Coinbase is pushing the U.S. Treasury to embrace blockchain, AI, and decentralized identity systems to revolutionize anti–money-laundering efforts, aiming to crush illicit finance without throttling innovation or ceding fintech dominance.
Coinbase Urges Treasury to Modernize AML Rules Using AI and Blockchain
Coinbase Global Inc. (Nasdaq: COIN) called on the U.S. Department of the Treasury on…
Can we dim the sun to fight climate change? Not without risking weather patterns, scientists suggest
October 23, 2025
Some think it’s a no brainer: Scattering microscopic particles of sulfur into Earth’s atmosphere would reduce the amount of sunlight that reaches the ground, thereby cooling the planet. Indeed, this cooling might temporarily offset the progressing climate change…
The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces to get it to Texas
October 23, 2025
The tug-of-war over space shuttle Discovery is becoming more volatile.
Discovery — the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Institution’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia — is the subject of a political battle over whether the shuttle should remain part of the…
Volcanic explosions on Mars may have left massive ice deposits at the Red Planet's equator
October 23, 2025
Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet’s equator, a new study finds.
Previous research has found that the surface of Mars is rich in ice. Most of these deposits are located at its poles, just as seen on Earth. However, recently the Mars Odyssey and the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft detected elevated levels of…
Realme GT 8 Pro has been announced in China with a huge battery and a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Chipset under the hood. The devices comes with replaceable camera module styles, a triple rear camera setup, Android 16 based Realme UI 7, and more. There’s also a Realme GT…
Justin Wenig remembers his days at Y Combinator in 2019.
Back then, he was working with his first startup, Coursedog, which looked to provide more modern tools to higher-educational facilities, including those that work with state departments. He learned quickly that his…
Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5M to bring AI-powered context to sales intelligence
October 23, 2025
Ask any salesperson how much information they’d like on a prospective customer and you’ll never hear the end of it. That’s the premise driving the crowded sales intelligence market, which today has services that can do everything from helping to identify prospects and surface background about them, to even writing the pitch and performing autonomous follow-ups.
But sales teams…
Shuttle raises $6M to fix vibe-coding’s deployment problem
October 23, 2025
The promise of vibe coding was that full-scale applications could be spun up from just an idea, powered by systems like Lovable and Replit AI. But it turns out writing the code is just the first step in the process – and vibe coders are already running into the…
Dammit, Gannet! The funniest wildlife photography competition in the world announces finalists
October 23, 2025
From dancing gorillas and “smoking” ducks to a group of lions looking like a roaring choir, the Nikon Wildlife Comedy Awards finalist gallery is packed with laugh-out-loud animal antics – all captures at just the right moment.
Selected from nearly 10,000…
Alejandro Cegarra’s powerful black-and-white series, The Two Walls, recently won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2025, earning the Venezuelan photojournalist €40,000 and €10,000 worth of Leica equipment.
Recognized as one of the industry’s most prestigious competitions, LOBA honors powerful visual storytelling that engages with humanity and the environment in profound, socially…
