CryptoNews

Argentina Proposes Sweeping Deregulation Bill to Modernize Capital Markets With Crypto and Blockchain

The new law project, proposed by Deregulation Minister Federico Sturzenegger, would allow investment funds to invest in digital assets, the issuance of securities using decentralized technologies, and give full validity to smart contracts, modernizing outdated national market rules. Key Takeaways An Argentine deregulation bill lets investment funds buy digital assets, unlocking billions in…
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NewsSpace

The James Webb Space Telescope's disappearing 'Little Red Dots' may lead to another cosmic puzzle

Paleontologists now know that many of the dinosaurs didn’t disappear but instead evolved into modern birds, and new research suggests that “cosmic dinosaurs” observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) didn’t go extinct either. Rather, they may have evolved into familiar sights in the modern universe: vast conglomerations of densely packed stars called “globular…
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AI & RoboticsNews

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors 

Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, co-founder and COO Robert Wachen tells TechCrunch. The round was led by Sequoia, with Andreessen Horowitz, SK Hynix, Jane Street, and Diffusion Capital also participating, along with other, earlier investors. Other backers of the company include…
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NewsPhotography

How David Bailey's photos turned Mick Jagger and Michael Caine into 1960s design icons – never-before-seen contact sheets behind Box of Pin-Ups go on sale

Some portfolios document a moment. Box of Pin-Ups, you might say, built one. When the British photographer David Bailey released a boxed set of 36 portraits in 1965, he wasn’t just shooting the people who mattered in London (Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Michael Caine, the Kray twins). He was making the argument, novel at the time, that musicians, models, fashion designers and even criminals…
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