The founder of the Tronix and BitTorrent crypto assets, Justin Sun, who is also a Grenadian diplomat, has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for fraud and offering unregistered securities. In addition, the SEC also charged celebrities […]
Nimiq is set to roll out gas-abstracted USDC transactions on Polygon, which will be incorporated into its native wallet. The new feature will make it easier and more feasible for merchants to accept crypto, avoiding the typical volatility. The Blockchain […]
Over the past few years, we’ve seen big tech companies working with governments to censor free speech and information on the internet. The modern internet, spearheaded by industry giants such as Google and Facebook, was originally designed to grant users unrestricted […]
2021 was the best year for cryptocurrency when Bitcoin reached its peak of $68,000 in November of that year. But everything changed a year later and cryptocurrencies lost more than half of their value. Then almost a year later came […]
Quick Brief In November 2022, 400,000 gallons of radioactive water was leaked at Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear power plant in Minnesota The leak was detected by routine groundwater monitoring systems and confirmed on Nov. 22, 2022, but it wasn’t made […]
Though naysayers continue to predict the death of Twitter after Elon Musk bought the company last year, the social media platform continues to grow leaps and bounds and attracts millions of new users who felt left before the acquisition. Now, […]
Online ads are everywhere. It’s almost impossible to find any website without some kind of ad because most online publishers depend on ads to keep the light on. But if you’re like me, I hate annoying ads. So in the early […]
SVB Financial Group, the company that owned the failed Silicon Valley Bank, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to seek buyers for its assets. The news comes just a week after its former unit Silicon Valley Bank was taken over […]
It was just two days ago that OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4, the successor to ChatGPT that the company claimed to have better accuracy and the ability to beat 90% of humans on the SAT. Less than 24 hours […]
The past few weeks have seen tech-focused banks offering services to startups and crypto-friendly VCs run into financial difficulties. Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest bank in the US, collapsed last week after a run on deposits left the bank […]
On Tuesday, hackers exploited Poolz Finance’s decentralized IDO platform and made away with $390k just days after a $180 million Euler Finance exploit. However, within hours of the attack, the Poolz team wasted no time and immediately flagged the hacker’s […]
“Microsoft fired their AI safety team?,” that was the question Elon Musk asked on Twitter following a Platformer report that “Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs that […]
In less than four months, ChatGPT has grown to become the most popular and powerful AI innovation of our time. ChatGPT took the internet by storm late last year as the dialogue-based AI chatbot crossed one million users just five days […]
Americans lost $10.3 billion to a wide range of internet scams in 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in its report released this month. During the same year, the FBI also found an increase in the use of […]
Korean gaming giant Wemade has partnered with Microsoft-backed Web3 data platform Space and Time. As part of the partnership, Wemade will leverage Space and Time’s decentralized suite of developer tools to power its blockchain and gaming services. Wemade is a […]
After a hugely successful launch of its ChatGpT in November, OpenAI today announced the launch of the latest version of its primary large language model, GPT-4. Unlike its predecessors, OpenAI said the new GPT-4 is a large multimodal model that […]
A Russian fighter jet downed a U.S. drone operating over the Black Sea on Tuesday, the US European Command said in a statement. Blaming a pair of Russian fighter jets for “reckless” maneuvers which resulted in the MQ-9 drone being […]
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on Friday afternoon left venture capital firms, tech companies, and startups scrambling in uncertainty. Then over the weekend, the FDIC, Treasury, and the Federal Reserve stepped in to reassure depositors their cash is […]
Pfizer has acquired Seattle-based cancer treatment biotech firm Seagen for $43 billion. In an announcement on Monday, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said the acquisition will enable the pharmaceutical giant to deliver Seagen’s cancer therapy to the world “at a scale […]
Last week we wrote about Qualtrics after the survey software company received a $12.4 billion buyout offer from Silver Lake and Canada’s CPPIB. Today, Silver Lake and CPP Investments announced it plans to acquire Qualtrics for $12.5 billion, making it […]
