Month: April 2025

Chess.com reaches 200 million members

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Chess.com reaches a new membership milestone as it nears its 20th birthday. Chess.com, the online chess platform that was founded in 2005 and launched in 2007, has surpassed 200 million members. Of those 200 million members, 1.5 million are paying users. More than 6 million games of chess are played every day on the platform. … Read more

Meta is laying off employees in Reality Labs

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Meta has laid off an unspecified number of employees in its Reality Labs division, a company spokesperson confirmed. The cuts affected teams working in Oculus Studios, Meta’s in-house games division for Quest headsets, as well as some employees involved in the company’s hardware efforts, according to people familiar with the matter. Specific titles impacted by … Read more

Netflix rolls out dialogue-only subtitles

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The subtitles are available with newer Netflix originals, like season 5 of You. Netflix is rolling out a new subtitle option that shows just spoken dialogue. Before this change, Netflix offered Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH/CC), which show spoken dialogue along with speaker names and descriptions of sounds, such as “[phone … Read more

SoftBank Is Buying Bitcoin Again, After $130M Loss in 2018. Is This Time Different?

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Japanese investment giant SoftBank is dipping its toes back into crypto by backing a new bitcoin (BTC) investment vehicle, Twenty One Capital, in conjunction with Tether, Bitfinex, and Cantor Fitzgerald. For some, the SoftBank Group—which has $308.7 billion assets under management—taking an interest in bitcoin is a welcome development and another sign of mounting institutional … Read more

SEC task force met with Trump-supporting firms to discuss crypto regulation

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) crypto task force, headed by Hester Peirce, has continued meeting with digital asset company representatives as the agency explores regulatory changes. In an April 24 notice, the SEC task force disclosed a meeting with representatives from crypto firm Ondo Finance and the law firm Davis Polk and Wardwell … Read more

Binance rolls out Fund Accounts for asset managers, bridging crypto-TradFi gap

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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has introduced a new fund management solution designed to simplify asset management for portfolio managers, highlighting the growing sophistication of institutional tools in the digital asset space.  On April 24, Binance launched Fund Accounts, a tool commonly used by traditional asset managers and brokerage firms to consolidate client assets and streamline portfolio … Read more

Here’s the cheaper Nintendo Switch 2 camera that’s small enough to go handheld

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Hori’s new Switch 2 camera can be used standalone or removed from its base and attached directly to the console. | Image: Hori After debuting a fun Piranha Plant-inspired alternative to Nintendo’s own $50 Switch 2 camera, Hori is back with another camera accessory for the console that’s less fun but more functional. Standing just … Read more

Facebook cracks down on spammy content by cutting reach and monetization

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Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced on Thursday. The company is also increasing efforts to remove Facebook accounts that coordinate fake engagement and impersonate others, it says. The move comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has promised a return to “OG Facebook.” … Read more

Bitcoin rebounds as bulls eye $100K and bears scramble to cover short positions

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Key takeaways: Bearish Bitcoin traders were caught off guard by BTC’s rally above $90,000. Spot volumes are driving the Bitcoin price rally. Derivatives positions with a bearish bias remain at risk of liquidation. Bitcoin (BTC) held above the $93,000 mark on April 24, suggesting a potential conclusion to the 52-day bear market that bottomed at … Read more

Strategy Stock Could Climb as New Rival Twenty One Validates Its Bitcoin Strategy

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Michael Saylor’s bitcoin buying strategy had both believers and skeptics. But a new rival just emerged, already holding nearly $4 billion BTC on its balance sheet—and it’s a bullish sign, according to at least one Wall Street analyst. When SoftBank, Tether, and Cantor Fitzgerald unveiled plans to launch a new bitcoin investment company called Twenty … Read more

Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group to launch XRP futures

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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group, which operates the largest financial derivatives exchanges worldwide, recently announced that XRP (XRP) futures contracts will go live on May 19. According to the April 24 announcement, investors have the option of choosing between micro-sized contracts, featuring 2,500 XRP, or standard contract sizes of 50,000 XRP. All XRP futures … Read more

Enterprise-grade natural language to SQL generation using LLMs: Balancing accuracy, latency, and scale

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This blog post is co-written with Renuka Kumar and Thomas Matthew from Cisco. Enterprise data by its very nature spans diverse data domains, such as security, finance, product, and HR. Data across these domains is often maintained across disparate data environments (such as Amazon Aurora, Oracle, and Teradata), with each managing hundreds or perhaps thousands … Read more

AWS Field Experience reduced cost and delivered low latency and high performance with Amazon Nova Lite foundation model

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AWS Field Experience (AFX) empowers Amazon Web Services (AWS) sales teams with generative AI solutions built on Amazon Bedrock, improving how AWS sellers and customers interact. The AFX team uses AI to automate tasks and provide intelligent insights and recommendations, streamlining workflows for both customer-facing roles and internal support functions. Their approach emphasizes operational efficiency … Read more