Older and mid‑range mining rigs like the Antminer S19 XP+ Hydro, Whatsminer M60S and Avalon A1466I have reportedly already crossed shutdown thresholds, while even newer S21 units are nearing viability limits.
The Profitability Cliff
The bitcoin mining industry is facing a severe profitability squeeze this week as a combination of falling cryptocurrency prices and forces several mining rigs into…
Publicly Traded Miners Buck the Tape as Bitcoin’s Price Wobbles
February 4, 2026
Bitcoin briefly slid to $72,863 on Bitstamp on Tuesday, but publicly traded mining stocks managed to post mixed-to-positive daily performances even as U.S. stock indexes closed firmly in the red.
Bitcoin Miners Defy Red Screens Amid Geopolitical Jitters
Bitcoin’s dip…
For a short period, the smartphone industry felt genuinely adventurous. It wasn’t just about better cameras or faster processors – companies were rethinking what a phone could physically become. Among those experiments, rollable phones stood out as one of the…
Lotus Health nabs $35M for AI doctor that sees patients for free
February 4, 2026
A growing number of people are asking OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other LLMs about their health, often discovering that the chatbots provide remarkably useful medical insights.
KJ Dhaliwal (pictured left), who in 2019 sold the South Asian dating app Dil Mil for $50 million, says he has been thinking about the inefficiencies of the U.S. healthcare system ever since he was a child acting as a medical…
Fitbit founders James Park and Eric Friedman have announced the launch of a new AI startup called Luffu that aims to help families proactively monitor their health. The duo are developing an “intelligent family care system” that will start with an app experience…
Peak XV Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India and Southeast Asia, has seen a fresh round of senior departures. These follow other leadership exits over the past year as it pushes ahead with plans to deepen its focus on AI investing and expand its footprint in the…
The two main utilities that own a Colorado coal plant which was ordered to reopen by fossil shill Chris Wright have pushed back on the order, stating plainly that it would raise costs and would not benefit reliability for Colorado electric ratepayers.
Coal is a dead energy source. It’s costly, inefficient, and deadly both for workers and for all species on Earth alike. For these reasons…
Kia introduced a series of new electric GT vehicles in Korea. The EV3 GT, EV4 GT, and EV5 GT are the latest to join Kia’s growing performance EV lineup.
Kia unleashes a slew of new electric GT vehicles
After unveiling the new electric sports cars at the Brussels Motor…
China has officially moved forward with a proposed ban on flush EV door handles, with an effective date of January 1, 2027. The regulation will force a redesign of many EVs with sleek, electronically-actuated handles, a design popularized by Tesla.
For many years, safety…
The U.S. Navy wants commercial satellites that can perform nighttime observation of the Earth, according to a Naval Research Laboratory Request for Information.
“The objective is to understand the availability of systems that can provide data and services related to the remote sensing of nighttime scenes from space to inform potential future collaborations and acquisitions for a technology…
