Amazon has been trying to make virtual assistants happen for more than a decade. Alexa is, by many definitions, wildly successful, but it has so far failed to become the kind of omnipresent, omnipotent helper the company imagines. (It has also, by all accounts, failed to become a compelling business for Amazon.) This week, though, … Read more
DASTAN President Farokh Sarmad and CEO Loxley Fernandes took to the stage at Consensus to share their vision for the prediction market.
Dubai’s Damac Properties and the Mantra protocol are spearheading a $1 billion initiative to tokenize real estate, unlocking global investment opportunities through blockchain.
XRP price is down today as macroeconomic conditions remain uncertain, but a key support level and oversold conditions could soon lead to a recovery toward $3.
CME Group, the world’s largest derivatives marketplace, plans to introduce Solana (SOL) futures on March 17, expanding its suite of cryptocurrency derivatives, it said in a press release on Friday. The new contracts, pending regulatory review, will allow traders to manage SOL price risk with two contract sizes: 25 SOL and 500 SOL. “With the … Read more
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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 2612.03, down 3.2% (-86.41) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. One of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SOL (+1.4%) and APT (-0.5%). Laggards: UNI (-7.1%) and AAVE (-7.0%). … Read more
Ethereum rolling back transactions post-Bybit hack is technically infeasible. It has grown into a vast and complex network, and the repercussions of a rollback would be enormous.
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The Ethereum Foundation has created the “Silviculture Society,” a group tasked to ensure that Ethereum upholds its core values.
TRUMP took a double digit hit as the U.S. President continues his global trade war.
At Consensus 2025 in Hong Kong, DASTAN CEO Loxley Fernandes and President Farokh Sarmad discuss how on-chain prediction market MYRIAD’s dynamic participatory model offers a new solution for aligning incentives in the media ecosystem.
It’s the end of an era. Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May and replacing it with the free version of Microsoft Teams for consumers. Existing Skype users will be able to log in to the Microsoft Teams app and have their message history, group chats, and contacts all automatically available without having to create … Read more
Officials will be able to tell how much time is left and get haptic alerts. | Image: NHL, Apple The Apple Watch is now the smartwatch of choice for National Hockey League officials. Apple and the NHL just announced a collaboration where on-ice officials will wear Apple Watches that are running special software to receive … Read more
Rug Radio’s Farokh Sarmad is joined by WalletConnect Foundation Founder and Director Pedro Gomes, Sophon Founder and CEO Sebastien and MOG Creative Director Mike Three for a discussion on the changing face of crypto culture and how to onboard newcomers to the space.
After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it from active duty on May 5 to double down on Teams. Skype users have 10 weeks to decide what they want … Read more
February by the numbers: Bitcoin adoption is growing, but memecoins are pumping the brakes.
Ethereum faces another 30% drop to $1,500 if the ETH price double-top pattern plays out, making the $2,000 level increasingly important for the bulls to hold.
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Upbit parent firm Dunamu is trying to overturn sanctions imposed by regulators after they found faults with Upbit’s verification process.
According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, meme coins don’t meet the requirements to be protected by federal securities law. In new guidance issued on Thursday, the SEC announced that it doesn’t view most meme coins — cryptocurrencies that originate from internet memes or cultural phenomena — as securities, and that transactions around them do … Read more
“Binance hasn’t ‘dumped’ or ‘sold’ large amounts of tokens as some tweets have wrongly claimed,” a Binance spokesperson told Cointelegraph.
AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs is arriving next week — and its new graphics cards are aggressively priced against Nvidia’s $749 GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and $549 RTX 5070. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT ship on March 6th for $549 and $599, respectively, one day after the RTX 5070 arrives. … Read more
The shadow president paced around the stage after his speech, sunglasses on, mouth frozen in a grin, raising a chainsaw overhead to the delight of an adoring crowd as a large rectangular canvas made its way from the back of the audience toward him. He grabbed the painting, visibly thrilled. On the canvas, as onstage, … Read more