Why the battle for low or no transaction fees really matters
High transaction fees stand in the way of crypto achieving its full potential and being embraced by the masses — but it is possible to make transfers for free.
Telegram announces username auctions on TON blockchain
Telegram announced today that will it hold an auction for usernames — for both individual accounts and channels — through a marketplace built on top of the TON blockchain. In August, Telegram founder Pavel Durov first mentioned the idea by noting the possibility of adding “a little bit of Web 3.0 to Telegram in the … Read more
Bitcoin is cooling its rally — Here are the BTC price levels to watch next
Bulls have a lot of work left to do, say Bitcoin analysts as consolidation enters for BTC price.
Improve price performance of your model training using Amazon SageMaker heterogeneous clusters
This post is co-written with Chaim Rand from Mobileye. Certain machine learning (ML) workloads, such as training computer vision models or reinforcement learning, often involve combining the GPU- or accelerator-intensive task of neural network model training with the CPU-intensive task of data preprocessing, like image augmentation. When both types of tasks run on the same … Read more
Apple pauses gambling ads on App Store product pages after developer outcry
It’s hard to imagine anyone but advertisers being happy with Apple for putting more ads on the page in App Store listings, but the way they rolled it out was especially troubling. Ads for shady gambling apps quickly pervaded the platform, appearing in the “you might also like” section of ordinary apps — including at … Read more
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Reduce food waste to improve sustainability and financial results in retail with Amazon Forecast
With environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives becoming more important for companies, our customer, one of Greater China region’s top convenience store chains, has been seeking a solution to reduce food waste (currently over $3.5 million USD per year). Doing so will allow them to not only realize substantial operating savings, but also support corporate … Read more
Core Scientific reveals financial distress in SEC filing, says its end may be near
The Bitcoin miner says low BTC and high electricity rates and Celsius’ refusal to pay its bills could be its undoing; the company’s BTC holdings have dropped from 8,058 in May to 24 now.
Tesla’s latest recall can’t be solved with a software update
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla is issuing a safety recall on over 24,000 Model 3 vehicles that can’t be fixed with a software update this time. The affected cars may have an improperly fastened rear-left seat belt buckle and center seat belt anchor (via Electrek). All model years are affected (2017–2022) but … Read more
DC sues Shipt for misclassifying drivers as independent contractors
DC Attorney General Karl Racine appears before the US Supreme Court. | Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images DC Attorney General Karl Racine sued Shipt, a gig delivery company, Thursday for misclassifying full-time workers as independent contractors in order to “cheat” them out of wages and avoid payroll taxes. In the Thursday complaint, Racine accuses Shipt … Read more
AWS makes Neptune, its graph database service, serverless
Nearly five years ago, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Neptune, a service for running apps that need a graph database to store and query connected data sets. Now, to keep up with the serverless trend, AWS is expanding the offering with Amazon Neptune Serverless, a serverless option for Neptune that automatically scales to support variable … Read more
VR gaming startup ForeVR Games raises $10M to grow its library of Wii Sports-like titles
While Meta tries to convince users to attend virtual work meetings in its metaverse, ForeVR Games, a VR gaming startup with casual games like bowling, darts and cornhole, is a reminder that virtual reality is supposed to be fun. ForeVR announced today a $10 million Series A funding round, which is being put toward building … Read more
The UserTesting sale to private equity is bad news for unicorns
News broke this morning that UserTesting, a former startup that went public last year, is selling to private equity (Thoma Bravo, Sunstone Partners) for $1.3 billion, or $7.50 per share in cash. The deal, expected to close in the first half of 2023, does include a “go-shop” period, in case a better deal crops up. … Read more
Ford thinks driver assist is a safer bet than driverless cars, but it’s fooling itself
This update is “just the beginning” for the driver assist system, Ford says. | Image: Ford When Ford announced yesterday that it was pulling its support for Argo AI, the autonomous driving startup it had financed since 2017, it cited as one of its reasons a belief that driver-assist technology will have more near-term payoffs. … Read more
Bitcoin se acerca a su media de 100 días tras datos macroeconómicos positivos
El último repunte podría haber llegado para quedarse, ya que el mercado parece haber dejado atrás el pesimismo del verano y los mineros comenzaron a detener las ventas de monedas en medio de acontecimientos macroeconómicos positivos.
NFT Marketplace LooksRare Switches to Optional Royalties
It joins a growing list of platforms that are choosing to forgo royalty requirements as the default, including X2Y2 and Magic Eden.
Thoma Bravo, Sunstone Partners to acquire UserTesting for $1.3B and combine it with UserZoom
Thoma Bravo and Sunstone Partners announced today that they’re acquiring customer insight platform UserTesting for $1.3 billion in an all-cash deal. The acquirers say they plan to combine it with UserZoom, a customer research company Thoma Bravo bought an $800 million majority stake in last April. The firms paid what appears to be a generous … Read more
Spotify pulls audiobook purchases from iOS app after Apple blocks updates
Nick Barclay / The Verge An update for Spotify’s iOS app released Thursday had a big change for its audiobooks vertical — and not for the better. The app no longer indicates how you can buy any of the audiobooks in its store, posing a major roadblock for its new business. Now when you go … Read more
The rise of biodigital surveillance
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