Month: August 2025

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Chainlink (LINK) Declines 4.3% as Index Trades Lower

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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 4062.15, down 1.4% (-59.75) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday. Two of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: POL (+0.9%) and SOL (+0.1%). Laggards: LINK (-4.3%) and XLM … Read more

AMBTS Raises $23.2M to Build Bitcoin Treasury, Targets 1% of BTC in Circulation

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Amsterdam Bitcoin Treasury Strategy (AMBTS), established by Dutch crypto-asset service provider Amdax, has raised €20 million ($23.2 million) in its initial financing round. The funding, secured through private placements, will seed the company’s bitcoin accumulation strategy. The round, capped at €30 million ($34.8 million), is expected to close in September 2025. The proceeds will support … Read more

How AI and Robotics Are Automating ATP Testing and Hygiene Monitoring

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If you’ve ever wondered how hospitals ensure their rooms are clean, you’re not alone. Health care staff have relied on visual checks and occasional lab tests to validate cleaning for years. However, they have to deal with human error, slow turnaround times, and no clear standard for what “clean” really means. That’s where adenosine triphosphate … Read more

How Pre-Trained Vision Models Are Revolutionizing Anatomical Structure Retrieval

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Materials and Methods 2.1 Vector Database and Indexing 2.2 Feature Extractors 2.3 Dataset and Pre-processing 2.4 Search and Retrieval 2.5 Re-ranking retrieval and evaluation Evaluation and 3.1 Search and Retrieval 3.2 Re-ranking Discussion 4.1 Dataset and 4.2 Re-ranking 4.3 Embeddings 4.4 Volume-based, Region-based and Localized Retrieval and 4.5 … Read more

Blizzard’s Diablo team has unionized

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More than 450 game developers on Blizzard’s Diablo team have formed a union, making them one of the largest and latest groups of Microsoft workers to do so. The new union includes game developers, artists, designers, engineers, and support staff across the Diablo franchise, according to the Communications Workers of America (CWA) press release, which … Read more

Why Crypto Adoption in Latin America Is Surging Faster Than in the US and Europe

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How Is Latin America Becoming a Global Leader in Crypto Adoption? In recent years, Latin America has emerged as one of the fastest-growing regions for cryptocurrency adoption. From Argentina’s inflation-stricken economy to El Salvador’s experiment with Bitcoin as legal tender, the region presents a unique mix of economic necessity and technological opportunity. According to recent … Read more

The Pixel 10’s AI screamed at us

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This seems to be the year that Google’s AI features are actually starting to add up to something useful. After a week testing the Pixel 10 Pro, my colleagues Allison Johnson and Vee Song say some of the new features are legitimately useful – at least when they work, which isn’t always as expected. Case … Read more

Why Caladan’s Finery Markets Link Signals A Stablecoin-First, Multi-Venue Future For Crypto Trading

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Are institutions moving from single exchange order books to networked routing, and does this integration mark that shift? Caladan has connected to Finery Markets to distribute prices across multiple venues in a non-custodial setup that supports RFQ, order book, and quote streams. That is a wiring decision, not marketing, and it coincides with a jump … Read more