Though Disney and Pixar are about to start getting everyone hyped for Toy Story 5, the studios are already working hard on another feature. While Disney and Pixar opened their Annecy presentation with more details about their next movie, Elio, and gave updates about Toy Story 5, the studio surprised festival goers by announcing that … Read more
The US Department of Transportation wants to make it easier for automakers and tech companies to deploy self-driving cars without traditional controls like steering wheels and pedals. In a letter sent to stakeholders, the department said it would streamline reviews of requests for exemptions from safety rules requiring vehicles to have steering wheels, pedals, and … Read more
Brazilian fintech firm Meliuz (CASH3) plans to raise R180.08 million ($32.4 million) through an equity offering, according to a filing. The funding is earmarked specifically for the purchase of bitcoin, aligning with the company’s recent strategic shift to incorporate bitcoin into its balance sheet. The offering, priced at R7.06 ($1.27) per share, was about 5% … Read more
The first quarter of 2025 was one of the best periods on record for U.S.-listed bitcoin BTC mining companies, Wall Street bank JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report Friday. “Four of the five operators in our coverage reported record revenue and profits,” analysts Reginald Smith and Charles Pearce wrote. In aggregate, the miners earned … Read more
The technological side of phishing got more sophisticated. Generic scam emails are a thing of the past. Cybercriminals now exploit generative AI to craft contextual and personalized messages that mirror actual communication. These emails are able to reproduce writing styles as well as references to recent happenings and even imitate the speech of a trusted … Read more
Analysts told Decrypt that the alpha crypto’s risk-asset behavior contrasts with gold’s safe-haven rally, splitting the reaction.
While SharpLink has become the largest publicly traded holder of Ether globally, some entities, including the Ethereum Foundation and BlackRock, are still holding more ETH.
Steam will soon fully support Macs equipped with Apple’s in-house chips. In the latest Steam client beta spotted by 9to5Mac, Valve says the “Steam Client and Steam Helper apps now run natively on Apple Silicon.” That means Steam will no longer need to use Rosetta 2 to run on Macs with M-series chips. Rosetta 2 … Read more
Core Devices is ready to ship 200 of its Core 2 Duo smartwatches to preorder customers in its beta test program. | Photo: Eric Migicovsky / Core Devices On his personal blog, Eric Migicovsky, the creator of the original Pebble smartwatch, has shared some updates and important milestones about the smartwatches his new company plans … Read more
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The Switch 2 is a hit (and a supply chain success story). Microsoft is starting to show off its plan for the future of Xbox. And everywhere you look, there are reasons to think we’re headed toward a very different kind of gaming device. Maybe it’ll be even more modular and portable. Maybe it’ll be … Read more
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 3027.78, down 4.4% (-137.85) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. None of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BTC (-2.2%) and XRP (-2.9%). Laggards: SUI (-8.2%) and NEAR … Read more
JPMorgan (JPM) raised its price targets for a number of bitcoin BTC mining companies to reflect first-quarter results and changes to the bitcoin price and the network hashrate, the bank said in a report Friday. The bank lifted its CleanSpark (CLSK) price target to $14 from $12, its Riot Platforms (RIOT) objective to $14 from … Read more
Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson has floated the idea of converting $100 million worth of ADA tokens into bitcoin BTC and stablecoins. “We could take $100 million of ADA in the treasury, convert it to a blend of stablecoins incumbent in Cardano so USDM and USDA and convert some of it in bitcoin to prime bitcoin … Read more
Snapseed now has a “Faves” tab on the toolbar. | Image: Google Google has completely revamped its Snapseed image editing app on iPhone and iPad. The change, spotted earlier by 9to5Google, is Snapseed’s first big update on iOS since adding dark mode in 2021. Snapseed was originally only available on iOS before Google acquired it … Read more
Content Overview Introduction Setup A first simple example Going lower-level Supporting sampleweight & classweight Providing your own evaluation step Wrapping up: an end-to-end GAN example Introduction When you’re doing supervised learning, you can use fit() and everything works smoothly. When you need to write your own training loop from scratch, you can use the GradientTape and take control of … Read more
Here are some of the top startups from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 Demo Day that caught investors’ and our attention.