Top crypto adopters in 2025: Institutions, retail, low-income countries
Cryptocurrency holders worldwide are poised to reach a new all-time high in 2025, the CEO of Chainalysis told Cointelegraph.
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US prosecutors will search Do Kwon’s Twitter account for information
As part of discovery proceedings, prosecutors said they would search the Terraform Labs co-founder’s emails and Twitter account.
Can Nvidia’s RTX 5070 really deliver RTX 4090 performance for $549?
Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP via Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a bold claim onstage at CES earlier this week when he was introducing the next-generation RTX 50-series GPUs. “The RTX 5070, 4090 performance at $549,” said Huang. It’s a claim that’s been echoed on YouTube, TikTok, and social media networks … Read more
Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’
San Francisco startup Based Hardware announced during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week the launch of a new AI wearable, Omi, to boost productivity. The device can be worn as a necklace where Omi’s AI assistant can be activated by saying “Hey Omi.” The startup also claims Omi can be attached to … Read more
The HackerNoon Newsletter: New Years Resolutions are Great, but Who Will You Be in 2030? (1/8/2025)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, January 8, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law in 2002, President Washington delivered the first State of the Union Address in New York City in 1790, … Read more
Omi is another AI companion wearable — but this one’s trying to read your mind
Seriously: would you wear something like this on your face if it could really read your mind? | Image: Omi Nik Shevchenko closes his eyes and starts to focus intently. He’s spent the last half hour or so telling me about his new product, an $89 wearable called Omi that can listen to, summarize, and … Read more
Grove cuts clinical trial enrollment time with AI
Tran Le was an engineering student at Stanford University when she tried to enroll in a clinical trial for her chronic condition. Although she identified several promising trials, she found the sign-up process daunting — she had to have extensive email exchanges with clinical sites and complete lengthy 20-page forms. All that paperwork was so … Read more
UNDER EXPOSED EP5 – Crypto adds $1T market cap since election
UNDER EXPOSED brings you coverage of the biggest macro news of the week impacting crypto and broader markets, with a focus on the newest trends, trades and narratives. Join hosts TylerD, Deeze and Peter Jennings as they have longer conversations on the hottest sectors in crypto and NFTs, what is moving markets and what they’re … Read more
UNDER EXPOSED EP3 – Crypto Market Reaches New All-Time High
UNDER EXPOSED brings you coverage of the biggest macro news of the week impacting crypto and broader markets, with a focus on the newest trends, trades and narratives. Join hosts TylerD, Deeze and Peter Jennings as they have longer conversations on the hottest sectors in crypto and NFTs, what is moving markets and what they’re … Read more
You can get a $50 credit when you preorder the next Samsung Galaxy devices
Samsung announced its first Galaxy Unpacked event of 2025, which it’s historically used to introduce the latest flagship Galaxy smartphones. That would be the Galaxy S25 family if our count is right, including the base model, the expected Galaxy S25 Ultra, and whatever else falls between. We’ll know for sure before too long with an … Read more
UNDER EXPOSED EP7 – The Evolving Narrative of Crypto Mainstreaming
UNDER EXPOSED brings you coverage of the biggest macro news of the week impacting crypto and broader markets, with a focus on the newest trends, trades and narratives. Join hosts TylerD, Deeze and Peter Jennings as they have longer conversations on the hottest sectors in crypto and NFTs, what is moving markets and what they’re … Read more
UNDER EXPOSED EP4 – Altcoin Market Fluctuations and Investment Strategies
UNDER EXPOSED brings you coverage of the biggest macro news of the week impacting crypto and broader markets, with a focus on the newest trends, trades and narratives. Join hosts TylerD, Deeze and Peter Jennings as they have longer conversations on the hottest sectors in crypto and NFTs, what is moving markets and what they’re … Read more
UNDER EXPOSED EP6 – Cryptocurrency Market Trends and Strategies
UNDER EXPOSED brings you coverage of the biggest macro news of the week impacting crypto and broader markets, with a focus on the newest trends, trades and narratives. Join hosts TylerD, Deeze and Peter Jennings as they have longer conversations on the hottest sectors in crypto and NFTs, what is moving markets and what they’re … Read more
UNDER EXPOSED EP1 – Election Day Overview: Polls and Predictions
UNDER EXPOSED brings you coverage of the biggest macro news of the week impacting crypto and broader markets, with a focus on the newest trends, trades and narratives. Join hosts TylerD, Deeze and Peter Jennings as they have longer conversations on the hottest sectors in crypto and NFTs, what is moving markets and what they’re … Read more
Mythic Quest is working through its AI woes in new season 4 trailer
Mythic Quest’s third season ended on a hopeful note as the Playpen team hunkered down to start developing an all-new expansion, but all that hard work looks like it’s just going to lead to more headaches judging from the show’s latest season 4 trailer. While Mythic Quest’s new season will find Dana (Imani Hakim), Jo … Read more
Meta tests eBay listings in Facebook Marketplace
Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is testing eBay listings on Facebook Marketplace in the US, Germany, and France. The company said in a post on Wednesday that it’s making the change to comply with last year’s antitrust order by the European Union, though it continues to appeal the decision. With the test, Facebook … Read more
Crypto Prices Under Pressure From Global Rise in Yields
Crypto markets had been on a nice bull run the the final quarter of 2024, but the trend of rising government bond yields across the globe appears to have become to strong to ignore. Considered the benchmark that sets the standard across the world, the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has risen to 4.70% as of … Read more
Microsoft rolls back its Bing Image Creator model after users complain of degraded quality
Ahead of the holidays, Microsoft said it was upgrading the AI model behind Bing Image Creator, the AI-powered image editing tool built into the company’s Bing search engine. Microsoft promised that the new model — the latest version of OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 model, code-named “PR16” — would allow users to create images “twice as fast … Read more
Trash collectors in Africa earn crypto to support families with ReFi
“We are cleaning the environment, because without us, the city will be too dirty,” explains Jane Mago, a waste picker from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Her words underscore the environmental challenges bedeviling much of Africa—from polluted oceans and the menace of plastic bottles to poorly managed waste. These issues are not just local but reflect … Read more
AT&T will credit you for a day’s service after some fiber or wireless outages
Illustration: The Verge AT&T has announced a new “AT&T Guarantee” program promising better communication around outages and compensation that includes bill credits for a day’s service when the outage meets certain thresholds, reports Reuters. The new automatic-credit program covers both AT&T fiber and wireless services. AT&T promises to email or text customers when there’s an … Read more
Going Brrr? Canaan Says Its New Bitcoin Mining Heater Fixes This
Priced at $899, the Avalon Mini 3 aims to recycle the excess heat generated through Bitcoin mining to warm living spaces.
Former CEO of MoviePass’ parent company pleads guilty to fraud over ‘unlimited’ plan
The former chief executive of the parent company of MoviePass, Theodore Farnsworth, pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud and conspiracy after being accused of misleading investors over the service’s “unlimited plan.” Farnsworth also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud as the chief executive of Vinco Ventures, a publicly traded company. Helios & … Read more
New Year’s Resolutions are Great, but Who Will You Be in 2030?
While everyone else is hoping that 2025 will be a better year than those earlier this decade, I suggest that you think more about 2030… And I know what you might be thinking… I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions, Jonathan. I’ve disappointed myself with pass/fail goals too many times in the past. My current … Read more
Pyth partners with Revolut for real-time digital asset data
Pyth Network partners with Revolut to integrate digital asset data into DeFi, bridging the gap between TradFi and Web3.
Sonic SVM launches multimillion-dollar fund for Web3 gaming, AI agents
Industry watchers foresee a year of significant upside for the emerging field of autonomous AI agents and AI cryptocurrencies.
We should hone ‘responsible AI’ before Copilot goes autopilot
There is a critical need for a comprehensive, responsible AI approach to address privacy, security, bias and accountability challenges in the emerging agentic economy.
Facebook Marketplace to display eBay listings to appease EU regulators
Meta is set to start displaying eBay listings in its own Facebook Marketplace classifieds platform, in an effort to appease European regulators. Back in November, Meta was hit with a €798 million fine by the European Commission (EC) in Europe for breaching antitrust rules. The EC contended that Meta created “unfair trading conditions” by connecting … Read more
Aethir’s Mark Rydon: Decentralizing AI Computing
Aethir’s decentralized Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) network began as a solution for cloud gaming, but co-founder Mark Rydon says the company is now focused on artificial intelligence — an industry where soaring demand for compute power is driving up GPU value and colliding with U.S.-China geopolitics. Aethir, founded in 2022, is one of the most … Read more
Security Risk Advisors Joins The Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, January 7th, 2025/CyberNewsWire/–Security Risk Advisors today announced it has become a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) and managed security service providers (MSSPs) that have integrated their solutions with Microsoft Security technology to better defend mutual customers against a world of increasing cyber threats. … Read more