Is the massive surge in bitcoin just getting started this year? Ahead of the impending “halving” of bitcoin, a modification to the token’s underlying blockchain technology intended to slow down the creation of new bitcoins, that is the question that traders of cryptocurrencies are wondering about. Following the half of bitcoin in May 2020, the…
The Oversight Board of Meta Platforms announced on Tuesday that it is investigating the way the firm handled two sexually suggestive AI-generated pictures of female celebrities that went viral on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The board, which is supported by the massive social media company but runs independently of it, stated in a blog…
Nike is investing more in the Olympics than it has in any previous Games. This is because the American sportswear company is launching a marketing campaign aimed at boosting sales and fending off competition from upstarts, according to top executives of the company. With Paris 2024 marking a return to normalcy following Tokyo 2020, which…
Because of the unstable interest rate environment, U.S. banks are finding it difficult to predict their earnings, and some have decided to play it safe for the rest of the year. The Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in March 2022 to control inflation, which increased net interest income (NII), or the difference between what…
According to two people with firsthand knowledge, Pegatron is in advanced talks to give the Tata Group control over its sole iPhone manufacturing site in India. This represents the Taiwanese company’s most recent retraction of its Apple collaboration. As per one of the sources, the deal, which has Apple’s support, calls for Tata to own…
After becoming Ireland’s prime minister-in-waiting in March, Simon Harris took to TikTok, a medium he preferred, to express himself. The guy who will be Ireland’s youngest Taoiseach described to his 95,000 followers how he went from being a “opinionated, moody teenager” who was upset about his brother’s autism not receiving proper educational support in a…
After X’s Elon Musk declared he would reinstate accounts on the social networking site X that the judge had ordered blocked, a Supreme Court judge started an investigation into the billionaire on Sunday, intensifying the stalemate between Elon Musk and Brazil. The owner of X, Elon Musk, has appealed a ruling by Justice Alexandre de Moraes…
Last month, while conducting extensive performance testing, German software developer Andres Freund discovered strange behaviour in a little-known programme. What he discovered throughout his investigation has alarmed the software industry and caught the interest of government representatives and company leaders. Freund, a San Francisco-based Microsoft employee, learned that one of the open-source software programme XZ…
With a focus on mainstream “legacy” chips from China, the US and the EU agreed to extend their cooperation on identifying disruptions in the semiconductor business by three years. Following a two-day meeting of their Trade and Technology Council, the two sides released a joint statement on Friday that covered the conclusions of the meeting…
In just three years, Brazil’s immensely popular Pix payment system has emerged as the nation’s preferred method of payment, frequently taking the place of cash and wire transfers. It is currently posing a threat to credit cards’ hegemony in the rapidly expanding e-commerce industry. Online merchants benefit greatly from Brazil’s central bank’s rapid payments, which…
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