Epic Games has been waiting for Apple to approve Fortnite for the US iOS App Store for nearly a week, and now Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is using X to try and put pressure on Apple. On Thursday, he highlighted examples of Fortnite lookalikes that are currently on the App Store and made a direct … Read more
Bitcoin is the “perfect and only lifeboat,” crypto entrepreneur Hayes has argued.
Adopting the FLS Some years ago, Ferrous Systems and AdaCore worked together to assemble a description of Rust called the FLS1. Ferrous Systems has since been faithfully maintaining and updating this document for new versions of Rust, and they’ve successfully used it to qualify toolchains based on Rust for use in safety-critical industries. Seeing this … Read more
Global foreign exchange and payments platforms are lobbying hard against stablecoins, which stand to significantly disrupt their business models, investor Kevin O’Leary said during a keynote address at Consensus 2025. Legacy forex and payments platforms often extract large fees for servicing cross-border cash transfers and stand to lose out on revenue if regulated stablecoins become … Read more
Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal addressed some of the concerns raised by US lawmakers and industry leaders around President Donald Trump’s crypto ventures, and how they may affect related legislation. Speaking at the Consensus conference in Toronto on May 15, Grewal said there had been “hiccups” in Congress since the Senate Banking Committee voted … Read more
On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The startup says it trained its new family of AI models — SWE-1, SWE-1-lite, and SWE-1-mini — to be optimized for the “entire software engineering process,” … Read more
Today the Go team is happy to release Go 1.23, which you can get by visiting the download page. If you already have Go 1.22 or Go 1.21 installed on your machine, you can also try go get toolchain@go1.23.0 in an existing module. This will download the new toolchain and let you begin using it … Read more
TikTok will interrupt teens’ feeds with guided meditation after 10PM. The platform has been testing the feature with a “wind down” prompt, but now it’ll show the notification with guided meditation by default to all users under 18. TikTok’s wind-down prompt initially only played calming music to remind teens to take a break from the … Read more
Apple says the warning messages now appearing next to EU App Store listings that use third-party payment systems are not actually new. According to a number of recent reports, Apple added a warning with a red exclamation mark next to apps that it found were not using its own “private and secure payment system.” The … Read more
“I don’t think it’s here to stay,” Dave Portnoy said, referring to meme coins—the same corner of crypto he’s often poured fuel on through his social media antics. Speaking on stage at Consensus 2025 with Tom Farley, CEO of crypto exchange Bullish, the Barstool Sports founder peeled back the layers of his short, chaotic stint … Read more
The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma.” His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar but the prank went viral. He piled on his character’s notoriety when he went to the Bahamas to … Read more
MapleStory N is the first crypto entry in the long-running RPG franchise, and the Avalanche game’s token and NFTs are seeing huge interest.
Eric Schmidt argues AI’s broad capabilities—not just chat functions—make it more revolutionary than most realize.
There is an ongoing race across the world for Bitcoin accumulation, according to Eric Trump, the second-eldest son of US President Donald Trump. Speaking at a crypto conference in Toronto on May 15, Trump said that from families to government funds, “everybody in the world is trying to hoard Bitcoin right now.” The remarks came … Read more
The crypto rally took a long-overdue pause on Thursday as traders took some profits following weeks of relentless advance that lifted bitcoin BTC close to record prices. The consolidation occurred amid a slew of U.S. economic data releases. April retail sales missed expectations, producer prices rose less than forecast, jobless claims stayed on track, while … Read more
Key takeaway: Bitcoin’s struggles to overtake the $105,000 level as US macroeconomic headwinds remain a challenge. Steady inflows from institutional investors and the strength of the $100,000 support point to growing confidence in Bitcoin. Bitcoin (BTC) has struggled to break above $105,000 since May 10, leading traders to question whether the bullish momentum has faded. … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1. Spatial Digital Twins (SDTs) 1.2. Applications 1.3. Different Components of SDTs 1.4. Scope of This Work and Contributions 2. Related Work and 2.1. Digital Twins and Variants 2.2. Spatial Digital Twin Case Studies 3. Building Blocks of Spatial Digital Twins and 3.1. Data Acquisition and Processing 3.2. … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 1.1. Spatial Digital Twins (SDTs) 1.2. Applications 1.3. Different Components of SDTs 1.4. Scope of This Work and Contributions 2. Related Work and 2.1. Digital Twins and Variants 2.2. Spatial Digital Twin Case Studies 3. Building Blocks of Spatial Digital Twins and 3.1. Data Acquisition and Processing 3.2. … Read more
Asset tokenization is set to accelerate the movement of capital across traditional markets, according to Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov. Speaking with Cointelegraph at Consensus 2025 in Toronto, Nazarov said the shift will boost capital velocity in asset classes such as treasuries, equities, private credit, commercial debt, and real estate. “I think that there are two … Read more
Watching the behavior of our tech overlords has answered questions I’d never thought to ask. How do you NDA an army of baby mamas? Is there anything more embarrassing than impersonating Benson Boone? (Also, who is Benson Boone?) And now, the latest: how long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of … Read more
Abu Dhabi, UAE, May 15th, 2025/Chainwire/–MapleStory Universe brings player-owned economies to life as a blockchain-powered expansion of the 23-year old MMORPG IP, powered by its proprietary NXPC token. Now live on Bitget, Bithumb, Binance, Bybit, Gatei.o, KuCoin, Upbit – NXPC ranks among the most successful Web3 gaming token debuts. NEXPACE, the Web3 IP-expansion initiative backed … Read more
Redpoint Ventures, a San Francisco-based firm that is about a quarter of a century old, has raised a $650 million tenth early-stage, according to a regulatory filing. Redpoint’s new fund matches the size of its prior fund, which was raised just under three years ago. In a market where many venture firms are decreasing their … Read more
This article was copublished with the Los Angeles Times, Insider, and AfroLA. This series was made possible through support from the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. September 23, 2021, was a busy day in Jeffry Poole’s inbox. The detective with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) started receiving emails about alleged crimes at 3:30 a.m. … Read more
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Bitdeer Technologies Group reported a 41% year-over-year drop in revenue to $70.1 million for the first quarter of 2025, the Bitcoin miner said on May 15. The Singaporean company clocked an operating loss of $3.2 million for the quarter, down from a $34.1 million profit during the same period last year, its earnings release said. … Read more
Zurich, Switzerland, May 15th, 2025/Chainwire/–GSR, a leading crypto investment firm, has made an equity investment in Maverix Securities, a Swiss-based innovator in structured investment solutions. The investment cements a broader partnership between the two firms to collaborate on a new generation of digital asset products for institutional and professional investors. This partnership represents a major … Read more
At a time when companies are building social media platforms and artificial intelligence tools, it is not uncommon to hear about others who are working to advance the digital frontier. This type of infrastructure, often unseen and practically “invisible” to most, is what the Data Guardians Network (D-GN) is building. However, the people at D-GN … Read more