April 2025 witnessed crypto markets rocked by more tariffs at the direction of US President Donald Trump — controversial policies that could have influenced the outcome of Canada’s elections on April 28. On April 2, Trump levied “discounted reciprocal tariffs” on 185 countries and territories. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,200 points on April … Read more
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Eric Trump, son of U.S. President Donald Trump and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said banks will need to utilize blockchain technology if they want to survive the next decade. “The modern financial system is broken, it’s slow, it’s expensive,” he said in an interview with CNBC on Wednesday. “There’s nothing that can … Read more
Victoria, Seychelles, April 29, 2025 – As MEXC celebrates its milestone 7th anniversary, the cryptocurrency exchange has not merely survived but thrived in an industry known for its volatility and fierce competition. With an unwavering commitment to innovation and user experience, MEXC has firmly established itself as a formidable force in the digital asset space. … Read more
Reaching your target audience can be challenging without the right campaign strategy. Traditional advertising often misses the mark. Whether it’s PR that fades quickly or expensive programmatic ads that scatter impressions without precision. The result? Low ROI, wasted budgets, and audiences that just don’t care. In 2024, we’ve reviewed the marketing spend of 4,000+ technology … Read more
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The vibrant world of tech startups has found a space carved out for growth and innovation in the gaming sector. Despite being dominated by tech giants from Asia and the United States, the gaming industry still has great potential in Mexico, the 10th largest market in terms of revenue globally and the biggest market in … Read more
The Indian gaming industry is sitting on an industry explosion in the near future as mobile gaming becomes a serious capability of Indian gamers. The recent FICCI EY Media and Entertainment Industry Report 2025 says that “given India’s mobile-first gaming capabilities, the nation can become the gaming back-office of the world, adding $3.75 billion in exports … Read more
AI-powered financial risk models have prevented over $1 billion in fraud, but do AI models match human expertise? Financial crime and banking fraud are always evolving, with fraudsters constantly finding new ways to outsmart financial institutions and slip past regulations. Traditional investigating methods to mitigate crime require sifting through endless spreadsheets and transaction records—a labor-intensive … Read more
Wikipedia on Wednesday revealed its new AI strategy for the next three years — and it’s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial intelligence, thankfully. Instead, Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that “remove technical barriers,” allowing editors, moderators, and patrollers tools that allow them to accomplish what they need … Read more
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Nuvo, a company that has built a social-like platform to facilitate easier purchasing of physical goods between businesses, has raised a $34 million Series A from Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. The San Francisco-based startup previously raised $11 million in an undisclosed seed round led by Founders Fund and Index Ventures … Read more
The Crypto Council for Innovation is making a case with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that staking is not only a virtue for digital asset markets, but it should be hands-off for the securities regulator. The group — a coalition of staking interests, including Kraken, a16z, Lido, Galaxy, Figment, Polychain and Paradigm — argued … Read more
The Trump Organization’s executive vice president, described the SWIFT international payments network as an “absolute disaster.”
The U.K. grocery and retail giant said the unspecified cyber incident is affecting its back office and call centers.
Chinese artificial intelligence development company DeepSeek has released a new open-weight large language model (LLM). DeepSeek uploaded its newest model, Prover V2, to the hosting service Hugging Face on April 30. The latest model, released under the permissive open-source MIT license, aims to tackle math proof verification. DeepSeek-Prover-V2 HuggingFace repository. Source: HuggingFace Prover V2 has … Read more
ADT and Yale have partnered on a new smart lock that adds biometric access to the security system. One of the best features of the now-discontinued Nest Secure security system was that if you also had the Nest X Yale Lock, you could unlock your door and disarm your security system just by entering a single code. … Read more
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin released another update on what he believes the future of the network should entail. In an April 30 post on blockchain-based social media platform Farcaster, Buterin outlined his personal areas of focus for Ethereum development this year. These include investigating changes to the network infrastructure to achieve single-slot finality, updates to … Read more
What one hour ago was looking like another positive day in markets has turned decidedly negative as the latest economic data fueled growing stagflation fears. First up was ADP jobs numbers for April. Coming two days ahead of the government’s own employment data for April, the ADP report showed just 62,000 private sector jobs created … Read more
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Meta is making a few notable adjustments to the privacy policy for its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. In an email sent out on April 29th to owners of the glasses, the company outlined two key changes. First, it’s giving Meta AI a more frequent view of the world. “Meta AI with camera use is always … Read more
Economists fear Trump’s tariffs will weigh on economic growth while adding to inflation.
Strategists for two U.S. bills meant to create an oversight regime for crypto are setting out plans this week to pass legislation in the summer, Bo Hines, the White House official at the center of those efforts, told CoinDesk. Hines, who President Donald Trump hired as executive director of the Presidential Council of Advisers for … Read more
Nvidia launched a new tool that lets developers generate AI images by first creating them in 3D. The awkwardly named Nvidia AI Blueprint for 3D-guided generative AI is available to download today for computers equipped with an Nvidia RTX 4080 GPU or higher, and works by bridging Blender’s 3D modelling software with Black Forest Lab’s … Read more
An elderly US individual is reportedly the victim of a devastating $330 million Bitcoin heist, now ranked as the fifth-largest crypto hack in history. The attacker used advanced social engineering tactics to gain access to the victim’s wallet, onchain investigator ZachXBT said in an April 30 update on X. The hack took place on April … Read more