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Grayscale to Pay Quarterly Cash From ETH and SOL Staking Rewards: A Look at The Mechanics

July 21, 2026
Grayscale plans to amend its Ethereum Staking exchange-traded fund (ETHE) and Solana Staking ETF (GSOL) to convert staking rewards into cash and distribute them to shareholders at least once a quarter. Key Takeaways Grayscale filing seeks to convert ETHE and GSOL staking rewards into quarterly cash payouts starting around Aug. 7. GSOL currently stakes 100% of its SOL, generating roughly 6.1% in…
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Did Viking 1 find life on Mars 50 years ago? Here's why the debate continues

July 21, 2026
In looking back and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Viking missions to Mars, one is struck by the bold and audacious undertaking. Twin spacecraft missions — each consisting of a lander and an orbiter — made their way to Mars and into the history books. The Viking 1 lander planted its legs on the terrain of Chryse Planitia 50 years ago today, on July 20, 1976, while its Viking 2…
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AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?

July 21, 2026
The impressive capabilities of Chinese lab Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the biggest open-weight large language model, has kicked off a debate that conflates two things: the economic possibilities of American AI giants and the future of LLMs as a technology. OpenAI’s head of strategic futures, Dean W. Ball, went so far as to argue that the US government should find a pretext to create regulatory…
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NewsPhotography

This nose-to-lens giraffe photograph earned a major award for its dramatic camera phone perspective

July 21, 2026
There’s a particular kind of photograph that only a curious animal and a very wide-angle lens can produce together. German photographer Marcel Ohneberger’s giraffe portrait is exactly that: an enormous, looming head fills most of the frame, its neck curving away into a distant landscape of grassland and hills, while a single dark eye stares down the lens. The image has earned…
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