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US currency comptroller to up its game with new Office of Financial Technology in 2023
The OCC said it will incorporate its six-year-old Office of Innovation into a new agency that will help it deepen its understanding of fintech and promote responsible innovation.
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
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Amazon’s income dipped in Q3 2022 as the economy took its toll
Amazon suffered steep losses in year-over-year income as post-pandemic shopping habits and inflation threw the retailer for a loop. In its third quarter 2022 earnings report today, Amazon revealed that operating income decreased to $2.5 billion in Q3 2022 compared to $4.9 billion the same quarter last year, while net income dipped to $2.9 billion … Read more
Aptos Token Rebounds After Upstart Blockchain’s Dismal Debut
The price of the upstart blockchain’s APT token has nearly rallied back to where it started trading – before a swift crash.
Cruise opens robotaxi waitlist in Austin and Phoenix
Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous vehicle subsidiary, is now inviting potential passengers in Phoenix and Austin to join the waitlist to be among the first Cruise robotaxi passengers. The company has been operating a fully driverless commercial robotaxi service in San Francisco since June, with fully driverless meaning there’s no human safety operator behind the wheel. … Read more
Tech Behemoths Could Become ‘Dinosaurs’ if They Enter the Metaverse for the Wrong Reasons, Deepak Chopra Says
Chopra, founder of health-care company Chopra Global, discusses why big names in tech could succumb to short-lived success if they leap into the metaverse with the wrong intentions.
Meta is in trouble
A day after weighing in with its third quarter earnings report, Meta is flailing. The company formerly known as Facebook was in trouble Thursday after uninspiring numbers and an apparent lack of faith in Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision sent its shares plunging by 25%. At the time of writing, Meta was trading around $98, down … Read more
Apple security bounty upgraded
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Fidelity report shows resilience to crypto winter, huge adoption gap among investors
Fidelity Digital Assets’ research paints a not-too-gloomy picture of the digital asset institutional investment scene, although it indicates that some segments are much more active than others.
How to raise funds when you aren’t in the Bay Area
Perhaps sitting perched somewhere in sunny Miami, Florida, is a founder wondering the best ways to fundraise for a company when situated outside a traditional tech hub like the Bay Area. They need not worry. Last week, Mike Asem from M25, Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund and Accel’s Rich Wong answered that question at TechCrunch … Read more
THORChain Suffers an Outage Due to Software Bug
The team behind the Cosmos-based blockchain noted that the outage had “nothing to do with solvency.”
Maren Altman: Crypto’s TikTok Astrologer
Combining both astrological and technical analysis indicators, Altman hopes “to be a journalistic documentation of how the strategy plays out.” CoinDesk’s Trading Week is about how crypto traders find alpha and stay sane doing it.
Valve’s new beta lets you use the Steam Deck UI on your desktop
The beta UI’s homescreen certainly looks more modern. Valve is officially letting users try out a new version of Steam’s Big Picture mode, which makes the game client look like its popular Steam Deck handheld. The long-awaited change (we were hearing rumblings about it in July 2021) is a big upgrade for the gamepad-friendly version … Read more
Five Social Media Influencers Who Dealt Their Followers a Bad Hand
From fantastic price projections to paid project promotion without full disclosure, these crypto influencers played a loser’s game, dealing bad crypto recommendations that may have hurt their millions of followers.
Team Finance exploited for $14.5M during protocol migration despite contract audit
Hackers appear to have spent as little as 1.76 Ether to initiate the attack vector.
El PBI de EE. UU. crece 2,6% en el tercer trimestre y bitcoin se mantiene estable
Cualquier aumento en el producto bruto interno podría ser negativo para el mercado de bitcoin porque la Reserva Federal tendría que seguir subiendo las tasas de interés para bajar la inflación, algo que suele ser malo para los precios de los activos de riesgo.
Apple doesn’t want you trading NFTs on your phone (unless it makes them money)
Apple is no stranger to asserting its dominance. That’s exactly what the tech giant did this week when it announced new, stringent guidelines for NFT transactions in the iOS App Store, marking the first time the company has taken any sort of substantial position on web3. We hopped on the mic for the Thursday episode … Read more
Apple says, ‘NFTs? Yes, fees’
Image Credits: TechCrunch Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we recorded our news episode live onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt, in which we talked about the Aptos launch and shared our predictions for where we expect money to flow in the web3 world. This week, we dove into NFTs, examining Apple’s new App Store guidelines … Read more
Physical ‘copies’ of the new Call of Duty are just empty discs
Cartridges and discs used to be how you got the latest games, but that’s been changing as downloads have become more convenient and reliable. But some people prefer the sure thing: a physical copy, so they can play offline or with a bad connection. To them, Activision says “qq”: the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare … Read more
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Apple flexes its control over the App Store
Apple’s updated App Store rules could have a big impact on developers. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s most impactful changes this week weren’t new iPads or operating systems. The company also shook up the App Store with new rules and ad slots designed to wring more money out of its tight … Read more
Brink Emerges as the Top Funder of Bitcoin Core Development, BitMex Research Says
The non-profit has funded the highest number of active Bitcoin Core developers and reviewers.
Dawn of the tentacle
Fair warning, it’s going to be a quick one from me today. I caught the thing again, roughly three months after the last time I caught the thing. They say, “third time’s the charm,” and I now recognize that they were referring to chest pain and a general light-headedness. Turns out it doesn’t get easier. … Read more