kamal We’re now far from Bitcoin’s early days when it was the only cryptocurrency and its market capitalization was barely existent. Numerous alternative coins have followed, along with companies, organizations, and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) massive adoption. There’s a whole crypto industry right now, built by people from all around the world, and it’s likely bigger … Read more
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“Cut your expectations by 100x,” says the same CEO who recently predicted superintelligence was just “a few thousand days” away
Google Cloud Tasks is provided by Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It is a fully managed service that allows you to create, manage, and execute asynchronous tasks in a reliable and scalable way. These tasks are independent pieces of work that are to be processed outside your application flow using handlers that you create. These handlers … Read more
Fujifilm has added two new models to its Techno-Stabi binoculars line with stabilization and increased magnification. | Image: Fujifilm Fujifilm has announced two new additions to its flagship Techno-Stabi line of binoculars featuring electronic stabilization, as spotted by PetaPixel. The new TS-L2040 and TS-L1640 deliver even more magnification than Fujfilm’s previous top-of-the-line offering — 20x … Read more
After the TikTok ban went into effect on Sunday, social network Bluesky launched a custom feed for videos on its platform. Now, Flipboard’s newest app, Surf, which is dedicated to browsing the open social web and decentralized services like Mastodon and Bluesky, is taking advantage of that move to introduce a video feed of its … Read more
Bitcoin retracts sharply from its all-time high and the sell-off in Official Trump has a resounding negative impact on most altcoins.
The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has been targeted over rules on hiring, disclosures, and more as Trump takes office.
The CFTC commissioner has previously called for regulating digital assets in her role with the financial regulator, which could change under Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump has promised to “never allow” a CBDC in the United States, but stablecoin adoption is well on its way.
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Bitcoin saw an 8%+ drop as President Trump took office, but hope for a strategic Bitcoin reserve announcement and new offerings from Trump’s World Liberty DeFi project could reverse the tide for BTC and the Official Trump memecoin.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his entourage have already made tens of billions of dollars in profits (at least on paper) off of the Official Trump (TRUMP) and Melania Meme (MELANIA) tokens that launched on Solana in the last three days. Now trading at $42, TRUMP has surged to a $8.8 billion market capitalization, making … Read more
A possible U.S. strategic bitcoin reserve will have to wait at least a bit longer as President Donald Trump didn’t bring the subject up at his inauguration speech on Monday afternoon. In addition to that disappointment, a report showing GOP congressional priorities didn’t include mention of bitcoin or crypto. Already on a wild ride both … Read more
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI’s o1 on certain AI benchmarks. R1 is available from the AI dev platform Hugging Face under an MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially without restrictions. According to DeepSeek, R1 beats … Read more
As inflation concerns faded, traders’ allocations to Bitcoin and other crypto funds surged ahead of Trump’s inauguration.
TikTok may be back, but that hasn’t prevented other Chinese competitors from gaining users. In the lead up to a ban on TikTok — which kicked off Sunday and lasted a day — a number of other video apps rose through the ranks and now dominate the App Store’s Top Charts. The Chinese app RedNote … Read more
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Donald Trump said today he’ll declare a “national energy emergency,” a move meant to speed the development of fossil fuel infrastructure. The actions taken on his first day in office mark the start of President Trump’s attempts to boost oil and gas and retreat from global climate … Read more
Former United States President Joe Biden leaves behind a complicated cryptocurrency record.
Caroline Pham, one of the Republican commissioners at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, will take over the agency on an interim basis, according to two people familiar with the decision, as the administration of President Donald Trump shifts U.S. policy toward a friendlier relationship with digital assets. The CFTC stands to become a leading federal … Read more
Ron made a YouTube video in an attempt to prove that cryptocurrency is worthless, after seeing Fartcoin shoot over a $1 billion market cap. Once the video was published, crypto degens caught wind of the story and sent Unicorn Fart Dust (UFD) to over $260 million—now $300 million. Ron joins us to tell his side … Read more
EU Codes of Conduct are more of a suggestion than legally enforceable rules. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta, Google, TikTok, and X have each pledged to European lawmakers that they will do more to prevent and remove illegal hate speech on their platforms. The European Commission integrated a revised set … Read more
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Donald Trump has been officially sworn in as the 47th president of the US. Although we’ve already experienced a Trump presidency beginning in 2016, this term could look far different than the first one, particularly when it comes to tech regulation. The heads of major tech companies … Read more