Author: Vidya Saras

Businesses and developers often face a steep learning curve when installing clean energy technologies, such as solar installations and EV chargers. To get a fair deal, they need to navigate a complex bidding process that involves requesting proposals, evaluating bids, and ultimately contracting with a provider.Now the startup Station A, founded by a pair of MIT alumni and their colleagues, is streamlining the process of deploying clean energy. The company has developed a marketplace for clean energy that helps real estate owners and businesses analyze properties to calculate returns on clean energy projects, create detailed project listings, collect and compare…

The US Department of Justice this week announced that it had indicted two North Korean nationals and three other men, accusing them of participating in a conspiracy designed to trick US companies into funding the North Korean regime. According to the indictment, which was filed in federal court in Miami, the scheme leveraged stolen identity documents and paid henchmen in the US to direct well-paid IT work and company computers to two North Korean men, Jin Sung-Il and Pak Jin-Song. The idea, the Justice Department said, was to funnel money back to the North Korean regime, which has limited opportunities…

Sister Wives star Janelle Brown did something in real-time that likely has Kody Brown green with envy and maybe even red with anger, as these TLC stars pave a new future road. The Coyote Pass dream seemed to mean more to some of Kody’s wives than others. Janelle was a wife who was ready to dig in. She became so motivated to live there that she planked down a trailer on the land as her home during the summer months. She had greenhouses in mind for year-round growing as part of her plan. But that dream won’t materialize and from…

CS Venkatakrishnan, chief executive of Barclays, could see his maximum pay rise by 45 per cent to £14.3 million under a pay overhaul being considered by the lender’s board. The proposal would reduce his fixed salary nearly by half, from £2.95 million to £1.59 million, but allow him to earn annual and longer-term bonuses worth up to eight times that new figure. If approved, this would increase the Barclays chief’s maximum pay package from £9.8 million to £14.3 million. However, the bank would require a significantly higher “return on tangible equity” — a key profitability metric — than its current…

There is something to the stereotype of naive dreamers and idealists, or cold hard realists and cynics. Stereotypes don’t just come into being baselessly, there is a kernel of truth to them, otherwise they would not have spread virally as an idea in the first place. But they, as well as the worldviews they espouse, are also exaggerated beyond that kernel. Bitcoin is currently stuck in a game of tug of war between the naive idealists and the jaded cynics. On one hand, the idealists argue that we already won. We don’t have to do anything, Bitcoin is magically guaranteed…

Kansas Republican State Senator Craig Bowser has introduced a bill aimed at allocating up to 10% of public employee retirement funds to Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) products. Kansas Senator Proposes Bitcoin Exposure For Retirement Funds The bill, titled Senate Bill 34, seeks to authorize the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS) to invest up to 10% of public employee retirement funds in Bitcoin ETFs. If passed, the legislation would establish a KPERS board of trustees tasked with overseeing investments in BTC ETFs. Notably, the bill specifies that the KPERS board of trustees may allocate funds to Bitcoin ETF products…

We’re evolving how we build ethereum.org. Starting January 20th, we’ve adopted Shape Up cycles – focused 6-week build periods followed by 2-week cooldowns. For Cycle 1, each project below will ship by the end of February – no automatic rollovers to next cycle. Quick point of clarification: this is the cycle roadmap for ethereum.org the website, not Ethereum the protocol. We’ll ship the following projects by the end of February in our first cycle: Core ethereum.org improvements Interactive roadmap 🛣️ Making Vitalik’s Ethereum roadmap more beginner-friendly and interactive, helping newcomers understand Ethereum’s evolution and future. Listen-to-learn 🎧 Implementing audio capabilities…

Funton has formed a strategic partnership with HeLa Network to combine the strengths of decentralised gaming and AI to offer new tools and opportunities for developers and players.Through this partnership, Funton’s gaming platform will integrate with HeLa’s blockchain ecosystem, providing a streamlined way to deploy decentralised games and gamified experiences across web3 applications.By leveraging Funton’s GameFi-as-a-Service model, HeLa’s partners will have easier access to fun, engaging games that could increase user growth and interaction. Source: FuntonWhat is Funton?Funton is a decentralised gaming ecosystem built on the TON blockchain, designed to offer players access to a variety of casual mobile games.The platform…

Cryptocurrency is always changing. Staking is a new way to earn money passively. You lock up your crypto assets for a time and get rewards. This also helps keep the network safe and stable. Real-world assets such as real estate, commodities, and intellectual property are coming into the crypto world. The assets are tokenized and placed on the blockchain. A mix of traditional finance and decentralized finance is made through new investment options. RWAs-backed crypto staking platforms give stable returns that are backed by real-world value. They combine the fast growth of cryptocurrency with the stable value of real-world assets,…

OpenAI is letting some users try a new ChatGPT feature that uses its artificial intelligence to operate a web browser to book trips, buy groceries, hunt for bargains, and do many other online chores.The new tool, called Operator, is an AI agent: It relies on an AI model trained on both text and images to interpret commands and figure out how to use a web browser to execute them. OpenAI claims it has the potential to automate many day-to-day tasks and workday errands.OpenAI’s Operator follows rival releases by both Google and Anthropic, which have demonstrated ones capable of using the…