You deserve more than $2 for running your phone’s data through Amazon
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is offering some users a whole $2 a month for only one teeny, tiny thing in return: that they route their traffic through an Amazon server so the company can keep track of which Amazon ads they’ve seen. It’s apparently been doing this for months. I’m not … Read more
Looks like sex tech startup Lora DiCarlo is done for
Lora DiCarlo, a sex tech startup that made headlines in 2019 after being blacklisted from the Consumer Electronics Show, seems to have shut down. The company’s website is offline and reportedly orders have gone unfulfilled for months. TechCrunch has reached out to the eponymous founder for confirmation, but it sure looks like the end of … Read more
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The Constitution of Athens
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Daily Crunch: ChatGPT’s user experience and implementation ‘should have Google scared’
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. Heeeey! Today has been a fun, rich, and varied day of news on your favorite tech news site. Haje got the unfortunate news that he will be attending his 15th CES in … Read more
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Crypto Markets Today: Galaxy Digital Expands Brokerage Services With GK8 Acquisition
The cryptocurrency-focused financial services firm won an auction to buy the company from crypto lender Celsius, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Crypto Markets Today is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.
Carmack on star fields in VR
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NFT Steez and Victor Solomon chat about building in Web3 and the Metaverse
This week NFT Steez spoke to award winning artist Victor Solomon about basketball, the Metaverse, Web3 and his unique NFT collection.
South Korean judge dismisses arrest warrants for Terra co-founder Do Kwon’s former associates
Judge Hong Jin-Pyo reportedly said there was little risk of Shin Hyun-seong or other Terra associates destroying evidence related to the case against the platform.
Elon Musk just brought an infamous neo-Nazi back to Twitter
Ye might have crossed the line by tweeting a swastika superimposed with a Star of David, but you can’t blame other Nazi apologists for getting mixed signals. On Thursday night, Musk personally intervened after the artist formerly known as Kanye West shared the symbol. “I tried my best,” Musk tweeted in response to a tweet … Read more
DeFi ecosystem still haunted by FTX contagion: Finance Redefined
Top-100 DeFi tokens saw a bullish wave with the start of the new month, but many DEX platforms are still haunted by FTX contagion.
Never mind FTX — Fine arts institutions should still onboard to blockchain
The strategic adoption of blockchain technology still makes sense, regardless of the distraction FTX created for cryptocurrency.
Opera Crypto Browser to enable instant NFT minting through launchpad
Opera executive Susie Batt said that the tool will not have any platform usage fees and will allow people to freely explore the NFT industry.
DXY bounces at major support, reducing Bitcoin’s chance at breaking the $17.2K resistance
The dollar index (DXY) found support at a key level, leading traders to question whether BTC will manage to flip $17,250 to support.
The era of constant innovation at Amazon could be over
There was a time when AWS re:Invent, the yearly customer extravaganza put on by Amazon’s cloud arm, was chock full of announcements. The innovation coming out of the company was so mind-boggling that it was hard to keep up with the onslaught of news. But this year felt different. If last year was incremental, this … Read more
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Plant Prefab nabs $42M to crank out ‘extremely sustainable’ custom homes
Prefabricated homes always seem to be on the cusp of something big — solving housing shortages, tackling systemic waste or just generally ushering in the “very up-to-date.” But in the U.S., new prefab housing still represents a small fraction of the market (around 2% of single-family homes built in 2021, for example). By now it’s clear … Read more
Dems and Reps join forces to pressure SBF to testify before Congress
“Your willingness to talk to the public will help the company’s customers, investors, and others,” said House Financial Services Committee chair Maxine Waters, addressing SBF.