Browsing category

News

47893 posts

Latest technology news – from mobile, computing, gaming gadgets, gizmos & accessories to developments in fields like artificial intelligence & robotics.

South African Crypto Exchanges Revix and Bitfund Merge With Austrian Digital Asset Platform – Exchanges Bitcoin News

December 4, 2023

Two South African crypto platforms and an Austria-based digital asset platform have joined forces to launch a new alternative investment platform called Altify. The goal of the new outfit is to enable South African investors, particularly the younger ones, to harness the power of alternative investments. Alternative Investment Opportunities a Preserve for the Wealthy Two South African crypto…

Study: Less Than 5% of South Africa-Based Crypto Asset Providers Generate Revenues Exceeding $8 Million – Regulation Bitcoin News

December 4, 2023

Only five percent of surveyed South African crypto-asset financial service providers (FSPs) are generating revenue between $8 million and $10 million. The Financial Sector Conduct Authority study found that many of the crypto asset FSPs “earn their revenue from trading…

Big Names Talk Potential Impact of ETFs on BTC Price, Solo Miner Pulls Down Lucky Block Reward, and More — Week in Review – The Weekly Bitcoin News

December 4, 2023

Global investment bank JPMorgan has noted that SEC approval of a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) could “put severe downward pressure on bitcoin prices.” Conversely, Standard Chartered Bank sees “price upside” related to such an approval from the United States…

Trust Wallet and Alchemy Pay Partner for Seamless Crypto Ramp Solutions – Press release Bitcoin News

December 4, 2023

PRESS RELEASE. Alchemy Pay, the leading fiat-crypto payment solution provider, has announced a new partnership with Trust Wallet, the leading self-custody and mutichain wallet with over 70 million users, enabling users to easily buy and sell crypto with multiple fiat payments within Trust Wallet directly. The integration allows users to have more on and off-ramps solutions, which accelerate web3…

Lido Achieves 9 Million Ethereum Milestone as Rocket Pool Surpasses 1 Million in Defi's Booming Staking Sector – Defi Bitcoin News

December 4, 2023

Recent data reveals that Lido, the leading liquid staking protocol (LSP), now holds over 9 million ethereum within its system. This figure represents a significant 77.81% of the total ethereum value locked in current LSPs, underscoring Lido’s dominant position in the…

AI & Robotics News

AI21 leader: Leading LLMs remain ‘differentiated’, they are not commodities

December 4, 2023

Yoav Shoham, Co-CEO of a leading large language model (LLM) company A121, reacts to comments made recently by Amazon and others that imply LLMs are losing their differentiation. He disagrees, saying: “Models do differentiate.” Shoham’s company, AI21, is a provider of…

AI & Robotics News

A blueprint for the perfect Gen AI data layer: Insights from Intuit

December 4, 2023

In VentureBeat’s reporting on generative AI, one company in particular stands out among enterprise companies for speed and adeptness at deploying the technology at scale. That company is Intuit. In September, Intuit introduced an LLM-drive assistant, called Intuit Assist, across all of its products, including TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, MailChimp. It announced its own Gen AI operating…

AI & Robotics News

Looking back at a transformative year for AI

December 4, 2023

It has been a year since OpenAI quietly launched ChatGPT as a “research preview,” a chatbot based on a large language model (LLM). LLMs are a particular implementation of transformer neural networks, a technology that first surfaced in a 2017 paper from Google. ChatGPT…

Cleantech & EV's News

This lunchbox-sized folding electric scooter is even funkier than Honda's Motocompacto

December 4, 2023

Honda recently unveiled a small, folding electric scooter known as the Motocompacto that is often referred to as a suitcase scooter. But now a rival Japanese electric scooter company has what could become a serious competitor. Meet Arma, the first lunchbox scooter. The Arma…

Digital Assets Worth $343M Stolen From Crypto Exchange Platforms in November — Study – Security Bitcoin News

December 4, 2023

Digital assets worth just over $343 million were stolen from digital asset platforms in November alone. Centralized exchanges accounted for 53.8% of the total losses, with decentralized exchange platforms accounting for the remainder. The 34 attacks on BNB Chain and Ethereum represented 83% of the total losses across targeted chains. Highest Monthly Loss to Date “In November, digital assets…