Author: Vidya Saras

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 a couple of projects that are well underway – or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by grantees! Imapp for EVM Gas Cost Estimator Gas costs in Ethereum are a constant topic of debate and improvement. The average user only sees what they pay to send a transaction – whether the gas limit is very high, very low or just volatile. But where do those suggested gas…

Creating animations for the web can often feel time-consuming and challenging. As animation becomes an increasingly important part of the modern web, I felt there was a need for something to make it easier, something like shadcn/ui, but for animated components. That’s why I created Motion-Primitives: a library of pre-built, customizable, and easy-to-integrate motion components designed to simplify the process of adding animations to websites. Templates are an essential part of the Motion-Primitives project, and Nim is the first. Built as a practical example, it demonstrates how these components can be used in a minimal and customizable portfolio template. Nim…

President Donald Trump recently announced that the United States would work to land astronauts on Mars, preferably within the next four years — the extent of his presidential term.That goal has raised many eyebrows. After all, humanity has yet to return to the moon, following repeated delays to NASA’s Artemis 2 mission. So, is it even feasible to go from where we are now to putting bootprints in the red Martian dust by 2029?”A Mars mission will be the greatest undertaking that humans have ever done,” said Volker Maiwald, an aerospace engineer from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), in an…

Newcastle United have been active in the winter transfer window but mostly with players leaving the club.Miguel Almiron has left the Magpies and joined Atlanta United while defender Lloyd Kelly, who joined the club on a free transfer last summer, has moved to Juventus on loan with the Italian side having the option to buy the player in the summer transfer window.Kieran Trippier is another player linked with an exit from the club even though Eddie Howe wants to keep him at the club.Midfielder Sean Longstaff has been linked with a move away from the Toon Army but according to…

Jenni Hermoso has told the trial of former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales that the kiss he gave her at the 2023 World Cup “stained one of the happiest days of my life”.Rubiales, the former president of Spain’s football federation, went on trial in Madrid on Monday over the kiss, accused of sexual assault and coercion.Appearing as the trial’s first witness, Hermoso said: “My boss was kissing me, and this shouldn’t happen in any social or work setting.”Rubiales sparked major controversy when he kissed the athlete on the lips while the players received their World Cup medals in Australia, triggering…

The NFT world is filled to the brim with NFT collectibles projects. One team set out to do something totally different, and in doing so, created one of the most unique and celebrated NFT projects in the world. That NFT project is 10KTF.Built around the story of a master craftsman known as Wagmi-san, who calls the city of New Tokyo his home, 10KTF has carved out a lucrative niche by combining digital art, storytelling and NFT technology in a completely unique way.With 10KTF, users get an experience they can’t get anywhere else in the NFT industry – but what exactly…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the worldDonald Trump has vowed to halt all future US assistance to South Africa over its land expropriation policies, triggering a fall in the rand. The US president claimed recent measures enabled the government to confiscate property unfairly and accused South African authorities of treating “certain classes of people VERY BADLY”.He added: “I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”Trump’s comments, made on Truth Social, sparked a 1.6…

A presidential working group will consider a crypto stockpile and draft a broader regulatory framework for digital assets. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 23 that supports the digital assets industry and includes steps toward a strategic crypto reserve. The order establishes a working group led by eleven U.S. government officials plus the White House’s Special Advisor for AI and Crypto or “Crypto Czar.” That role is held by David Sacks, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. The working group will examine the potential creation of a digital asset stockpile. Previous efforts from Republican lawmakers specifically aimed…

“Jailbreaks persist simply because eliminating them entirely is nearly impossible—just like buffer overflow vulnerabilities in software (which have existed for over 40 years) or SQL injection flaws in web applications (which have plagued security teams for more than two decades),” Alex Polyakov, the CEO of security firm Adversa AI, told WIRED in an email.Cisco’s Sampath argues that as companies use more types of AI in their applications, the risks are amplified. “It starts to become a big deal when you start putting these models into important complex systems and those jailbreaks suddenly result in downstream things that increases liability, increases…

Ad Policy President Donald Trump talks to reporters from the Resolute Desk after signing an executive order to appoint the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in the Oval Office at the White House on January 30, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) Running for president last year, Donald Trump disowned Project 2025, the laundry list of radical demands gathered together by right-wing think tanks. Trump claimed that Project 2025 had no influence on him and was only being raised by Democrats as a political attack. But now that Trump is in power, he’s enacting an…