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Extended warranty applicable to vehicles sold January 1, 2025 onwards Leading mobility company Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) has announced the new Toyota 5-Year Warranty. The extended warranty program is applicable to all Toyota vehicles sold January 1, 2025 onwards. Previously, Toyota vehicles were covered by a 3-Year or 100,000 KM warranty, whichever comes first. With the new Toyota 5-Year Warranty, customers can get up to two (2) years or 40,000 KM of additional warranty provided that they are able to avail the minimum number of Periodic Maintenance Services (PMS) during the 3-year warranty period, with at least one (1) PMS…

White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks rejected the idea of taxes on each cryptocurrency transaction as a method of filling the US strategic Bitcoin (BTC) reserve and the crypto stockpile with digital assets.During a recent appearance on the All In podcast, host Jason Calacanis proposed charging a 0.01% tax on every cryptocurrency transaction, which would be denominated in the asset that is transferred, bought, or sold. Sacks responded:”That’s always how taxes start. They are described as being very modest. You know, when the income tax started, it only applied to like a thousand Americans, and the legislators swore…

Natassja Ebert(Credit: Natassja Ebert)From making history as Vogue’s youngest-ever fashion editor to creating a gown fit for a Kennedy wedding – which would end up covered in grass stains – Vera Wang chronicles her career’s surprising trajectory and shares some of her hard-won lessons as a woman at the top of her field.Vera Wang may be best known for crafting some of the most memorable wedding gowns of all time. Mariah Carey, Victoria Beckham, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Alicia Keys are just a few of the women who have chosen the designer for their big days. Less known is the…

It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on projects that are well underway – or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by grantees! Baseline The Baseline project is defining a protocol that allows businesses to synchronize their systems of record and reduce costly errors in B2B transactions. It uses the Ethereum Mainnet as a common frame of reference, while keeping confidential business logic and data private using zero-knowledge proofs. The project is housed under the…

Swords of Blood has launched its Open Beta, introducing a play-to-airdrop event allowing players to earn blockchain-based rewards through gameplay.Developer Hitbox Games has launched the event for the month of March, during which players can earn $HBOX NFTs by completing in-game objectives. Each NFT contains 2,000 tokens, with a planned TGE in April 2025.This event does not require any upfront purchase or social media engagement, making it accessible to all players. However, the drop rate for $HBOX NFTs has not been disclosed, and rewards are distributed daily on a limited basis.Powered by ApeChain and Immutable integration, the game is now…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to conduct a large-scale study to re-examine whether there is a connection between vaccines and autism, federal officials said Friday.Dozens of scientific studies have failed to find evidence of a link. But the C.D.C. now falls under the purview of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long expressed skepticism about the safety of vaccines and has vowed to revisit the data.“As President Trump said in his Joint Address to Congress, the rate of autism in American children has skyrocketed. C.D.C. will leave no stone unturned in…

After years of market fluctuations, cryptocurrencies still attract the attention of investors actively seeking new investment opportunities. The fluctuation of Bitcoin prices and the sharp decline of altcoins such as XRP and DOGE have made traditional investment methods increasingly unsustainable. Therefore, innovative investment forms such as AI cloud mining have gradually become the focus.   The rise of cloud mining Compared with traditional mining, cloud mining has shown obvious advantages. Traditional mining requires high hardware investment and rich professional knowledge, while cloud mining has attracted more and more investors with its simple operation and considerable returns. Cloud mining platforms based on…

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has deployed a proprietary chatbot called GSAi to 1,500 federal workers at the General Services Administration, WIRED has confirmed. The move to automate tasks previously done by humans comes as DOGE continues its purge of the federal workforce.GSAi is meant to support “general” tasks, similar to commercial tools like ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude. It is tailored in a way that makes it safe for government use, a GSA worker tells WIRED. The DOGE team hopes to eventually use it to analyze contract and procurement data, WIRED previously reported.“What is the larger strategy here?…

A preview of Elie Mystal’s new weekly newsletter. Ad Policy This is a preview of Nation Justice Correspondent Elie Mystal’s new weekly newsletter. Click here to receive this newsletter in your inbox each Friday. Hello, and welcome to my inaugural newsletter “Elie v. U.S.” You can subscribe to the newsletter and receive it weekly here. With the Donald Trump/Elon Musk administration shredding the fabric of American-style democracy faster than I can type “Once upon a time, Rome was a Republic,” it seems useful to do a weekly roundup of some stories, events, and developments I’d otherwise be unable to…

Imagine that a robot is helping you clean the dishes. You ask it to grab a soapy bowl out of the sink, but its gripper slightly misses the mark.Using a new framework developed by MIT and NVIDIA researchers, you could correct that robot’s behavior with simple interactions. The method would allow you to point to the bowl or trace a trajectory to it on a screen, or simply give the robot’s arm a nudge in the right direction.Unlike other methods for correcting robot behavior, this technique does not require users to collect new data and retrain the machine-learning model that…