The EPA is cracking down on cybersecurity threats
The East Bay Municipal Utility District Wastewater Treatment Plant on March 20th, 2024, in Oakland, California. | Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The Environmental Protection Agency is ramping up its inspections of critical water infrastructure after warning of “alarming vulnerabilities” to cyberattacks. The agency issued an enforcement alert yesterday warning utilities to take … Read more
Hellblade II: headphones on, heart rate up
Image: Ninja Theory If you can, play Hellblade II with headphones to fully experience the depth of the game’s unique storytelling. Continue reading…
Uber and Lyft to stay in Minneapolis after state lowers driver pay requirements
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Uber and Lyft will continue operating in Minneapolis after the state legislature approved a lower minimum pay rate for drivers over the weekend, according to reports from the Minnesota Reformer and StarTribune. The new rates will go into effect on January 1st, 2025, if the bill becomes law, … Read more
Filip Wielanier: ‘Web3 Marketing Is a Win-Win’
Cookie3’s co-founder and CEO explains how Web3 marketing can create a shared economy of users, creators and businesses.
Vitalik Buterin stresses AI risks amid OpenAI leadership upheaval
Vitalik Buterin calls superintelligent AI “risky” amid leadership upheavals at OpenAI, stressing the need for caution and decentralization in AI development.
Stack AI wants to make it easier to build AI-fueled workflows
Stack AI’s co-founders, Antoni Rosinol and Bernardo Aceituno, were PhD students at MIT wrapping up their degrees in 2022 just as large language models were becoming more mainstream. ChatGPT would be released to the world at the end of the year, but even before that, they recognized a problem inside companies putting data together with … Read more
For the director of I Saw the TV Glow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer was just the start
Photo by Monica Schipper / Getty Images for IMDb To understand Jane Schoenbrun and their new film, I Saw the TV Glow, you have to appreciate how Buffy the Vampire Slayer evolved in its second season. Continue reading…
How Bitcoin ETFs Are Changing the Risk-Reward Ratio for Institutional Investors
By approving bitcoin as an underlying product within the ETF space, the SEC has reduced risk at the base level of the asset, BitGo’s Steve Scott writes. The only question is now will they invest?
Freedom of speech isn’t a ‘trump card’ for Tornado Cash developers
Does code as freedom of speech mean that developers aren’t responsible for how their creations are used?
Hellblade II’s stunning world is alive with horror
Image: Xbox Traversing the nightmare realms of the human mind has always been central to horror. The stories we tell ourselves about what’s moving in the darkness, the creation of monsters out of unknown sounds — from this emerges our fascination with terror. In Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, players navigate a cold, dark ninth-century Iceland … Read more
Can Blockchain Solve The Affordable Housing Crisis? Exclusive Interview With TRL CEO Adrian Gaffor
The dream of homeownership is fading for many. A global housing crisis is making it a struggle for millions to find affordable places to live. The burden is heavy, with people across the world forced to spend a crippling amount of their income just for rent. In the United States alone, Barron’s estimates a staggering … Read more
Microsoft is in its AI PC era
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge We’ve heard the story so many times, that this is the time that Windows on Arm will work and we’ll get a revolution in powerful, portable, long-lasting PCs. For a decade, the story has been fiction. This time, though… I don’t know. It sort of seems real. On this … Read more
SeoClerks.com – The Digital Marketing Dumpster Fire Scam You Must Avoid
SEO Clerks is an absolute disaster zone for anyone seeking legitimate digital marketing services. If you enjoy flushing your hard-earned money down the virtual toilet, then by all means, dive headfirst into the scam cesspool that is SEO Clerks. Let’s start with the quality of services offered. Spoiler alert: there is none. It’s like entering … Read more
Ether ETFs could drive ETH price to $10K, but approval could take until 2025
While the ETF approval process could be delayed until 2025, it could be Ether’s most significant price catalyst.
Adobe brings Firefly AI-powered Generative Remove to Lightroom
Adobe says the feature is up to the task, regardless of how complex of a background the object is set against. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Sonos finally made some headphones
The market play is clear from the outset: The $449 headphones are firmly targeted at an audience that would otherwise be purchasing the Bose QC Ultra or Apple AirPods Max. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Special mud helps XGS Energy get more power out of geothermal wells
Young geothermal energy wells can be like budding prodigies, each brimming with potential to outshine their peers. But like people, most decline with age. In California, for example, the amount of electricity generated by geothermal power plants declined by 15% between 2001 and 2018, partly because existing wells degraded. “The history of geothermal has been … Read more
Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview
Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon’s AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping businesses augment large language models (LLMs) with their own data. Most recently, though, the company completely rearchitected its product to launch Pinecone Serverless, which frees its customers from having to think … Read more
The Sonos Ace headphones are here, and they’re damn impressive
The company’s app redesign fumble threatens to steal the thunder from what otherwise looks (and feels) like a strong debut in a new category. Continue reading…
Sonos’ Roam 2 speaker is easier to use and available today for $179
Image: Sonos Sonos is refreshing its small portable speaker, the Roam, with a second-generation model that mostly adds some minor quality-of-life improvements. It’s reasonable to think of the new Roam 2, available today for $199, as more of a Roam 1.5: this is really what Sonos should’ve released in the first place. As I reported … Read more
Adobe Lightroom gets a magic eraser, and it’s impressive
Adobe is adding more mobile app-like AI editing tools to Lightroom. | Image: Adobe Adobe is adding some new generative AI tools to Lightroom that aim to make the photo editing platform easier to use for both professional creatives and inexperienced users alike, even from a phone. These include an in-development object removal feature that’s … Read more
Web3 Marketing Startup Spindl Launches On-Chain Ad Network
Crypto wallet activity is a better way to find sales prospects than “weird, sketchy Web2 data,” says Spindl CEO (and Facebook vet) Antonio Garcia Martinez.
Solana-Based Wallet Phantom Buys Web3 Specialist Bitski
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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