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Waste4Change is building a circular economy in Indonesia
Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity, and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025. Waste4Change is one of the companies that wants to help by increasing rates of recycling and enabling better waste management. The startup, which currently manages more than 8,000 tons of … Read more
First Mover Asia: Crypto Trading Firm Amber CEO Argues Bitcoin Can Still Be an Inflation Hedge; Cryptos Surprising Rebound
Michael Wu says that bitcoin offers “a better form” of storing value than any previous type of asset and that ether provides great value as a “tech infrastructure investment.”
Crypto Trading Firm NYDIG Lays Off About 33% of Staff
Crypto brokerage services provider NYDIG laid off over 100 people in the past few weeks, or about a third of its staff.
Some new venture firms are so niche that, at first glance, it’s easy to laugh off their focus
There are big, overarching top-down trends, and there are little-bitty baby trends that have a way of growing into bigger ones. A big trend right now, for example, centers on certain firms that passed out enormous checks to startup founders in recent years and drove valuations sky high in the process. It turns out this … Read more
NFTs will be ‘as disruptive’ as Bitcoin was 10 years ago — Kraken exec
Jonathon Miller, managing director of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken in Australia says despite NFT volumes plunging, the company remains “bullish on the NFT space.”
Did Mark Zuckerberg’s little dance actually show us real metaverse legs?
Image: Meta During Meta’s Connect conference on Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg made a huge announcement: the avatars in the company’s Horizon VR app will be getting legs soon. To demonstrate this groundbreaking technical achievement, Zuckerberg’s digital avatar lifted each leg in the air, then did a jump, while Aigerim Shorman’s avatar kicked into the air. It … Read more
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The National Science Foundation won’t rebuild the Arecibo Observatory telescope
The Arecibo Observatory after its collapse in 2020. | Photo by RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images The National Science Foundation (NSF) won’t rebuild the massive Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico following its collapse in late 2020. The agency instead plans to build an education center focused on STEM education and outreach, according to an NSF … Read more
T-Mobile social media support workers are trying to form a union
The organizers have dubbed it the “T-Force Social Care Alliance.” | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Workers on T-Mobile’s social media customer service team, who respond to customer questions, comments, and complaints on sites like Twitter and Facebook, are trying to start a union. On Wednesday, they announced the creation of the “T-Force … Read more
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Popular Bitcoin Astrologer’s Star Falls on Twitter Following $30K in Celsius Payments
Twitter critics accused Maren Altman, who has more than 1.8 million social media followers, of not being forthcoming about her deal with the now bankrupt crypto lender, but the influencer says her marketing sponsorship role was no different than doing fashion ads for the company.
Repairable laptop firm Framework introduces refurbished program
Framework is at the vanguard of a growing movement to make electronics more repair-friendly. Some have done so by choice and others have been…nudged in that direction by looming right to repair legislation across the globe. Framework, like Fairphone, is making that a core principle of its technology, without sacrificing the final project (check Devin’s … Read more
Google Fiber is launching 5-gig and 8-gig plans early next year
Google Fiber will soon offer some really fast internet speeds. | Image: Google Fiber Google Fiber will offer 5Gbps and 8Gbps tiers starting in early 2023 (via 9to5Google). The company is pitching these new offerings for people like creative professionals, those that regularly work “in the cloud” or with large data, and households with many … Read more
Daily Crunch: Google holographic video chat booth, Project Starline, finds its way into the real world
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. We just keep getting more excited about Disrupt, but it turns out there’s other stuff going on in the world. A lot of other stuff, in fact; it’s one of those days … Read more
Samsung SmartThings is now Matter certified
SmartThings hubs will be among the first devices to be Matter certified. | Image: Aeotec An over-the-air update coming later this month will turn Samsung’s standalone SmartThings hubs into controllers for the new smart home standard Matter. The v2 hub will control Matter devices over Wi-Fi and ethernet, while the current hub and SmartThings dongle … Read more
Meta files to dismiss FTC complaint over acquisition of VR fitness company Within
Meta submitted a request to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission’s complaint about its acquisition of Within. The Los Angeles virtual reality firm makes Supernatural, a rhythm game-turned-workout app that, in our humble opinion, is a legitimately excellent use of VR. It makes sense why Meta wants to absorb the company, but the FTC has raised … Read more
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Market Wrap: Prices Plunge Following Hot Inflation Report, Then Reverse Course Completely
The Consumer Price Index inflation data arrived higher than expected, and markets responded in roller-coaster fashion before settling down. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.
Crypto users renew calls for Satoshi Nakamoto to win Nobel memorial prize for economics
Major figures in the crypto space argued the Bitcoin creator was the most deserving candidate for the economic award, despite the fact Satoshi’s true identity remains unknown.
CoinShares Releases Experimental AI Bot That Tries to Calculate the Fair Price for an NFT
The asset management platform said the tool aggregates different data sets to determine how much an NFT might be worth.