New OECD report takes lessons from crypto winter, faults ‘financial engineering’
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found regulation and retail consumer protections lacking in a highly complex trading environment.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development found regulation and retail consumer protections lacking in a highly complex trading environment.
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Microsoft’s Airband program has traditionally focused on fixed wireless, TV white spaces, fiber optics, and Citizens Broadband Radio Service. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As a variety of organizations and companies are working to expand (and sometimes restore) electricity to the hundreds of millions of people who don’t have it, tech companies … Read more
A US Senate committee heard details of the investor’s conversations with Sam Bankman Fried before the collapse.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) discusses how the disgraced CEO “misled the public” and what he did with Bankman-Fried’s $2,900 political donation.
BTC price retraced the entirety of its intraday gains after Fed chair Jerome Powell issued hawkish statements in relation to today’s 0.50% interest rate hike.
Image: Aniplex Nier: Automata, Yoko Taro’s quirky but heartfelt action RPG, is being adapted into an anime that will be streaming on Crunchyroll early next year. The show, which was first announced in February and officially titled Nier: Automata Ver1.1a, will begin streaming January 7th, Crunchyroll spokesperson Tyler Schirado said in an email to The … Read more
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I dare anyone to turn their nose up when receiving a shiny iPad Air for the holidays. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The holiday shopping window is closing fast, but there’s still time to pick up a few things that will arrive in time for your favorite nondenominational gift exchange. Whether … Read more
After re-enforcing royalties earlier this month, the marketplace will reward users for their trading volumes on the marketplace.
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FuboTV had issues in the hours leading up to the game. | Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images FuboTV is down during the World Cup, preventing users from watching the semifinal game between France and Morroco. According to FuboTV’s status page, the service has been experiencing issues since 9:20AM ET, affecting account creation and … Read more
The service will initially be rolled out to select PayPal users within the United States
While the TechCrunch crew enjoys a tweet and a post from time to time, we also enjoy reading longer-form materials. So much so that we are compiling a year-end revue of our favorite reads. This is not just a list of serious business books, or just fiction that was published this year. Instead, we have … Read more
Investment bank B Riley said most of the struggling miner’s issues are “self-imposed and can be corrected.”
Even as Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX, was arrested and denied bail earlier this week, the questions around the case — and what lies ahead — continue to linger. “The arrest of Bankman-Fried was both overdue and jumping the gun,” Matthew Barhoma, founder of Barhoma Law and Power Trial … Read more
Rather than centralizing the digital dollar, lawmakers should focus on exploring a decentralized identification program and develop financial literacy programs for the general public.
“Short of enacting draconian authoritarian policies, cryptocurrency cannot be stopped,” said Senator Pat T
Allie Rae of WetSpace joins Cointelegraph’s new podcast The Agenda to discuss how crypto and blockchain can empower adult content creators.
Because of the “ridiculous amount” of NFTs being minted, entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuck argued that it’s unlikely for another market boom to happen.
“God of War” fans are in for a treat. Amazon announced today that Prime Video is getting a live-action series based on the extremely popular PlayStation game. While a premiere date has not been announced, “God of War” will be available on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories. The show will follow Kratos, … Read more
The crypto industry is calling for U.S. regulations as the epic failures of FTX drag at the sector and most regulators say they can’t do the job without more powers from Congress. So far, a sound-and-fury campaign from lawmakers hasn’t yet signified a path forward.
The conversation in startupland has shifted from building in public to, hey, maybe let’s just figure things out internally before we scream to the masses. At least that’s what I’m gleaning from the growth story of Murmur, a startup that wants to make decision-making easier for private companies. Built by entrepreneur Aaron Dignan, Murmur launched … Read more
If you operate in a country with multiple official languages or across multiple regions, your audio files can contain different languages. Participants may be speaking entirely different languages or may switch between languages. Consider a customer service call to report a problem in an area with a substantial multi-lingual population. Although the conversation could begin … Read more
Enterprises need to translate business-critical content such as marketing materials, instruction manuals, and product catalogs across multiple languages to communicate with a global audience of customers, partners, and stakeholders. Identifying the source language in each document before calling a translate job creates complexities and adds another step to your workflow. For example, an international product … Read more