Coinbase now lets you buy crypto with Apple Pay in third-party apps
Coinbase announced an integration with Apple Pay on Monday, allowing app makers to build the ability to buy crypto with Apple Pay directly into their apps. The integration is part of Coinbase Onramp, which gives app makers a way for customers to turn their traditional currencies, such as USD, into cryptocurrencies. That process has historically … Read more
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Bridging Geometry and Deep Learning: Key Developments in SPD and Grassmann Networks
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Proposed Approach 3.1 Notation 3.2 Nueral Networks on SPD Manifolds 3.3 MLR in Structure Spaces 3.4 Neural Networks on Grassmann Manifolds Experiments Conclusion and References A. Notations B. MLR in Structure Spaces C. Formulation of MLR from the Perspective of Distances to Hyperplanes D. Human Action Recognition … Read more
Rollups alone won’t unlock blockchain’s true potential
Ethereum’s scalability solution may create more problems than it solves. Here’s why we need to look beyond rollups.
VC Roundup: November wraps with 99 deals across blockchain startups
This edition of Cointelegraph’s VC Roundup features Talus Network, Kernel, Astherus, Barter and Rarimo.
LG’s 77-inch C3 OLED is the best TV deal you can grab for Cyber Monday
The C3 is attractively thin with an impressively rich picture quality. | Image: LG You guys, I’m raging. Against my better judgment, I bought a 77-inch LG C2 in February 2023 for $3,200 despite knowing the price would plummet just a few months later after the C3’s launch. I was incredibly thirsty to give my … Read more
XRP has ‘FOMO’ target at $6.60 by 2025 — Analyst
XRP whales and retail investors have accumulated more than $1.6 billion in tokens over the past month, leading one analyst to predict a new all-time high above $6 in 2025.
Roblox tries to skirt app store fees by making Robux worth more on other platforms
Illustration: The Verge Roblox is now incentivizing users to buy its in-game currency, Robux, on platforms that won’t take app store fees. You can now get up to 25 percent more Robux if you purchase the currency through gift cards, on your computer, or on the web, according to a developer forum post from last … Read more
Building a Voice Transcription and Translation App with OpenAI Whisper and Streamlit
This guide will teach you how to use the Streamlit st.audio_input widget to record your voice on your device microphone paired with the OpenAI Whisper model to transcribe and/or translate your speech to text in English. You can later download the transcribed content as a text file in the .txt format. Prerequisites Basic Python knowledge … Read more
Staking may come soon for US Ether ETFs: Bernstein
The research firm considers ETH an attractive investment opportunity, citing rising investor interest relative to Bitcoin.
An Apple employee is suing the company over monitoring employee personal devices
An Apple employee sued the tech company as part of an effort to limit the visibility employers have on personal devices used for work. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
US gov’t transfers $1.9B BTC seized from Silk Road to Coinbase Prime
A wallet that contained Bitcoin associated with the 2021 seizure from an individual who stole crypto from the Silk Road marketplace has moved.
New Riemannian Networks Outperform Traditional Models in Action Recognition and Node Classification
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Preliminaries Proposed Approach 3.1 Notation 3.2 Nueral Networks on SPD Manifolds 3.3 MLR in Structure Spaces 3.4 Neural Networks on Grassmann Manifolds Experiments Conclusion and References A. Notations B. MLR in Structure Spaces C. Formulation of MLR from the Perspective of Distances to Hyperplanes D. Human Action Recognition … Read more
PowerDime launching tokenized renewable energy platform with Chintai
According to data from Market.US, the virtual power purchase agreement market was valued at roughly $16.7 billion in 2023.