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Ethereum launched in 2015 at under $1 per token. Early supporters who recognized the vision walked away with returns that redefined generational wealth. ICO buyers at $0.30 saw their positions climb more than 3,500x to the 2018 peak. Those gains did not come from luck. They came from spotting infrastructure before the crowd arrived. Now, […]
The transport department awaits cabinet approval on its agreement with the Government Printing Works before the latter can start producing driving licence cards.
The Binance Academy forms the foundation, teaching beginners blockchain basics before exposing them to risk markets.
Ian Sample puts listeners’ questions on dreams and nightmares to Dr Michelle Carr, director of the Dream Engineering Laboratory in Montreal’s Centre for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, and author of the new book Into the Dream Lab. They look at why we dream, what we can learn by examining our dreams, and what we can do when dreams turn to nightmares. Dr Carr gives her top tips for...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from DealBook: Fifteen years ago, Daniel Ek broke into America’s digital-content wars with his streaming music start-up, Spotify, which has turned into a publicly traded company with a $110 billion market value. Now he and his business partner, the Swedish entrepreneur Hjalmar Nilsonne, aim to crack a higher-stakes consumer market: American health care. The...
After nearly two decades of touchscreen dominance, QWERTY smartphones are staging a niche comeback, with Clicks and Unihertz unveiling new physical-keyboard phones at CES 2026. Gizmodo reports: At CES 2026, Clicks, the company behind the Clicks keyboard case and the new Power Keyboard, announced plans to sell the Communicator, a “second phone” with a QWERTY keypad. Clicks pitches the $500...
Four astronauts undock from International Space Station, with the affected crewmember in a stable condition, says space agency
Four crew members have left the International Space Station (ISS) and are heading back to Earth after a medical issue prompted their mission to be cut a month short in Nasa’s first medical evacuation.
A video feed from Nasa showed American astronauts Mike Fincke and...
Digg is officially back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. “Similar to Reddit, the new Digg offers a website and mobile app where you can browse feeds featuring posts from across a selection of its communities and join other communities that align with your interests,” reports TechCrunch. “There, you can post, comment, and...
Cerebras Systems landed a more than $10 billion deal to supply up to 750 megawatts of compute to OpenAI through 2028, according to a blog post by OpenAI. CNBC reports: The deal will help diversify Cerebras away from the United Arab Emirates’ G42, which accounted for 87% of revenue in the first half of 2024. “The way you have three very large customers is start with one very large customer, and...
The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gothamist: City regulators on Tuesday accused Uber and DoorDash of deliberately altering their app interfaces to discourage customers from tipping food delivery workers, a move that has cost the employees more than $550 million over the last two years. A report (PDF) published by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection argues that food delivery...
The tariffs will allow President Trump to take a cut of Nvidia’s chip sales to China while putting off a decision about imposing higher taxes on the chip industry.
The U.S. has approved limited sales of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China, the Department of Commerce said on Tuesday. Exports will be allowed to “approved customers” with security safeguards and a 25% U.S. government cut. The company’s most advanced Blackwell chips will remain restricted. The BBC reports: The H200, Nvidia’s second-most-advanced semiconductor, had been restricted by Washington...
The killing of George Floyd in 2020 prompted a wave of statements from tech companies and CEOs. Today, pushback against ICE is largely coming from employees, not executives.
Bandcamp has announced a ban on music made wholly or substantially by generative AI, aiming to protect human creativity and prohibit AI impersonation of artists. Here’s what the music platform had to say: … Something that always strikes us as we put together a roundup like this is the sheer quantity of human creativity and passion that artists express on Bandcamp every single day. The fact that...
The agreement with the start-up Cerebras is the latest in a series intended to expand the A.I. company’s computing power.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: According to the government’s version of events, 43-year-old Christopher Southerland was working in 2023 as a sysadmin for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. In his role, Southerland had the authority to order cell phones for committee staffers, of which there are around 80. But during the early months of 2023,...
The UK government has abandoned its controversial plan to require workers to sign up for a mandatory digital ID system to prove their eligibility to work in the country, opting instead to move existing document-based checks — such as biometric passports — fully online by 2029. The reversal follows a dramatic collapse in public support; polling showed approval falling from just over half the...
Dell’s chief operating officer Jeff Clarke has informed employees that the company is preparing for what he calls the “biggest transformation in company history,” a sweeping systems overhaul scheduled to launch on May 3 that will standardize processes across nearly every major division. The initiative, dubbed One Dell Way, will replace Dell’s existing sprawl of applications, servers and...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Global temperatures soared in 2025, but a NASA statement published Wednesday alongside its latest benchmark annual report makes no reference to climate change, in line with President Donald Trump’s push to deny the reality of planetary heating as a result of human activities. That marks a sharp break from last year’s communications, issued under the...
New research has discovered that a neural circuit may explain procrastination. Scientists were able to disrupt this connection using a drug.