Star Wars: Galactic Racer might be set in the New Republic era, but podracing screams “Star Wars Prequels” louder than Pepsi, and the bloodsport is largely beloved thanks to a video game.
The saga is no stranger to incredible games, but titles based on Episodes I, II, and III get lost easily among the KOTORs and TIE Fighters of the galaxy. The Prequel Trilogy has earned a second look from fans…
XRP is valued at nearly 6% of bitcoin’s market capitalization, a level Grayscale cites as context for how far rival digital currencies can grow. Zcash rose from under 0.1% to about 1.5% of bitcoin’s value in a year, and the firm says it has not hit a valuation…
Bitcoin finance is competing for allocations within global equity and debt markets totaling $318.5 trillion, according to Michael Saylor. He argues that responsible rivals can strengthen shared demand, improve funding conditions, and attract more investors.
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XRP ETFs, stablecoin issuance, and automated payments are among the financial questions on Swell’s expanded program. Ripple’s Sept. 29 announcement connects those institutional discussions with developer sessions on privacy and scaling, alongside academic research into artificial intelligence.
Key Takeaways
Ripple expects 1,500 decision-makers at its New York conference.
Swell combines with…
The buzzy AI startup Instinct has just revealed a new potential revenue stream: product recommendations. Unfortunately for the company, the rollout is already rubbing some users the wrong way.
Overnight, the AI agent began pushing product suggestions to users as part of a…
When Stephan Ewen co-founded Restate in 2022 to provide durable workflow infrastructure, he couldn’t have anticipated how valuable such an offering would become for managing AI agent processes.
The Berlin-based startup had set out to build an execution engine that made…
Airbnb adds AI search, more social features
October 1, 2026
Airbnb is evolving in two directions: On the ground, it wants to compete with hotels by providing myriad services; online, it is using AI and people in its Airbnb network to aid travel discovery.
As part of its fall product update, the company is adding services to the app it had launched last year, such as meal delivery, laundry, baby-gear rental, ski and boat rental in limited locations, and…
Photographer Carl Bovis was shocked to be told by former New York attorney Regina Alberty that she was blocking him on social media for the heinous crime of posting an unflattering photo of a bird.
She implied he had deliberately made the image look bad because he disliked…
If you’ve ever written names on the back of a photograph, then consider yourself a hero. Because future generations will thank you, whether they’re descendants trying to figure out their family lineage or historians analyzing stuff we don’t even know will…
This year’s ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition saw some truly unique images, perhaps none more so than the winner of the “Our Moon” category.
Taken by Czech astrophotographer Petr Horalek, the image depicts a rare lunar occultation of Venus, as the Moon passed in front of the planet for roughly one hour during a September afternoon last year.
“The most beautiful moment was…
