Month: August 2025

A veteran toy racing company is trading slots for smartphone-controlled RC cars

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Carrera Hybrid is reminiscent of Anki Overdrive. | Image: Carrera Carrera, a German company that has been making slot car toys since the ‘60s, has announced a new scaled racing experience that does away with the slots altogether. Carrera Hybrid still has you racing 1:50-scale cars around a reconfigurable track, but you control them using … Read more

Ethereum After EIP-4844: 82% Lower Costs for Rollups

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Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Background 2.1 Rollup 2.2 EIP-4844 2.3 VAR(Vector Autoregression) Data 3.1 Consensus security data 3.2 Ethereum usage data 3.3 Rollup Transactions Data 3.4 Blob gas fee data Empirical Results 4.1 Consensus security 4.2 Ethereum usage 4.3 Rollup transactions 4.4 Blob gas fee market Conclusion and References A. Consensus Security … Read more

Hidden Door is an AI storytelling game that actually makes sense

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Hidden Door’s character creator. Years before ChatGPT jump-started the generative AI wave, OpenAI technology powered a game called AI Dungeon 2 that essentially let you improvise an open-ended, anything-goes story with an AI narrator. Hidden Door, a new platform that’s now in early access, also lets you cowrite a choose-your-own-adventure-style story with AI. But this … Read more

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Uniswap (UNI) Gains 6.5% as Nearly All Assets Rise

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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 4372.28, up 2.5% (+106.92) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Nineteen of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: UNI (+6.5%) and SOL (+6.4%). Laggards: BCH (-1.9%) and XLM (+0.2%). … Read more

Hisense’s 116-inch RGB MiniLED TV is now available for $30,000

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Following Samsung’s announcement of the company’s first Micro RGB TV yesterday, Hisense has finally revealed the price tag for its 4K TriChroma TV that uses similar technology and was first revealed at CES 2025. The 116-inch Hisense 116UX is available now from “select national retailers and authorized resellers” including Best Buy for $29,999, while a … Read more

The new War of the Worlds movie is even more terrible than you’ve heard but also hilarious

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There’s a micro-genre of film called “screenlife movies,” where all of the action takes place on a desktop computer. In 2014, Unfriended made a horror movie out of video chat and text messages, and it was successful enough to inspire a sequel. The more thoughtful Searching from 2018, in which a father attempts to find … Read more

OpenAI Rival Sentient Unveils Open-Source AGI Network, The GRID

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Sentient, a New York-based artificial intelligence company, has introduced The GRID, an open-source network designed for building and monetizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems. The company says the platform is aimed at providing a decentralized alternative to closed AI marketplaces from firms such as OpenAI. Developers can plug in their AI agents, models, or tools … Read more

Decentralized Data Foundry Sapien Announces Token Generation Event on Base

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Sapien Foundation, the governing body behind the decentralized data foundry for artificial intelligence protocol Sapien AI, said it will generate and distribute tokens for the first time on Aug. 20. The token generation event (TGE) for SAPIEN will take place on Coinbase’s layer-2 blockchain, Base. The tokens will power the protocol’s decentralized data foundry, which … Read more

Ether Price Target Lifted to $7.5K at Year-End and $25K in 2028 at Standard Chartered

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Ether (ETH) has been on a big run of late, but it’s just getting started, according to Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick. Citing surging institutional demand, favorable regulation, and network upgrades, Kendrick lifted his year-end price target for ETH to $7,500 from $4,000 and his end-2028 target to $25,000 from $7,500. Up more than 50% over … Read more