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Worldcoin Price Tumbles After $52.5M Funding Deal—Here’s What Happened
Worldcoin price tumbled nearly 10% after the World Foundation closed a $52.5 million institutional funding round, shifting investor attention from long-term expansion to near-term token supply. While the Pantera Capital led-investment is set to accelerate the rollout of the project’s AI-powered World ID ecosystem, traders reacted to the accompanying WLD token sale and renewed supply
$9.7M Drained Across Ethereum, Solana, TRON, and TON in Triple-A Exploit
Triple-A, a global fiat-to-crypto payment gateway, has become the latest victim of a multimillion-dollar hack. Blockchain security firm Peckshield reports that more than $9.7 million was drained after attackers drained its hot wallets across Ethereum, Solana, TRON, and TON. Here’s how the attack happened. Triple-A Hot Wallets Drained Across Multiple Networks Peckshield reported that the
Bitcoin’s Nine Biggest Institutional Holders Unite to Fund Network Security
Nine major Bitcoin institutions have now joined forces to protect the infrastructure behind the asset they collectively depend on. Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, BlackRock, Block, Blockstream, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Galaxy and Strategy have launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium with combined funding commitments of $15 million over the next three years. The initiative is being
Apple may finally debut its mixed reality headset this spring
Apple’s getting ready to launch its long-rumored mixed reality headset this spring, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company’s reportedly planning to reveal the device ahead of the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and will start shipping it this fall.The headset, which could cost as much as $3,000, is expected to provide
CES 2023: all the news from the year’s biggest tech conference
CES, also known as the Consumer Electronics Show, is the biggest tech trade show of the year, kicking off the first week of January and setting the stage for trends, announcements, and ascendant product categories we’ll see throughout the rest of 2023. The show will give us an early look at the latest developments in
Disney’s Magical Companion debuts at CES with some help from Amazon
Alexa’s got some company. I met Disney’s new voice assistant at CES this week, and it’s pretty cute. Called “Disney’s Magical Companion,” the disembodied voice is born from fairy dust and lives inside Amazon’s Echo smart speakers and displays. Its purpose is to call up various characters — including Disney, Pixar, and Star Wars faves —
Apple MacBook Pro laptops for 2023 could be disappointing
Home News Computing (Image credit: Apple) The rumor mill is spinning once more concerning Apple, and this time we’ve heard spillage on the topic of what Macs will be coming out in 2023 – and to prepare for some disappointments.This all comes from a renowned source on all things Apple, Mark Gurman. In his latest
Eyes on with Vuzix Ultralite: affordable (and amazing!) AR glasses for everyone
Home News Mobile Phones (Image credit: Jeremy Kaplan / Future) “Nobody wants to look like the guy who just stepped off the Starship Enterprise,” Paul Travers, the president of AR eyewear maker Vuzix tells me. He’s being polite here, so I’ll say what he won’t: It’s hard to wear current VR and AR headsets for more
A tale of two headsets: Hands-on HTC Vive XR Elite and Magic Leap 2 at CES 2023
Home News VR (Image credit: Future) The ephemerality of virtual and augmented reality was matched by the technologies’ ubiquity at CES 2023.It honestly felt a little like the mid-1990s when every tech company had an internet strategy. Now, almost everyone has either a way of overlaying images in the real world or immersing you in
Samsung Galaxy S23 leak suggests a price increase for this year’s flagships
Home News Mobile Phones The Samsung Galaxy S22 range (Image credit: Samsung) We're getting new Samsung Galaxy S23 leaks and rumors pretty much every day at this point, and today's is around price – with indications that you're going to have to pay a bit more to get your hands on this year's flagship phones.As
New Apple AR/VR headset leak hints at a launch date – and it’s in 2023
Home News Wearables Apple's headset may compete with the Meta Quest Pro (Image credit: Future) For years, Apple has been rumored to be working on a headset combining augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) – sometimes called mixed reality (MR) – and the latest prediction we have about the device is that it's coming
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Worldcoin Price Tumbles After $52.5M Funding Deal—Here’s What Happened
Worldcoin price tumbled nearly 10% after the World Foundation closed a $52.5 million institutional funding round, shifting investor attention from long-term expansion to near-term token supply. While the Pantera Capital led-investment is set to accelerate the rollout of the project’s AI-powered World ID ecosystem, traders reacted to the accompanying WLD token sale and renewed supply
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$9.7M Drained Across Ethereum, Solana, TRON, and TON in Triple-A Exploit
Triple-A, a global fiat-to-crypto payment gateway, has become the latest victim of a multimillion-dollar hack. Blockchain security firm Peckshield reports that more than $9.7 million was drained after attackers drained its hot wallets across Ethereum, Solana, TRON, and TON. Here’s how the attack happened. Triple-A Hot Wallets Drained Across Multiple Networks Peckshield reported that the
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Bitcoin’s Nine Biggest Institutional Holders Unite to Fund Network Security
Nine major Bitcoin institutions have now joined forces to protect the infrastructure behind the asset they collectively depend on. Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, BlackRock, Block, Blockstream, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Galaxy and Strategy have launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium with combined funding commitments of $15 million over the next three years. The initiative is being
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The Secret Service is investigating a member of JD Vance’s detail over a suspected news leak
A member of Vice President JD Vance ’s security detail is being investigated over allegations tied to a suspected news leak, the U.S. Secret Service said Thursday. Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesperson, said the security-team member faces an internal investigation and potential criminal inquiry over allegations involving compromised “operational and information security.” “While we will not
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Police Union Endorses Clarity Act as Three Crypto Backers Lobby Hits Senate
America’s largest police union, the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), and a trio of crypto organizations have openly supported the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. In a July 24 letter, the FOP’s National President Patrick Yoes attributed the organization’s new stance to the revision of Section 10604 of the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA).