Central Bank of Turkey Plans to Launch a CBDC in 2023
The proposal was mentioned in the executive branch’s annual plan presented on Monday.
James Gunn is DC Studios’ new co-CEO
James Gunn speaks onstage at the Marvel Cinematic Universe Mega-Panel during 2022 Comic-Con International in 2022. | Image: Daniel Knighton / Getty Images After months of searching for a new leader to head up its answer to Marvel Studios, Warner Bros. Discovery has chosen director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran to lead its recently … Read more
Microsoft says GitHub now has a $1B ARR, 90M active users
As part of its earnings call, Microsoft today announced a number of new data points for GitHub, the massively popular code repository service it acquired for $7.5 billion in 2018. According to Microsoft, GitHub now has an annual recurring revenue of $1 billion, up from a reported $200 to $300 million at the time of … Read more
Crypto Game Axie’s AXS Token Gets Unlocked, Just as Short Squeeze Drives Up Price
Axie Infinity released the first batch of 10 million previously restricted tokens to early investors and insiders, blockchain data shows.
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Marches Past $20K as Investors Regain Their Appetite for Riskier Assets
BTC, ether and other major cryptos surge with stocks following upbeat earnings from a number of big brands. Market Wrap is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today’s crypto markets.
After Mango Markets exploit, Compound pauses 4 tokens to protect against price manipulation
Compound users can no longer use YFI, ZRX, BAT and MKR tokens as collateral for loans.
Google’s revenue continues to grow as its profits are still shrinking
Illustration: The Verge Earlier this summer, Google’s parent company Alphabet made it clear that it was trying to get into fighting form as its profits slipped. The company’s earnings report, released on Tuesday, however, shows that it still appears to be on the same path of growing revenue but shrinking profits. This quarter, the company … Read more
New Zealand Uber drivers win case declaring them employees
A group of Uber drivers in New Zealand won a landmark case Tuesday against the ride-hail company which will force Uber to treat them as employees, rather than independent contractors. New Zealand’s employment court decision only applies to four drivers who were part of a class action lawsuit filed last July, but the ruling may … Read more
Chinese agents used Bitcoin transactions through Wasabi to allegedly bribe US government employee
According to an analysis by crypto risk management firm Elliptic, two Chinese intelligence agents used Wasabi Wallet to conceal BTC transactions allegedly used for bribes.
Spotify hits 195 million paid subscribers
Illustration Kristen Radtke / The Verge Spotify now has 195 million paying subscribers, the company announced on Tuesday, an increase of 7 million since last quarter, surpassing guidance by 1 million net adds. The company expects to cross the 200 million mark by the end of the year. Even with that bright subscription news, Wall … Read more
Chris Sacca on climate investing right now; the opportunity “almost feels unfair”
Today, for a series of climate-related conversations organized by the global venture firm SOSV, we interviewed famed investor Chris Sacca, whose investment firm Lowercarbon Capital is managing $2 billion in capital across one fund that’s focused on nuclear fusion, another fund focused expressly on carbon removal, and the rest across a wide spectrum of bets. … Read more
Spotify says Apple is ‘choking competition’ and ruining its audiobook store
Nick Barclay / The Verge Spotify says Apple is making it harder to sell audiobooks, an offering Spotify just introduced last month. The company called Apple practices “anticompetitive” and said it was “choking competition” in a blog post published just before the company revealed its earnings report on Tuesday. Spotify says Apple’s rules make the … Read more
Who’s most likely to buy Nutanix?
Last Friday, The Wall Street Journal quoted sources as saying that Nutanix was looking for a buyer. Some may not find that surprising given Nutanix’s recent financial performance, but the question is if the company were to sell, who would be the most likely to buy it, and would it be a better fit for … Read more
Microsoft Q1 2023: profits and Windows down but Xbox and devices up
Alex Castro / The Verge It’s a new financial year for Microsoft, and the Windows and Xbox maker has just posted the first quarter of its 2023 financial results today. Microsoft made $50.1 billion in revenue and a net income of $17.6 billion during Q1. Revenue is up 11 percent but net income has decreased … Read more
Phishing Scammer Has Drained $1M in Crypto and NFTs in Past 24 Hours, Says On-Chain Sleuth
A prolific scammer has so far netted more than $3.5 million in total, according to ZachXBT.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special seems to be a Kevin Bacon heist in first trailer
Pom Klementieff as Mantis. | Marvel Studios Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 from director James Gunn is still more than a little ways out, but rather than making fans wait until next year to catch up with its ragtag team of alien misfits, the studio’s bringing them home a little bit early this … Read more
Mountain’s keyboards are getting even bigger
Just cover my desk in buttons, y’all. The Mountain Everest Max is an absolutely massive keyboard that looks like it shakes down 60 percent keyboards for their lunch money. Now, this maximalist keyboard is getting even bigger with the addition of a pair of new peripherals. Mountain is giving you the option of adding an … Read more
Google finally brings a web view to all its Nest cameras
Google’s new web view for its Nest cameras should arrive this week. | Image: Google Google is finally giving its Nest smart home cameras one home on the web. In a blog post published today, Google announced the rollout of its long-promised Google Home web view. You should now be able to view all your … Read more
MakerDAO community votes to approve custody of $1.6B in USDC with Coinbase
The MakerDAO community will earn a 1.5% reward on its USDC while holding funds with Coinbase Prime.
iPadOS 16.2 beta adds external display support for Stage Manager and includes Freeform
Stage Manager’s external display support is only available on iPads with an M1 chip. | Image: Apple Apple’s getting closer to shipping Stage Manager’s promised external display support on iPadOS 16. As pointed out by 9to5Mac, Apple has included the feature with its release of the iPadOS 16.2 developer beta, which comes one day after … Read more
Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark Hikes 2022 Hashrate Guidance by 10%
The miner now sees year-end computing power at 5.5 exahash per second (EH/s)
Bitcoin supera los US$20K y ether alcanza su pico más alto desde la fusión
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Run inference at scale for OpenFold, a PyTorch-based protein folding ML model, using Amazon EKS
This post was co-written with Sachin Kadyan, a leading developer of OpenFold. In drug discovery, understanding the 3D structure of proteins is key to assessing the ability of a drug to bind to it, directly impacting its efficacy. Predicting the 3D protein form, however, is very complex, challenging, expensive, and time consuming, and can take … Read more
Splatoon 3 might feel faster after its next update
Version 1.2.0 will add a whole swath of tweaks and fixes. | Image: Nintendo Your Splatoon 3 multiplayer matches and Salmon Run jobs might feel a little bit faster after a big update coming soon. According to the patch notes, data will be transferred between players “about .05 seconds more quickly” than it was previously, … Read more
Picture this: Lego’s working on a Polaroid replica
This isn’t necessarily what the final version will look like, but if it’s anything close, it’ll be very charming. | Image: Minibrick Productions One of Lego’s latest projects will strike at a lot of photographers’ nostalgia: a replica Polaroid OneStep SX-70 instant camera. Currently, there aren’t details about what the kit will actually look like, … Read more