Bitcoin may have set multiple records this year, but ethereum ( ETH) just staged its first breakout since November 2021 this week, pushing YTD gains to 43% against bitcoin’s 23%. The real question now is whether ethereum’s rally has only just begun.
Could Ethereum Be Poised for a Shock Move?
At the start of the year, ethereum (ETH) traded at 0.036 BTC per coin. By April and May, it had slipped…
In 2025, digital currency treasury reserves took center stage as some corporations filled their war chests with alternative crypto assets beyond bitcoin. The following highlights the top ten publicly traded bitcoin treasury companies and the top ten ethereum treasury…
At 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, XRP traded at $3.03 on Aug. 24, 2025, with a market capitalization of $180 billion and a 24-hour trading volume of $3.36 billion. The intraday price range fluctuated between $3 and $3.08, reflecting tight consolidation amid moderate volatility.
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If you’ve been looking for a great full-frame mirrorless camera to capture the cosmos, you’re in luck. Walmart is currently offering a deal on the Canon EOS R8 with an RF 24-50mm lens for $1316, a huge saving from the original price of $1,699. This is a good time to buy, as you’ll be able to capture some stunning images of the Milky Way before the galactic core disappears from…
Pair of colliding galaxies may hint at the fate of the Milky Way and its closest galactic neighbor
August 25, 2025
New observations of a pair of colliding spiral galaxies hint at what might be in store for the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy if and when they collide.
The findings, described in July in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may also help to…
The latest mission of the U.S. Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane is underway.
The robotic X-37B lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida tonight (Aug. 21) at 11:50 p.m. EDT (0350 GMT on Aug. 22).
The…
Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its technology for ‘future models and products’
August 25, 2025
Even three years after its debut, with ever increasing competition in the AI image and video generation space, Midjourney, the bootstrapped San Francisco startup, remains the “gold standard” for its 20 million users — including us here at VentureBeat, where we use it to generate the “header” art to many of our articles.
Apparently, the leaders of Facebook and Instagram parent company…
OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic
August 25, 2025
A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The framework, called OpenCUA, includes the tools, data, and recipes for scaling…
Busted by the em dash — AI’s favorite punctuation mark, and how it’s blowing your cover
August 25, 2025
Let’s talk about the em dash. Not the little innocent hyphen, not its slightly more confident cousin, the en dash. No, I’m talking about the ‘EM dash,’ that long, dramatic line that AI looooooves to drop in your sentences like it’s getting paid per dash. Seriously…
This week, I did a shoot with a client who didn’t know how to smile. I would say, ‘Now give me a big smile’, and her lips would twitch but remain in a straight line. I tried variants of this directive such as ‘smile and show me your teeth’ and ‘say cheese’ to no avail. I finally got her to smile by saying, very literally, ‘Turn the corners of your…
