Author: Vidya Saras
Follow Frank on X. This morning MARA, the largest publicly-traded Bitcoin mining company, shared that it will be rolling out three new data centers in the U.S.Would it have made such an announcement had Harris won the election? Probably. (Itâs not like they whisked up these data centers overnight.)But would they have made the announcement with such gusto, highlighting the fact that the bitcoin the company mines will be âMade In USAâ? Probably not.American compute power is accelerating. Today, weâre announcing:-Three new data centers.-Owned and operated in Ohio.-372 megawatts of capacity.#Bitcoin – Made in USA. pic.twitter.com/ltDbhKrCHJ— MARA (@MARAHoldings) November 11,…
Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, has revealed new insights into his potential involvement in shaping United States crypto policy during the ongoing transition period under President-elect Donald Trump. In a livestream on Sunday night on YouTube, Hoskinson outlined his vision and possible contributions to future crypto legislations. Will The Cardano Founder Serve Under Trump? The Cardano founder emphasized the âvery clearâ potential for his involvement in influencing US crypto policy, while also urging moderation in expectations. âThings are very milky and many discussions are happening and itâs very clear that Iâm going to be involved in some capacity influencing…
We are thrilled to announce the 39 grantees selected for the recent Academic Grants Round. This grants round invited researchers, think-tanks, Ph.D. students, and all those interested in advancing knowledge around the Ethereum ecosystem to submit academic proposals. Thank you to all those who submitted proposals, and congratulations to all the grantees. We are pleased with the number of quality applications that we received, which surpassed our initial expectations. Given the extraordinary potential of many project proposals, we have more than doubled the initial budget from 750,000to750,000 to 750,000to2 million. The granted projects vary broadly in scope and geographic representation…
When NFTs boomed in late 2021, one collection hit incredible highs â and although it saw a dramatic fall, their commitment has seen the collection transform into a rapidly-growing entertainment powerhouse.That collection is Cool Cats.In just 3 years, theyâve gone from an unknown cartoon character to a premiere brand that spans animations, manga, physical collectibles and more â but how did they get there?Hereâs our complete 2024 guide to Cool Cats.What is Cool Cats?Cool Cats is a collection of 9,999 cartoon-style NFT avatars on Ethereum. Each avatar features the Blue Cat character with a fusion of traits, such as clothing,…
John Brett, 1856. Photo: TateA new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers as they began to capture the transformation of the environment.Who knew what, and when, from the start of the 19th Century on, about the impact of industrialisation and the use of fossil fuels on the environment? A new exhibition at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, just outside of Los Angeles, entitled Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis, helps to trace the scientific, historical and artistic record back to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.  One early…
D.D. Guttenplan On the last edition of See How They Run, John Nichols and Jeet Heer examine the wreckage of Election 2024 and talk about the way forward. The post Where Do We Go From Here? appeared first on The Nation.
At the turn of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about the conditions and culture of Black people in Philadelphia, documenting also the racist attitudes and beliefs that pervaded the white society around them. He described how unequal outcomes in domains like health could be attributed not only to racist ideas, but to racism embedded in American institutions.Almost 125 years later, the concept of âsystemic racismâ is central to the study of race. Centuries of data collection and analysis, like the work of Du Bois, document the mechanisms of racial inequity in law and institutions, and attempt to measure…
Eight years ago, the November US election results profoundly shocked the small staff at Backchannel, the boutique tech publication I headed. The morning after, an editor posted on our Slack that working on a technology story seemed tone-deaf, if not futile. On a plane from New York to San Francisco, I wrote a column to answer that impulse, directed as much to myself and my colleagues as it was to readers. I argued that regardless of the enormity of this event, one thing hadnât changed; the biggest story of our time was still the technological revolution we were living through.…
Ciscos populĂ€rer MFA-Service Duo unterstĂŒtzt jeden erdenklichen Authentifizierungs-Use-Case inklusive Desktop, Webanwendungen, VPN- und Remote-Verbindungen. Dabei bietet Duo auch die Tools, die nötig sind, um andere wichtige Authentifizierungsaspekte berĂŒcksichtigen zu können: kontextbezogene, risikobasierte Authentifizierung, Monitoring und Integration mit praktisch jeder IAM-Suite auf dem Markt. HYPR Die Authentifizierungsplattform HYPR unterstĂŒtzt den Passkey-Standard vollumfĂ€nglich, allerdings nur als Startpunkt fĂŒr die Authentifizierung. Dabei werden sowohl synchronisierte als auch gerĂ€tegebundene Passkeys fĂŒr die Authentifizierung unterstĂŒtzt. Passwortlose Authentifizierung erstreckt sich bei HYPR ĂŒber sĂ€mtliche Bereiche, von Desktop- bis hin zu Remote-Access-Lösungen.
Jennifer Lopez has been through her fair share of troubled romances, as all four of her marriages have ended in a divorce.Amid her highly publicized split from Ben Affleck, Lopez opened up on the complexities of navigating “challenging relationships” during a Q&A session at the screening of her movie “Unstoppable.”Ben Affleck recently praised Jennifer Lopez for her performance in the movie, calling it “spectacular,” making it the first comment he has made about her since the singer filed for divorce.Article continues below advertisementJennifer Lopez Opens Up About Navigating ‘Challenging Relationships’MEGALopez’s role as Judy Robles in the upcoming sports drama, “Unstoppable,”…