MACRO, CRYPTO UNICORNS, ROBINHOOD & NYC TAKEAWAYS

XRP, DOGE lead majors with positive funding rates. BTC & ETH ETFs extend inflows streak. RexShares SOL staking ETF to go live Wednesday. SEC delays staking for Bitwise ETH ETF. Robinhood intros staking, tokenised stocks, L2 chain. Robinhood stock hits ATH on announcements. Raydium, XStocks launch tokenised stocks trading. Jupiter allows swap of SOL memecoins … Read more

Nothing releases their first over-the-ear headphones

Nothing has revealed its first over-the-ear headphones. The aluminum and transparent Headphone (1) was designed in collaboration with KEF. They offer adaptive noise canceling, bass enhancement for deeper low frequencies, and spatial audio, for $299 at launch. But spoilers: The buttons on these headphones might be the best part.

Midas And 0G Partner To Bring Real-World Assets To AI-Native Blockchain Infrastructure

Singapore, Republic of Singapore, July 1st, 2025/Chainwire/–Tokenization protocol Midas and AI blockchain 0G have announced a strategic partnership to unlock the next wave of onchain finance through modular design. By combining Midas’ tokenisation infrastructure with 0G’s decentralized AI-native compute, the partners will develop new solutions that intelligently leverage real-world assets (RWAs). As part of the … Read more

Laptop Mag is shutting down

Laptop Mag is shutting down after nearly 35 years of providing consumers with in-depth information about laptops and other technology. In a staff meeting seen by The Verge, Faisal Alani, the global brand director at Laptop Mag owner Future PLC, said, “After careful consideration and a review of our long-term strategy, we’ve made the decision … Read more

Nothing’s over-ear headphones are all about the buttons

Nothing has launched its first pair of over-ear headphones, imaginatively named the Headphone 1. At $299, these are priced to compete with flagship fare, distinguished primarily by their distinctive Nothing design language — right down to the buttons. While the boxy outline calls to mind Apple’s AirPods Max, the semi-transparent detailing on the outside of … Read more

Nothing Headphone 1 review: head-turning

The headphones lay flat in their case, which is pretty slim. Nothing’s first pair of over-the-ear headphones has arrived, bearing the company’s signature retro-transparent design that it introduced with the Phone 1. But until now, that design has mostly been in your pocket or peeking out of your ears. With the $299 Nothing Headphone 1, … Read more

GENIUS Act Lacks ‘Necessary Guardrails’ For Investor Protection, NYAG Letitia James Tells Congress

New York Attorney General Letitia James sounded the alarm on the U.S. Senate’s stablecoin bill, warning Congress on Monday that the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025 (GENIUS) Act — at least as it currently stands — “do[es] not contain the necessary guardrails to protect the American public.” In an eight-page … Read more

Apple accuses former Vision Pro engineer of stealing trade secrets

Apple is suing a former employee for allegedly stealing confidential Vision Pro headset research before leaving to join Snap’s product design team. In the complaint filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court on June 24th, Apple accuses Di Liu of downloading thousands of documents containing proprietary information from Apple’s internal systems and saving them to … Read more

Congress’ Budget Bill Advances From Senate Without Crypto Tax Provision

With the U.S. Senate’s passage of the bill meant to carry forward the bulk of President Donald Trump’s policy agenda, last-minute changes to the “One Big Beautiful Bill” didn’t include a proposal to clarify and ease crypto taxation. Though Senator Cynthia Lummis had advocated changes to the U.S. approach to taxing cryptocurrency transactions, including waiving … Read more

The End of the Guessing Game? Why Describing Data Beats Estimating It

:::info Authors: (1) Ahatsham Hayat, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (aahatsham2@huskers.unl.edu); (2) Mohammad Rashedul Hasan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (hasan@unl.edu). ::: Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Method 2.1 Problem Formulation and 2.2 Missingness Patterns 2.3 Generating Missing Values 2.4 Description of CLAIM 3 … Read more