Here’s how AI led Apple to suspend work on its next headset

AI for headsets seems to be the reason why Apple decided to focus on imrpoving the cheaper Vision Pro rather than continue working on an enhanced version.

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Anoma Foundation Advances Blockchain Innovation with $25M Fundraising

The Anoma Foundation, a Swiss non-profit renowned for its pioneering work in blockchain technology, has announced the successful completion of a $25 million fundraising round. Led by influential blockchain-focused venture capital firm CMCC Global, this represents the Foundation’s third funding round.

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Bullish News For Polygon! zkEVM Mainnet Is Coming Soon, Says Co-Founder

Polygon, an Ethereum layer-2 solution, has recently seen massive hype due to notable partnerships with major brands such as Starbucks, Mercedes, Meta, Reddit, eBay, Disney, and Adobe, among others. And the team led by Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon, continues to work hard to keep that hype going.

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Is a Bitcoin miner the same as an Amazon server and why does it matter?

The Bitcoin Mining  Council, led by Michael Saylor, has hit back at a US Congress group that petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to criticize proof of work mining. The post Is a Bitcoin miner the same as an Amazon server and why does it matter? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Nick Szabo: Bitcoin Secures Itself And Doesn't Ask For Permission

Szabo explained the history of philosophical and technical work by the cypherpunks that led up to the invention of Bitcoin at the Bitcoin 2022 conference.

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Deciphering what led Bitcoin miners to sell part of their BTC holdings

The cryptocurrency world is rapidly evolving. With regards to the proof of work consensus mechanism, people are being more concerned about Bitcoin mining operations. Furthermore, miners are progressivThe post Deciphering what led Bitcoin miners to sell part of their BTC holdings appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Is EverGrow Coin’s ‘Tax-free’ Move a True Masterstroke?

During Sunday’s conference call, the EverGrow Coin team released information about how their listings on upcoming centralized exchanges would work in terms of tokenomics. In EverGrow’s case, part of the appeal that has led them, inside the first 6 weeks since launch, to break all previous crypto records, is their unique rewards system. Many cryptos […]

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Striking a Work-Life Balance with Parents at Ripple

Reinhard Cate is committed to making a difference. Whether for his work colleagues, fellow parents, or migrants like his mother, he aims to always have a positive impact on other people’s lives.   That desire to make a difference is what led him to join Ripple as part of the marketing team in 2018.

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NYDIG raises $200 million from strategic partners to work toward Bitcoin-focused initiatives

New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG) today raised $200 million in a growth capital round led by the firms’ investors and partners such as Stone Ridge, Morgan Stanley, New York Life, Mass MutualThe post NYDIG raises $200 million from strategic partners to work toward Bitcoin-focused initiatives appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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DLT-Based Synthetic Derivatives: What They Are and How They Work

‘Tis the season, alt season specifically. Led by the industry’s number two cryptocurrency, ethereum (ETH), the altcoin market is posting all-time highs on a regular basis.  Several relative new-comers to the cryptocurrency scene, such as aave (AAVE), SushiSwap (SUSHI) and Alpha Finance Lab (ALPHA), saw rapid growth last month — both in terms of development … Continued The post DLT-Based Synthetic Derivatives: What They Are and How They Work appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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The Genesis Files: How Hal Finney’s Quest For Digital Cash Led To RPOW (And More)

Pioneering cryptographer Hal Finney saw the need for an untraceable form of digital cash, and his work ultimately fostered the creation of Bitcoin. The post The Genesis Files: How Hal Finney’s Quest For Digital Cash Led To RPOW (And More) appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.

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Oasis Labs partners with Binance to fight crypto fraud

Oasis Labs has joined the CryptoSafe Alliance, an association led by leading crypto exchange Binance. The organization unveiled this news via a blog post on August 27, noting that this collaboration would see it work closely with Binance and other members of the alliance to launch the CryptoSafe platform.

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COMP token puts hodled crypto assets to work

The introduction of the COMP token appears to have led to a massive rise...

The post COMP token puts hodled crypto assets to work appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Forced to ‘Work from Home’ due to Covid-19? Crypto Can Help

The CoVid-19 pandemic led to pressures to work from home. Despite the price crash, the crypto economy has some positive examples. Crypto Startups Already Established Distributed Team Model For years, the crypto space has operated as a global, interconnected network of opinion leaders and developer teams.

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China has suspended the development of its own cryptocurrency due to coronavirus

The Central Bank of China was forced to postpone the development of the digital yuan, the state cryptocurrency of China, which was planned in the first quarter of 2020. “The coronavirus outbreak has led to postponed work resumption in government institutions, including the People’s Bank of China (PBC).

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China's Digital Yuan Research Delayed Amid Coronavirus Epidemic

The coronavirus outbreak has led to postponed work at various Chinese government institutions, including the organs responsible for researching and developing the digital yuan

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Digital Asset Security Firm Fireblock Backed By Fidelity Gets EY’s SOC 2 Type II Accreditation

Fidelity Digital Assets (FDAS) thinks that in the future, custodians will work from behind the scenes to store cryptocurrencies for clients from different firms. At the same time, its enterprise-based platform for crypto transactions, Fireblocks, has just passed an EY audit that confirms it complies with data security standards, which has led to talks with […]

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32-Page “Contract for the Web” Released by Internet’s Creator, Claims Free Access Has Led to the Sale of Personal Data

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is known for his work as founder of the web. Recently, Decrypt published an article about his release of a new document that Berners-Lee wrote, titled “Contract for the Web.” The document describes, across 32 pages, the commitments that governments and companies around the world should take to “guide digital policy agendas.” […]

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Federal Reserve Loaned Equivalent of 12.7M Bitcoins to Bailout Banks (In One Day)

With the potential for an economic crisis intensifying, global central bankers are having to work overtime to ensure some stability. This has led to the Federal Reserve stepping in to add $111. 9 billion to the financial markets to help with liquidity.

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Leading Chinese Economist Says Libra Should Be in IMF Custody

Zhou Xiaochuan, the chairman of the People’s Bank of China from 2002 to 2018, has come out saying that Libra would work better if controlled by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). China has been watching Facebook’s Libra digital currency plans closely.

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CFTC hires Coinbase’s former Vice President to lead regulatory body’s Division of Market Oversight

U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has appointed Coinbase’s former Vice President, Dorothy D. DeWitt, to serve as the Director of the Division of Market Oversight. Previously, she had led Coinbase as the General Counsel of Business Lines and Markets.

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Inverted Yield Curve Signals U.S. Recession; Can Bitcoin Save Investors?

Recession indicators in the U. S. bond market just flashed their deepest warning signals since the period that led up to the 2008 financial crisis. Can bitcoin work as a safe haven and protect investors in the event of a U.

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Congress Demands Facebook Halt Work on the Libra Cryptocurrency

High-ranking legislators in Congress have issued a thundering rebuke to Facebook’s cryptocurrency ambitions, demanding that the Mark Zucker-berg led firm “immediately cease” work on Libra until the government says otherwise.

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Oil Field Alchemy: How Bitcoin Can Turn Waste, Emissions into Proof-of-Work

In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.

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How today’s AI can solve most of our traffic problems

While driverless cars and flying taxis hold the far-future promise of alleviating traffic congestion, today’s problems require immediate solutions based on today’s technology. Luckily, the field of machine learning already has a lot to offer.

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Google’s nifty ‘Endgame’ Easter egg wipes out half your search results with a snap of Thanos’ fingers

Avengers: Endgame is smashing box office records, pulling in more than $60 million yesterday alone. And while the internet loses its collective shit over Endgame, we’re just over here trying to finish out the work week so we can slide into a theater for a peek at the film.

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Coinbase Closing Markets Office in Chicago

According to a report from Fortune on April 23, 2019, the U. S. -based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will shut down its Chicago office. Coinbase will scale back plans for a high-frequency trade matching engine in development there, software that automatically matches trade bids to complete trades at a higher rate.

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Dr. Ayo Akinyele’s Bolt Labs Secures $1.5 Million To Work On Lightning Network Payments Privacy

Bolt Labs Raises $1.5 To Improve Lightning Payments With A New Implementation The cryptocurrency startup Bolt was able to raise $1.5 million during a funding round that was led by Dekrypt Capital. According to a recent press release, other firms that invested included ZCash Foundation, Ripple’s Xpring, Lemniscap, Access Ventures, and Branson Bollinger, among others. […]

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Ethereum [ETH] and Tron [TRX] Price Analysis: Bears gradually gain control of both ETH and TRX

Ethereum and Tron’s communities are both involved in developing DApps that have various utilities, but work on cryptocurrency’s underlying technology, blockchain. Ethereum led the way with DApps, but failed to scale due to excessive users that surged into its use.

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The internet’s idiots are already trying to discredit Katie Bouman’s historic accomplishments

In years to come, April 10 will be remembered as a historic day for humankind, science, and women in STEM. On this day, the first ever image of a celestial phenomenon was published — a black hole — largely thanks to the algorithms created by Katie Bouman.

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India to China and Beyond: FSB Reports on Asian Cryptocurrency Regulators

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is gearing up into a Japanese led G20 presidency. The FSB has already done some work with regards to cryptocurrencies, the most recent of which was the report it released on the 5th of April.

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Bitmain’s IPO Filing Has Expired

Bitmain’s long-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is officially a bust. The mining titan’s IPO expired on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.

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Public Blockchain Company Tendermint Inc. Secures $9 Million in Series A Round

Tendermint, a respected public blockchain development company, announced the successful completion of their series A round. Paradigm, a crypto asset investment company, led the $9 million round with support from prominent co-investors including Bain Capital and 1Confirmation.

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Texas Law Threatens Cryptocurrency Users With ‘Oddly-Drafted’ Privacy Demands

Cryptocurrency lawyer and Coin Center head of research Peter van Valkenburgh has led criticism of a controversial new US law currently before lawmakers in Texas. ‘Not How Digital Currencies Work’ The bill, HB 4371, affects Texas only, seeking to ban usage of anonymous cryptocurrencies between unidentified parties.

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How women in health, science, and innovation can collaborate globally

Marie Curie, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Brenda Milner, Martha Salcudean, Julie Payette, Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson. What do these names bring to mind? They are women whose pioneering work led the fight against cancer, ground-breaking discoveries about how brain cells live and die, and to the unveiling of the secrets of human memory.

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Facebook and Instagram will hide pages that spread ‘vaccine misinformation’

I’d like to think that everyone who reads TNW knows that vaccines work. That they don’t cause autism, as demonstrated time and time again. That autism doesn’t need the extra stigma and is most certainly preferable to sick and dead kids.

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StrongBlock Secures $4 Million from Pangea and Magnetic Capital for an Enterprise Blockchain Project Breakthrough

StrongBlock, a company that received funding from Magnetic Capital, was able to secure $4 million to work on a new blockchain enterprise solution. The information was released by the company in a recent press release.

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Is Goldman Sachs Gearing Up For Crypto Hires?

Investment bank Goldman Sachs has announced a new company-wide ‘flexible’ dress code to reflect the changing nature of its workplaces, generally. Its stated aim is ‘to create a welcoming environment for all’ — which has led some to suspect the change is to attract crypto-personnel.

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Coinbase CEO: Defunct Exchange QuadrigaCX Likely Did Not Plan Exit Scam

Coinbase CEO confirms work on identifying events which led to QuadrigaCX disintegration

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Augmate ICO

As an original Google Glass @ Work partner, Augmate was originally created to serve the needs of workers using wearable glasses. There were many application developers for wearable glasses, but there were no device management platforms for IT to centrally control all of the new devices coming onto their systems.

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Crypto Snoop Chainalysis Raises $30 Million to Spy on Your Bitcoin Transactions

Chainalysis, the company that works to track crypto transactions, has completed their second fundraising round. Led by venture capital firm Accel, a total of $30 million was raised. Chainalysis Doubling Down in London One of the first moves they will make with the cash injection is to double their employees in London.

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Wrap Your Head Around This: BTC Is Now Featured as a Token on Ethereum

It happened: Bitcoin is now an Ethereum token. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), an ERC-20 token with a 1-1 peg to bitcoin, went live on the Ethereum network on the final day of January, “the first token that makes Bitcoin compatible with the Ethereum chain,” its architects say.

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Ten Years Later, a Reflection on Bitcoin’s Genesis and Satoshi’s Timing

October 31, 2008, and January 3, 2009. The two dates have cemented themselves with Promethean significance into Bitcoin’s lore. On the October 31, Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin white paper, a constitution of sorts for his revolutionary monetary system and its intrinsic currency.

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After $4M Funding Round, BlockFi Eyes Savings Account, Crypto Credit Cards

BlockFihttps://bitcoinmagazine. com/articles/blockfi-gives-hodlers-another-option-borrow-against-crypto-assets/, the New York-based startup that provides crypto collateralized loans, has raised additional funds to expand its services.

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Investment Strategist Merlin Rothfeld Calls Current Bitcoin Market Conditions

Merlin Rothfeld is probably best known as the host of Power Trading Radio. His work on and success with the radio show led to his promotion in 2018 to Director of Content Production. He is also an active trader who has been involved with the financial markets since 1996. He has built financial curricula and […]

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BitGo Hires Trust Company Veteran as CEO of Its Custody Arm

BitGo has a new CEO for its custody business. The cryptocurrency solution provider has recruited Richard Corcoran as its new chief executive officer. Having retired some years back after over 30 years in the traditional banking and finance industry, Corcoran has come out of retirement to lead the BitGo Trust Company, BitGo's crypto custody arm.

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Conflux’s Scalable Blockchain Network Attracts Baidu, Sequoia, Huobi and More in $35 Million Investment

Dr. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is known in China as the “godfather of computer science. ” He won the Turing Award, which is an annual honor that provides the recipient with $1 million as a result of their successes in computer science.

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Top 5 CPA Firm Confirms Funds in First Attestation of Circle’s USDC

Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has released an independent, third-party attestation of its bank account, and according to a top 5 public accounting firm, the stablecoin has its funds in order.

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Investor Lawsuit Brought Against AT&T, T-Mobile for SIM Swapping Hacks

Leading cryptocurrency investor law firm Silver Miller Law has filed suit against cell phone giants AT&T and T-Mobile on behalf of several digital asset investors who were victims of the identity-theft tactic known as “SIM swapping.

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