DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, January 7th, 2025/Chainwire/–Arcana Network has introduced its Chain Abstraction SDK, designed to streamline the multi-chain experience for developers and users alike. This innovative solution allows developers to integrate Chain Abstraction into their applications, enabling users to spend a unified balance across chains without the need for swapping, bridging, or managing gas. … Read more
SINGAPORE, Singapore, January 7th, 2025/Chainwire/–Travala,the leading crypto-native travel booking service, has launched limited-time Bitcoin incentives to grow the number of crypto travellers and increase real-world on-chain activity across their network of more than 100 supported tokens. Following last year’s addition of Bitcoin rewards to the AVA Smart Program—Travala’s travel loyalty initiative in collaboration with the … Read more
From left to right: a pair of Reolink’s new Altas cameras, the Home Hub, and Reolink’s solar panels. | Image: Reolink Reolink’s new Altas series of consumer-oriented surveillance cameras can continuously record video to a local SD card 24 hours a day for up to seven days off of battery — or almost two years … Read more
2024 marked a record-breaking year for the Bitcoin mining industry, achieving historic milestones that underscore its continued growth and technological evolution. Published today, the collaborative report by NiceHash and Digital Mining Solutions delves into these achievements, presenting a comprehensive analysis of key developments, including increased hashrate, hardware innovations, and the dynamics of block space demand. … Read more
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Honda unveiled Tuesday at CES 2025 the latest EV in its so-called 0 Series — a mid-sized SUV prototype dubbed, surely enough, the 0 SUV. Honda’s take on the SUV will join the 0 Saloon that the automaker showed off at last year’s show. And while Honda first showed us the 0 Saloon, the SUV … Read more
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The Honda 0 Saloon and Honda 0 SUV. | Image: Honda The vehicles will be underpinned by a new in-house-developed operating system named after Honda’s iconic Asimo robot. At CES in Las Vegas today, Honda showed off its promised new battery-electric Honda Zero prototypes. The first is an SUV based on its Space-Hub concept, called … Read more
The social media company will switch to a community notes model similar to the X platform’s, Meta said.
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled its upcoming digital assistant, Umi, which offers families a personalized, AI-powered wellness coach. Created in partnership with Anthropic, Umi uses the Claude AI model to help families “care, coordinate, and connect” with each other, the company said. More specifically, this involves an AI assistant that focuses on … Read more
Sonic, a blockchain network extension built on Solana, announced today its Token Generation Event (TGE) and upcoming mainnet launch, marking a significant development in blockchain infrastructure. The TGE, scheduled for January 7 at 12:00 PM UTC, will introduce the $SONIC token across major cryptocurrency exchanges. According to technical specifications, the token will operate as an … Read more
Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs started 2025 in the red, but now have collectively attracted $1.75 billion over the last two trading days.
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images As part of Meta’s sweeping changes to content moderation announced today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company will also be moving its content moderation teams from California to Texas to “help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content,” he wrote on Threads. “We’re … Read more
In 2024, the combined market capitalization of public Bitcoin mining companies reached $50 billion for the first time.
Artificial intelligence (AI) crypto tokens are failing to live up to their lofty 2024 goals despite Nvidia’s (NVDA) recent conference sparking bullish sentiment among AI stocks in the traditional markets. Last March, the NEAR token doubled in the lead-up to Nividia’s annual conference, gains that were mirrored across the wider crypto AI market. Fetch.AI (FET), … Read more
In 2007, Jesse Burgess joined his family’s payroll business. He quickly noticed that the business’ six payroll clerks were getting bogged down by repetitive, monotonous tasks. So he sought to streamline those tasks by creating workflow automation tools. Several years later, Burgess sensed an opportunity to bring the tools he developed for his family’s business … Read more
BMW is totally revamping its in-car user interface, starting with the Neue Klasse sedan later this year and ultimately spreading to all models, the company announced at CES 2025. Some of it looks and feels familiar, but the big change is a widget-based system that lets users customize the layout — including on the car’s … Read more
In an exclusive interview, Ishan Pandey sits down with Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on cryptocurrency trading and exchange operations. As the crypto industry continues to evolve, the intersection of AI and digital assets presents both opportunities and challenges. From copy trading innovations to the future of … Read more
Uber will use Nvidia’s new generative world model simulation tool, Cosmos, and cloud-based AI supercomputing platform, DGX Cloud, to support the development of autonomous vehicle technology, the companies announced at CES 2025. Cosmos is being marketed to robotics and autonomy companies as a tool that generates physics-based videos from a variety of inputs, including 9,000 … Read more
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! It’s good to be back. This week, we’re looking at the wild ride that was Bench’s shutdown and acquisition; dozens of companies that are hiring in the fintech space; lawsuits against PayPal; an IPO update; and more! This edition is a bit longer than normal since we were on a hiatus … Read more
The non-custodial payment gateway reported increased merchant interest across multiple sectors following Bitcoin’s December price surge.
Image: Getty The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating Tesla’s “Actual Smart Summon” remote parking feature after several crash incidents were reported. NHTSA says it has received reports of 16 incidents involving Tesla’s smart summon feature in 2016-2025 Model S and X vehicles as well as 2017-2025 Model 3s and 2020-2025 Model … Read more
After rallying over 50% since early November, bitcoin (BTC), the leading cryptocurrency by market value, looks to be carving out a pattern. If completed, this could see prices revisit the mid-$70Ks. BTC’s price action since late November has evolved into what technical analysts call a “head and shoulders” (H&S) pattern, which foreshadows a bullish-to-bearish trend … Read more