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First Mover Asia: As the Fed Hikes Rates, Ether, USDC Lending Yield Pays Less Than T-Bills; Bitcoin Rises, Holds Over $19K
First Mover Asia: The average yield one can expect for lending USDC via DeFi protocols is 0.98%; the current one-year Treasury bond is paying 4.08%.
On Deck tried to do it all. Now, it’s trying to do less, better
Erik Torenberg is no longer the co-CEO of On Deck, a tech company that is trying to productize the community in a way that helps founders secure capital and advice. Torenberg, an early Product Hunt employee and the founder of investment firm Village Global, assumed the role only a year ago. But now, as On … Read more
Google’s new adventure game takes a top-down trip through ancient Mesoamerica
I love the cute characters in the game. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Google’s Arts & Culture division has released a charming new educational game all about ancient Mesoamerica. The game, The Descent of the Serpent, is available to play right now in your browser or via the Google Arts & Culture … Read more
Rushing ‘token mapping’ could hurt Aussie crypto space — Finder founder
Australian crypto entrepreneur Fred Schebesta said Australia already has a “fledgling” crypto industry but needs to “align with the other major markets.”
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Amazon is tightening its ebook return policy to thwart BookTok
Amazon’s Logo. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon plans to limit automatic ebook returns to cases where people have read no more than 10 percent of the book, according to the Authors Guild. The change, which follows complaints that Kindle buyers were returning titles they’d fully read to get a refund, is … Read more
Rust 2024 the Year of Everywhere?
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I briefly played with Logitech’s new G Cloud Gaming Handheld
When you’re in the Xbox Cloud Gaming app, the yellow Logitech button pulls up the Xbox shade as if you were playing on a console. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Yesterday, Logitech announced its $349.99 G Cloud Gaming Handheld, which is coming out in the US on October 17th (until then, it’s … Read more
Valve overhauls Steam’s stats page with new real-time charts
Valve’s stats page for its Steam storefront now has real-time charts showing both the top-selling and most played games at any given moment. You can look at the new stats page right here. As I write this, the top-selling title is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II — which perhaps isn’t too shocking given that … Read more
Optus, Australia’s second largest telco, says customer data exposed in data breach
Australia telecoms giant Optus said current and former customer data was accessed following a cyberattack on its systems. Optus said in a press release on Thursday that an unspecified number of customer names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and addresses and identity document numbers, such as driver’s license or passport numbers, were taken … Read more
Looking at 320 pitch decks, here’s what science tells us works best
Investors are spending 24% less time looking at pitch decks in 2022, compared to 2021. On average, you have just under three minutes to convince them to take a meeting with you. In fact, for decks that fail to raise funding, investors give up in just 2 minutes and 13 seconds. That’s not a lot … Read more
Ethereum Miners’ $319M Crypto Hoard Hangs Over Market After Merge
Miners dumped over 16,000 ETH, worth more than $20 million, in the past week, on-chain data showed.
The ETH Merge Did Little to Energize a Tepid NFT Market
Volume on one of the industry’s top marketplaces, OpenSea, has had little movement before and after the Merge, to the surprise of many.
CFTC Penalizes Blockchain Protocol $250K, Files Action Against Successor DAO
The commission said bZeroX offered illegal, off-exchange trading of digital assets, and has also filed a civil action against the Ooki DAO.
Daily Crunch: A closer look at Google’s remote-controlled $30 Chromecast
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, folks! Chromecasts have been a hacker and nerd favorite for a moment or two, and we’re pretty psyched to see the price (with a remote!) dropping to $30. Apropos hardware, Brian … Read more
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NFT Marketplace TravelX Launches With Tickets From Low-Cost Argentinian Airline Flybondi
The platform hopes to offer the inventory of 60 more airlines within the next 12 months.
Nothing is prepping a new pair of earbuds
When Nothing was unveiled early last year, founder Carl Pei promised that the hardware startup had a full road map. Early stories about the London-based firm alluded to a pitch deck full of Pokémon characters, each representing a different product in the pipeline. Roughly a year and a half later, Nothing has delivered two major … Read more
Apple fixes camera shaking issues and the paste permissions bug in today’s iOS 16 update
Apple today released the first major update to its new iOS 16 mobile operating system ahead of schedule. Earlier this week, Apple confirmed it would roll out an update next week aimed at addressing a handful of bugs that had been plaguing users, including an annoying copy and paste permissions-related bug and another that saw … Read more
Why adults still dream about school
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Detect population variance of endangered species using Amazon Rekognition
Our planet faces a global extinction crisis. UN Report shows a staggering number of more than a million species feared to be on the path of extinction. The most common reasons for extinction include loss of habitat, poaching, and invasive species. Several wildlife conservation foundations, research scientists, volunteers, and anti-poaching rangers have been working tirelessly … Read more