Month: January 2023

Internal email: Fanatics is selling its 60% stake in sports NFT company Candy Digital to an investor group led by Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital (Ian Thomas/CNBC)

Ian Thomas / CNBC: Internal email: Fanatics is selling its 60% stake in sports NFT company Candy Digital to an investor group led by Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital  —  – Michael Rubin’s sports platform company Fanatics is divesting its 60% stake in NFT company Candy Digital, according to an internal email obtained by CNBC.

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The New York City Department of Education, the US’ largest school system, bans access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT on school devices and networks, amid cheating concerns (Michael Elsen-Rooney/Chalkbeat New York)

Michael Elsen-Rooney / Chalkbeat New York: The New York City Department of Education, the US’ largest school system, bans access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT on school devices and networks, amid cheating concerns  —  New York City students and teachers can no longer access ChatGPT — the new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot …

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Zen and Glowing Air Bubble Displays

When you work in a medium for long enough, and you learn how it works more and more deeply, you eventually become its master. [Yukio Shinoda] is probably master of the LED bubble display. She started out with an idea, back in 1994, of a column of water and an array of solenoids to inject

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A US judge rules that the crypto deposits in bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network’s yield-bearing accounts belong to Celsius and not individual holders (Crystal Kim/Axios)

Crystal Kim / Axios: A US judge rules that the crypto deposits in bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network’s yield-bearing accounts belong to Celsius and not individual holders  —  Celsius Network’s bankruptcy might have just set a precedent in determining what crypto assets belong to whom when stored on a centralized platform.

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Luminar acquires lidar data company Civil Maps

Photo by Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Lidar hardware company Luminar announced it has acquired Civil Maps, a lidar data company based in San Francisco. The acquisition brings ultra-detailed and automatically updating 3D maps of various cities into Luminar’s fold as it plans to bring fully autonomous vehicles into reality. Luminar will integrate the

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The US SEC files a limited objection to Binance.US’ $1.02B bid for crypto lender Voyager’s assets, asking for sufficient details on how Binance plans to pay (Nelson Wang/CoinDesk)

Nelson Wang / CoinDesk: The US SEC files a limited objection to Binance.US’ $1.02B bid for crypto lender Voyager’s assets, asking for sufficient details on how Binance plans to pay  —  The agency is asking for more details how the crypto exchange can afford the deal.  —  Join the most important conversation …

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Sources: Amazon plans to lay off over 17,000 employees, more than the 10,000 workers it expected in November 2022, with new cuts starting over the coming weeks (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon plans to lay off over 17,000 employees, more than the 10,000 workers it expected in November 2022, with new cuts starting over the coming weeks  —  New figure would be the largest number of cuts revealed so far at a major tech company  —  Amazon AMZN -0.79%decrease …

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