Rising confidence in crypto’s role in U.S. banking gained traction as the OCC signaled openness to chartering digital-asset firms, underscoring that modern trust bank activity and financial competitiveness increasingly hinge on integrating emerging technologies.
OCC Signals Expanding Pathways for Crypto Integration
Growing confidence in crypto’s place in national banking in the U.S. was…
Digital assets are rapidly becoming a pillar of modern finance, and Binance CEO Richard Teng’s remarks spotlight how early national preparation is shaping competitive advantages as countries pursue regulatory modernization and economic innovation.
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The first astronauts to set foot on Mars should hunt for signs of past or present Red Planet life.
That’s the overarching conclusion of an in-depth report about human Mars exploration from the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine that came out…
This supermassive black hole flung out matter at 134 million mph: 'On a scale almost too big to imagine'
December 10, 2025
Supermassive black holes are notoriously messy eaters, but the behemoth at the heart of spiral galaxy NGC 3783 really takes the cake — and then flings it out into space at a fifth the speed of light.
Astronomers recently spotted a gale of hot, charged particles erupting from this black hole in the aftermath of a powerful X-ray flare that occurred just a few hours earlier. As one of the…
Russian Soyuz capsule lands on Earth to return crew of 3 home after months on International Space Station (video)
December 10, 2025
Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut are safely back on Earth after spending eight months aboard the International Space Station.
Soyuz MS-27 crewmates Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of the Russian federal space corporation Roscosmos, along with Jonny Kim…
India has proposed a mandatory royalty system for AI companies that train their models on copyrighted content – a move that could reshape how OpenAI and Google operate in what has already become one of their most important and fastest-growing markets globally.
On…
Pebble’s founder introduces a $75 AI smart ring for recording brief notes with a press of a button
December 10, 2025
After rebooting the Pebble smartwatch brand, founder Eric Migicovsky is expanding his company’s device lineup with a new smart wearable: an AI-powered smart ring known as Index 01. Named for the finger where the ring is meant to be worn, the new $75 ring is not meant to be a competitor to always-on, always-listening AI devices, like the AI pendant Friend, but instead offers a way to record…
Empromptu raises $2M pre-seed to help enterprises build AI apps
December 10, 2025
Shanea Leven says she learned two important lessons when building her first company, CodeSee. The first lesson was knowing the difference between what businesses need versus what sounds visionary; the second was that the fundamentals always apply, even with new technologies…
When glacier guide and photographer Tori Harp first spotted the circular ice cave, she spent eight months monitoring the ice as it formed, envisioning a shot of an ice climber framed by the cave with the New Zealand stars in the background. But when the photographer finally…
When I read that DaVinci Resolve now supports 32K video editing, I genuinely wondered if I’d fallen and landed on my head.
Because let’s get real: we’re talking about a picture that’s 32,000 pixels across. Over half a billion pixels per frame. This, in an industry still wrestling with 4K delivery, where 8K remains a curiosity reserved for tech demos and the occasional…
