Author: Vidya Saras

Other Wireless Chargers We TestedPhotograph: Simon HillThere are a lot of wireless chargers. Here are a few more we like, but for one reason or another don’t warrant a place above.Baseus Nomos 5-in-1 Charging Station for $150: If you liked the PicoGo W2 above but need more gadget-charging power, this 5-in-1 could be worth a look. It also has a tilting pad and retractable USB-C cable, but adds two more USB-C ports and one USB-A, along with a stats-filled display. It’s perfect for your desktop. I also tried and quite liked the Baseus Nomos 8-in-1 Magnetic Charging Station ($90), which…

Gold-backed stablecoins will outcompete US dollar-pegged alternatives worldwide due to gold’s inflation-hedging properties and minimum volatility, according to Bitcoin (BTC) maximalist Max Keiser.Keiser argued that gold is more trusted than the US dollar globally, and said governments of foreign nations with an adversarial relationship to the United States would not accept dollar-pegged stablecoins. The BTC maximalist added:”Russia, China, and Iran are not going to accept a US dollar stablecoin. I predict they will counter the USD stablecoin with a Gold one. China and Russia have a combined 50,000 tonnes of Gold — more than what is reported.”The potential for gold-backed…

Friends, In the time since the last Devcon announcement, the state of the Ethereum ecosystem has been electric. We’ve realized critical milestones on the Eth2 roadmap, as well as countless breakthroughs and major progress by teams across the ecosystem. We are incredibly excited to celebrate these achievements with all of you at Devcon in Bogota soon. That said, we need to talk about timing, because we’ve made the difficult decision to hold off on reuniting for a bit longer rather than pushing ahead with our August target (☔️✔). While nothing is guaranteed given the ongoing pandemic, we’re hopeful that a…

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501) today announced substantial achievements stemming from its collaboration with NVIDIA, unveiled just one year ago. This partnership has driven a wave of innovation, delivering breakthroughs such as new product launches, advanced prototype developments, and the establishment of expert advisory councils—all propelling the realization of Physical AI. Through the combination of Hitachi’s expertise in the physical world and NVIDIA’s cutting-edge AI technologies, the partnership is setting new benchmarks. In March 2024, Hitachi and NVIDIA announced collaboration to advance social innovation by developing AI solutions that transform industrial sectors, including Energy, Mobility, and Connected Systems. The…

US investment firm Canary Capital has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would combine cryptocurrency and NFTs in a single investment product.The proposed fund Canary PENGU ETF, would include the $PENGU token—issued on the Solana blockchain—and digital assets from the Ethereum-based Pudgy Penguins NFT collection, marking the first known attempt to include NFTs in a regulated ETF in the United States.The SEC filing was submitted on Thursday, but it does not provide a timeline for review or approval. Source: Luca NetzWhat is an ETF?An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a financial…

U.S. President Donald Trump could sign the bill, which establishes a payment stablecoin framework, by mid-May. The U.S. is likely to enact the GENIUS Act into law soon, according to Bo Hines, executive director of President Donald Trump’s digital asset working group. The GENIUS Act outlines a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins or digital assets tied to the value of the U.S. dollar. Introduced earlier this year, the bipartisan bill sets compliance and collateralization rules for stablecoin issuers while otherwise allowing the creation and use of the assets. Notably, it establishes a federal regulatory framework but allows issuers of less…

In September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once embodied the go-go spirit of the internet but had, over the years, become a joke: Yahoo. He accepted the CEO post from the new private-equity owner Apollo Global Management, which had bought the property from Verizon, the most recent and possibly most clueless caretaker (high bar alert) in a long series of management shifts. Visiting him at the company’s offices in New York City, I ask him why he took the job. “I love turnarounds,” he says.Lanzone’s résumé confirms that. In 2001 he took over a sagging search…

Activism / March 21, 2025 An article on Robinson’s military career was restored to the Defense Department’s website. It’s a reminder that we can beat back the racist right. Ad Policy Jackie Robinson served in the US Army during World War II.(Bettman via Getty Images) Rachel Robinson, a professor, nurse, activist, and the wife of baseball trailblazer Jackie Robinson, is still with us at 102 years old. This month, the Department of Defense deleted a webpage detailing Jackie Robinson’s World War II military history and replaced it with an error page with the letters “DEI” in the URL. Perhaps…

The ability to generate high-quality images quickly is crucial for producing realistic simulated environments that can be used to train self-driving cars to avoid unpredictable hazards, making them safer on real streets.But the generative artificial intelligence techniques increasingly being used to produce such images have drawbacks. One popular type of model, called a diffusion model, can create stunningly realistic images but is too slow and computationally intensive for many applications. On the other hand, the autoregressive models that power LLMs like ChatGPT are much faster, but they produce poorer-quality images that are often riddled with errors.Researchers from MIT and NVIDIA…

Authorities in at least two U.S. states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese nationals accused of perpetrating a novel form of tap-to-pay fraud using mobile devices. Details released by authorities so far indicate the mobile wallets being used by the scammers were created through online phishing scams, and that the accused were relying on a custom Android app to relay tap-to-pay transactions from mobile devices located in China. Image: WLVT-8. Authorities in Knoxville, Tennessee last week said they arrested 11 Chinese nationals accused of buying tens of thousands of dollars worth of gift cards at local retailers with mobile…