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The US Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief on May 9 in the Coinbase v. SEC case, slamming the regulator for its “haphazard, enforcement-based approach” (Tom Mitchelhill/Cointelegraph)

Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: The US Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief on May 9 in the Coinbase v. SEC case, slamming the regulator for its “haphazard, enforcement-based approach”  —  The largest business organization in the world has thrown its weight behind Coinbase in its fight against the SEC.

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Does McDonald’s take Apple Pay?

Founded by Ray Kroc (and not a clown named Ronald) in 1954, McDonald’s is one of the largest and best-recognized fast-food chains in the world. It has more than 36,000 restaurants in over 100 countries and caters to all types of hungry patrons, including iPhone users. It might serve apple pie, but does McDonald’s take

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Germany’s Wingcopter, a drone delivery startup specializing in medical supplies, raised €40M from the European Investment Bank, taking its total raised to €100M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Germany’s Wingcopter, a drone delivery startup specializing in medical supplies, raised €40M from the European Investment Bank, taking its total raised to €100M  —  Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily …

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Germany’s Wingcopter, a drone delivery startup specializing in medical supplies, raised €40M from the European Investment Bank, taking its total raised to €100M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Germany’s Wingcopter, a drone delivery startup specializing in medical supplies, raised €40M from the European Investment Bank, taking its total raised to €100M  —  Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily …

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Riot Games names its global president A. Dylan Jadeja as the company’s new CEO starting later in 2023, succeeding Nicolo Laurent, who will stay on as an advisor (Ryan Dinsdale/IGN)

Ryan Dinsdale / IGN: Riot Games names its global president A. Dylan Jadeja as the company’s new CEO starting later in 2023, succeeding Nicolo Laurent, who will stay on as an advisor  —  Succeeding Nicolo Laurent.  —  IGN can reveal that Riot Games global president A. Dylan Jadeja will succeed Nicolo Laurent as the company’s

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Oura x Peloton has a good ring to it

Credit: Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority Oura now integrates with Peloton via Google Health Connect. Peloton users can view their workout details and biometrics in the Oura app. Workouts will also be incorporated into Oura Ring users’ daily scores. Google’s Health Connect brings plenty of power to one of the smallest members of the wearables market, the

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Meta announces AI Sandbox, with generative AI tools to help select advertisers create text variations, background images from text, and cropped images (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta announces AI Sandbox, with generative AI tools to help select advertisers create text variations, background images from text, and cropped images  —  Meta today announced an AI Sandbox for advertisers to help them create alternative copies, background generation through text prompts …

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The Pixel Tablet is half of what it could have been

Everyone knows the Pixel Tablet’s dock is just a dock. What this article presupposes is: what if it weren’t? I’m not surprised; I’m just disappointed. As expected, Google launched the Pixel Tablet at its Google I/O developer conference yesterday. It’s an 11-inch Android tablet with a “charging speaker dock,” and when it’s on the dock,

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Anthropic expands Claude’s context window from 9K to 100K tokens, or ~75K words it can digest and analyze; OpenAI’s GPT-4 has a context window of ~32K tokens (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Anthropic expands Claude’s context window from 9K to 100K tokens, or ~75K words it can digest and analyze; OpenAI’s GPT-4 has a context window of ~32K tokens  —  Historically and even today, poor memory has been an impediment to the usefulness of text-generating AI.

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Converting On-Grid Electronics To Off-Grid

Husband and wife team [Jason & Kara] hail from Canada, and in 2018, after building their own camper, sold up their remaining earthly goods and headed south. If you’re not aware of them, they documented their journey on their YouTube channel, showing many interesting skills and hacks along the way. The video we’re highlighting today

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FNIRSI vs Rigol: An Alternate View

We’ve heard of the FNIRSI 1014D scope, but we’ve had the impression that it might not be a great scope, although it is economical. [Learn Electronics Repair] had heard from another YouTuber that it was “a piece of junk.” However, he wanted to look at it compared to another inexpensive scope, the Rigol DS1052E. His

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