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G7 to Discuss More Crypto Regulation and How to Help Developing Nations Introduce Central Bank Digital Currencies

April 14, 2023
The G7 countries are discussing more crypto regulation and ways to help developing nations introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). “As a priority of this year, the G7 will consider how best to help developing countries introduce CBDC consistent with appropriate standards, including the G7 public policy principle for retail CBDC,” said Japan’s Vice Minister of Finance for…
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Ethereum's Shapella Upgrade to Enable Staking Withdrawals Set to Go Live on April 12

April 14, 2023
The Ethereum blockchain is set to undergo its next major update since the network switched from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake through The Merge. The upcoming upgrade, dubbed “Shapella,” which combines the Shanghai and Capella validator changes, is expected to take place on April 12, 2023. While most users will not be affected by the change, the hard fork aims to enable staking validators to…
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Completes 50th Flight

April 14, 2023
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has completed its 50th flight on Mars. The first aircraft on another world reached the half-century mark on April 13, traveling over 1,057.09 feet (322.2 meters) in 145.7 seconds. The helicopter also achieved a new altitude record of 59…
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NASA to Convene Mars Sample Return Review

April 14, 2023
NASA will convene a Mars Sample Return (MSR) Program independent review board, or IRB, to perform a review of current plans and goals for one of the most difficult missions humanity has ever undertaken: bringing samples from another planet to study on Earth. Later this year MSR will approach confirmation, a milestone at which NASA formally establishes the technical, cost, and schedule baselines…
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Gets a Major Software Upgrade

April 14, 2023
Years in the making, a major software update that has been installed on NASA’s Curiosity rover will enable the Mars robot to drive faster and reduce wear and tear on its wheels. Those are just two of about 180 changes implemented during the update, which required the team…
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Stability AI announces Stable Diffusion XL beta for API and DreamStudio

April 13, 2023
Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More Today, generative AI company Stability AI, which captured the public imagination last August with the open-source image generator Stable Diffusion, announced the beta release of Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL), its latest image generation model that a press…
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