Month: May 2025

KuCoin Enhances Point-of-Sale Mobile Payments With AEON

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Crypto exchange KuCoin’s merchant service is enhancing its provision for users to complete mobile transactions with cryptocurrency. KuCoin Pay has tapped payment protocol AEON to allow users to pay for goods and services online and in-store using cryptos such as bitcoin BTC, ether ETH and stablecoins USDT and USDC, according to an emailed announcement on … Read more

Monzo’s pivot from cool to corporate: ‘freshness is not about gimmicks’

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Monzo, Britain’s biggest digital bank, is still synonymous with its neon debit cards, extensive use of emojis, and free spending abroad. But it’s no longer just trying to be cool; it’s trying to become a major financial institution. That shift, from an upstart fintech beloved by millennials into a mature, sustainable business, is what makes … Read more

Ether Surges 8%, Bitcoin Nears $106K as Crypto Bulls Take Charge

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Crypto markets extended their climb with ether (ETH) jumping 8% and bitcoin (BTC) inching back toward the $106,000 mark in the past 24 hours, despite broader risk-off sentiment in equities and gold. The resilience is in contrast to Friday’s surprise credit downgrade of the U.S. by Moody’s, which cited persistent fiscal deficits and political gridlock. … Read more

Trump signs bill criminalizing nonsensenual AI deepfake porn

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US President Donald Trump has signed a bill criminalizing nonconsensual artificial intelligence-generated deepfake porn, which also requires websites to take down any illicit images within 48 hours. Trump signed the bill into law on May 19, known as the TAKE IT DOWN Act, an acronym for Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes … Read more

The TechBeat: IPinfo Launches IPinfo Lite: Unlimited Country-Level Geolocation API & Database Download (5/20/2025)

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Nasdaq-Listed DigiAsia Plans to Raise $100M for Bitcoin Buys

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DigiAsia Corp (FAAS) plans to raise up to $100 million to seed a bitcoin treasury reserve (BTC), joining a growing list of publicly traded companies looking to diversify their corporate balance sheets with bitcoin. The announcement on Monday (which emphasized plans rather than executed actions) helped push DigiAsia’s shares up 91% during regular trading to … Read more

Sylndr, with fresh $15.7M, allows users to buy, sell, finance, and service used cars in Egypt

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Cairo-based Sylndr has raised $15.7 million as it expands beyond online used car sales into auto financing, servicing, and tools for dealers. The round was led by Development Partners International’s Nclude Fund and included follow-on investments from Algebra Ventures and Nclude. The company, which operates in Egypt’s fast-growing but under-digitized vehicle market, said the latest … Read more

SEC’s Crenshaw says agency playing ‘regulatory Jenga’ with crypto

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s sole Democratic Commissioner has said the agency is “playing a game of regulatory Jenga” with its approach to the crypto industry and market regulation under the Trump administration. In May 19 remarks at the SEC Speaks event, Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw cautioned against what she described as a dangerous dismantling … Read more

Improved BGPLVM for scRNA-seq: Pre-Processing and Likelihood

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Background 2.1 Amortized Stochastic Variational Bayesian GPLVM 2.2 Encoding Domain Knowledge through Kernels 3. Our Model and Pre-Processing and Likelihood 3.2 Encoder 4. Results and Discussion and 4.1 Each Component is Crucial to Modifies Model Performance 4.2 Modified Model achieves Significant Improvements over Standard Bayesian GPLVM and … Read more

Encoding Biological Knowledge in GPLVM Kernels for scRNA-seq

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction 2. Background 2.1 Amortized Stochastic Variational Bayesian GPLVM 2.2 Encoding Domain Knowledge through Kernels 3. Our Model and Pre-Processing and Likelihood 3.2 Encoder 4. Results and Discussion and 4.1 Each Component is Crucial to Modifies Model Performance 4.2 Modified Model achieves Significant Improvements over Standard Bayesian GPLVM and … Read more