During its Switch 2 event today, Nintendo confirmed that both The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will offered as enhanced “Switch 2 Edition” titles. The critically acclaimed games will feature “enhanced resolution and frame rates” and HDR support. Nintendo didn’t go into specifics on … Read more
Bitfarms (BITF) announced an initial agreement for a private debt facility of up to $300 million with Macquarie Equipment Capital, Inc., a division of Macquarie Group’s Commodities and Global Markets. The funding will support Bitfarms’ initial development of its high-performance computing (HPC) data center at Panther Creek, Pennsylvania—expected to reach up to 500 MW of … Read more
Crypto asset manager Grayscale has listed two new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that offer investors a differentiated source of income through bitcoin’s (BTC) characteristic volatility. The two New York Stock Exchange-listed funds will start trading on Wednesday. The Bitcoin Covered Call ETF (BTCC) and Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BPI) offer covered call writing strategies, which involves … Read more
Nintendo is launching a special camera accessory for the Switch 2 that will let you host video chats with your Switch friends. Simply called the Nintendo Switch 2 Camera, it’s a camera on a stand, designed to sit next to your TV while you play. You can use the new camera with GameChat, Nintendo’s new … Read more
Nintendo announced that Metroid Prime 4: Beyond will have a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition that offers an additional control option and quality / performance graphics modes. In the Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of Beyond, you’ll be able to play the game using the Joy-Con controller’s mouse functionality. I’m curious to try that out — seems … Read more
The crypto industry’s sway in Washington DC has made it more likely that the industry will get beneficial legislation, but it’s also creating problems. Concerns of regulatory capture — a situation in which regulators or lawmakers are co-opted to serve the interests of a small constituency — have grown as crypto lobbying gains influence in … Read more
Can a digital game reshape how fans connect with horse racing, a sport rooted in centuries of tradition? Stables, a Paris-based fantasy horse racing platform built on the Tezos blockchain, announced its expansion into the North American market, sparking curiosity about the future of this age-old pastime. Through a partnership with Equibase, the official database … Read more
Now that Nintendo has finally given us the rundown on the Switch 2, we can finally answer one of the biggest questions we had about the new console: “what’s the deal with that ‘C’ button?” The button, present on the right Joy-Con directly below the home button, is square and marked with a “C.” The … Read more
Michael Waltz used his personal Gmail to share “potentially exploitable” information, per the report.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC), one of Japan’s largest banking groups, is the latest financial giant to delve into stablecoins as the market for the $230 billion asset class is soaring with regulations being laid down globally. The banking group signed an agreement with Avalanche blockchain development firm Ava Labs, digital asset security company Fireblocks … Read more
Segway’s Navimow X3 series is now available to buy in the US, adding to the limited number of robot lawnmowers capable of tackling larger yards. Joining the more affordable Navimow i series that launched in March 2024, the Navimow X3 has several models, ranging from the $2,299 X315 which can cover 0.4 acres, to the … Read more
Social messaging apps tend to make major news headlines a few times per year for either their use in planning some sort of crime or, more routinely, for users’ privacy concerns over how companies like Meta — which owns WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger — handle user data. In a somewhat separate event, the Trump administration … Read more
The Wikimedia Foundation, the umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects, said on Wednesday that bandwidth consumption for multimedia downloads from Wikimedia Commons has surged by 50% since January 2024. The reason, the outfit wrote in a blog post Tuesday, isn’t due to growing demand from knowledge-thirsty humans, but … Read more
Nintendo unveiled new details on Wednesday about its hugely anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console, which will be the company’s first new console since the Nintendo Switch was introduced in 2017. The Nintendo Switch 2 will be released on June 5. As its name suggests, the Switch 2 is an upgrade on the Nintendo Switch. … Read more
We knew a Mario Kart game was coming to the Switch 2, and now Nintendo has finally shared some real details in its latest Nintendo Direct. It’s called Mario Kart World, and it will be a day-one Switch 2 exclusive. It features an open-world mode, in-game atmospheric effects that depend on “the time of day … Read more
After a reveal that was light on details, Nintendo has finally announced key information about the Switch 2: most notably, when it will launch. The Switch 2 will be available on June 5th, but we’re still waiting to hear the pricing for this new console. Nintendo has also revealed more hardware details about the Switch … Read more
DNA testing firm 23andMe is bankrupt, and now the genomic data of its 15 million users is up for sale to the highest bidder. Could that data end up on the blockchain? The company announced on March 23 that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and that its CEO, Anne Wojcicki, had stepped … Read more
Nintendo has finally shared many of the key specs about the Nintendo Switch 2 as part of its Switch 2-focused Direct. The system launches on June 5th. The device has a 7.9-inch screen, but it’s still 13.99mm thick, like the first Switch. The LCD screen has a 1080p resolution and supports HDR and up to … Read more
Sentient has carved out a unique path, blending blockchain technology with open-source AI to create a community-owned ecosystem. With over 1 million waitlist sign-ups for Sentient Chat in just 24 hours and a record-breaking 650,000 NFT mint for their decentralized AI model, Dobby, Sentient is redefining the future of AI. At the helm of this … Read more
Tesla recorded 336,681 deliveries, its worst quarterly performance in more than two years as the brand suffers a backlash to CEO Elon Musk’s political maneuverings. The dip in sales comes as Musk continues leading DOGE, the “advisory body” that has laid off thousands of federal employees and attempted to eliminate entire agencies and programs. His … 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 2547.72, down 1.0% (-26.77) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Two of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: SUI (+1.0%) and ADA (+0.2%). Laggards: AAVE (-5.3%) and LINK … Read more
The Trump administration’s formation of a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve might have China re-thinking its hardline stance against crypto and that could be key for accelerated global adoption of BTC, asset manager Grayscale said in a research report Monday. “The most important country to watch in this regard is China,” said Grayscale, adding that if … Read more
Over $2 billion was lost to cryptocurrency hacks in the first quarter of 2025. According to a report shared with Cointelegraph by crypto cybersecurity firm Hacken, in Q1 2025, nearly $1.63 billion was lost just to access control exploits. Anmol Jain, vice president of investigations at crypto forensics firm AMLBot, told Cointelegraph that the exceptionally … Read more
Rivian delivered just 8,640 vehicles in the first three months of 2024, the company’s worst quarterly mark since the end of 2022. But the company says the slow start won’t impact its overall guidance for the year — it still expects to deliver between 46,000 and 51,000 EVs by the end of 2025. The company … Read more
Avara, the parent company of decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Aave, has simplified its self-custody Family Wallet by replacing complicated seed phrases with emails and SMS, making wallet creation and recovery painless in a bid to onboard more users. Family allows users to manage assets across various Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) networks, using passkeys like fingerprint … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Work Task, Datasets, Baseline RQ 1: Leveraging the Neighbourhood at Inference 4.1. Methods 4.2. Experiments RQ 2: Leveraging the Neighbourhood at Training 5.1. Methods 5.2. Experiments RQ 3: Cross-Domain Generalizability Conclusion Limitations Ethics Statement Bibliographical References 5.2. Experiments 5.2.1. Implementation Details We use the same training setup … Read more
When building data indexing pipelines, handling large files efficiently presents unique challenges. For example, patent XML files from the USPTO can contain hundreds of patents in a single file, with each file being over 1GB in size. Processing such large files requires careful consideration of processing granularity and resource management. In this article we will … Read more