Month: April 2025
Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots
Nestled between an elementary school and a public library in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood sits a new kind of “luxury” coworking space. Dubbed the Chat Haus, this space has many of the elements you’d find in a traditional coworking office: people hammering away at their computer keyboards, another person taking a phone call, someone else pausing … Read more
Unlocking Ractors: Object_id
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Inside Christopher Kelly’s Mission to Redesign Global Finance from the Ground Up
Most people talk about the tokenization of real-world assets as a theory. Christopher Kelly is turning it into a global financial operating system. As Co-Founder and President of droppGroup, Kelly is helping build what could become the most significant shift in capital markets since securitization – a new asset class powered by tokenized real-world assets … Read more
Report finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors
AI chatbots available on Meta’s platforms like Facebook and Instagram can engage in sexually explicit conversations with underage users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ says that after learning about internal concerns about whether the company was doing enough to protect minors, it spent months conducting hundreds of conversations … Read more
What Porn Did to American Culture
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Biological Age vs. Chronological Age: Redefining Age in the Digital Era
AI-driven tools are helping people track—and potentially reverse—their biological age for longevity. Here’s a look at the growing trend.
Can You Turn Back Time? These Apps Claim to Help Reverse Your Biological Age
From steps to sleep, these apps use health data to estimate biological age and try to boost your longevity.
How SaaS Companies are Changing Their Approach to Authorization
Authorization is a critical, yet invisible, part of most applications. Authorization defines who has access to which data. Using a physical security analogy, if authentication is about who can enter the front door, authorization is about who has keys to which rooms. Historically, development teams built authorization logic into their application code. But building and … Read more
Faisal Al-Monai and the Rise of Tokenized Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia
While Silicon Valley made noise, Faisal Al-Monai built silence into power. For over two decades, this Saudi technologist has operated behind the curtain, designing digital infrastructure not for likes or funding rounds, but to rewire the Kingdom’s most vital systems. His tools? Patience. Precision. And an uncanny ability to see decades ahead of the curve. … Read more
Best bookmarking apps to help organize and declutter your digital life
If you’re someone who likes to bookmark a bunch of things that you find interesting or want to come back to later, it can be hard to manage everything you have saved. There are a number of great bookmark apps on the market that can help you organize all these sorts of links, articles, and … Read more
The cost of innovation — Regulations are Web3’s greatest asset
Opinion by: Hedi Navazan, chief compliance officer at 1inch Web3 needs a clear regulatory system that addresses innovation bottlenecks and user safety in decentralized finance (DeFi). A one-size-fits-all approach cannot be achieved to regulate DeFi. The industry needs custom, risk-based approaches that balance innovation, security and compliance. DeFi’s challenges and rules A common critique is … Read more
Instagram Blend Is Supposed to Bring Us Closer, But It’s Doing the Opposite
Doesn’t it feel good (or a bit special) when someone sends you a reel or a meme? I mean – they saw something, they thought of you, and pressed that share button. That small moment of connection, that split second, where your friend paused their scrolling because something reminded them of you, is exactly what … Read more
Reverse geocoding is hard
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Michael Saylor hints at Bitcoin purchase as whales stack aggressively
Whales and large institutions continue their aggressive Bitcoin accumulation, with Strategy hinting at another Bitcoin investment that may be announced on Monday. Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor hinted at another imminent Bitcoin (BTC) investment on April 27, a week after the firm acquired $555 million worth of Bitcoin at an average price of $84,785 per coin. … Read more
Chart of the Week: Tariff Carnage Starting to Fulfill Bitcoin’s ‘Store of Value’ Promise
April has been a month of extreme volatility and tumultuous times for traders. From conflicting headlines about President Donald Trump’s tariffs against other nations to total confusion about which assets to seek shelter in, it has been one for the record books. Amid all the confusion, when traditional “haven assets” failed to act as safe … Read more
Here are Latin America’s biggest startups based on valuation
Not so long ago, the idea of public tech companies emerging from Latin America seemed far-fetched, and Mercado Libre once appeared as rare and mythical as a true unicorn. Today, however, the region is home to several startups that have reached billion-dollar valuations. Some of these startups, propelled into the spotlight by cross-border expansion, are … Read more
El Salvador adds Bitcoin, but is complying with IMF deal — Director
El Salvador, the world’s first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, is still acquiring Bitcoin despite comments from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) appearing to claim the opposite. The treasury of El Salvador acquired 7 Bitcoin (BTC) worth over $650,000 in the seven days leading up to April 27, blockchain data from El Salvador’s … Read more