The best laptop for most people is slightly better — and slightly bluer. Apple rarely offers you more for less, especially in its most popular products with the broadest appeal. It has perfected the measured, iterative year-over-year product cycle. But for the 13- and 15-inch M4 MacBook Airs, Apple has put new chips in its … Read more
Itâs no secret that AMD has been dominating in PC gaming CPU performance, but you always had to make a difficult choice between Intel and AMD if you used your gaming PC for professional workloads as well. With AMDâs $699 Ryzen 9 9950X3D, you donât need to choose: AMD now has the best CPU for … Read more
Draconian crypto regulation that stopped U.S. citizens from benefiting from airdrops — a way of rewarding communities of users by distributing free tokens — has cost Americans as much as $2.6 billion in potential revenue and the government as much as $1.4 billion in lost tax income in the past four years, according to venture … Read more
The US smartphone market is pretty boring. There are iPhones, there are Galaxies, Google will happily give you a Pixel if you remember it exists, and thatâs about it. But as soon as you get out and see the world a little, you realize: there are a lot of new ideas about smartphones out there. … Read more
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Ethereum’s Holesky testnet finally reached finality on Monday, nearly two weeks after the Pectra upgrade went live. Epoch 119,090 sealed the deal at around 19:00 UTC, with over two-thirds of validators validating the network. An epoch is a period of time when a specific number of blocks is completed on the blockchain. Finality, which locks … Read more
Solana’s SOL entered murky waters as Monday’s broad crypto-market drop sent the token of the high-speed, low cost blockchain diving as much as 8% to $124. That’s less than the realized price of $134 for the first time since May 2022, according to Glassnode data. The realized price is the average cost basis of all … Read more
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The recent crypto market downturn has caused the once-popular $120,000 bitcoin (BTC) options bet to lose its crown to the $100,000 bet in a sign that traders are reassessing their bullish expectations. At press time, the $100,000 call was the most popular BTC options contract on the exchange, boasting a notional open interest of $1.55 … Read more
Ford’s NACS adapter are co-developed with Lectron. | Image: Ford Ford is making some changes to how it handles its EV charging accessories. The company was the first to announce its plans to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) connector for its EVs, and was also first to distribute NACS adapters to its EV customers free … Read more
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Zolve, a neobanking startup targeting global citizens seeking credit, has raised $251 million in a new round to expand into Canada and launch loans. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
VanEck has registered an Avalanche exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the U.S. state of Delaware as investment manager continue to apply for various altcoin-based product despite the clawback in the crypto market. The New York-headquartered company registered the “VanEck Avalanche ETF” on March 10, according to a filing on Delaware’s Department of State website. The registration … Read more
Bitcoin’s potential retracement to $70,000 may be an organic part of the current bull market, despite crypto investor concerns regarding the early arrival of the bear market cycle. Bitcoin (BTC) fell over 14% during the past week to close around $80,708 after investors were disappointed with the lack of direct federal Bitcoin investments in President … Read more
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) The crypto market is looking to regain poise, with bitcoin bouncing above $81,000 ahead of tomorrow’s U.S. inflation report. Broadly speaking, the recovery from overnight lows is led by layer-1 and layer-2 coins, with gaming tokens also rising. The rebound comes amid indications of “peak fear” … Read more
Enterprises these days can choose from hundreds of apps and services available to secure their networks, data and assets — nearly as many more to help them manage all the alerts and extra work that those security apps generate. But what if you could build your own apps, customised to your own workloads, to simplify … Read more
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price on CME futures dropped to a low of around $76,700 on Monday, officially filling the CME futures gap that was created on Nov. 5, when President Trump won the U.S. election. At the end of February, bitcoin (BTC) briefly fell to approximately $78,500, partially filling the gap, as the lowest point of … Read more
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The platform’s daily income has dropped at least 96% from its January peak, coinciding with the general decline in demand for AI agents.
Investigators say they processed over 2,600 complaints, exposing fake Bitcoin mining, crypto job scams, and crypto gaming frauds.