Bitcoin price reaches $21K as crypto market cap nears $1T
The gains keep coming for BTC and crypto for a second day as the U.S. dollar drops.
What Bloomberg’s Crypto Opus Means for the Next Bull Market
The leading business publication and its star writer make one thing clear: cryptocurrency matters.
Kollider Raises $2.4M to Build ‘Lightning-Native’ Financial Products
The Bitcoin derivatives exchange already has bitcoin-backed synthetic stablecoins and a Lightning-enabled bitcoin wallet in the pipeline.
Introducing the Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference Benchmarking Toolkit
Amazon SageMaker Serverless Inference is a purpose-built inference option that makes it easy for you to deploy and scale machine learning (ML) models. It provides a pay-per-use model, which is ideal for services where endpoint invocations are infrequent and unpredictable. Unlike a real-time hosting endpoint, which is backed by a long-running instance, compute resources for … Read more
Zillow lays off 300 employees in latest workforce shift
Zillow has laid off about 300 employees as it is shifting focus towards technology-related positions in the company, TechCrunch has learned from sources and confirmed with the company over e-mail. The Seattle-headquartered online real estate marketplace informed its impacted employees about the decision on Tuesday. Shortly after receiving the communication, the impacted employees had to … Read more
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Rian Johnson’s Poker Face looks like it might be Peacock’s first must-see show
Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale. | Peacock While everyone’s been eagerly waiting for Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion to arrive on Netflix this December, the Knives Out sequel isn’t the director’s only mystery-driven passion project coming to shake up the streaming space. There hasn’t been all that much noise about Johnson and Natasha Lyonne’s upcoming Peacock … Read more
Volunteer at TC Sessions: Crypto and earn a free pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
It takes a lot of people to bring a tech conference to life, and we’re looking for a few amazing volunteers to support our events team and help make TC Sessions: Crypto an awesome experience for our attendees. If you’re amazing, crypto curious, a DeFi die-hard, big on blockchain, wild about web3, interested in event … Read more
Dear Sophie: How can early-stage startups improve their chances of getting H-1Bs?
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
Amazon and Bethesda are teasing the Fallout TV show
What appears to be the first official photo from the upcoming Fallout TV show. | Image: Amazon Amazon and Bethesda have started to share itty bitty teases of the upcoming Fallout TV series for Prime Video. We still don’t know when the show based on the post-apocalyptic RPG series is coming out, but the hints … Read more
The X Games has a new owner with plans for esports, YouTube, and Twitch
Tony Hawk’s serving as the X Games’ brand steward. | Image: MSP Sports Capital The next X Games might add competitive gaming to its roster of extreme sports and may even stream on YouTube and Twitch. In a press release, MSP Sports Capital announced it acquired majority ownership of X Games from ESPN and is … Read more
In Topsy Turvy Market Logic, Positive U.S. GDP Could Be Negative For Crypto
Analysts estimate the U.S. economy rose 2% in the third quarter of the year, upending a streak of two straight quarters of contraction.
Venture capital recedes from crypto in Q3, but not all is bleak: Report
Even though venture capital inflows into the blockchain industry dropped by 66% in Q3 2022, it doesn’t necessarily suggest an overwhelmingly bearish sentiment.
The best Black Friday deals you can already get at Best Buy
$400 off the latest 14-inch MacBook Pro is one of many great deals already happening at Best Buy. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It’s still October, but we’re already hearing about big Black Friday deals. One of the early offenders is Best Buy, which began marking down a large batch of … Read more
Meta hit with antitrust breach order in Turkey for combining user data across Fb, WhatsApp, Instagram
Meta won’t be quaking at the size of the penalty it’s just been handed by Turkey’s competition authority, which announced a 346.72 million lira sanction today. The circa $18.6M fine pales in comparison to a number of recent stings hitting it from European regulators. Such as the $267M fine for WhatsApp in the European Union … Read more
Sigstore launches free software signing and verification service for open source projects
Software supply chain quickly became a hot topic in the last few years, especially as the number of high-profile attacks increased and the White House got involved. Sigstore, an open source project supported by the likes of Google, GitHub, Chainguard and RedHat, has become somewhat of a standard for signing, verifying and protecting software projects … Read more
Bloomberg Beta Leads $6.2M Funding for DAO Framework Origami
Origami and backer Orange DAO also announced a $20,000 funding program for pre-launch decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)
Servant’s fourth and final season is coming to Apple TV Plus in January
Image: Apple Apple TV Plus’ creepiest series is almost over. Servant, an M. Night Shyamalan-helmed psychological thriller about unsettling baby dolls, will kick off its fourth and final season in January. The first episode of season 4 will start streaming on January 13th, 2023, with the rest of the 10-episode season releasing weekly after that, … Read more
Deploy a machine learning inference data capture solution on AWS Lambda
Monitoring machine learning (ML) predictions can help improve the quality of deployed models. Capturing the data from inferences made in production can enable you to monitor your deployed models and detect deviations in model quality. Early and proactive detection of these deviations enables you to take corrective actions, such as retraining models, auditing upstream systems, … Read more
For $1,570, you, too, can get a Naruto smartwatch from Montblanc
That’s capitalism for you, dattebayo. | Image: Montblanc For the 20th anniversary of the Naruto anime and manga, luxury brand Montblanc is releasing a limited-edition version of its Summit 3 Wear OS 3 smartwatch featuring the titular character. It costs $1,570. The Montblanc x Naruto Summit 3 smartwatch features “exciting Naruto animations” on the watchface … Read more
Andreessen Horowitz loses billions of dollars but remains faithful to crypto
a16z’ general partner Chris Dixon focuses on the entrepreneurial and developers’ activity, not on the prices.
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Korean internet giant Naver eyes North America, Europe as it grows its C2C marketplace business
Did you know that Google isn’t the top search engine in South Korea? It’s not even a close second. Most Koreans actually prefer Naver for various reasons, and they like it so much that the search engine holds about 56% of the market, per Statista. Google is catching up, but it currently only has about … Read more
The Xiaomi 12T Pro has more megapixels than it knows what to do with
Two hundred million pixels is a lot of pixels. One of the world’s first 200-megapixel smartphone cameras is here. Too bad it’s mostly a gimmick. Continue reading…
This robotic tentacle gripper is gentle, practical, and terrifying
Hands, man, they’re a tough gig to beat. Four fingers? An opposable thumb? A design classic. But that’s never stopped scientists from trying to surpass what nature perfected. And their latest attempt to out-fing humanity’s fingers is pleasingly terrifying. The engineers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) that … Read more