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The Enhanced Games last weekend featured athletes who took performance-enhancing drugs. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. At this time last week, I was getting ready … Read more
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XLM rallied after US financial giant DTCC announced a partnership with the Stellar Network, but it still risks a sharp downside in the coming weeks.
ICE’s CEO said regulators need to create a “level playing field” for launching 24/7 onchain perps contracts, which are already trading on exchanges such as Hyperliquid.
Internet Computer (ICP), down 3.8%, was also an underperformer.
Though YouTube has always been a place where up-and-coming artists could be discovered and make it big, in recent years the platform has become a launching pad for some of Hollywood’s most exciting new horror directors. The filmmakers behind films like Talk to Me, Iron Lung, and Obsession all started off as content creators posting … Read more
The Acer Swift Air 14. To compete against the Neo, you apparently have to cop another, more common MacBook name. | Image: Acer Acer is aiming to take on the MacBook Neo more directly with a new Swift Air 14, a new 14-inch laptop that starts at $699. The laptop will use Intel’s lower-cost Core … Read more
If you’re looking for a fun way to connect with nature while collecting bird species on an app like Pokémon, give this smart feeder a try.
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Cooling demand for Bitcoin ETFs adds to declining accumulation by whales, underscoring a trying time for the crypto market.
Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. As the phone’s supposed launch continues, we noticed its website may be violating FTC rules. When the Trump phone was first announced last June, it was proudly promised to be … Read more
Paxos new license positions it alongside legacy giants such as DTCC and makes it a compelling, more efficient alternative for traditional finance giants than legacy competitors.
Most people will never own, drive, or even sit inside a Ferrari Luce. (If you can, or do… hit us up.) There’s still no question that Ferrari’s first electric vehicle is one of the most interesting, surprising cars of the year. With a decidedly un-Ferrari look, and lots of new technology and designs courtesy of … Read more
Bitcoin’s market cap has dropped below $1.5 trillion, pushing it out of the world’s top 10 assets amid AI stock and precious metal rallies.
The man who built the modern NYSE just said Hyperliquid is bigger than Nasdaq. JPMorgan says the debasement trade is unwinding.
Sprecher saluted Hyperliquid’s team, signaling deeper engagement between Wall Street incumbents and crypto-native rails.
Strategy’s capital structure may be under pressure as Arca’s Jeff Dorman highlights $15 billion in preferred stock obligations and CEO comments on possible Bitcoin sales.
Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of trust on the internet. But last week, volunteer editors and contributors were alarmed to hear that a small but important team of engineers at the nonprofit that supports it had been laid off. The layoffs didn’t just threaten to sever an important link between the Wikimedia Foundation … Read more
South Korean chip startup Xcena is betting that AI’s real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.
Prosecutors say two police colonels organized an extortion ring that allegedly tracked, abducted, and held crypto entrepreneurs at gunpoint.
AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch – because, despite what its website says, there’s always a catch – is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots. Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on … Read more
Texas is hiring a crypto custodian to move its $10 million Strategic Bitcoin Reserve from BlackRock’s IBIT ETF into directly held coins and build full state‑level BTC plumbing.
Your day-ahead look for May 29, 2026