Bank of International Settlement will test DeFi implementation in forex CBDC markets
The centralized financial institution says the automated market making technology in DeFi can serve as a ‘basis for a new generation of financial infrastructure.”
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The Missing CryptoQueen Has Friends in (Very) High Places
With evidence of complicity at the very highest levels of government, the BBC’s years-long investigation into the OneCoin pyramid scheme returns.
Improve data extraction and document processing with Amazon Textract
Intelligent document processing (IDP) has seen widespread adoption across enterprise and government organizations. Gartner estimates the IDP market will grow more than 100% year over year, and is projected to reach $4.8 billion in 2022. IDP helps transform structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from a variety of document formats into actionable information. Processing unstructured data … Read more
Aave Community Members Vote to Deploy on zkSync v2 Testnet
The decision will let developers evaluate whether to fully deploy its decentralized exchange on the layer 2 scaling platform that speeds up Ethereum transactions.
What’s going on with NFT royalties?
In recent months, conversations around NFT creator royalties shifted as some platforms abandoned royalties for other alternatives. Not everyone is happy about it. “Every platform had royalties about a year ago,” Alex Salnikov, chief strategy officer and co-founder of NFT marketplace Rarible, said to TechCrunch. Then half a year passed and some marketplaces stopped implementing … Read more
Momento launches out of stealth with a serverless cache
After working at NASA as a rover roboticist, Khawaja Shams underwent something of a career pivot, joining AWS to team up with engineer Daniela Miao on DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service. Not content to stop there, Shams and Miao left AWS to co-found Momento, a Seattle-based startup that’s today emerging from stealth with … Read more
Snap and Amazon partner on AR shopping in the Snapchat app, initially for eyewear
Snap has landed a notable new partner for its augmented reality-powered Virtual Try-On shopping experience with today’s news that Amazon will now offer Snapchat users the ability to digitally try on eyewear styles from a range of popular brands. The new partnership between Amazon Fashion and the social app maker will see brands including Maui … Read more
Hear the VC perspective at iMerit ML DataOps Summit
Don’t miss the investor-focused session “Current and Future State of ML DataOps Landscape” at the iMerit ML DataOps Summit on November 8. As enterprises dive deeper into commercializing AI applications to improve business efficiencies, many realize the massive transformation and increasing complexity of the machine learning data operations landscape. Join our panelists as they dig … Read more
Meta to ditch human-curated Facebook News stories globally
Some three years after first introducing a curated news section for publishers, Meta has confirmed that it’s ditching the humans and leaning entirely on algorithms for Facebook News in all markets where it’s available. Meta, then known simply as Facebook, introduced Facebook News back in 2019, kicking off initially to a small subset of users … Read more
Troubled Crypto Exchange Zipmex Is in Advanced Takeover Talks: Report
Cryptocurrency exchange Zipmex is in advanced buyout negotiations that will see it potentially sell a majority stake in the business.
India Considers Taxing Crypto Income From Businesses Headquartered Elsewhere
India’s taxation authority has proposed new changes to the filing of income tax returns that could have a significant impact on those holding virtual digital assets (VDAs) or cryptocurrencies or possibly even investments in DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations).
Porsche Design is selling a $12,000 speaker built from a 992 GT3 exhaust
The limited-edition 911 Soundbar 2.0 Pro weighs a whopping 143 pounds and features a real Porsche 992 GT3 exhaust. | Image: Porsche Design Would you buy a $12,000 speaker? Okay, probably not, but would you buy one if it were built into a genuine Porsche 992 GT3 exhaust? The Porsche 911 Soundbar 2.0 Pro is … Read more
DJI’s latest Mavic drone starts at $1,469
Affordability is fairly malleable concept when it comes to consumer drones. We’ve seen plenty of systems positioned as affordable – or even cheap – over the years, but lowering the price point generally comes with its share of tradeoffs. It’s something DJI itself has flirted with a bit itself, with some more basic and entry-level … Read more
Qué traerá la próxima gran actualización de Ethereum
“Shanghái” permitirá retirar ETH en staking, pero el deseado recorrido para disminuir las tasas de gas podría quedar afuera de la actualización.
Dear Sophie: How can students work or launch a startup while maintaining their immigration status?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives. More posts by this contributor Dear Sophie: How … Read more
Google’s new prototype AI tool does the writing for you
Google’s Douglas Eck introducing Wordcraft, an AI-powered creative writing tool, at Google AI@. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Remember that time Google showed off its artificial intelligence prowess by demoing conversations with Pluto and a paper airplane? That was powered by LaMDA, one of Google’s latest-generation conversational AI models. Now, Google’s using … Read more
Paramount Plus sees a price hike in its future
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Paramount chief financial officer Naveen Chopra said on an earnings call Wednesday that the company sees “opportunities to increase price on Paramount Plus” and that we’ll see it “do that in the future.” The ad-supported version of Paramount Plus currently costs $4.99 per month (or $49.99 per year), … Read more