Coinbase has partnered with Nium to enable global payments using USD Coin, expanding stablecoin use in cross-border transactions. The integration reflects growing demand for faster settlement and reduced reliance on traditional banking infrastructure.
Key Takeaways:
Coinbase expands USDC payments through Nium’s network across 190+ countries.
Nium clients can fund payouts in USDC and settle to…
Hubble Telescope celebrates 36th anniversary with gorgeous new image of famous Trifid Nebula
April 27, 2026
NASA celebrates Hubble’s 36th anniversary with a new image of the Trifid Nebula, a star-forming region it first captured in 1997. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI))
The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 36th anniversary in…
Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth
April 27, 2026
The first X-flare peaked at 9:07 p.m. EDT on April 23 (0107 GMT April 24) (Image credit: NOAA GOES-19)
The sun has certainly woken up! It has fired off not one but two powerful X2.5 solar flares within just 7 hours.
Both eruptions came from a sunspot region on the sun’s…
HOUSTON — The Trump administration’s latest budget proposal once again calls for steep cuts to NASA, and has set up a familiar clash with Congress over how the space agency should be funded.
The White House released its fiscal year (FY) 2027 federal budget request on April 3 — just two days after the launch of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, while the four astronauts aboard Orion were still…
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI firm’s growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports. The Alphabet subsidiary is committing to invest $10 billion now, at a $350 billion valuation for Anthropic, with another $30 billion to follow if…
Overpriced Mac minis are flooding eBay amid shortages of the sold-out machines, which have become a favored tool for running on-device AI models like OpenClaw.
This week, reports indicated that the $599 M4 Mac mini base model with 16GB RAM and 256GB of storage is sold out on…
Amazon just scored a major coup with Meta thanks, once again, to Amazon’s own homegrown chips. Meta has signed a deal to use millions of AWS Graviton chips to power its growing AI needs, Amazon announced Friday.
Note that the AWS Graviton is an ARM-based CPU, (a central processing unit, the chip that handles general computing tasks) not a GPU (a graphical processing unit).
While GPUs remain the…
National Geographic was my "photography bible" - and now 20 years later, it’s shaping my eye all over again
April 27, 2026
National Geographic was my photography bible long before I ever knew what kind of photographer I would become. As a young boy, I would pore over its pages with a kind of quiet awe, completely absorbed by the way it seemed to treat photography not just as illustration, but as…
This is going to sound strange, but wildlife photography isn’t about the photos for me
April 27, 2026
I was hiking through a wildlife refuge, camera with a telephoto slung around my neck, the spring sun warming my skin, when I realized something: I don’t head out on a wildlife photography hike for the photos.
I’m a professional portrait and wedding photographer and these…
I’m a massive fan of the black-and-white landscape photography that helped bring the artistic genre into the mainstream, especially from the likes of Ansel Adams. His black-and-white work truly embodies the phrase “composition is king,” and I think the lack of color makes you hone in on this.
But there’s another historic photographer whose name is less well-known that I think more…
