Solana founders embrace memecoins, say AI agents overrated: Survey
They cited MEV as a major concern and said if they couldn’t build on Solana, they would opt for either Base or Sui.
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Turo taps national security and counterterrorism experts after Cybertruck explosion
Two individuals rented cars from Turo, a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform, and used them to perform acts of violence earlier this week. First, a military veteran driving a Ford F-150 Lightning drove into a crowd of people, killing at least 15. Then, an active-duty Green Beret rented a Tesla Cybertruck, parked it in front of the … Read more
Telegram Will Let Users Convert Digital Gifts Into Tradable TON NFTs
Telegram is continuing its embrace of crypto, adding support for a feature that lets users convert gifts into NFTs on The Open Network (TON).
Bench saved by the bell, and other last-minute deals that closed 2024
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Welcome to 2025! The first half of the week was relatively quiet in terms of startup announcements, but activity is already starting to pick up. We’re also … Read more
Hydrogen tax credit rules give startups clarity while boosting nuclear and carbon capture
Hydrogen startups are widely seen as a promising way to eliminate fossil fuels from heavy industry and long-haul transportation. But they have been stuck in limbo for the last couple years, waiting for official guidance from the U.S. Treasury on lucrative tax credits. The wait ended today, with the Treasury announcing final rules for hydrogen … Read more
Venture fund founder sues PayPal alleging racial discrimination
Andav Capital’s founder claims PayPal’s program was discriminatory as it sought to exclusively focus on Black and Hispanic-led enterprises. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
That Elon Musk ‘Adrian Dittmann’ screenshot is almost certainly fake
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by STR / NurPhoto, Getty Images A screenshot that seems to suggest billionaire Elon Musk is cosplaying superfan “Adrian Dittmann” — showing X account permissions beyond that of an ordinary user — is almost certainly fake, a source at X tells The Verge. The source, who claims … Read more
US lawmaker kicks off 2025 by disclosing altcoin investment
Georgia Representative Mike Collins has disclosed investments in Ether and other altcoins since taking office in 2023.
Twelve South’s Find My-compatible charger has hit an all-time low price
You can keep tabs of Twelve South’s PlugBug 50 charger through the Apple Find My app. | Image: Twelve South It’s easy to lose small stuff like laptop chargers when you’re constantly on the go, which is why Twelve South’s PlugBug is handy. It’s a USB-C wall charger that Apple users can keep tabs of … Read more
Crypto VCs reveal what they’re looking for in 2025
Political tailwinds in the United States and anticipation of a friendlier regulatory climate are positive signs for the crypto industry.
Edith Yeung Sees Big Things to Come for Crypto in Hong Kong
As the co-founder and general partner at early stage venture capital fund Race Capital, Edith Yeung has had a front-row seat on the development of the crypto sector, particularly in Hong Kong, where she was born and raised. Most notably, she was a seed investor in Solana, investing $250,000 when SOL was valued at just … Read more
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Cybertruck explosion investigation identifies the driver and tracks its path to Las Vegas
Image: LMVPD A day after a Cybertruck exploded in the Trump Hotel valet area, law enforcement officials released more details on the progress of their investigation, including the coroner’s confirmation that the driver was a US Army soldier named Matthew Livelsberger, who died by suicide of a self-inflicted gunshot just before the explosives in the … Read more
You can aim this projector by moving its motion-sensing remote around
JMGO’s N3 Ultra Max has a motorized gimbal, letting you remotely adjust where it projects. | Image: JMGO JMGO’s N3 Ultra Max projector simplifies setup with a motorized gimbal that handles alignment automatically. Once positioned in a room, you can change where it’s projecting using its motion-sensing wireless remote. The all-in-one projector will handle the … Read more
Bitcoin hashrate taps all-time high
On Jan. 3, the network’s hashrate briefly tapped 1,000 EH/s as miners continued adding capacity.
Dogecoin Keeps Surging as Fartcoin Rides AI Hype to All-Time High Price
Dogecoin is getting hot again, rising by 18% since the start of the year while Bitcoin inches above $98K and Fartcoin blasts to new heights.
The Tesla Cybertruck isn’t living up to expectations
The Verge / Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images A few months before the first Cybertrucks were delivered to customers, Tesla CEO Elon Musk got on a call with investors and said he wanted to “temper expectations” about the polarizing vehicle. “It’s a great product, but financially, it will take, I don’t know, a year to … Read more
The Wild Robot is coming to Peacock later this month
Image: Universal If you missed The Wild Robot in the madness of last year’s holiday season, Universal’s about to make it a little easier to catch the animated sci-fi adventure on both the big and small screens. The Wild Robot has been available to purchase physically on DVD / Blu-ray and on digital platforms like … Read more
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US sanctions Chinese cyber firm linked to Flax Typhoon hacks
U.S. officials say the sanctioned Chinese firm provided botnet infrastructure for the China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
ZeroShape: Data Curation Details – Synthetic Training Dataset Generation and More
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2. Related Work 3. Method and 3.1. Architecture 3.2. Loss and 3.3. Implementation Details 4. Data Curation 4.1. Training Dataset 4.2. Evaluation Benchmark 5. Experiments and 5.1. Metrics 5.2. Baselines 5.3. Comparison to SOTA Methods 5.4. Qualitative Results and 5.5. Ablation Study 6. Limitations and Discussion 7. Conclusion … Read more