Author: Vidya Saras

Joe Gebbia, cofounder of Airbnb and the US chief design officer appointed by President Trump, was spotted in San Francisco today using a mysterious metallic device. In a social media post on X viewed more than 500,000 times, a man who looks like Gebbia sits with an espresso at a coffee shop. He’s wearing metallic buds that bisect his ears, with a matching clamshell-shaped disc in front of him on the counter.After the video was posted Monday morning, social media users were quick to suggest that this could be some kind of prototype from OpenAI’s upcoming line of hardware devices…

If the West wants to compete and survive, it must revive manufacturing.

Have you ever had an idea for something that looked cool, but wouldn’t work well in practice? When it comes to designing things like decor and personal accessories, generative artificial intelligence (genAI) models can relate. They can produce creative and elaborate 3D designs, but when you try to fabricate such blueprints into real-world objects, they usually don’t sustain everyday use.The underlying problem is that genAI models often lack an understanding of physics. While tools like Microsoft’s TRELLIS system can create a 3D model from a text prompt or image, its design for a chair, for example, may be unstable, or have…

An automated scanning system has cut the time it takes to fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities across public sector IT systems, reducing median remediation time for general cyber vulnerabilities from 53 days to 32, and slashing DNS-specific average fix times from 50 days to eight. The results come from the UK government’s newly launched vulnerability monitoring service (VMS), which continuously scans more than 6,000 public bodies from doctors’ offices and ambulance trusts to hospitals and the Legal Aid Agency, tracking every identified weakness until it is resolved. The service detects around 1,000 types of vulnerabilities and processes approximately 400 confirmed findings a…

Eric Dane’s official cause of death has been revealed after the actor died following a battle with ALS. The actor’s official death certificate listed his cause of death as respiratory failure with ALS as an underlying cause, Us Weekly confirms. Dane was cremated on Friday, February 27. Dane’s family previously confirmed the actor’s death on February 19. “With heavy hearts, we share that Eric Dane passed on Thursday afternoon following a courageous battle with ALS,” his family wrote in a statement to Us. “He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife and his two beautiful daughters,…

BrewDog has been sold to US cannabis and craft brewing group Tilray in a £33 million rescue deal that will safeguard hundreds of jobs but see 38 bars close with the loss of 484 roles. The Scottish craft beer brand, founded in 2007 in Aberdeenshire, has been acquired by Tilray Brands, which owns a portfolio of US craft breweries and cannabis operations. Under the agreement, Tilray has purchased BrewDog’s UK brewing business and 11 of its pub venues across the UK and Ireland. The transaction includes BrewDog’s main brewery in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, and its national distribution centre, The Hop Hub,…

Rising tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical oil chokepoints, have sent shockwaves through global markets, driving oil price volatility, rattling currencies, and exposing vulnerabilities in cross-border trade flows. The Strait of Hormuz chaos could spark the XRP moment, and Ripple’s new financial era has ignited amid global oil turmoil.  Crypto analyst Pumpius revealed on X that the Strait of Hormuz handles roughly 20% of the global oil flows, but the US and Israel strikes on Iran have slashed vessel traffic by 70%. According to coverage from Reuters and The New York Times (NYT), major…

Bitcoin could benefit if artificial intelligence disrupts labor markets or creates volatility that prompts central banks to ease monetary policy, according to Greg Cipolaro, research lead at crypto services firm NYDIG.Cipolaro said in a research note on Friday that AI may prove to be a “general-purpose technology” such as electricity, and the macroeconomic effects it would have on employment, economic growth and risk appetite will affect Bitcoin (BTC).“If AI-driven growth occurs alongside expanding liquidity and contained real rates, that backdrop can be supportive for Bitcoin,” Cipolaro said. “But if stronger growth lifts real yields, tightens policy, and reduces the need…

Into the ether Hello, fellow Ethereans. I am Mihai Alisie, one of the Ethereum founders, and for the past year I’ve served as the Vice President of the Ethereum Foundation and Director of Ethereum Switzerland. In the early days of the project I concentrated my attention on the community side and worked on the holons idea for a distributed physical infrastructure; however, the project needed someone in Switzerland, and I was more useful here focusing on other things. During the the last couple of weeks I started to think about how far we’ve come and how many things we have…

The way people pay for things has changed dramatically over the past few years. Digital and mobile wallets are no longer just an alternative to cash or cards. They have become the preferred payment method for billions of consumers across the globe, from everyday purchases to cross-border transactions.This shift is touching every region, every age group, and every corner of the financial ecosystem, from mainstream retail payments to decentralized crypto transactions. This article explores the key wallet usage statistics shaping 2026, covering market size, global adoption trends, regional breakdowns, consumer behavior, and the platforms driving it all forward.Market Size &…