Ripple’s CEO says the company will have spent $200M fighting SEC’s lawsuit that accuses him, a co-founder, and Ripple of selling XRP as an unregistered security (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

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Crypto exchange Bittrex files for bankruptcy in Delaware; filing: the company estimates both its liabilities and assets to be between $500M and $1B (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Crypto exchange Bittrex files for bankruptcy in Delaware; filing: the company estimates both its liabilities and assets to be between $500M and $1B  —  Bittrex already announced its intention to exit the U.S., but also faces an SEC enforcement action.  —  Crypto exchange Bittrex has filed …

Palantir Q1: revenue up 18% YoY to $525M, vs. $506M est., and says its Artificial Intelligence Platform for private datasets is coming in May; PLTR jumps 23%+ (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Filing: Invesco marked down Swiggy’s valuation to ~$5.5B in January 2023, from a reported $10.7B valuation in January 2022, when Invesco led Swiggy’s Series K (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: Invesco marked down Swiggy’s valuation to ~$5.5B in January 2023, from a reported $10.7B valuation in January 2022, when Invesco led Swiggy’s Series K  —  Invesco, which led Swiggy’s previous round, has marked down the Indian food delivery giant’s valuation in its holding to about $5.5 billion, according to a

Google will reportedly reveal a bunch of big AI updates at I/O

Illustration: The Verge Google’s I/O event is less than two days away, and a new CNBC report might have just revealed some of the major AI-focused updates to be announced at the show. One big component will be a new large language model (LLM), PaLM 2, which CNBC describes as a “general-use” LLM that is

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Illustration: The Verge Google I/O is almost here, and that means the launch of the highly anticipated Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet is right around the corner. While the annual conference is largely geared toward developers, the company always holds a keynote revealing the latest and greatest things that’ll wind up in consumers’ hands. If

Truecaller plans to make its caller ID service available globally over WhatsApp and other messaging apps later in May to help users spot potential spam calls (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)

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Filing: Invesco marked down Swiggy’s valuation to ~$5.5B in January 2023, from a reported $10.7B valuation in January 2022, when Invesco led Swiggy’s Series K (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: Invesco marked down Swiggy’s valuation to ~$5.5B in January 2023, from a reported $10.7B valuation in January 2022, when Invesco led Swiggy’s Series K  —  Invesco, which led Swiggy’s previous round, has marked down the Indian food delivery giant’s valuation in its holding to about $5.5 billion, according to a

Google will reportedly reveal a bunch of big AI updates at I/O

Illustration: The Verge Google’s I/O event is less than two days away, and a new CNBC report might have just revealed some of the major AI-focused updates to be announced at the show. One big component will be a new large language model (LLM), PaLM 2, which CNBC describes as a “general-use” LLM that is

Production on Severance and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight is stopping for the WGA strike

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Converting A B&W Exposer Head For Colour Analog Photo Printing

[Koraks tinkers] was gifted a gargantuan photographic enlarger, a Durst Laborator 138 s, which is a unit designed specifically for black and white usage only. This was not good enough for [Koraks] so down the rabbit hole of conversion to colour we go! The sentient of the story is this: if you can’t find it,

Internal documents: Google is planning to announce a number of generative AI updates at Google I/O on Wednesday, including a new general-use LLM called PaLM 2 (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

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How to avoid spoilers online

I tried to pick the least spoiler-y screenshot from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom that I could. | Image: Nintendo Dodging spoilers is becoming more difficult than ever. Thanks in large part to the many algorithmic social media feeds you can scroll through at any given time, just hanging out on the

Surviving to Thriving: Unbreakable Helps Leaders Build Resilient Teams

Convergent technological disruption, rapidly changing (and often destabilizing) economic conditions, and increasingly active and demanding stakeholders. These are just some of the challenges facing organizations and their leaders today. These challenges demand ever closer coordination within and between teams — and from their leaders. But even the most effective teams face setbacks from time to

Filing: Invesco marked down the valuation of Swiggy to ~$5.5B in January 2023, from a reported $10.7B in January 2022, when Invesco led Swiggy’s Series K (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Filing: Invesco marked down the valuation of Swiggy to ~$5.5B in January 2023, from a reported $10.7B in January 2022, when Invesco led Swiggy’s Series K  —  Swiggy, India’s top food delivery startup, has raised $700 million in a new financing round, just six months after securing $1.25 billion …

5 Key Benefits Of Amazon Product Photography

Are you looking for a productive way to increase sales on your Amazon store? You may not have realized it yet, but stunning product photography can be one of the most powerful marketing strategies to boost conversions. Not only does product photography create interest and appeal around your products, but it also helps customers make

All signs hint toward OPPO and OnePlus leaving France. Rest of Europe next?

VCF East 2023: Alan Wolke on His Passion for Tech

If you’re one of the more than 180,000 subscribers to [Alan Wolke]’s YouTube channel W2AEW, you’ll know he’s a lover of old test gear and ham radio hardware. You may have followed one of his tutorials, or referenced his work while repairing or upgrading your own equipment. But when we got a chance to talk

A US appeals court upholds a lower court’s 2019 ruling rejecting Apple’s claims that Corellium’s CORSEC security tool for simulating iOS violated copyright law (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)

Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: A US appeals court upholds a lower court’s 2019 ruling rejecting Apple’s claims that Corellium’s CORSEC security tool for simulating iOS violated copyright law  —  Apple Inc. failed to revive a long-running copyright lawsuit against cybersecurity firm Corellium Inc. over its software …

Amazon’s biggest TV shows could soon land on other streaming services

Image: Nicole Rivelli / Amazon Studios Amazon has plans to sell some of its original Prime Video content to other streaming platforms. In a press release posted on Monday (via Variety), the company announced that it’s forming Amazon MGM Studios Distribution to handle the placement of its shows and movies on outside services, including The

See the first five Lego sets designed in a competition anyone can enter

Image: BrickLink Designer Program Today, five Lego fans are experiencing a dream come true — Lego will turn their design into an official limited-edition Lego set and pay them 5 percent of the proceeds when the sets go up for preorder (limit 20,000 each) in February 2024. Here are the sets that the internet (and

The airline system is melting down, so maybe we could at least get paid

Photo by Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune via Getty Images Flying sucks. On the one hand, it still feels sort of miraculous to climb into a metal tube and be whisked across the country, flying hundreds of miles per hour through the clouds. But on the other hand, almost everything about that experience is bad and is

Oppenheimer’s new trailer is the sound of the Doomsday Clock winding up

Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. | Universal In real life and in Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film Oppenheimer, the engineers working closest to the Manhattan Project knew there was a chance that the atomic bomb might ignite the entire planet’s atmosphere. That fear’s very palpable in the movie’s latest trailer but isn’t nearly enough to