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Key Takeaways A X user claimed that Ripple and XRP are “not on the same level” as Solana. Solana responded with a thread of institutional partnerships, ETF mentions, and reports from Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, and Citi. Share this article Solana’s official XRP account on Friday entered into a short back-and-forth with an XRP supporter who […]
These were the total returns on a year-to-date basis as of April 8, 2025: S&P 500 -15.0% Nasdaq 100 -18.5% Russell 2000 -20.7% MSCI EAFE -3.5% MSCI Emerging Markets -7.8% That wasn’t very much fun. Now here are the 2025 year-to-date gains through the close on Monday: S&P 500 +17.9% Nasdaq 100 +23.3% Russell 2000 […]
from the you-control-it,-it-doesn’t-control-you dept Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which apps those AI systems can access. Recent issues around WhatsApp on both Android and iPhone demonstrate how these interactions can go sideways, risking revealing chat conversations […]
The world can be a noisy place, especially if you dwell in a busy city. The Bose QuietComfort Ultra headphones are still the best, and they effectively mute all that noise; they are also available at a very nice discount today. They are at a record-low price, saving you a whole $100! Buy the Bose […]
New contributor Frugalist is back to explain how he gamifies chasing the best regular saving accounts to make his cash work harder. There’s something deeply satisfying to me about maximising my return on cash. Not as an alternative to investing, of course. I’ve got bigger ambitions than simply fighting a slugging match against inflation with […]
Key Takeaways Brian Armstrong just “airdropped” alpha straight into the bags of traders on Polymarket and Kalshi. He literally hit nearly every keyword that the prediction market traders had wagered on. Share this article Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong surprised listeners during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Thursday after mentioning nearly every keyword that prediction […]
OpenAI has started selling power users extra credits for its Sora AI video generation tool. An extra 10 video gens will retail for $4 through Apple’s App Store. The company currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day, a rate that will likely decrease as OpenAI starts to monetize the offering. Bill Peebles, […]
—Greg Linden, a former data scientist at Microsoft, pokes fun at Meta’s beleaguered Reality Labs’ earnings in a post on Bluesky. One more thing How scientists want to make you young again A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they added just four proteins to […]
Google on Thursday revealed that the scam defenses built into Android safeguard users around the world from more than 10 billion suspected malicious calls and messages every month. The tech giant also said it has blocked over 100 million suspicious numbers from using Rich Communication Services (RCS), an evolution of the SMS protocol, thereby preventing […]
