CryptoNews

Large Asset Managers Getting Ready to Buy BTC Ahead of Spot Bitcoin ETF Launches, Says Moody's Director

December 6, 2023
A senior director with Moody’s Analytics has highlighted the biggest driver behind the recent bitcoin price surge. “The race is heating up” to launch spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), he explained, emphasizing that large asset managers are “getting ready to acquire the underlying asset to offer the ETF to retail and institutional investors.” Biggest Driver Behind Bitcoin Price…
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CryptoNews

Mystery Bitcoin Whale Resurfaces, Transfers 1,000 BTC Worth $41M From String of 2010 Era Addresses – Bitcoin News

December 6, 2023
Emerging from obscurity since 2021, a prominent bitcoin whale, originating from the 2010 period, has recently transferred 20 block rewards, equivalent to 1,000 bitcoins valued at $41.87 million based on present exchange rates. This is not the whale’s first such activity; they have previously executed similar transactions, involving sets of 20 block rewards, on several occasions at the onset of…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Open-source SuperDuperDB brings AI into enterprise databases

December 6, 2023
San Francisco-based SuperDuperDB, an Intel Ignite portfolio company working to simplify how teams build and deploy AI apps, today released version 0.1 of its open-source framework. Available as a Python package, the framework allows users to integrate AI — from machine learning (ML) models to their AI application programming interface (API) of choice — and vector search capabilities with…
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NewsSpace

NASA’s Psyche Delivers First Images and Other Data

December 6, 2023
Loading Image Comparison… This mosaic of a star field in the constellation Pisces was made from “first light” images acquired Dec. 4 by both of the cameras on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Use the slider to view the star field with and without star names labeled.
GamingNews

Twitch plans to shut down in South Korea on February 27, 2024

December 6, 2023
Games livestreaming platform Twitch is shutting down its business operations in South Korea February 27, 2024. According to a blog post from CEO Dan Clancy, South Korea was “prohibitively expensive” to operate despite working to reduce costs. Twitch experimented with a peer-to-peer model for source quality and capping quality at 720p. “While we have lowered costs from these efforts, our…
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