Sarah Wynn / The Block: The SEC charges Genesis and Gemini with the unregistered offering and sale of securities to retail investors through a Gemini crypto lending program — – The SEC charged both Gemini and Genesis with unregistered offering and sale of securities to retail investors, some of who were in the U.S.
Read MoreA soldier wearing an IVAS headset. | Image: US Army Congress has denied the Army’s request to buy up to 6,900 headsets based on Microsoft’s HoloLens technology, according to a report from Bloomberg. The military was apparently asking for around $400 million — instead, it’s getting around a tenth of that to go toward improving
Read MoreImage: Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Well, that was quick. After just a few years on the market, Mercedes-Benz’s “EQ” brand for electric vehicles — which currently includes the EQS, EQE, and a host of others coming soon — may be on the way out. The news was first reported by Germany’s Handelsblatt daily newspaper
Read MoreThe Wear OS 3 update is rolling out to Skagen Gen 6 owners. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Fossil has started rolling out the Wear OS 3 update to its Skagen Falster Gen 6 smartwatches. The only catch is that doing so removes many watchfaces that were previously available — yet another
Read MoreKotlin 1.8.0, an upgrade to the JetBrains-developed, statically typed language for multiplatform mobile, web, and native development, is now available as a production release. The new version introduces experimental functions for recursively copying or deleting directory content on the JVM. The standard library in Kotlin 1.8.0 adds new experimental functions for java.nio.file.path that can recursively
Read MoreA listener of the podcast recently wrote in to tell us that, in the process of trying to purchase a legitimate Hackaday t-shirt, they discovered this 2012 Instructable from [yeltrow] that covers how you can cheaply crank out your own Wrencher shirts via screen printing. Now historically, as long as you’re not trying to make
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority The Skagen Falster Gen 6 is getting Wear OS 3. The update will require a factory reset. It will be getting a stock version of Wear OS 3 with no exclusive features. Another smartwatch appears to be joining the Wear OS 3 party. The latest watch to get the
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Google and Nvidia told the FTC that the Activision Blizzard deal could give Microsoft an unfair advantage in cloud, subscription, and mobile gaming — Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Nvidia Corp. have expressed concerns to the Federal Trade Commission about Microsoft Corp.’s acquisition …
Read MoreLast year was one of the warmest measured, say NASA and NOAA. It would have been even more sweltering if not for La Niña, which will soon fade away.
Read MoreImage: Second Dinner After weeks of playtesting, theorycrafting, ladder-climbing, and a bunch of shit-talking, I am ready to face my friends in Marvel Snap’s PvP mode. In a new blog on the Unity developer tools website, Marvel Snap associate design director Kent-Erik Hagman wrote about what players can expect when Battle Mode is planned to
Read MoreKenrick Cai / Forbes: Sources: low-code app development tools maker OutSystems raised $228.4M in October 2022 at a $4.3B valuation, 55% lower than the $9.5B valuation from Feb. 2021 — OutSystems, a software firm which sells low-code app development tools, quietly raised a new financing round last October at less …
Read MoreWell, this is awkward: AMD seems to be stuck in limbo regarding the upcoming launch of its highly-anticipated X3D line of CPUs. If you recall at the paper launch it said they’d arrive in February, and it conspicuously left out pricing information. This week the company revealed the actual launch date — Valentine’s Day, Feb.
Read MoreKenrick Cai / Forbes: Butter Payments, which uses AI to help companies catch accidental subscription churn, raised a $21.5M Series A from Norwest, sources say at a ~$100M valuation — A decade ago, Microsoft, Dropbox and Scribd were all leaking money. They were losing millions a year to subscriptions that were being …
Read MoreIdris Elba in Luther: The Fallen Sun. | Image: Netflix Idris Elba is jumping back into one of his most iconic roles for the upcoming Netflix film Luther: The Fallen Sun. Today, the company revealed that the movie will start streaming on March 10th but will also be available in select theaters starting February 24th.
Read MoreJoe Burrow in Madden NFL 23. | Image: EA Madden NFL 23’s newest title update briefly locked players out of the game on Thursday, EA confirmed on Twitter. It’s the latest in a string of issues to plague the popular football title over the past few weeks. At 11:43AM ET Thursday, EA’s Madden NFL Direct
Read MoreCredit: Kris Carlon / Android Authority A new report suggests T-Mobile and Mint Mobile might be in talks about an acquisition. Mint already uses T-Mobile’s network, so this likely wouldn’t affect coverage too much. Pricing, availability of plans, etc., could change if this deal happens. Mint Mobile is an MVNO of T-Mobile. That means Mint
Read MoreThe American multinational oil and gas ExxonMobil Corporation headquartered is seen on December 29th, 2022, in Diegem, Belgium. | Photo by Thierry Monasse / Getty Images ExxonMobil predicted rising global temperatures with remarkable accuracy even as it attempted to downplay the existence of climate change, new research shows. It comes with damning data visualizations that
Read MoreTony Stubblebine / The Official Medium Blog: Medium launches a Mastodon instance on me.dm, promising members a service with reliable moderation, smoother onboarding, an interesting local feed, and more — The fediverse is a breath of fresh air for writers and social media — Today, Medium is launching a Mastodon instance at me.dm …
Read MoreThe James Webb Space Telescope was not designed exclusively to hunt for exoplanets like NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), but it can still make vital contributions to our understanding of these distant worlds. NASA has announced that Webb just confirmed its first exoplanet, a world known as LHS 475 b that was previously identified
Read MoreI think you can guess what Minx was about from this image. | Image: HBO Max If you’ve been irritated by all the shows and films HBO Max has been dumping from its service, here’s some silver lining: at least one of them has been saved. Minx, which is produced by Lionsgate, has been picked
Read MoreCredit: Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TW Electronics revealed a new Google TV remote at CES 2023. The remote has technology that uses light to keep the battery charged. There’s no launch date yet for the remote. It’s a pain when the batteries in your remote die, especially if you don’t have an extra pair
Read MoreWhether it’s your favorite programming language, or your favorite beverage, there’s no denying Java is everywhere. Now, it’s even on the Nintendo 64, thanks to the valiant efforts of [Mike Kohn]. Even better, he’s coded a demo to show off its capabilities! The project took plenty of work. [Mike] went all the way down to
Read MoreDatabase-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider DataStax on Thursday said that it is acquiring Seattle-based machine learning services providing firm Kaskada for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition of Kaskada will help DataStax introduce data-based, event-driven and real-time machine learning capabilities to its offerings, such as its serverless, NoSQL database-as-a-service AstraDB and Astra Streaming, the company said in
Read MorePackage tracking is something we all do these days. You order something from somewhere, and it shows up eventually. Some folks order more things than others, and that necessitates a need for a package tracker. Package tracking apps help you track your packages from various shippers in a single, handy UI. It’s right up there
Read MoreAs a community we owe perhaps more than we realise to the RepRap project. From it we get not only a set of open-source printer designs, but that 3D printing at our level has never become dominated by proprietary manufacturers in the way that for example paper printing is. The idea of a printer that
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