After the IONIQ 5 earned Hyundai’s first N-brand treatment, it’s now due for a rugged, off-road XRT upgrade. How will it compare to Rivian’s recently revealed R3X?
Hyundai revealed the new IONIQ 5 refresh earlier this month, which includes several design upgrades, a bigger battery (with more range), and an added rear wiper.
In Korea, Hyundai added about 7 kWh of battery to the new IONIQ 5…
Israel has taken a significant step in the cryptocurrency domain by green-lighting a pilot for BILS, the first stablecoin pegged to the New Israeli Shekel.
Bits of Gold and Israeli Authority Launch BILS Stablecoin in Regulatory Sandbox
The initiative, spearheaded by the…
New AI Crypto Presale Raises $9m: 5 Days Left to Buy Scotty the AI Before Exchange Listings
March 14, 2024
A new meme coin, Scotty the AI (SCOTTY), is turning heads and raking in substantial investment dollars during its limited-time presale.
With $9 million raised already, crypto traders have been scrambling to buy SCOTTY tokens before the presale window ends in five…
Peter Schiff Downplays Importance of Bitcoin Halving — Discusses 'What Matters Most' for BTC Price
March 14, 2024
Economist and gold advocate Peter Schiff has downplayed the significance of the upcoming bitcoin halving, emphasizing a different factor that will drive the price of the cryptocurrency. He believes what matters the most is “how much of the current supply holders want to sell, not what miners create.”
Peter Schiff on Bitcoin Halving
Economist and gold bug Peter Schiff has shared his perspective…
The legendary online game MapleStory is coming to the Avalanche blockchain in the form of a Web3-enhanced extension of the franchise.
MapleStory, a core intellectual property of Nexon Group, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that has been played…
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VentureBeat’s AI Impact Tour just wound up its stop in New York City, welcoming enterprise AI leaders in an intimate, invitation-only cocktail salon hosted by Microsoft at the company’s Flatiron office. The topic: How organizations can balance the…
Pika adds generative AI sound effects to its video maker
March 13, 2024
OpenAI continues to share clips of Sora, its impressively smooth and photorealistic generative AI video model, but it remains an internal model only for now. Meanwhile, rivals in the fast-moving video AI space including Pika aren’t letting the moment go to waste.
This weekend, Pika added a new feature that allows users to automatically generate sound effects for their AI videos made on the web…
In a stunning turn of events, Sam Altman, the high-profile CEO of OpenAI, will be rejoining the company’s board of directors just months after being ousted amid concerns about his leadership.
The move comes as an independent investigation commissioned by OpenAI’s board…
The U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2025 budget request includes money for one Virginia-class attack submarine instead of the planned two, but still represents “a prioritization and very significant investment in undersea warfare capabilities,” the service’s undersecretary said…
The U.S. Navy will postpone most of its planned development and purchases of large unmanned systems and next-generation ships and planes in fiscal 2025, citing spending caps.
The Navy in its FY25 budget request seeks six ships instead of the previously planned seven in the proposal — including one attack submarine, compared to the planned two — and will trim its research and development budget…
