The second-gen AirPods Pro look just like the originals, but there are improvements within. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The second-generation AirPods Pro earbuds have returned to their lowest price, first seen during Black Friday and Cyber Monday. You can get the latest top-tier wireless earbuds from Apple on sale for $199.99 … Read more
Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to discover insights from text. Amazon Comprehend provides customized features, custom entity recognition, custom classification, and pre-trained APIs such as key phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and more so you can easily integrate NLP into your applications. We recently added … Read more
The high-powered Nova Laser before it creates nuclear fusion inside its target chamber at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1986. | Photo by Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images A “scientific breakthrough” in the development of fusion energy is expected tomorrow from the Biden administration. For more than half a century, people have poured billions … Read more
MrBeast in Fortnite. | Image: Epic Games MrBeast, who recently became the most-subscribed-to creator on YouTube, is the next person to join Fortnite’s Icon Series. The creator made a brief appearance in a trailer for Fortnite’s newest season, and Epic Games is now confirming that not only will MrBeast be getting his own Fortnite skins, … Read more
The illicit funds were converted into tether and then laundered by people around the world, authorities said.
The former CEO previously missed the deadline to confirm his appearance before the Senate Banking Committee, despite the threat of a subpoena.
A DALL-E depiction of “a dream that is fun to experience but boring to tell other people about.” | Image: DALL-E If you’ve been on Twitter (or Discord or plenty of other places) this month and your feed is anything like mine, it’s currently full of weird machine-generated text and art. The launch of ChatGPT, … Read more
Rivian and Mercedes-Benz have paused plans to produce electric commercial vans in Europe just three months after the two automakers announced the partnership. Rivian shares fell as much as 3.4% before rebounding slightly. Rivian shares are trading at $26.62, down 2.46% since the market opened. Mathias Geisen, head of Mercedes-Benz Vans, said the collaboration with … Read more
Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s shuttering its Connectivity arm almost 10 years after launching the initiative, according to a report from Light Reading. The company confirmed to both Light Reading and Fierce Wireless that it will instead split the division across its Infrastructure and Central Products teams. Meta Connectivity (formerly Facebook Connectivity) launched in … Read more
Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk took a brief break from running multiple companies mired in drama to create a little more drama by appearing onstage with Dave Chappelle during his show Sunday night at the Chase Center in San Francisco. During Chappelle’s set, the controversial comedian introduced the controversial billionaire, who … Read more
Jeff Bezos-headed company Blue Origin is getting its own kid-friendly animated space adventure series called “Blue Origins Space Rangers,” production companies Genius Brands and SMAC Productions announced today. A premiere date hasn’t been set. The children’s series will feature the voices of Bezos, who founded his space tourism business Blue Origin in 2000, as well … Read more
A little-known phone monitoring app called Xnspy has stolen data from tens of thousands of iPhones and Android devices, the majority whose owners are unaware that their data has been compromised. Xnspy is one of many so-called stalkerware apps sold under the guise of allowing a parent to monitor their child’s activities, but are explicitly … Read more
TechCrunch noted a week ago that an investor in Coupa was sounding the alarm that the software company might be sold to private equity for a price below what the money manager felt was fair. The plea went unanswered, with Coupa selling for a discount to what the investor had demanded as a minimum, we … Read more
Image: Dough Knead a high-refresh-rate gaming monitor with the deep colors and incredible response time of OLED? Dough is rising to the occasion. Today, it’s announcing the Dough Spectrum OLED, a 27-inch screen that attempts to beat LG at its very own game. You see, today — December 12th — is the day that LG … Read more
The Jewel USD stablecoin will be launching on Polygon.
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“Ultimately, we must harden the business model to produce more swap volumes & generate more fees,” wrote CEO Jared Grey.
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The transaction is expected to be completed by the third quarter, 2023.
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With state governments increasing financial sanctions in 2022, crypto services might become as cautious about “risky” users as banks have been traditionally, says Anna Baydakova.
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The attacker made close to $6.9 million in profits and left users with a pile of bad debt.
BTC price stability remains for the time being, but there’s plenty in store to “scare” Bitcoin traders.