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Month: June 2024
Robinhood acquires global crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M
Stock-trading platform Robinhood is diving deeper into the cryptocurrency realm with the acquisition of crytpo exchange Bitstamp. Robinhood said it expects the deal to close in the first half of 2025, with the final transaction value to be in the region of $200 million. While Robinhood is […]
SpaceX launches mammoth Starship rocket and brings it back for the first time
SpaceX achieved a key milestone in its Starship flight test campaign: returning the booster and the upper stage back to Earth. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Announcing the 6th annual VentureBeat AI Innovation Awards at Transform 2024
The awards will be presented at VentureBeat’s in-person Transform event on July 10 in San Francisco. Stay tuned!
AI workers demand stronger whistleblower protections in open letter
A group of current and former employees from leading AI companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic has signed an open letter asking for greater transparency and protection from retaliation for those who speak out about the potential concerns of AI. “So long as there […]
Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is one of the efforts aimed at connecting the fediverse with the web, Bluesky and, perhaps later, other networks like Nostr. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
A $110,000 MicroLED TV? In this economy?
Who needs to save for college when your kids can enjoy the infinite contrast and eight million glorious points of light in Samsung’s new MicroLED TVs, which now start at the low price of $110,000. Available in 89-inch, 101-inch ($130,000) and 114-inch ($150,000) sizes, MicroLED […]
Apple is fixing a years-old parental control bug that lets kids avoid web filters
Illustration: The Verge For parents, it can feel like a no-brainer to let their kids have an iPad thanks to its built-in parental control feature, Screen Time. But the system is also undeniably buggy, as most parents will attest. Now, Apple is fixing one of […]
Nvidia is now more valuable than Apple at $3.01 trillion
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Nvidia has become the second most valuable company in the world. On Wednesday afternoon, the chipmaking giant’s market capitalization hit $3.01 trillion, putting it just ahead of Apple at $3 trillion. As Nvidia dominates the AI race with its […]
Hundreds of Snowflake customer passwords found online are linked to info-stealing malware
Snowflake is the latest company in a string of high-profile security incidents and sizable data breaches caused by the lack of MFA. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.