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Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images One last chance before the divest-or-ban law takes effect on January 19th. TikTok has just over a week before it’s forced to either separate from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or functionally cease operations in the US. An appeals court upheld a divest-or-ban … Read more
The hackers targeting the Treasury are dubbed Silk Typhoon, and previously mass-hacked thousands of corporate email servers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge CES is a TV show. And a car show. And a wearables show. And this year, oddly, kind of a pool-vacuum show? It is the biggest, most elaborate, most bizarre tech show of the year, during which practically the whole industry flies to Las Vegas to show off new … Read more
The U.S. renewable energy industry is in an odd position. Large-scale projects, like SunZia, the southwestern wind turbine project that is expected to provide enough electricity to power three million homes, are funded with relative ease thanks to long-established relationships with financial giants. Meanwhile, small-scale installations such as solar panels on one’s rooftop are becoming … Read more
Such a subcommittee already exists in the larger House of Representatives, which is also undergoing a leadership change.
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Some of Oh’s AI agents are already generating over $10,000 in monthly revenue, the platform’s CEO told Cointelegraph.
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In an interview with Cointelegraph, US Senator Ted Cruz discusses Bitcoin’s role in driving small business growth, its potential as a hedge against inflation, and why Texas is becoming a top crypto hub.
A Super Scooper drops ocean water on the Palisades fire. | Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images An aircraft helping to fight wildfires that are raging across Los Angeles was struck by a civilian drone on Thursday. The collision damaged the wing of the aircraft — a CL-415 “Super Scooper” … Read more
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Venu, the live sports streaming service from ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery, isn’t happening. In a statement on Friday, the three companies announced the decision “not to move forward with the contemplated joint venture is effective immediately.” Since announcing Venu last year, the service hit a legal roadblock: … Read more
The employment market in the U.S. picked up steam in December, with job growth topping economist forecasts by a mile and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dipping. The economy added 256,000 jobs last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday, topping forecasts for 160,000 and up from 212,000 in November (revised from an originally … Read more
A ransomware gang took credit for the breach, claiming to have stolen over 400,000 government-issued identity documents from customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
This week, the crypto market has witnessed a notable positive shift, particularly in prices for major alternative cryptocurrencies XRP, DOGE and XLM. These tokens are once again priced more or less the same on the Nasdaq-listed Coinbase, considered a proxy for the stateside demand, and the offshore giant Binance, TradingView data shows. The recovery from … Read more
Lenovo’s rollable laptop stole the show, but there are a bunch of upcoming models I’m excited to test when the time comes. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge The new CPUs, GPUs, and laptops announced at CES this week set the tone for Windows computers in the year to come — … Read more
Illustration: The Verge Meta’s popular messaging app WhatsApp is testing a new design that gives prominent space to a suite of AI chatbots. The design, currently only accessible through the app’s Android beta, adds a dedicated tab for AIs on the app’s homescreen. WABetaInfo spotted the change, which devotes one of WhatsApp’s four tabs solely … Read more
Bybit will continue honoring user withdrawal requests despite temporarily halting other services.
Developers Max Brodeur-Urbas and Rahul Behal think that AI has the potential to automate lots of business-relevant tasks, but that many of the AI-powered automation tools on the market today are unreliable and costly. Part of the problem is that users expect too much of AI, Brodeur-Urbas told TechCrunch — for instance, they assume that … Read more
Image: Samar Haddad for The Verge Fluffy robots, portable TVs, and vacuums with arms and legs. This is what we come to CES for. Read the full story at The Verge.
Smart glasses were everywhere on the show floor this year. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge At CES, the next generation of eyewear was everywhere. It’s just no one seems to agree on why we want it or what’s the best approach. It’s the second day of CES, and I’m waiting … Read more
Validators are the backbone of PoS blockchains, but centralization and compromises can threaten their integrity, security and user trust