Peter Thiel-Backed Plasma Raises $20M to Develop Bitcoin-Based Network for Stablecoins The project, which also claims Tether’s Paolo Ardoino as an investor, aims to enhance stablecoin adoption through a Bitcoin sidechain that allows zero-fee USDT transactions.

Crypto for Advisors: It’s Tax Time The 2024 tax year has come to a close, and tax filing season is now upon us. If you’ve been trading crypto, here are some key things you need to consider.

How Hong Kong Can Seize the Mantle as Asia’s Crypto Hub Establishing the proper regulatory environment is essential; here’s what the territory needs to do.

State Dept.’s plan to buy $400 million worth of armored Teslas hastily changed to ‘armored EVs’ On Wednesday, reports from The New York Times and Drop Site News pointed out that the US Department of State included an order for $400 million worth of armored Teslas in its 2025 procurement forecast. But shortly after these reports emerged, the agency replaced its mention of “Armored Tesla (Production Units)” with a much vaguer

Amazon has renewed The Rings of Power for a third season At least one more season of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power  will be coming to the small screen sooner than later. Today, Amazon announced that it has greenlit production on another installment of its Lord of the Rings prequel series starring Morfydd Clark as Galadriel, Charlie Vickers as Sauron, Robert

The FCC is a weapon in Trump’s war on free speech I’ve been the editor-in-chief of The Verge for over 10 years now, and a tech journalist for about 15 — and until recently, it felt pretty safe to assume that there was a zero percent chance that the US government would punish me for doing my job. There’s that whole First Amendment in this country,

Tim Cook teases a new Apple launch next week, and it’s probably the iPhone SE Apple is getting ready to show its newest device during an event on Wednesday, February 19th. Tim Cook revealed the date in a post on X, saying “Get ready to meet the newest member of the family,” alongside a GIF of the Apple logo. Apple is widely expected to reveal the latest generation of its

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Is Your Apple Watch Speaker Acting Up? Apple Says to Try These Steps Apple today published a new support document outlining steps to try if your Apple Watch’s microphone or speaker is not working as expected. Apple says the steps can also be followed if the Apple Watch speaker’s audio is “crackling, distorted, muffled, or intermittent.” The potential solutions listed include updating your Apple Watch to the lat…

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: NEAR Sinks 3.1% as Index Trades Lower From Wednesday Avalanche (AVAX) was also an underperformer, dropping 2.6%.

OpenSea Confirms Upcoming Token Airdrop, Expands to Crypto Trading The new platform OS2 will combine NFT and token trading and support multiple blockchains.

El Salvador Dispatch: Searching for Bitcoin City, the Modern El Dorado President Nayib Bukele vowed to build Bitcoin City on the Conchagua volcano. CoinDesk went looking for signs of construction.

Tether May Have to Sell Some Reserves to Comply With U.S. Stablecoin Rules: JPMorgan Company data suggests that Tether’s reserves are 66% compliant under the STABLE Act and 83% under the GENIUS Act, the report said.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is getting DLSS 4 support next week Bethesda is adding DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation and DLSS Ray Reconstruction to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in an update due next week. Both technologies will improve the image quality of Indiana Jones, and Multi Frame Generation will also enable smoother frame rates in the process. Nvidia has released a new Game Ready

YouTube is going to let you put AI-generated video clips in Shorts YouTube has added new generative AI video features that creators can use when making Shorts. The video platform announced that Google’s Veo 2 video model is being integrated into YouTube’s experimental Dream Screen feature, alongside allowing users to generate standalone video clips that can be added to Shorts. Dream Screen was introduced in Sep…

Going back is the only way to get out in the Until Dawn movie’s latest trailer The first teaser for Sony and Screen Gems’ big screen Until Dawn adaptation made it seem like it might just be another supernatural horror with a splash of Groundhog Day tossed in to keep things mildly interesting. But judging from the way the studios are describing the film, it sounds like this Until Dawn will

Dell XPS 13 review: out with a whimper The Dell XPS 13 was once the best thin-and-light Windows laptop you could get, with amazing build quality, good battery life, and decent port selection (and eventually, a serviceable webcam). But it peaked in 2020 and it’s been slipping since. It got OLED screen options that tanked the battery life. Then there was a baffling

Do We Need to Pay Import/Custom Duty on Bulk Inventory? My question is for the people importing from foreign countries and maintaining inventory in their country. Actually we are looking forward to maintain bulk inventory in US and UK, we will be importing our goods from china. My question is do we need to pay import/custom duty for our inventory? And how to calculate the duty? People who are doing …

Apple’s Refurbished Mac Mini Pricing Has a Problem Apple this week began selling refurbished Mac mini models with the M4 chip for the first time, but this has led to a pricing conundrum. In the United States, Apple is offering a refurbished Mac mini with the base M4 chip, 256GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and Gigabit Ethernet for $509, down from $599 new. This is the standard 15% discount that App…

Tokenization Platform Midas Expands Yield-Bearing Tokens With DeFi-Fund-Linked Offerings The new Liquid Yield Tokens (LYT) offer a floating value based on DeFi funds, starting with Edge Capital, RE7, and MEV Capital.