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Month: January 2025
Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images In September 2023, Meta made a big deal of its new AI chatbots that used celebrities’ likeness: everyone from Kendall Jenner to MrBeast leased themselves out to embody AI characters on Instagram and Facebook. The celebrity-based bots were killed off last summer after … Read more
These MagSafe earbuds snap on to the back of an iPhone
We’ve seen a handful of AirPod-charging iPhone battery cases come and go over the years. Artronic’s new earbuds take a different approach, with a slim charging case that snaps directly to the back of MagSafe-compatible phones. The Komutr buds were announced on Friday, a few days ahead of their CES 2025 debut. In a sea … Read more
ZeroShape: The Inference on AI-Generated Images
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
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Building a Web Server with Python and Flask (1/3/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 3, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Alaska became the 49th US state in 1959, The first block of the Bitcoin blockchain was mined in 2009, Panama leader Manuel Noriega surrendered to US authorities in … Read more
ZeroShape: Additional Qualitative Comparisons You Should Know About
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
Big moves expected for crypto in Asia in 2025: Asia Express
Trump may take aim at digital yuan’s overseas expansion, Korean institutions will remain sidelined from crypto, and more: Asia Express 2025
Bitcoin bulls run at $97K: Key BTC price resistance levels to beat
Bitcoin traders are lining up crucial BTC price points as the market starts to show new-year signs of life.
How Chinese Lending Firm Cango Became a Bitcoin Mining Powerhouse
The bitcoin (BTC) mining industry was shaken up in the last months of 2024 by the sudden entrance of a new player: Cango (CANG), a Chinese firm that specializes in providing loans to automobile buyers. Based in Shanghai and valued at $363 million on the stock market, Cango is in the process of acquiring 50 … Read more
Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen
Electra has raised $76.3 million to clean up the dirty ironmaking industry, TechCrunch has learned. The startup has developed a novel method of using electricity to coax pure iron out of low-grade ores, opening the door to cleaner steel. The new funding round, which was disclosed in a regulatory filing, seeks to raise a total … Read more
Online gift card store exposed hundreds of thousands of people’s identity documents
The gift card store secured the public cloud storage server containing customer ID documents, which was not protected with a password. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Sees Record-High Outflow Thanks to Profit Taking
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin ETF saw its biggest 1-day outflow yesterday as shareholders took profits to the tune of $333 million.
New evidence suggests Elon Musk is cosplaying his superfan Adrian Dittmann
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Rumors that viral Elon Musk fanboy Adrian Dittmann is actually a fake online persona used by Musk himself have been reignited following fresh evidence linking the pair. Internet sleuths are pointing to a string of recent activity from Dittmann’s X account and alleged 4Chan posts that … Read more
Ethena targets TradFi adoption with synthetic dollar in 2025 roadmap
Ethena’s “singular focus” for the first quarter of 2025 is the distribution of the “TradFi Wrapped” iUSDe synthetic dollar.
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: ADA Gains 12%, Leading Index Higher
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3594.2, up 1.8% (+64.6) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. 19 of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: ADA (+12.0%) and ICP (+10.6%). Laggards: BTC (-1.0%) and ETH (+0.6%). … Read more
From Bitcoin summer to 2025 predictions: Inside Cointelegraph’s crypto roundtable
Join Cointelegraph’s editorial team as they reflect on Bitcoin’s breakout year, the landmark ETF approvals and what lies ahead for crypto in 2025.
Rivian wraps 2024 with more than 50,000 EVs delivered
Rivian finished last year having delivered 51,579 electric SUVs, trucks, and vans, more than triple the number it shipped to customers in 2023. The company announced Friday that it also built 49,476 EVs in 2024. That’s about 8,000 fewer than it expected to manufacture as recently as July. Rivian was forced to lower its expectations, … Read more
The computable economy will unlock a new economic order
Web3 and RWA tokenization enable a computable economy.
Almost all AI agents are just ‘memecoins that talk’
AI agents are taking crypto by storm, but analysts and executives aren’t convinced the rising tide of generative chatbots and their affiliated tokens have long-term staying power.
XRP flips USDT again to become the 3rd-largest crypto by market cap
XRP previously overtook USDT on Dec. 1 when it climbed past both Solana and Tether’s stablecoin.
Man Dies by Suicide After Being Convicted of ‘Rug Pull,’ Family Says
A 21-year-old man appears to have taken his own life, as he awaited sentencing for an NFT “rug pull.”
From genesis to global: The evolution of Bitcoin since block 0
From the historic genesis block to $100,000 BTC, Bitcoin’s journey spans 16 years of resilience, growth and innovation.