kamal Happy New Year, Hackers! Buckle up—we’re going to space 🚀🚀🚀 Spacecoin, a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network (DePIN) powered by satellites, has teamed up with HackerNoon to launch the Spacecoin Writing Contest. Spread across 3 rounds, the contest offers 15,000 USDT in prizes for up to 15 winners! Spacecoin’s mission addresses the centralized control governments and … Read more
The Lenovo Legion Go S, with SteamOS. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Lenovo is trying an experiment. In May, it will officially become the very first company outside of Valve to ship a handheld gaming PC with the Steam Deck’s wonderfully pick-up-and-play SteamOS instead of Microsoft Windows. And at $499, … Read more
Look at this beautiful tall boy. I can confidently say Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 stole the show for me at CES. I knew it the second I hit a button on the keyboard and saw the concept-turned-real laptop extend its rollable OLED display upward — motors whirring motors and a dumb smile forming on … Read more
Peri is expected to launch in June 2025. | Image: Peri, identifyHer When it comes to reproductive health tech, wearable makers tend to focus on one of two things: period tracking and fertility windows. But at CES 2025, health startup identifyHer wants to shake up that narrative with Peri, a wearable designed to help people … Read more
Those are 14-inch OLED displays now. | Image: Lenovo Lenovo is updating its Yoga device lineup to 10th-generation versions, including a new lightweight Yoga Slim 9i, a fresh Yoga Book 9i dual-screen laptop with larger displays, and a Yoga 9i 2-in-1 Aura Edition convertible notebook. The first is the Yoga Slim 9i, now powered by … Read more
Image: Lenovo Qualcomm teased it was about to enter the mini desktop PC space yesterday, and now Lenovo is announcing two mini PCs that cater to consumers and businesses. Both the ThinkCentre neo 50q and IdeaCentre Mini x will include Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X series chips, enabling Copilot Plus PC features in a desktop form factor. … Read more
No nub here. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto Lenovo has unveiled two new ThinkPads: the X9 14 and X9 15, both Aura Editions equipped with Intel Core Ultra processors and slim designs. But what they don’t offer might be the most interesting thing about them: namely, Lenovo’s signature red TrackPoint. Instead, they use … Read more
2024 was when crypto matured into a legitimate player in the global financial landscape.
With a formal departure announcement from U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Behnam, January 20 is now the official last day of both heads of the U.S. markets regulators. Behnam joins Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler on choosing the very last day of the administration of President Joe Biden as their final … Read more
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Photo Illustration by Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images Discovery Plus is going up in price, with its ad-supported plan going from $4.99 to $5.99 per month, and its ad-free plan increasing from $8.99 to $9.99 per month. The price hike will go into effect immediately for new subscribers, while existing subscribers will see the change … Read more
Seychelles, January 7, 2025 – MEXC, a leading global cryptocurrency platform, has officially launched its Market Maker Recruitment Program. This initiative aims to enhance market vibrancy, significantly improve market liquidity, and provide users around the world with an unparalleled, seamless, and exciting trading experience. n Market makers are essential to fostering a robust and efficient … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO, California, January 7th 2025/Chainwire/–On-chain interaction with selected Open ecosystem projects will now grant users $OPEN points. The list of the first batch of eligible projects that can earn users $OPEN points includes AISweat.Shop, Overlord.bot, Gameboi.ai, OpenDeSci Platform, with more incoming to be disclosed at https://webisopen.com/ The points from the previous @owlonmusk campaign will … Read more
Today, the need to preserve the confidence and security of people as well as uphold the integrity of enterprises, and organizations is critical. To effectively monitor such aspects of the behavior of the users, or to identify risks that possibly exist, a dashboard is most important. To facilitate the process, businesses can use special data … Read more
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Web3 gaming execs are bullish on the next 12 months, Yellow Panther launches an AI Agent, and more: Web3 Gamer
Advancements in financial technology have brought banks closer to unbanked consumers, and connected businesses with more customers. The digital migration has seen millions of individuals shifting from traditional banking, and instead opting for more connected services. For instance, globally, digital wallet services and transactions are predicted to reach more than 360 billion transactions by 2026. … Read more
Ether spent most of 2024 trailing behind its cryptocurrency peers but has now firmly joined the rally sparked by bitcoin’s record-breaking climb, crossing the $4,000 mark in December but well below its all time high of $4,900. In 2024, ether gained around 53% compared to bitcoin’s 113% surge; however, ether’s recent performance shows promise. Since … Read more
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SANTA CLARA, California, January 7th, 2025/Chainwire/–CARV, the AI chain ecosystem to enable data sovereignty at scale, announces the official launch of the CARV SVM Chain Tested. CARV SVM Chain is an agentic infrastructure designed to enable data sovereignty at scale. As an AI agentic infrastructure that extends SVM’s capabilities onto Ethereum, it pioneers a secure … Read more
Landlocked between six different neighbors in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia has approximately 120 million inhabitants, making it the second most populous nation on the continent, and a GDP of $163 billion, which puts it in the same economic league as Ukraine, Morocco, Slovakia or Kuwait. However, the country has also suffered from a bloody … Read more
As Peacock continues to trail behind major players in the entertainment industry like Netflix, TikTok, and YouTube, the streaming service is adopting strategies similar to its rivals with two new initiatives: mini-games and a short-form vertical video feed. The company previewed these experiments at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Monday. Starting this … Read more
Image: The Verge Getty Images and Shutterstock are joining forces in a merger valued at around $3.7 billion, the companies announced on Tuesday. The merger will allow the companies to expand their stock photo libraries as they face increasing competition from AI-powered image creation tools. Getty Images CEO Craig Peters will remain the head of … Read more
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As a part of a significant overhaul of its content moderation policies announced on Tuesday, Meta admitted that its approach to limiting political content across its platforms had been “pretty blunt” and would now be addressed. The company said it would once again phase in political content into Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, allowing people who … Read more
The U.K. is forging ahead with plans to make the act of creating sexually explicit “deepfake” images a specific criminal offence. A deepfake refers to manipulated media, often video or audio, created using AI to make someone appear to say or do something they didn’t. The U.K. had already made sharing — and the threat … Read more
The Keychron Q6 HE (pictured) now supports Hall effect switches. | Image: Keychron Mechanical keyboard specialist Keychron is adding fancy analog Hall effect switches to more of its lineup. Two of the models announced at CES today are launching immediately: the $169 Lemokey P1 HE QMK, and the $229 Keychron Q6 HE QMK, with three … Read more
Ultrahuman’s Rare smart ring in dune starts at £1500, roughly $1,900. | Image: Ultrahuman CES 2025 is officially underway, and the adrenaline of a day of running around Las Vegas is fading fast. Yet I cannot fall asleep. Probably because I’ve been replaying the same three product teaser videos over and over and over. One … Read more