Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle company Zoox has issued its second voluntary software recall in a month, following a collision between one of its robotaxis and an e-scooter rider in San Francisco on May 8. The latest incident involved an unoccupied Zoox vehicle operating at low speed, which the company says was struck by the e-scooter after … Read more
Coinbase released worrying details about its data breach, Strategy caught a class action lawsuit, and three banks are considering a stablecoin.
Both Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds this week brought in huge amounts of cash as investors rapidly buy up crypto assets.
The leaders of OpenAI and Google have been living rent-free in each other’s heads since ChatGPT caught the world by storm. Heading into this week’s I/O, Googlers were on edge about whether Sam Altman would try to upstage their show like last year, when OpenAI held an event the day before to showcase ChatGPT’s advanced … Read more
When Venezuela was experiencing hyperinflation, Ledn co-founder Mauricio di Bartolomeo hedged against the collapsing local currency by shorting it in favor of the more stable US dollar. Today, he’s using a similar strategy — this time borrowing against his Bitcoin (BTC) to hedge against the crumbling US dollar. Di Bartolomeo connected with me during Canada … Read more
Members of the US House of Representatives called for the Justice Department to investigate Donald Trump’s May 22 dinner for his top memecoin investors, citing concerns about “foreign influence over US policy decisions” and “potential corruption and emoluments clause violations.” In a May 22 letter to the Justice Department, 35 House members asked the public … Read more
Could Bitcoin-backed media revolutionize the way we consume financial news? Roxom Global certainly believes so. Having recently raised $17.9 million, Roxom Global is preparing a BTC-denominated securities exchange and launching RoxomTV, a 24-hour media network fully supported by Bitcoin. Roxom Global: Bridging Bitcoin and Finance Roxom Global has garnered significant attention following its latest funding … Read more
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Could new leadership appointments at Arrington Capital signal a fresh wave of innovation in Web3 investments? Arrington Capital recently announced Ravi Kaza as its new Partner and Chief Investment Officer (CIO), alongside promoting Colton Conley to Partner. This move underscores the firm’s ongoing strategy to expand its presence and deepen expertise in digital asset markets. … Read more
A majority of the top Trump meme coin holders earned their spots at Thursday’s crypto dinner and then sold or transferred their coins, data shows.
Etherealize co-founders Vivek Raman and Danny Ryan join Decrypt reporter André Beganski to offer a vision of Ethereum’s future. Diving deep into tokenization, institutional adoption, and the network’s evolving economics, they argue that Ethereum is poised to become the global settlement layer for Wall Street.
The Trump administration is trying to strip Harvard of its ability to enroll international students — an effort blocked by a federal judge on Friday, just hours after the university filed a lawsuit claiming Trump was violating its First Amendment rights. On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded Harvard’s access to the Student … Read more
The Google I/O keynote may have been all about AI, but there were a handful of other meaningful updates that didn’t make it to the main stage. In addition to updates coming to Google Wallet, the company’s developer sessions also revealed handy features that will roll out to smartwatches, the Google Play Store, and Google … Read more
The Wild Robot is included in the sale. | Image: The Verge If you’re looking to expand your 4K Blu-ray collection, Universal Pictures’ massive Gruv Day sale is worth checking out. The event features deals on everything from Steelbooks to Blu-Ray box sets and individual Blu-Ray titles. There are plenty of great deals to be … Read more
The idea of becoming a real estate investor for as little as $5 may seem too good to be true. And for many users of Landa, a proptech company that promised just that — it has been. Landa emerged from stealth in August 2022, announcing a total of $33 million in funding and a pledge … Read more
The Nasdaq-listed Semler Scientific now holds $466 million worth of Bitcoin, but is facing an investigation from a law firm.
Key takeaways: Short-term Bitcoin holders realized $11.6 billion in profit over the past 30 days, suggesting a potential pause or local top in the market. Technical indicators show cooling momentum as retail investor sentiment falls to a 90-day low and liquidity data points to price volatility. Bitcoin (BTC) price recently hit a new all-time high … Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly called Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to make changes to or veto a newly passed law in the state that would require the company to verify the ages of device owners, according to The Wall Street Journal. Abbott has yet to sign the bill. But Apple, alongside Google, has been working … Read more
Kesha may have taken the dollar sign out of her name, but now, the singer is thinking about money again — not for herself, but to fund the seed round of her new startup, Smash. According to Kesha’s Instagram post, Smash will be a “community-based platform to connect and protect music creators,” which aligns with … Read more
Hi HN, I’m the developer behind PHP CRUD Generator, a tool I built to automate the repetitive process of creating admin panels and CRUD interfaces for MySQL databases. After years of manually building back-office tools for clients, I wanted a way to generate secure, professional dashboards directly from a database schema—without writing boilerplate code every … Read more
You Can’t Fix Funnels with Faith Every team has one. A dashboard that “mostly works.” An adoption chart that spikes when someone coughs on the tracking plan. A funnel that’s technically complete, just not accurate, recent, or reproducible. And every data engineer has been there: staring at a flatlined graph, not because the feature failed, … Read more
Serving Up Success: Clickmenu.ai on Their Journey to Food & Beverage Startup of the Year. https://hackernoon.com/startups/industry/food-beverages?stup=67208a715cf7db7e2a7293b8&embedable=true Tell us about you. Clickmenu is a SAAS platform dedicated to empowering restaurants by enabling them to create dynamic, engaging digital menus effortlessly and for free. Our mission is to democratize technology for the hospitality industry, allowing any restaurant, … Read more
I’ve systematically tested and analyzed every major mining method—from ASICs to GPU rigs—and the verdict is clear: home-based crypto mining is inefficient, capital-intensive, and, in most cases, just not economically viable. Over the past few years, I’ve watched crypto mining transform from a hobbyist pursuit into a full-blown global industry. But behind the flashy YouTube … Read more
Listen Here → https://open.spotify.com/episode/7mXPKXzUPJnlqyPFb1LNqm?si=RMw6GC5XTBeS0Uk7kXwfvg&embedable=true You’re chasing the wrong definition of wealth. Every day, you wake up and check your accounts. Revenue, profit, subscribers, followers. You’re constantly monitoring metrics, always anxious about where you stand. You read about founders raising millions and feel that twinge of envy. You see competitors buying vacation homes while you’re reinvesting … Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook personally intervened in an attempt to stop a Texas age verification bill, The Wall Street Journal reports. SB 2420 — passed by the legislature but awaiting a signature by Governor Greg Abbott — would require app store operators like Apple to verify the age of users accessing their stores. The company’s … Read more