Month: January 2025

Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy Discusses the Future of Crypto Trading

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Evgeny Gaevoy began his career in traditional finance, specializing in market making and prop trading. But by 2016, seeing the inefficiencies of legacy financial systems and the potential for disintermediation, Gaevoy realized there was an opportunity to create something entirely new and better. With experience building up foreign exchange firm Optiver’s European ETF business — … Read more

AI startup Perplexity sued for alleged trademark infringement

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Perplexity, the venture-backed startup building AI-powered search products, has been sued in federal court for allegedly violating another company’s trademark. In a complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys representing a company called Perplexity Solved Solutions accuse Perplexity of infringing on its trademark rights by using the … Read more

Upland’s $SPARKLET Warz Takes Metaverse Gameplay to a Whole New Level

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As an Upland player, I’ve experienced everything from treasure hunts to neighborhood competitions, but $SPARKLET Warz takes Upland gameplay to a whole new level. Here’s my honest review of the first-ever large-scale faction-based challenge. While it introduces some seriously exciting mechanics, there are a few clunky elements and points of confusion that might make it … Read more

AI is ‘an energy hog,’ but DeepSeek could change that

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DeepSeek startled everyone last month with the claim that its AI model uses roughly one-tenth the amount of computing power as Meta’s Llama 3.1 model, upending an entire worldview of how much energy and resources it’ll take to develop artificial intelligence.  Taken at face value, that claim could have tremendous implications for the environmental impact … Read more

Blackmagic’s free camera app brings remote control and tablet support to Android

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The Blackmagic Camera app now supports a handful of Android tablets. Blackmagic Design has announced that it’s finally bringing several advanced features already available for the iOS version of its free camera app to Android. The Blackmagic Camera for Android 2.0 update released this week allows several smartphones running the app to be monitored and … Read more

Exec Building the Spotify of Healthcare Says Only Startups That Address Real Issues Will Thrive

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Time is the one resource that money can’t buy, which is why I strongly believe in the transformative potential of AI in healthtech. This market is undeniably one of the most challenging: data protection laws, stringent regulations, and bureaucratic hurdles create significant barriers. Yet, these challenges are precisely what make innovation here so impactful. A … Read more

TikTok traffic is recovering, but it’s still not back in app stores

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TikTok’s traffic is almost back to normal despite its delayed return to US app stores, according to Cloudflare Radar data seen by CNBC. The “DNS traffic for TikTok-related domains” is around 10 percent lower than the levels before its abrupt shutdown, David Belson, Cloudflare’s head of data insight, told CNBC. To compare, TikTok’s traffic dipped … Read more

Tether Reports $13B Profit for 2024, With Rising Bitcoin, Gold Prices Contributing

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Tether, the crypto company behind the largest stablecoin USDT, said on Friday it generated $13 billion group-wide net profits last year in a record-breaking year. Some $7 billion of the profits derived from the firm’s vast U.S. Treasuries and repo holdings, and $5 billion from unrealized appreciation of the company’s gold and bitcoin (BTC) holdings. … Read more

Backed by Mayo Clinic, Nutrix’s hardware monitors worker stress

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Stress isn’t just bad for you — it’s also bad for your employer. Factoring in absenteeism, diminished productivity, turnover, medical costs, and accidents, the non-profit American Institute of Stress estimates that workplace stress costs U.S. businesses over $300 billion annually. One way to measure stress is by monitoring cortisol levels. Even influencers know this, with … Read more