And more ads are coming to AMC’s preshow. | Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images AMC Theatres is making it easier for moviegoers to know the actual start time of their film screening and avoid sitting through lengthy ads. A new notice has started appearing when people purchase tickets via the AMC website, warning that … Read more
:::info Authors: (1) Abhinav Jain, Westborough High School, Westborough, MA and contributed equally to this work (jain3abhinav@gmail.com); (2) Ehan Masud, Sunset High School, Portland, OR and contributed equally to this work (ehanmasud2006@gmail.com); (3) Michelle Han, Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, CA (michellehan2007agt@gmail.com); (4) Rohan Dhillon, Lakeside School, Seattle, WA (rohand25@lakesideschool.org); (5) Sumukh Rao, Bellarmine … Read more
What if artificial intelligence could operate with the transparency and decentralized control of blockchain technology? SpoonOS, described as an infrastructure developer for the sentient economy, is initiating its first coordinated community effort, Developer Call S1, to address this question. The goal is to encourage developers to explore the core functionalities of SpoonOS, an agentic operating … Read more
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Competition is heating up as more exchanges set up operations in Europe, where MiCA provides new “rules of the road.”
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 2998.73, down 2.7% (-82.39) since 4 p.m. ET on Monday. One of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BCH (+0.3%) and BTC (-0.9%) lead. Laggards: SOL (-5.4%) and APT … Read more
Bzigo Iris is the world’s first AI-powered mosquito detector that uses infrared and laser tech to locate mosquitoes indoors without harmful chemicals. Founded in 2019, Bzigo offers a smart, health-conscious alternative to sprays and zappers—sending real-time alerts so you can finally sleep bite-free. Visit bzigo.com to learn more.
Little Pepe (LILPEPE) just completed its third presale stage faster than expected, raising $2.57M in Stage 4. Backed by its own Layer 2 blockchain and a $777K giveaway, the token offers real utility beyond meme hype. With rising prices and strong demand, LILPEPE is quickly becoming 2025’s breakout meme coin.
Fintechs already have the talent, the ingenuity and after a decade of challenger success with innovations like Wise’s borderless accounts, Stripe’s one-click checkout and Revolut’s multi-currency wallets – the credibility to reshape finance on a global stage. Those breakthroughs gave consumers faster payments and slicker front-ends; but let’s call that Act I. Act II is … Read more
The US Senate has voted overwhelmingly to remove a moratorium on states regulating AI systems from the Republican “big, beautiful bill.” Legislators agreed by a margin of 99 to 1 to drop the controversial proposal during a protracted fight over the omnibus budget bill, which is still under debate. The vote followed failed attempts to … Read more
As promised, the first trailer for director Edgar Wright’s take on Stephen King’s novel The Running Man is here — and it looks like a playful throwback to ‘80s action movies. The story centers on a struggling man named Ben Richards, played by Glen Powell, who is a contestant on a mega-popular TV game show … Read more
After going back and forth over the provision, Sen. Marsha Blackburn offered an amendment to strip the provision alongside Sen. Maria Cantwell.
One way to think about the tech industry is just as a series of people trying to build stuff they saw in movies. Ready Player One helped kick of a flood of interest in the metaverse, despite the movie’s deeply dsytopian undertones. If you’ve talked to anyone working in AI, they’ve surely told you about … Read more
MARA Holdings (MARA) now holds 49,940 bitcoin (BTC), a trove that puts the public miner near the 50,000 threshold and makes it the second-largest publicly traded bitcoin holder behind Strategy (MSTR). At current prices, the stack is worth close to $5.3 billion. Out of its treasury, 15,534 BTC are “pledged as collateral or held in … Read more
Paxos launched the Global Dollar stablecoin in the EU, claiming MiCA compliance and support from Kraken, Robinhood and Mastercard under the GDN initiative.
Several moments of my two-hour hands-on preview of Donkey Kong Bananza felt like I was playing the gritty 2009 action game Red Faction: Guerilla – except this time I was actually playing as a gorilla. For example, I had to level a multistory building during a timed minigame. Just like in Guerilla, I targeted the … Read more
Genesis AI, which aims to build a foundational model for powering all kinds of robots, has emerged from stealth with $105M in seed funding.
Google hasn’t shown Keep much love since bringing it to Apple Watch in 2019. The Google graveyard has claimed another victim: the company has killed the Apple Watch version of its Keep app. While the note-taking app is still available for iPhone and iPad, the 2.2025.26200 Google Keep App Store update released on Monday has … Read more
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has raised $5 billion in debt and $5 billion in equity, Morgan Stanley said on Monday.
Securitize, one of the largest tokenized asset issuers, and oracle provider RedStone have released a whitepaper they say introduces a new model for securely verifying Net Asset Value (NAV) data on-chain, tailored specifically for tokenized private funds. The model, dubbed the Trusted Single Source Oracle (TSSO), is designed to address a key gap in decentralized … Read more
Nice generative AI platform you have there. Would be a real shame if the RIAA… happened to it. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Sure, everyone hates record labels – but the AI industry has figured out how to make them look like heroes. So that’s at least one very impressive accomplishment … Read more
Circle (CRCL) has the opportunity to be a prime facilitator of stablecoin adoption, Wall Street bank Citigroup said in a research report Monday assuming coverage of the stock. Despite the stock’s outsized rally since going public, Circle’s valuation is not stretched, the report said. The stablecoin issuer priced at $31 a share in its initial … Read more