Five block trades made up 81% of CME’s recent bitcoin options contract volume
Derivatives exchange CME Group has seen a significant pickup of its bitcoin options contract volume over the past week, although five trades accounted for around...
Kate Middleton Borrowed Her New Social Media Presence From Meghan Markle
Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle are allegedly not the best of friends. Yet, the Duchess of Cambridge has a whole new social media swag. She’s...
Bitcoin wallet makers SatoshiLabs now building open-source chips
SatoshiLabs pushed hardware boundaries in the past with the creation of Trezor, the first commercially-available cryptocurrency hardware wallet. Now, the company seeks to break new...
Libra member Shopify adds another way to pay with crypto
Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify will now give its merchants the option to accept payments in more than 1,000 cryptocurrencies. (Who knew there were that many?)...
Adam Back Thinks Recent BTC Move Wasn’t Satoshi
Someone just moved Bitcoin from a wallet that has not been active for over 11 years, but Adam Back does not think it was Satoshi...
First Mining Adjustment, Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Takes A Drop By 6%
Bitcoin Mining difficulty refers to the difficulty in completing block rewards. Bitcoin mining difficulty decreased by 6% on Wednesday. This is when for the first...
These 2 Altcoins Could Be the Next Ones to Initiate Upward Moves
Theta Token (THETA) has broken out above an important resistance level and validated it as support afterwards. RVN has yet to break out but is...
Bank of France Announces Successful Test of Blockchain-Based Digital Euro
The Bank of France says it’s successfully completed an initial test of a central bank digital currency based on blockchain technology. The bank says it’s...
Justin Sun Promises to ‘100% Sponsor’ Anyone ‘Harmed’ by DAO Incident
In March, Hive hard forked away from Steem to negate Justin Sun’s stake in the network. 20% of the total STEEM supply, called the ‘founder’s...
House Bill Outlines Path to US National Blockchain Strategy
“The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has made it clear that we need to maintain American leadership in technology,” said Rep. Brett Guthrie. (Credit: Office of Rep....
European Central Bank caught up with DLT; will it be used for CBDCs?
A central bank digital currency [CBDC] has been thought of as an important tool to smoothen technological and financial systems the world over. Central banks...
Bitcoin dips as S&P 500 reaches highest peak in two months
Crypto and stocks are once again moving in opposite directions today. While the stock market appears to be rebounding based on optimistic outlooks over the...
Billionaire Bitcoin (BTC) Bull Tim Draper Reveals His Top Investments, Biggest Shakers
Bitcoin bull Tim Draper, founder of the seed-stage venture capital firm Draper Associates, is detailing which of his picks over the years has had the...
New GPU acceleration patch for Adobe Premiere Pro makes video encoding much faster
Encoding 4K video could be up to five times faster Bottom line: Adobe's next update for Premiere Pro will implement hardware-accelerated video encoding for huge gains...
Apple is bolstering Apple TV+ back catalog to compete with Netflix and Disney+
Original content can apparently only take you so far Bottom line: Nothing has been formally announced as of this writing but if Bloomberg’s sources prove accurate,...
Spotify’s licensing deal for Joe Rogan podcast reportedly worth north of $100 million
A big win for Spotify's podcast movement Editor's take: The first episode of the podcast aired live on December 24, 2009, and evolved from there. Rogan...
Sony set to reveal a ‘compelling lineup’ of PlayStation 5 games
Developed by both 1st and 3rd party studios Highly anticipated: There have been rumors around the PlayStation 5 getting unveiled in early June. What's confirmed, however,...
Samsung’s T7 portable SSD is now available to buy
Starting at $110 for the 500GB model Bottom line: Samsung revealed its NVMe-based T7 and T7 Touch portable SSDs at CES earlier this year, but only...
You might be able to resize and move future MacBook Pro trackpads
If an Apple patent becomes reality In a nutshell: Do you prefer your laptop trackpads to be on the larger side? If so, Apple's patent...
Coinbase says employees can work from home permanently
In brief Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says employees can choose where they want to work. The San Francisco crypto exchange plans to decentralize and have...
Nvidia reveals why it chose rival AMD over Intel for its deep learning system
PCIe 4.0 support had a lot to do with it In context: Like Sony vs. Microsoft, Intel vs. Qualcomm, and Apple vs. everyone, Nvidia vs. AMD...
Origin packs a Core i9-10900KF desktop CPU into a gaming laptop
Along with an RTX 2080 Super Max-P In a nutshell: Today marks the launch of Intel’s 10th-generation Comet Lake desktop processors, but it’s not just desktops...
Face mask selfies are being used to retrain facial recognition systems
Companies are scrambling to retrain facial recognition systems A hot potato: Where you stand on matters like these is likely heavily influenced by your stance...
Microsoft and OpenAI team up on a monster of a supercomputer
Another win for Microsoft as it strives to become an AI and cloud behemoth In brief: Microsoft built a gargantuan supercomputer for artificial intelligence, which is...
Hulu’s new design aims for consistency across Disney bundle
A unified look and feel across all Disney streaming platforms Bottom line: Individually, the changes may not sound like much, but collectively, it should make for...
Ming-Chi Kuo says iPhone 12 will not include EarPods in the box
You can finally put a lid on your Apple earphone collection Rumor mill: Get ready for the storm of mad Apple customers. It seems they...
Google gets Serious Sam 4 as a Stadia exclusive this August
The game will make its way to PlayStation and Xbox in 2021 In brief: It looks like Serious Sam 4 will only be available on...
‘Crucible’ is a new free-to-play team-based sci-fi shooter from Amazon
It's completely free-to-play What just happened? Amazon's video game ambitions don't stop with its New World MMO. The company has been working with developer Relentless Studios...