Sending party pays — EU seeks input on making tech companies pay for ISPs network upgrades EU opens proceeding that could mandate direct payments from content providers. Jon Brodkin – Feb 23, 2023 10:26 pm UTC EnlargeGetty Images | Alicia Llop reader comments 129 with Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share
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For the first time since the beginning of 2021, Fintech is no longer the leading industry by investment as it has been surpassed by Healthcare ($16.7B). Despite a 64% downturn in global investments since Q4 2021, $13.3B has still found its way to Fintech startups in Q3 2022. Fintech investors are becoming more discerning as
Boom! — How Bill Gates Minesweeper addiction helped lead to the Xbox Book excerpt: Convincing early ’90s Microsoft to sell games was an uphill battle. Kyle Orland – Feb 23, 2023 12:00 pm UTC Enlarge / These little numbers helped launch a gaming revolution at corporate-focused Microsoft of the early ’90s.Microsoft / Reddit reader comments
MB.OS 0.8 incoming — Heres how Mercedes hopes its new OS will give it an advantage Quicker in-car updates and longer vehicle lifecycles are coming, Mercedes says. Roberto Baldwin – Feb 23, 2023 1:45 pm UTC Enlarge / The new E-Class’ dashboard can be ordered with the Superscreen. Smaller screens will also be available.Mercedes-Benz reader
Attacks on multiple fronts — Ukraine suffered more data-wiping malware than anywhere, ever Russia has greatly accelerated cyberattacks on its neighbor in the wake of its invasion. Andy Greenberg, wired.com – Feb 23, 2023 2:29 pm UTC EnlargeCelestino Arce/Getty Images reader comments 6 with Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on
Major Wall Street indices closed in the red on Wednesday as investors and traders turned their focus away from Federal Reserve commentary toward corporate earnings. The Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 closed over 1% lower while the Dow Jones fell 0.61%. Here are the five stocks that are drawing investors attention: 1. Tesla Inc
Nearly $2.7 billion USD worth of crypto has been lost in 2022 to hacks of smart contracts or protocol infrastructure a 63% increase from last year. With flash loan attacks remaining detrimental to blockchain sustainability, Q2 2022 experienced over $870 million USD in losses. The attacks plaguing Web3, however, are no different than the tried
Joe Biden has nominated former Mastercard chief executive Ajay Banga as World Bank president, picking a Wall Street veteran raised in India to oversee the institution’s biggest mission change in a generation. Banga’s nomination, a week after sitting president David Malpass abruptly resigned, comes as the US and other shareholder nations seek to expand the
The UK’s crisis-hit public services will not recover before the next election and may require significant injections of cash to prevent further decline, according to a sobering annual review by the Institute for Government, a non-partisan think-tank. After almost 13 years of austerity and grave damage to the public sector’s capacity as a result of
In the AI of the beholder — Viral Instagram photographer has a confession: His photos are AI-generated Artist wants to “come clean” and highlight a new media process. Benj Edwards – Feb 21, 2023 12:30 pm UTC Enlarge / Jos Avery uses Midjourney, an AI image synthesis model, to create images that he then retouches
Flashback to November 2021: Bitcoin is soaring at over $64,000 (more than three times its current price in 2023). The S&P 500, as well as popular tech stocks like Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN , Apple Inc AAPL and Tesla Inc TSLA , are all at historic highs. Meme stocks like GameStop Corp. GME and AMC Entertainment
What could go wrong? — Generative AI is coming for the lawyers Large law firms are using a tool made by OpenAI to research and write legal documents. Chris Stokel-Walker, wired.com – Feb 22, 2023 3:24 pm UTC EnlargeJames Marshall / Getty Images reader comments 26 with Share this story Share on Facebook Share on
Apple Inc.AAPL co-founderSteve Wozniakhas describedBitcoinBTC/USD as the only cryptocurrency thats pure-gold mathematics. What Happened: Wozniak made the comments about Bitcoin in aninterviewwith Business Insider in March 2022, adding that many cryptocurrencies are untrustworthy and have a track record of being rip-offs. There are so many cryptocurrencies that come out now; everybody has a way to
Consumers may be going offline and back into stores to shop, but when they do, they want to go digital to pay. Smartphone payments and tap to pay options continue to gain acceptance, leading the transition away from cash and card swipes as merchants rapidly install modular point-of-sale (POS) systems. Macro pressures took some of
Apple Inc. AAPL has reportedly unveiled the lending criteria for its soon-to-launch buy now, pay later service as part of an ongoing test with the company employees and its all about customer history. What Happened: Apples buy now, pay later service will consider borrowers based on their spending history and take cognizance of which company
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak is exploring a 5 per cent pay rise for public-sector workers to end an escalating wave of strikes after the Treasury was given an unexpected £30bn windfall. In a sign of a change of mood after months of strife, the Royal College of Nursing on Tuesday called off a 48-hour
With persistent inflation and the aggressive interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve, the stock market in 2022 experienced its most volatile year since 2009. The S&P 500 has been on a shaky decline since January 2022, and despite a few short-lived rebounds, it was down 19.4% at the end of 2022. Intraday volatility the
Ridiculous — Bonkers Republican bill in Idaho would make mRNA-based vaccination a crime It’s unclear if the two lawmakers know what messenger RNA is exactly. Beth Mole – Feb 20, 2023 10:11 pm UTC Enlarge / The Comirnaty (Pfizer/BioNTech) and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.Getty | Marcos del Mazo reader comments 416 with Share this story Share
A sense of touch — This bionic finger uses touch to see inside human tissue, electronics Subsurface tactile tomography can detect details beneath a material’s surface. Jennifer Ouellette – Feb 20, 2023 9:59 pm UTC Enlarge / Scientists have built a smart bionic finger that mimics the tactile perception mechanism of a human finger.Y. Li
Cut content — Did the UK government just accidentally leak Nintendos Switch successor? A telltale and in a CMA report appendix has speculation running wild. Kyle Orland – Feb 20, 2023 8:17 pm UTC Enlarge / The big old question mark just got a lot bigger…Nintendo reader comments 106 with Share this story Share on