According to Sberbank Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board Anatoly Popov, most crypto trading volume will continue to be routed outside the regulated exchange system. Even so, estimates put crypto trading volume on regulated exchanges at over $46 billion in the first year.
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Russia legalized broker crypto trading, expecting over $46B in official volume in its first year.
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On this day in space! Aug. 28, 1993: Galileo spacecraft flies by asteroid Ida on the way to Jupiter only to find a tiny moon!
August 31, 2026
On Aug. 28, 1993, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Ida while on its way to Jupiter.
Galileo was the first spacecraft to fly by an asteroid in the asteroid belt. Ida was actually the second one it visited after another flyby of the asteroid Gaspra in…
President Trump gives Artemis II moon astronauts the Congressional Space Medal of Honor
August 31, 2026
Four astronauts just received the United States’ highest space honor.
President Donald Trump gave the astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II moon mission the Congressional Space Medal of Honor today (Aug. 28) during a ceremony at Johnson Space Center in…
Partial lunar eclipse stuns skywatchers with an ‘almost blood moon’. Here are the best photos
August 31, 2026
A gorgeous partial lunar eclipse delighted stargazers overnight on Aug. 27-28, as Earth’s shadow darkened the full “Sturgeon Moon” in an impressive display of orbital mechanics, and we’ve got the photos to prove it!
The lunar eclipse occurred as Earth passed between the sun and the moon, granting viewers a spectacular view of our planet’s deep umbral shadow as it…
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU
August 31, 2026
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of the AI boom, Nvidia was the only source for state-of-the-art GPUs, which became immensely profitable as the industry scaled out. In the last few years, hyperscalers like…
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight AI models and benchmarks.
Now best known as the target for a team of reward-hacking OpenAI…
A federal judge in California ruled on Thursday evening that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was illegal.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said in her ruling that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s labeling of Anthropic as a risk to national security signified “unlawful retaliation” in violation of the First Amendment, and said the…
Thirty years ago, Leonard Jefferson took what turned out to be the last known photo of rapper Tupac Shakur. Jefferson is now back in the news, as a witness in the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who stands accused of Shakur’s murder.
And you don’t…
One of the tricks a great photographer can pull off is to make their job look easy. Taken between 2010 and 2012, Peter Marlow’s large-format cathedral photographs fit firmly in that category. To the untrained eye, these hushed, glowing interiors, empty of people, might…
Earlier this year, Icelandair launched a competition for a “really bad photographer.” The airline wanted someone truly terrible with the shutter at their fingertips to show the spectacular Icelandic scenery in its worst light, all as part of a tourism marketing stunt.
And after over 120,000 awful photographers answered the call, one stood out as being far worse than all the rest: French woman…
