Spot Ethereum ETF filers have removed mentions of staking funds from their registration statements. One analyst says they “bent the knee” to the SEC.
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
Image: Ninja Theory If you can, play Hellblade II with headphones to fully experience the depth of the game’s unique storytelling. Continue reading…
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
Cookie3’s co-founder and CEO explains how Web3 marketing can create a shared economy of users, creators and businesses.
Vitalik Buterin calls superintelligent AI “risky” amid leadership upheavals at OpenAI, stressing the need for caution and decentralization in AI development.
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
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…
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?
Does code as freedom of speech mean that developers aren’t responsible for how their creations are used?
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
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
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
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
While the ETF approval process could be delayed until 2025, it could be Ether’s most significant price catalyst.
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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.
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, 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 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…
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 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