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A US federal judge dismisses a proposed class action lawsuit against Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and others over promoting EthereumMax on social media (Rebecca Picciotto/CNBC)

Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC: A US federal judge dismisses a proposed class action lawsuit against Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather Jr., and others over promoting EthereumMax on social media — – A federal judge dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit by investors against the founders of a cryptocurrency …

Some NFTs minted on FTX are broken, showing only blank images, because metadata points to an FTX.US domain now used for a bankruptcy restructuring website (Ezra Reguerra/Cointelegraph)

Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: Some NFTs minted on FTX are broken, showing only blank images, because metadata points to an FTX.US domain now used for a bankruptcy restructuring website — NFTs hosted on FTX platform were affected by the firm’s collapse, showing blank images instead of the original art. — 191 Total views

New Pixel Fold leaks show one wide foldy boi

A reliable source has leaked Pixel Fold renders and a 360-degree video. The source also disclosed apparent dimensions, suggesting the foldable is larger than previously rumored. The Google Pixel Fold has been in the works for a while now, but we got our first apparent peek at the device via unofficial renders last month. Now,

Sonos and Ikea made a floor lamp speaker that could be perfect for surround sound

The new Symfonisk floor lamp speaker will be available in January. | Image: Ikea Sonos and Ikea today announced the latest addition to their collaborative Symfonisk product lineup: it’s a new floor-standing lamp speaker. The $260 Symfonisk floor lamp speaker will be available from Ikea’s stores and website beginning in January. In terms of design,

Scientists Devise Faster Method of Interstellar Space Travel Based on Seabird Gliding

(Credit: Ivo Andričić/pixabay) (Credit: Ivo Andričić/pixabay) After decades of space exploration, humanity’s reach has still only barely extended beyond the bounds of the solar system. With current technology, it would take thousands of years just to reach the nearest star. A recent study proposes a new method of interstellar travel based on the way seabirds

An Affordable And Programmable PLC

We’re all used to general purpose microcontroller boards such as the Arduino or its many imitators, but perhaps we don’t see as much of their industrial cousins. A programmable logic controller (PLC) is a computer designed to automate industrial machinery, and comes with protected interfaces and usually a specific PLC programming environment. Thus [Galopago]’s work

Debunking claims on Twitter handling the Hunter Biden laptop story, including that Twitter engaged in election interference or violated the First Amendment (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Debunking claims on Twitter handling the Hunter Biden laptop story, including that Twitter engaged in election interference or violated the First Amendment — Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden’s laptop.

Twitter Blue will reportedly cost more from iPhones to offset ‘hidden 30 percent tax’

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Twitter Blue may relaunch at two different price points depending on where you subscribe from, according to a new report from The Information. The premium subscription could cost $11 when purchased via Twitter’s iOS app, or a reduced $7 per month if users subscribe via Twitter’s website. The

Thursday’s top tech news: Another Theranos exec sentenced to over a decade in prison

Former Theranos President Sunny Balwani was sentenced to almost 13 years in prison. | Image: Getty Plus lots of new content for old games. Continue reading…

Docs detail cybersurveillance company Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, who co-founded search engine Qwant and was lauded as France’s digital privacy defender (Elisa Braun/Politico)

Elisa Braun / Politico: Docs detail cybersurveillance company Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, who co-founded search engine Qwant and was lauded as France’s digital privacy defender — This story is part of the series Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance. Read the rest.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expects the exchange’s 2022 revenue to be “roughly half that or less” than the ~$7B generated in 2021, as crypto prices fall (Yueqi Yang/Bloomberg)

Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expects the exchange’s 2022 revenue to be “roughly half that or less” than the ~$7B generated in 2021, as crypto prices fall — Coinbase Global Inc. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said the cryptocurrency exchange’s revenue is set to be cut …

Dyson announces the $949 Dyson Zone noise canceling headphones, which also use filters to block unwanted air particles, available for preorder in March 2023 (Andrew Liszewski/Gizmodo)

Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: Dyson announces the $949 Dyson Zone noise canceling headphones, which also use filters to block unwanted air particles, available for preorder in March 2023 — The company’s first audio product promises to eliminate both unwanted noise and unwanted air particles. — Alerts

Realme announces it’s launching the Realme 10 Pro series globally

Credit: Realme Realme has announced that it is launching its Realme 10 Pro series globally. The Realme 10 Pro series will have a 120Hz curved display and 2,160Hz PWM dimming. The 10 Pro starts at $319 and the 10 Pro Plus starts at $379. The Shenzhen-based electronics manufacturer, Realme, has announced that it is launching

Daily Authority: 🔍 Google’s year in search

Good morning! We recently got a new wand for our cat, and she really loves it. That’s a relief because she hasn’t really played with a couple of other toys we bought for her in the last few months. Moving on to the Daily, we’ve got Google’s year in search, an asteroid impact simulator, and

A US bankruptcy judge orders Celsius to return ~$50M crypto deposits in non-interest bearing custody accounts, pending a decision on interest-bearing accounts (Jeremy Hill/Bloomberg)

Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg: A US bankruptcy judge orders Celsius to return ~$50M crypto deposits in non-interest bearing custody accounts, pending a decision on interest-bearing accounts — US Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn ordered Celsius Network LLC to return cryptocurrency that never touched the lender’s interest-bearing accounts to its customers.

Singapore-based UnaBiz, a Massive IoT service provider that owns Sigfox, raised a $25M Series B extension led by SPARX, after a $25M Series B in October 2021 (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Singapore-based UnaBiz, a Massive IoT service provider that owns Sigfox, raised a $25M Series B extension led by SPARX, after a $25M Series B in October 2021 — UnaBiz, the Massive Internet of Things service provider and owner of Sigfox, announced today it has raised another $25 million in Series B

Filings: Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank stake grew from 32.2% in end-September to 34.2%, up from 26.7% in March 2019, granting additional rights over mergers and more (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Filings: Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank stake grew from 32.2% in end-September to 34.2%, up from 26.7% in March 2019, granting additional rights over mergers and more — Masayoshi Son has quietly tightened his grip on SoftBank Group Corp. during a tumultuous market downturn …

A Wheatstone Bridge Matches Your Pots

Sometimes the simplest hacks can be the most useful or ingenious, and such is the case with [Keri Szafir]’s method of ensuring that potentiometers used in audio devices are matched. If you consider a typical stereo amplifier for a moment, you’ll see two amplifiers in one box with a single volume control. Two channels, one

Google announces a beta release of Simple ML, a no-code ML add-on for Google Sheets, that enables users to apply machine learning to their data (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Google announces a beta release of Simple ML, a no-code ML add-on for Google Sheets, that enables users to apply machine learning to their data — Google LLC today launched a new tool that will enable users to develop artificial intelligence models in Google Sheets. — The tool, dubbed Simple ML,

Americans Are Moving Into Danger Zones

Folks are flocking to areas plagued with wildfires and extreme heat. Climate change will only make things worse.

Sources: in January 2018, Alameda took loans worth $116M from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and philanthropist Luke Ding, both backers of “effective altruism” (Semafor)

Semafor: Sources: in January 2018, Alameda took loans worth $116M from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and philanthropist Luke Ding, both backers of “effective altruism” — The big money behind Alameda Research, the sister trading firm of crypto exchange FTX, came from two influential backers …

Apple’s iMessage is getting a security feature straight out of a spy movie

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Apple has added an advanced security feature to iMessage. It’s called iMessage Contact Key Verification and allows users to verify that they are messaging only the people they intend to chat with. The feature also alerts users if someone starts eavesdropping on their messages. Apple’s iMessage is perhaps one

The annual US defense policy bill contains significant spending increases for US Cyber Command and other efforts to bolster national cybersecurity defenses (Suzanne Smalley/CyberScoop)

Suzanne Smalley / CyberScoop: The annual US defense policy bill contains significant spending increases for US Cyber Command and other efforts to bolster national cybersecurity defenses — Congress is poised to vote in coming days on an $858 billion annual defense policy bill that contains significant spending increases …

Epic launches Cabined Accounts, a new type of account for kids under 13 that will need parental consent, rolling out in Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys (Kris Holt/Engadget)

Kris Holt / Engadget: Epic launches Cabined Accounts, a new type of account for kids under 13 that will need parental consent, rolling out in Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys — It says ‘cabined accounts’ offer a ‘new way for kids to join the metaverse.’ — Epic Games is rolling out a new type

The US Senate Banking Committee calls on Sam Bankman-Fried to testify on December 14, a day after a House hearing where members also want him to testify (Kollen Post/The Block)

Kollen Post / The Block: The US Senate Banking Committee calls on Sam Bankman-Fried to testify on December 14, a day after a House hearing where members also want him to testify — – The Senate committee wants Sam Bankman-Fried to testify the day after he’s been told to testify in the House of Representatives

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