CryptoNews

Bullish on Bitcoin: Global Survey Respondents Anticipate BTC Price Spike to $60K and Beyond in 2024

February 2, 2024
A recent international survey by Bitget has illuminated the crypto market’s hopeful perspective, drawing insights from close to 10,000 individuals across areas such as West Europe, East Europe, Southeast Asia, East Asia, MENA, and Latin America. More than half of the participants globally anticipate that bitcoin prices will hover between $30,000 and $60,000 during the halving period (around…
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CryptoNews

EIA Launches ‘Emergency Survey’ on Crypto Mining's Power Use Amid Concerns of Alleged ‘Public Harm’

February 2, 2024
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has gained clearance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to conduct an urgent survey regarding electricity usage by cryptocurrency mining firms across the U.S. The EIA submitted this request on the grounds that “public harm is reasonably likely” should standard operations persist. Biden’s OMB Approves EIA’s Emergency Survey on…
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GamingNews

Activision Blizzard added $2B in revenue to Xbox’s Q2 growth

February 1, 2024
Microsoft revealed during its latest financial earnings report that its Xbox gaming division has seen a dramatic increase in revenue after last year’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Xbox’s revenue increased 60%, while overall gaming revenue grew 48%. According to Microsoft, a large part of this growth — the majority of it, even — is due to the acquisition, with Activision Blizzard…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI study reveals surprising role of AI in future biological threat creation

February 1, 2024
OpenAI, the research organization behind the powerful language model GPT-4, has released a new study that examines the possibility of using AI to assist in creating biological threats. The study, which involved both biology experts and students, found that GPT-4 provides “at most a mild uplift” in biological threat creation accuracy, compared to the baseline of existing resources on the…
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