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Big Tech faces financial reckoning if human-level AI doesn’t happen soon
5.7.2024
Sequoia Capital says the industry needs to make up about $600 billion in profit before the current expenditure starts to make sense
One Of The Worst Movies Ever Made Almost Had A PS2 Tie-In Game
5.7.2024
Foodfight!, an infamously horrible CG animated comedy starring product mascots, almost got a tie-in PS2-era video game. And while the tie-in game was never finished, largely because the movie lingered in development hell, we now have access to assets from the Foodfight! game and have a more...
Escape From Tarkov Puts Bounties On Cheaters, Rewards Players For Reporting Them
5.7.2024
What better way to incentivize players to help keep the community clean than by offering up a reward? Plenty of online video games have a cheater problem, but sometimes developers need players’ help to track them down. That’s what Escape From Tarkov developer Battlestate Games is doing, offering...
ChatGPT users on macOS shocked to learn chats were stored unencrypted
5.7.2024
The problem has since been resolved, but it begs the question of how such an oversight happened in the first place
Protocol Village: Valora Introduces 'Mobile Stack' to Simplify Web3 Apps on iOS, Android
5.7.2024
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of July 5-10
Nintendo Will No Longer Fix That Console You Never Used
5.7.2024
The poor Wii U. That inexplicable console that was simultaneously too confusing to be useful, but too unexceptional to be inspiring. Meaninglessly carrying the weight of the name of the phenomenal success of the Nintendo Wii, it was—by most metrics—a rare miss and a colossal flop. And now you can’t...
Hamster Kombat hits 239M users in 81 days — Telegram’s Durov
4.7.2024
Telegram founder Pavel Durov says Hamster Kombat’s viral success could onboard over 200 million people to blockchain technology
Taurus enhances Zand Bank’s crypto, tokenization services in UAE
4.7.2024
The Swiss crypto platform is expanding its stable of large financial institutions
Microsoft, Google, Nvidia and more filed SEC warnings that AI could ruin business
4.7.2024
The reasons ranged from cannibalizing their own businesses to releasing potentially inferior products
Tangem introduces Visa-integrated crypto wallet for secure payments
4.7.2024
Self-custodial crypto wallet provider Tangem has developed a new wallet integrating direct payments through Visa
Telegram and Helika Gaming unveil $50M gaming accelerator with Notcoin
4.7.2024
The accelerator program aims to foster innovation among game developers, leveraging the Ton blockchain to enhance Telegram’s gaming ecosystem
Nigeria plans nationwide AI and blockchain research centers
4.7.2024
The research centers count as another step toward taking a leadership position in artificial intelligence (AI) development in Africa
Report: More Activision Games Coming To Game Pass Soon
3.7.2024
Thus far, only one Activision Blizzard-published game has made its way to Xbox’s Game Pass subscription service, almost a year after Microsoft finalized its deal to purchase the massive Call of Duty publisher. But a new report claims more Activision games will (slowly) start coming to the service...
Softbank lost 99% when the dotcom bubble burst, now it’s all-in on AI
3.7.2024
Softbank Group stocks reached an all-time-high on a market capitalization of $97.2 billion
The Protocol: 'Private Jet Brandization' Is One Way Polkadot Burnt Cash
3.7.2024
Crypto twitterati showed no mercy as Polkadot published a transparency report detailing spending on $87 million of DOT tokens – a lot of it on marketing. PLUS blockchain tech news and project highlights from the past week
Marathon Digital Reports Increase in Hashrate, Holds 18,536 BTC
3.7.2024
Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. released its unaudited bitcoin production and miner installation updates for June 2024. The company’s operational hashrate increased slightly, and its bitcoin holdings reached 18,536 BTC. Marathon Digital Reports June 2024 Bitcoin Production In June 2024...
Big Tech produced more carbon since 2019 than all Bitcoin mining ever
3.7.2024
U.S. tech firms made huge commitments to “net zero” carbon emissions, but that was before ChatGPT hit the scene
Obol Labs Forms Industry Group to Push for Decentralized Validator Technology
3.7.2024
As blockchain projects push to further decentralize, the developer Obol Labs has formed a group of companies working in the Ethereum ecosystem to concentrate on the growing field of "distributed validator technology," or DVT
Ignite innovation at Africa Fintech Forum 2024: Join us in Nairobi for the premier finance & technology convergence!
3.7.2024
Nairobi is set to host the groundbreaking Africa Fintech Forum 2024 on September 24 and 25, where global fintech pioneers will converge to share transformative insights and strategies shaping the future of finance and technology. Prepare for an unparalleled experience at the Africa Fintech Forum...
Bittensor’s TAO Slides 15% After $8M Wallet Drain Attack
3.7.2024
The blockchain was paused early Wednesday to contain the exploit, with security researchers suspecting a private key leakage