Holiday shoppers, it’s time to finish knocking out that seasonal wish list. At this point, your online purchases may not arrive in time unless you’re willing to pay extra for priority shipping – or you happen to get lucky. Still, gifting anything at all is awfully nice of you, regardless of when it arrives. If … Read more
RIP LCD Steam Deck. The most affordable Steam Deck, the $399 LCD model, is not available in the US. And, according to the Steam Deck site, it won’t be coming back. Underneath the listings for the various models is a note that says: We are no longer producing the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model. Once … Read more
How are you, hacker? đȘ Whatâs happening in tech today, December 20, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The US Invaded Panama in 1989, East Germany Opened the Berlin Wall For the First Time in 1963, Elvis Presley Was Drafted to the US Army in 1957, … Read more
The Markup, now a part of CalMatters, uses investigative reporting, data analysis, and software engineering to challenge technology to serve the public good. Sign up for Klaxon, a newsletter that delivers our stories and tools directly to your inbox. This article was copublished with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom covering gender, politics, and policy. Sign up … Read more
Focus, patience, and precision separate enduring companies from temporary momentum. Forbes reported that in August, nearly $1 trillion in market cap disappeared across big tech and AI-adjacent companies. Now, more than 370 AI unicorns are standing on pretty shaky ground. Startups built on momentum and marketing slides wonât make it through. The ones that last … Read more
Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction Related Works MaGGIe 3.1. Efficient Masked Guided Instance Matting 3.2. Feature-Matte Temporal Consistency Instance Matting Datasets 4.1. Image Instance Matting and 4.2. Video Instance Matting Experiments 5.1. Pre-training on image data 5.2. Training on video data Discussion and References Supplementary Material Architecture details Image matting 8.1. Dataset generation … Read more
Unconscious bias has long impacted the quality of hiring throughout the UK workforce because of how frequently it can cloud the judgment of otherwise skilled recruiters. Now, artificial intelligence tools are emerging to provide some much-needed objectivity in the human resources landscape. Itâs not an overstatement to say that instances of bias can potentially be … Read more
IPinfo analyzed 20 major VPN providers and found most donât route traffic through the countries they claim. Using ProbeNetâs real-time internet measurements, IPinfo uncovered widespread use of virtual locations, country mismatches spanning thousands of kilometers, and major inaccuracies in legacy IP datasetsâshowing why evidence-based IP geolocation matters for trust, security, and compliance.
Digital fixed-income products are experiencing rapid growth, with $325 million distributed on Mercado Bitcoin’s platform in 2025.
BitMineâs growing Ether holdings are reshaping how investors assess the companyâs balance sheet, risk exposure and equity valuation.
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As Bitcoin continues to languish below the $90,000 mark, CryptoQuant analysts are ready to call it: BTC has entered a bear market.
The director of global macro at the asset management giant remains a secular bull on bitcoin, but isn’t optimistic about the next year.
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The new Gulikit joysticks for Xbox Ally handhelds. | Image: Gulikit Even at $1,000, the Xbox Ally X handheld didn’t ship with magnetic drift-resistant joysticks, and neither did the $600 model. But for an extra $20 at Amazon, you can change that today – with officially Asus-approved and sanctioned TMR joysticks from Gulikit, the company … Read more
One day, video game critics and journalists will put together a comprehensive study on the impact Balatro had on the industry – of how so many games that came after tried to capture its essence by adding complex systems to otherwise simple, easily understood games. Until then, I’m gonna play Dogpile. Dogpile is a deckbuilding … Read more
“If you can do $25 billion in bad year, imagine the flow potential in good year,” said Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas
Quantum computing is not currently an existential threat to Bitcoin, but as capital becomes more institutional and long-term, even distant risks require clearer answers.
When a friend invited me to play a new game called REPO earlier this year, I thought I was wasting my money – not because the game looked bad, but because it looked like Lethal Company. The surprise-hit 2024 co-op survival horror game has players wander through unnerving ruined structures collecting trash while evading monsters. … Read more