Month: March 2025
Week in Review: OpenAI could charge $20K a month for an AI agent
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at OpenAI potentially charging $20,000 a month for a specialized AI agent, the unexpected return of early-internet darling Digg, a company genetically engineering mice to have mammoth-like fur, and more! Let’s do this. OpenAI could charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI “agents.” … Read more
Bitcoin investors share mixed reactions to White House Crypto Summit
Institutional crypto investors tended to view the White House Crypto Summit more favorably than retail traders and BTC maximalists.
Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them
If you, like me, still have your DVD collection hanging around, now is a good time to dust off your DVD player and make sure they haven’t succumbed to disc rot. That’s because many of the discs produced by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) between 2006 and 2008 are failing prematurely, the company acknowledged in … Read more
WebAssembly on Kubernetes: What You Need to Know
Like a couple of innovative technologies, different people have different viewpoints on where WebAssembly fits the technology landscape. WebAssembly (also called Wasm) is certainly the subject of much hype right now. But what is it? Is it the JavaScript Killer? Is it a new programming language for the web? Is it (as we like to … Read more
9 US AI startups have raised $100M or more in 2025
Last year was a monumental year for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch. Three companies raised more than one “mega-round” last year, and seven companies raised rounds at $1 billion or larger. How … Read more
The PlumTree Algorithm (PTA) in the Solana Gossip Protocol: Some Thoughts
Glossary INV (Inventory): A message sent to nodes in the network to depict the availability of data each node requires. GETDATA: This is a message sent to a node that queries for the data specified in the inv message. Spanning Tree: A spanning tree of a graph is a subset of the graph that connects all its vertices with the … Read more
You might not need Redis
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Volatility Shares Files for 3 XRP ETFs
Volatility Shares, an asset manager known for launching innovative exchange-traded funds (ETFs), has filed for three new products centered on XRP. These include a spot XRP ETF, a 2x leveraged XRP ETF and an inverse -1x XRP ETF. The spot XRP ETF is designed to track the price of the cryptocurrency directly, while the 2x … Read more
The Apple Watch Series 10 just received its first $100 discount
The biggest Apple news of the week was the announcement of a sky blue MacBook Air and an M3-powered iPad Air; however, in the deals world, it was all about the Apple Watch Series 10. That’s because, right now, Apple’s flagship smartwatch is on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy in its 42mm base … Read more
Chevy Silverado EV vs Rivian R1T: How two EVs handled the iconic Mint 400 off-road race
Something special went down in the desert outside of Las Vegas this weekend: two EVs took on the Mint 400 for the first time. Since the Mint 400 launched back in 1969, vehicles in this iconic desert endurance race have been powered by dead dinosaurs. Spectators and race participants alike are used to the smell … Read more
How I Made Autonomous Vehicle AI 40% Faster Without Losing Accuracy
Autonomous vehicles need to see the world fast and with precision. But real-time perception is tough when your model is drowning in millions of LiDAR points and high-res images. The solution? Sensor fusion, model quantization, and a sprinkle of TensorRT acceleration. Let me walk you through how I optimized a multi-modal perception model to run … Read more
Public Keys: Strategy Skips the Bitcoin Dip as Circle Marks Its Spot
Strategy, which saw its stock premium hit a 10-month low earlier this week, ending trading on Friday at $287.18—down 5.6% on the day.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: Ham vs Spam: How to Identify and Classify Spam E-mail (3/8/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, March 8, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, IBM Introduces PC-XT in 1983, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Stay Calm in Stressful Situations With These 6 Proven Techniques to I Built … Read more
The Next Doge? Meme Shiba Inu Owner’s New Pup Inspires Official Cocoro Coin
Base meme coin Cocoro is the officially licensed token of the dog owned by Atsuko Sato, the woman who owned the original Doge pup.
5 devices to help ease your smartphone addiction
The downsides of doomscrolling and screen addiction are well documented, but while many of us would like to spend less time glued to a smartphone, it’s easier said than done. Much has been written about the so-called dumbphone revival, where individuals regain some respite from pings and push notifications by downgrading to a basic feature … Read more
It’s a great moment for classic RPGs
Suikoden is a game that Iâve been meaning to play for years. A highly regarded roleplaying game from the original PlayStation era, itâs renowned for its sprawling storyline and huge cast of playable characters. That also makes it pretty intimidating, and Iâve had a copy sitting on my PS Vita just waiting for when I … Read more
When Corporate Branding Goes Wrong
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In defense tech, Lithuania’s sovereign VC fund is one step ahead
Europe is waking up to the need to invest in defense, and so are European VCs. But with a painful history of Soviet occupations, Lithuania didn’t wait for the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to reach its third anniversary to commit 5% to 6% of its GDP to military spending — and fund … Read more