Global Bitcoin payments market projected to reach $3.7B by 2031: Research
Private keys and hardware sub-sectors will drive the BTC payment expansion as demand from banks and emerging economies continue to grow.
A closer look at macOS Ventura
Sometimes it’s nice when a product launch falls when I’m on the road. I qualify that statement because, well, it’s one more thing to shoehorn into an invariably overloaded work trip. But there are some products that are just better tested on the road: laptops, earbuds, travel chargers and the occasional operating system. I’ve been … Read more
Wikimedia is adding features to make editing Wikipedia more fun
The Wikipedia logo | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Wikipedia is one of the sturdiest survivors of the old web, as well as one of the most clearly human-powered ones, thanks to a multitude of editors making changes across the globe. But after celebrating the site’s 20th birthday last year, the Wikimedia Foundation … Read more
Bitcoin alcanzará un máximo de tres años, pero primero tocará un piso de US$13K, según Peter Brandt
Se espera que bitcoin baje un poco y se mueva entre US$17.000 y US$23.000 el próximo año, Peter Brandt le dijo a CoinDesk TV.
CFTC Chair Behnam Says ‘Number One Accomplishment’ Is Track Record of Enforcement Actions
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Rostin Behnam is eager for his agency to shed its reputation as the friendlier regulator for the crypto industry.
Bumble open sourced its AI that detects unsolicited nudes
As part of its larger commitment to combat “cyberflashing,” the dating app Bumble is open sourcing its AI tool that detects unsolicited lewd images. First debuted in 2019, Private Detector (let’s take a moment to let that name sink in) blurs out nudes that are sent through the Bumble app, giving the user on the … Read more
My thoughts on the Framework laptop
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How do you clean your fabric-covered smart speaker? Carefully
Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge At a staff meeting this afternoon here at The Verge, several people started complaining about the problem of keeping their fabric-covered tech clean. It turned out that this is definitely a problem in search of a solution. For example, if you are keeping an Apple HomePod Mini, a … Read more
The Apple Watch Ultra gets another battery-saving workout setting
There’s an additional battery-saving setting that, combined with Low Power Mode, can get you an estimated 60 hours. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Apple Watch Ultra can now last even longer on a single charge. In watchOS 9.1, Apple has added a workout setting that extends battery life to an … Read more
How to make a roguelike
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Detect patterns in text data with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
In this post, we introduce a new analysis in the Data Quality and Insights Report of Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. This analysis assists you in validating textual features for correctness and uncovering invalid rows for repair or omission. Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from … Read more
TechCrunch wants to hear Black founders’ stories of VC fundraising
On Friday, TechCrunch reported the latest Crunchbase venture capital data, and the news isn’t very good from a diversity point of view: Black founders raised a paltry $187 million out of the $150.9 billion in venture capital allocated in Q3 this year. To put that into perspective, that’s only 0.12% of the total investment made … Read more
My next Mac might be the last
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Chinese Intelligence Officers Used Bitcoin in Scheme to Undermine Investigation, US Officials Allege
The two officers tried bribing a U.S. law enforcement official with $61,000 in bitcoin to help support what appears to be Huawei.
Chinese spies allegedly tried to obstruct Huawei investigation
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Justice Department has announced charges against two Chinese intelligence officers, accusing them of attempting to obstruct a US investigation into the telecommunications giant Huawei. In charging documents made public on Monday, defendants Guochum He and Zheng Wang were accused of working on behalf of the Chinese government … Read more
Reduce deep learning training time and cost with MosaicML Composer on AWS
In the past decade, we have seen Deep learning (DL) science adopted at a tremendous pace by AWS customers. The plentiful and jointly trained parameters of DL models have a large representational capacity that brought improvements in numerous customer use cases, including image and speech analysis, natural language processing (NLP), time series processing, and more. … Read more
NFT Royalties May Be ‘Dwindling,’ Galaxy Digital Researcher Says
Galaxy Digital Research Associate Salmaan Qadir discusses whether NFT creators are benefitting from the royalty economy.
Volumes on crypto investment products drop to 2-year low: CoinShares
Digital asset investment products recorded $5 million worth of cumulative weekly outflows in what CoinShares describes as an “apathetic period.”
Azuki Raises $2.5M With NFT-Backed Golden Skateboard Sale
The anime-inspired NFT project auctioned off eight golden skateboards that can be burned for “physical backed tokens,” an experimental new concept that blends physical and digital goods.
La comunidad MakerDAO aprueba la propuesta de custodia de USDC de Coinbase
Hasta US$1600 millones en USD Coin serán custodiados con Coinbase Prime, donde se obtendrá una recompensa de 1,5%.
Microsoft’s Windows-flavored Android 12L arrives on the Surface Duo and Duo 2
Image: Microsoft The Microsoft Surface Duo and Duo 2 are getting Windows-like UI tweaks, as well as the improvements that come with Android 12L, an operating system built specifically for devices with larger screens. In an update on its blog, Microsoft shared some of the changes coming to its folding phone, which include revamped icons, … Read more
Riot delays two League of Legends spinoffs
Song of Nunu will now be launching sometime in 2023. | Image: Riot Forge Riot Games is delaying two League of Legends spinoffs from its Riot Forge publishing label to 2023. 2D action-platformer Convergence (styled Conv/rgence) and the single-player adventure game Song of Nunu were set to release in 2022, but now they’re being pushed … Read more
Henry Cavill is reassuring fans he’s still Superman
(Henry Cavill’s) Superman returns. | Image: Henry Cavill on Instagram Henry Cavill is letting people know that he’s not done playing Superman (via The Hollywood Reporter). In an Instagram post on Monday, he posted a promotional image of himself as the superhero, along with a video where he says, “I am back as Superman.” His … Read more
Start Regulating the Metaverse Now, Researchers Tell French Leaders
A team of researchers commissioned by the French government said leaders should avoid previous mistakes made with the EU’s crypto rules when regulating the metaverse.