Monday was a good day for Bitcoin, even though it started the day down. When bitcoin fell to $32,982.11 on Monday, it was its lowest point since July. By afternoon, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap was up 5.6 percent to $37,183.25, as broader equities rose. Russia’s central bank said last week that they …
Bitcoin is back in the green after plunging below $33,000 and hitting a new low. Read More »
We’ve looked at one week’s worth of prices from late December and the last week, and we’ve put together a complete list of average prices for GPUs. Until next week, we’re only looking at the most recent AMD and Nvidia graphics cards. When it comes to our GPU market, this is arguably the best …
GPU prices are falling together with cryptocurrency. Read More »
Google instructed to provide data to US intelligence services meaning that Google storing data in the US of EU citizens would be in breach of the European GDPR. The data of European citizens therefore can’t be sent across the Atlantic. This is in accordance with a new ruling by the Austrian Data Protection Authority. …
Photo: Flickr Voice ordering bots made by tablet company Presto will soon be used at 267 Checkers & Rally’s restaurants. The company, which is known for its double drive-thru lanes, said Monday that it will start using voice ordering bots at 267 of its corporate stores. The AI-powered voice assistants at the drive-thru will …
Meta, formally just known as Facebook, has started investing heavily into what it calls the “metaverse”. A Jefferies analysts, led by equity strategist Simon Powell, said that the metaverse could change “almost everything in human life,” in a December note. Bloomberg Intelligence said that the metaverse was a “$800 billion market opportunity.” With …
Rather than a better version of today, Mark Zuckerberg envisions a dystopian future. Read More »
The U.S. economy has already lost about 400,000 jobs to AI automation from 1990 to 2007, but today, AI is taking a more subtle role in the economy. Writers AI can now easily create text that looks like it was written by a human. Over 1 million people are thought to be …
The automation of labour by AI is slowly but surely devouring the world’s workforce. Read More »
Fractal is a new marketplace for game item NFTs. On Tuesday, it was revealed that a link sent through the project’s Discord channel was a scam that was set up to steal cryptocurrency from people who wanted to buy a limited-edition NFT from the platform. Users who clicked on the link and linked their …
Scammers used a Discord hack to steal $150K in cryptocurrency from the NFT project. Read More »
A new study shows that the magnetic field caused by a tsunami arrives before the sea level changes, and that its size can be used to figure out how high the tsunami’s waves will be. In their study, the authors found that the magnetic field arrived about one minute before the sea level changed …
The magnetic fields of tsunamis can now be detected before the sea level changes. Read More »
Researchers found a single rule for how animals make decisions about where to move while they’re moving. Virtual reality has been used by a group of researchers from the University of Konstanz and the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior in Germany to figure out how animals choose where to go when there …
Can you leave decision-making to a single algorithm? Read More »
