Tesla and Spacex CEO Elon Musk has suggested making the meme cryptocurrency dogecoin (DOGE) a payment option for the Twitter Blue subscription service. Musk is now Twitter’s biggest shareholder. He recently promised to bring “significant improvement” to Twitter.
Elon Musk Suggests Allowing Payments in Dogecoin
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and Spacex, has actively been engaging Twitter’s…
Britain’s top financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has allowed five crypto firms to continue to operate in the U.K. with temporary registration. The deadline for crypto firms to register with the FCA was last week but these five firms’ applications…
The global crypto community has actively supported humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and two crypto exchanges are also looking to help Ukrainian refugees abroad. Binance, the largest coin trading platform, and the Ukrainian Whitebit have turned their attention to the…
Officials from Tanzania’s financial sector have called for a clearer global consensus on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and crypto-assets. The officials agreed that more discussions still need to be carried out before a final decision is made.
Interoperability of CBDCs
Just under a year after the Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan asked the country’s finance chiefs to prepare…
The Spanish central bank, Bank of Spain, has warned users about certain actions banks can take if they detect cryptocurrency purchases. In a post published on its web page, the institution explains that traditional banks have the ability to block these transactions if they…
FDIC Asks Thousands of Banks to Disclose Crypto Plans
April 11, 2022
The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has asked thousands of banks and other financial institutions it supervises to declare existing crypto activities and any plans they have to engage in crypto activities in the future.
Banks to Disclose Crypto Plans to…
GM Cruise autonomous taxi pulled over by police in San Francisco without humans, ‘bolts’ off (U: Cruise responds)
April 10, 2022
Last week, a GM Cruise-converted Chevy Bolt without a driver was pulled over by San Francisco Police. In an unexpected turn, the car “bolted” …to a safe spot. Cruise responded below.
The original Instagram poster noted that this occurred in the Richmond District of San Francisco last week.
b.rad916: Confused SFPD pulling over an #autonomousvehicle in the Richmond District!! Then it…
Man Creates a Working 35mm Movie Camera with 3D Printing
April 10, 2022
There is no denying that shooting on film is expensive. It is among the many reasons major studios have all shifted to using digital cameras for their movie-making. But even with the shift in technology and cost, there is just something appealing about the way these old…
Kingdom Hearts IV announced by Square Enix
April 10, 2022
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Square Enix announced Kingdom Hearts IV today during a 20th anniversary event for the franchise.
Kingdom Hearts III released in 2019. That entry came out…
In his latest edition of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman is bringing more tidbits about iOS 16 and watchOS 9, which he calls “major upgrades.” This is the first time Gurman reports about the upcoming operating systems after Apple announced the WWDC 2022 keynote set to occur on June 6.
Starting with iOS 16, Bloomberg’s journalist says he’s looking for some “fairly…
