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Google to shutter game streaming service Stadia in January
Google LLC is shutting down Stadia, its cloud-based game streaming service, which will wind down on Jan. 18. “While Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia ...
Jack Dorsey’s TBD partners with Circle to push global adoption of the USDC stablecoin
Jack Dorsey’s payment company Block Inc.’s subsidiary TBD announced Wednesday that it’s partnering with Circle Internet Financial Ltd., the issuer of the United States-dollar pegged stablecoin USD Coin, in order to give a boost to widespread global adoption of the cryptocurrency. The two companies announced the partnership Wednesday during Circle’s Converge22 conference in San Francisco. As ...
OpenAI removes waitlist for DALL-E 2, its powerful text-to-image AI generator
The research team at OpenAI LLC announced today that the waitlist for its powerful artificial intelligence-driven natural language-to-image generator DALL-E has been removed and now users can sign up and start using it immediately. “More than 1.5 million users are now actively creating over 2 million images a day with DALL-E — from artists and ...
Cloudflare releases Turnstile, an ‘invisible’ alternative to CAPTCHAs
CAPTCHAs, which force people to click buttons to prove they’re not robots in order to access web pages and services, often get in the way of getting to sites and services. To fix this, Cloudflare Inc. said today, it’s testing out a new solution named Turnstile that may do away with these frustrating visual puzzles ...
CloudBees buys ReleaseIQ DevOps orchestration platform
Enterprise software delivery company CloudBees Inc. today announced it has acquired ReleaseIQ, a low-code software-as-a-service release orchestration solution for DevOps teams that will help extend the company’s current software delivery solutions. CloudBees develops the popular Jenkins continuous integration and delivery platform that automates code development and deployment pipelines. This is part of a practice known ...
Coral raises $20M to launch Backpack, a wallet for executable NFTs
Coral, the makers of the Anchor development framework built for the Solana blockchain, have an interesting proposition: They want to create nonfungible tokens that can launch applications. To make this happen, Coral raised $20 million in funding co-led by FTX Ventures and Jump Capital today in a strategic funding round. Multicoin Capital, Anagram and K5 ...
Strike raises $80M to enable instantaneous bitcoin payments for merchants
Strike, a digital payments service that uses bitcoin’s Lightning Network to provide instant payments, said today that it has raised $80 million to make everyday payments swift and easy for consumers. The Series B funding round was led by Ten31, a crypto-focused venture capital firm, and joined by Washington University in St. Louis and the ...
Crypto exchange FTX wins bid to buy bankrupt Voyager Digital for $1.4B
Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX US has won an auction to buy the assets of now-defunct crypto brokerage firm Voyager Digital Ltd., subject to the approval of the United States Bankruptcy Court, on a bid of about $1.4 billion. Voyager said in a statement late Monday that the bid was made up of “fair market value ...
Interpol issues a ‘red notice’ for Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon
Interpol has issued a “red notice” requesting that law enforcement worldwide seek out and arrest Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs Pte. Ltd., the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office said on Monday. Bloomberg reported Sunday evening that South Korean authorities requested Interpol issue the notice after issuing its own arrest warrant for Do Kwon and ...
CFTC fines decentralized blockchain protocol bZeroX $250,000 for illegal trading
In an enforcement action against a blockchain protocol, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has fined bZeroX LLC and its founders $250,000 and filed suit against its successor decentralized autonomous organization Ooki DAO. According to the CFTC’s filing Thursday, bZeroX and its founders, Tom Bean and Kyle Kistner were fined for illegally operating an organization that offered ...