Miami, Florida, March 19th, 2025/Chainwire/–Dogecoin Racing, launched by the House of Doge and the Dogecoin Foundation is teaming up with NTT INDYCAR SERIES driver Devlin DeFrancesco and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing to bring Dogecoin to the iconic motorsports event—the Indy 500—while supporting a cause that is deeply personal to the team. The Indianapolis 500, known … Read more
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said today that the service now has more than 1 billion active users. This number is up from last year’s reported 950 million monthly active users. Durov also noted that the company registered $547 million in profits last year. He had announced the company’s profitability in December but hadn’t provided any … Read more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s dismissal of its years-long lawsuit against Ripple Labs, the developer of the XRP Ledger blockchain network, is a “victory for the industry,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said at Blockworks’ 2025 Digital Asset Summit in New York. Earlier on March 19, Garlinghouse revealed that the SEC would dismiss its legal … Read more
Social media site X’s valuation has bounced back to $44 billion, according to a new report from the Financial Times. Elon Musk purchased the platform, formerly known as Twitter, for $44 billion back in 2022. However, a report from Bloomberg states that X has raised close to $1 billion from investors in a deal that … Read more
Last year, GameStop shut down Game Informer, laying off all its staff and putting an end to one of the last remaining video game magazines still published in the United States. But now, cryptic posts on social media hint that the publication may make a return. On Bluesky, the Game Informer account, which had not … Read more
Hello AI Enthusiasts! Welcome to the tenth edition of “This Week in AI Engineering”! Google released Gemma 3 with a powerful 27B parameter version, AI21 Labs launched Jamba 1.6 outperforming Mistral and Llama on long-context tasks, Manus AI emerged as a breakthrough autonomous agent with 95% task completion, and Sesame AI just made AI girlfriends … Read more
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The funds, which track the price of the largest cryptocurrency by market value, have shed assets in recent weeks.
Tailwind CSS has completely transformed how we style websites. Its utility-first approach, flexibility, and ability to keep CSS files minimal have made it a go-to framework for developers looking to speed up development and maintain consistency. But while Tailwind is already a powerful tool, there are ways to make it even more efficient. If you’re … Read more
NVIDIA’s GTC conference kicked off with a series of announcements highlighting its role in advancing autonomous driving technology. The chipmaker provides automakers and autonomous vehicle companies with a handful of Nvidia-branded tools to help power self-driving cars and create digital twins of factories. On Tuesday, companies including Torc, Gatik, and even General Motors announced plans … Read more
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, CoinDesk’s Ethereum Reporter. In this issue: Hello, Hoodi: Ethereum Welcomes a New Testnet Microsoft Raises Alarm of Malware Targeting Coinbase, MetaMask Wallets Halliday Raises $20M for AI Protocol to Eliminate Writing Smart Contracts for DeFi Sam … Read more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission dropping its appeal against Ripple is the “final exclamation point that these [XRP] tokens are considered digital commodities, not securities,” crypto lawyer John Deaton told Cointelegraph. Deaton added that there is still a $125-million judgment against Ripple over the improper selling of the XRP (XRP) cryptocurrency, which perhaps the … Read more
Plex is raising the price of its Plex Pass from $4.99 to $6.99 per month and gating a key feature behind the subscription. Starting April 29th, users who want to stream content from their media server outside their homes – and let other people access it for free – will need a Plex Pass subscription. The … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) has been clinging to the 200-day simple moving average ($84,359), which suggests that the bulls have kept up the pressure. That improves the prospects of an upside breakout, signaling the corrective phase may be ending. Derive founder Nick Forster told Cointelegraph that the current pullback is a normal correction that Bitcoin experiences during … Read more
Hello JavaScript Enthusiasts! Welcome to a new edition of “This Week in JavaScript“! Today, we’re covering Microsoft’s game-changing TypeScript speed boost, Google’s CPU-friendly AI model, and HTML’s exciting new declarative attributes, plus exciting new tools you won’t want to miss! 10X Faster TypeScript Microsoft is porting the entire TypeScript compiler to Go, and the results … Read more
The Dubai Land Department (DLD), a government agency for the real estate industry, said it started a real estate tokenization pilot program, claiming to be the first property registration authority in the Middle East to use blockchain technology for property title deeds. The initiative was developed with the digital assets watchdog Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority … Read more
Javier Milei made international headlines in recent weeks, but not in a way he may have wanted. The president of Argentina is under investigation in both his country and the United States for the $Libra cryptocurrency scandal, a “rug pull” that caused up to $300 million in losses for investors. While he and his cabinet … Read more
Dataminr, a data analytics company that counts NATO and OpenAI among its customers, has raised $85 million in a combination of convertible financing and credit, Dataminr announced on Wednesday. It’s chump change for Dataminr, which closed a $475 million round at a $4.1 billion valuation in 2021. But the company has seen its fair share … Read more
In many generative AI applications, a large language model (LLM) like Amazon Nova is used to respond to a user query based on the model’s own knowledge or context that it is provided. However, as use cases have matured, the ability for a model to have access to tools or structures that would be inherently … Read more
Software development and programming, once regarded as endeavors that required deep expertise, can now be done by anyone using natural language. A feature that used to take days or months to develop can now be developed in minutes or hours thanks to code from an AI model. For example, OpenAI Codex and Google BERT are … Read more
As global economic tensions escalate, gold has surged to an all-time high, while Bitcoin remains relatively stagnant. Despite its reputation as “digital gold,” Bitcoin has failed to respond to macroeconomic uncertainty in the same way as the precious metal. Bitcoin Stagnates While Gold Shines According to World Gold Council, gold crossed US$3,000/oz in intra-day trading … Read more
Streaming service and software maker Plex is raising its prices. The company announced on Wednesday its first price increase in a decade for its premium subscription service Plex Pass, which offers power users a variety of additional features, like offline access, themes, hardware transcoding, and other advanced settings. The service will now cost $6.99 per … Read more