The Sol 5 Spectra can be purchased with optional lenses that create patterned lighting effects. | Image: Harlowe Harlowe’s new Sol 5 Spectra smartphone light will improve the quality of your photos and selfies or help you set a dramatic mood. It features a similar extending and swiveling design as Harlowe’s original Sol 5 light, … Read more
Crypto exchange giant Coinbase is set to expand its footprint by hiring over 130 employees in Charlotte, North Carolina, as part of a broader push to tap into emerging fintech talent pools across the US, a company spokesperson confirmed to Cointelegraph. “Coinbase is making a new investment in Charlotte with a new physical office and … Read more
Xerion says it has a new technique to produce highly refined cobalt in a single step.
In our previous tutorial, we taught our application to work with references and palettes. Now, it’s time to add more options for fine-tuning color and visual effects. We will introduce a few new tools that allow for more flexible image manipulation. Additionally, we will explore a new color model, HSV, which works with colors differently … Read more
How Can AI Stay Private? Lattica’s $3.25M Funding Pushes Fully Homomorphic Encryption into the Spotlight Can AI process sensitive data without ever exposing it? This is the question Tel Aviv-based startup Lattica is attempting to answer as it steps out of stealth mode with $3.25 million in pre-seed funding. The company’s mission: solve one of … Read more
The European Commission has just issued its first Digital Markets Act (DMA) fines to Apple and Meta, and now it’s telling Apple that it’s not impressed with the company’s approach to alternative app stores. The DMA originally forced Apple to begrudgingly allow alternative app stores on iOS in EU countries last year, but the fee … Read more
In any database environment, there are scenarios, such as performing maintenance, applying schema changes, or conducting emergency troubleshooting, where it’s necessary to restrict access to a single user. This operational state, commonly referred to as single-user mode, ensures that only one session can interact with the database at a time, preventing conflicts and ensuring data … Read more
By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise) For bitcoin bulls, it’s a case of “heads I win, tails you lose.” It’s risk-on-time and boding well for BTC, which rose above $94,000 to mark a more than 50% retracement of the sell-off from record highs above $109,000 to $74,000. The cryptocurrency has experienced a … Read more
Small and medium businesses are the newest targets for cybersecurity attacks, with 1 in 3 breached last year. SMBs are becoming more proactive in detecting and stopping these threats, and today a startup called Cynomi is announcing $37 million in funding to meet that demand. Insight Partners and Entrée Capital are co-leading the round, with previous backers … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) has overtaken Alphabet (Google) to become the world’s fifth most valuable asset by market capitalization. As of April 23, Bitcoin’s market cap surged to $1.87 trillion, edging past Alphabet’s $1.859 trillion valuation, according to asset ranking data. BTC is now behind only gold, Apple, Microsoft and Nvidia. Top assets by market cap. Source: … Read more
Swedish Fintech startup Froda has secured a $22.7 million (€20m) Series B round led by Incore Invest, also based in Sweden. The move bucks the trend of a slight slowdown in investments into fintech, plus a further confirmation of the long-term trend towards the ’embedded finance’ model. Largely operating in northern European countries from Finland … Read more
Mati Carbon walked away with the $50 million grand prize for its enhanced rock weathering program that locks carbon in soils for thousands of years.
Two decades ago, YouTube wasn’t about the elaborate long-form content pumped out by creators like MrBeast. There wasn’t any fancy lighting, sound effects, or jump cuts. The platform’s first video, “Me at the Zoo,” was uploaded to YouTube on April 23rd, 2005. It’s a mere 19 seconds long, featuring YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in … Read more
AI has learned to imitate human closeness — and this illusion has begun to turn into a vulnerability. What yesterday looked like a joke from Black Mirror is now confidently penetrating everyday life: millions of users are building trusting and even romantic relationships with digital assistants, from Replika and Character.ai to GPT bots running on local models. Developers are investing millions in creating … Read more
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Apple and Meta are the first companies to be fined for violations under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The European Commission announced today that Apple has been served a €500 million (about $570 million) penalty after ruling that its App Store “anti-steering” practices failed to comply with DMA antitrust rules. Meta has been … Read more
Ever clicked a link to a crypto project on Telegram? Probably not—most people assume it’s a scam. That’s the challenge: earning user trust. Web2 ads struggle here. They invade privacy, rely on cookies, and feed your data to Google and Meta. Web3 advertising flips the script. Users control their data, choose which ads to see, … Read more
Crypto markets have faced a wave of liquidations over the past 24 hours, with total losses reaching $635.9 million, according to market data. Most of the liquidations (over $560 million) came from short positions, signaling growing pressure on bearish traders. Bitcoin (BTC) led the liquidation charts, with $293 million in short positions wiped out as … Read more
With tokenized vehicles now live, Polygon and Pyse say India’s EV market is ripe for blockchain-powered green infrastructure.
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The Galaxy S24 Ultra is one of the phones being updated to One UI 7 now. Samsung is once again deploying its One UI 7 update to last year’s flagship Galaxy phones, with users worldwide reporting availability. The Android 15 update had begun rolling out earlier this month, only to pause for a week while … Read more
One of the most prominent predictors of his time ignores perhaps the biggest Black Swan of the 21st century – the unprecedented and extremely impactful Bitcoin. Nasim Taleb’s fascination with Bitcoin changed into pure hatred, whilst it actually confirms all of his book theories. Do we love something because we fully understand it and hate … Read more
UNDER EXPOSED EP 22: Macro Latest, Gold & Bitcoin, and Crypto Banks UNDER EXPOSED brings you coverage of the biggest macro news of the week impacting crypto and broader markets, with a focus on the newest trends, trades and narratives. Join hosts TylerD, Deeze, Geebz and Peter Jennings as they have longer conversations on the … Read more
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Smartproxy, a leading provider of proxy and web scraping solutions, has officially introduced its new name, Decodo, marking a major milestone in its mission to be the most efficient platform to test, launch, and scale web data projects. Although the name has changed, the company’s commitment to innovation, reliability, and user-centric services remains stronger than … Read more
My connection to Jewish heritage runs deeper than many might realize. My great grandfather, Siegfried Seelenfreund, was one of the founders of Tonga’s Royal Nuku’alofa Club in 1914. He was among the small number of European Jews who settled in Tonga in the early 20th century. Siegfried arrived in 1910, having emigrated from Kraków to … Read more