Can you drive an Hermès Birkin bag? | Image: Nik Bentel Studio Looking for an accessory that can keep up with your busy lifestyle? Nik Bentel Studio has created a leather purse with a remote control car built into its base. The battery-powered RC Car Bag is four wheel drive, and while its rubber tires … Read more
This blog post is co-written with Gene Arnold from Alation. To build a generative AI-based conversational application integrated with relevant data sources, an enterprise needs to invest time, money, and people. First, you would need build connectors to the data sources. Next you need to index this data to make it available for a Retrieval … Read more
Ben Zhou announced the launch of a bounty program after reporting hackers tied to North Korea used an exploit to steal more than $1.4 billion in crypto from Bybit.
Cryptocurrency-focused asset manager Bitwise has completed a $70 million equity raise led by crypto venture firm Electric Capital. The raise also included participation from MassMutual, Highland Capital, MIT Investment Management Company, Haun Ventures and ParaFi Capital, Bitwise announced on Tuesday. The firm plans to use proceeds from the raise to bolster its balance sheet, expand … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 25, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From Ethereum is Not a World Computer, and Swarm is Much More Than Just a Hard Drive to Give Feedback, … Read more
Hey Hackers! Welcome back to another edition of Company of the Week! If you’re unaware, we like to share an awesome tech company from our tech company database every week, making its evergreen mark on the internet. This week, we’re excited to spotlight Miro – the virtual workspace with 90M+ users and counting. In recent years, … Read more
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson urging the FTC to require that companies admit when you’re not really buying an ebook or video game. Wyden’s letter, shared with The Verge, requests guidance to “ensure that consumers who purchase or license digital goods can make informed … Read more
Starknet, a layer-2 on top of Ethereum, is getting its first application-chain that settles on the network. The layer-3 app-chain, called Nums, is built off of the “SN Stack,” a customizable toolkit that lets developers create layer-3 blockchains based off of Starknet’s technology. Nums itself is an on-chain game that lets players try to sequence … Read more
BTC price action leaves $109,000 far behind as selling pressure keeps the Bitcoin bears in control of the cryptocurrency market.
Starting May 12th, YouTube says it will show fewer mid-roll ads that it thinks will interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more at “natural break points” like pauses or transitions, according to a help page on the change. The company says it’s also inserting “additional, automatic ad-slots at natural break points” into older videos with manually-placed slots, … Read more
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Nasdaq’s filing adds to an expanding list of proposed altcoin ETFs awaiting SEC approval in the United States.
Lazarus Group has stolen over $6 billion in crypto since 2017, making it the most notorious hacking ring in the industry.
The Federal Aviation Administration has started testing the use of SpaceX Starlink satellite internet terminals in the national airspace system, nearly two years after Verizon was awarded a $2 billion contract to perform similar work. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk claimed on his social media platform X that the Verizon system “is not working … Read more
As disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried serves the early days of his 25-year prison sentence, the crypto wunderkind-turned-criminal made his first public post on X in over two years. Bankman-Fried’s thread on X responds to Elon Musk’s recent ultimatum to federal employees: respond to his email with five bullet points of recent accomplishments, or resign. … Read more
The U.K.’s antitrust authority has given the go-ahead to IBM’s planned multibillion acquisition of infrastructure software company HashiCorp. In a brief case update published today, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had “cleared the anticipated acquisition by IBM of HashiCorp,” and it would publish the full rationale for its decision in due course. … Read more
Casio made the CRW001-1 as a limited-edition collectible to celebrate its 50th anniversary. I am the last person on earth who needs another watch. As The Vergeâs resident wearables reviewer, Iâm always double-wristing the latest smartwatches. I am also the last person who needs another ring after spending a whole summer wearing six of them … Read more
“I wouldn’t even be in this situation if it wasn’t for you. You brought down so much f—ing heat on me.” — Robert De Niro as Ace Rothstein to Joe Pesci’s Nicky Santoro in Martin Scorsese’s Casino. Bitcoiners could be forgiven for blaming the rest of crypto for the bear move that took the price … Read more
The crypto-savvy investors most likely to be interested in altcoins probably already hold them on crypto exchanges or onchain, analysts told Cointelegraph.
“Build for where the industry is going, not for where it is.” This mantra has fueled disruptive innovations for decades — Microsoft capitalized on microprocessors, Salesforce leveraged the cloud and Uber thrived in the mobile revolution. The same principle applies to AI — Generative AI is evolving so rapidly that building for today’s capabilities risks … Read more
To be the best at their jobs, people need relationships in the workplace. Employees who feel comfortable taking work challenges to peers or problem solving in tandem are more likely to excel in their work. Theyâre also more likely to be happy, as recent research has revealed. Social connections in the workplace contribute to a … Read more
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has reopened access to its API after halting service for nearly three weeks due to capacity constraints. On Tuesday, the company began allowing customers to top up credits for use on its API, which lets developers build apps and services on top of cloud-hosted versions of DeepSeek’s AI. Server resources remain … Read more
Microsoft is reportedly shrinking its data center footprint. The tech giant has canceled leases with multiple data center providers that total a “couple hundred megawatts” of capacity, according to Bloomberg, which cited a memo from investment bank TD Cowen. This total represents the equivalent of about two data centers. The reason for Microsoft’s move is … Read more
As part of its efforts to further invest in the Chinese market, Apple announced this week that it’s bringing its Apple Developer service to China’s WeChat app. The service includes news, announcements, and other upcoming activities for members of the developer community, which have typically been offered via Apple’s website and its own Developer app. … Read more
DoorDash has agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general that accused the delivery platform of pocketing workers’ tips to cover wages. The lawsuit alleged that between May 2017 and September 2019, DoorDash used customer tips to offset the base pay it had already guaranteed to workers, instead of … Read more