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Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions — Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments following legislative changes …
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Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/Bitcoin
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Alibaba releases QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused on “enhancing visual reasoning capabilities”, built on Qwen2-VL-72B — Language and vision intertwine in the human mind, shaping how we perceive and understand the world around us.| Bloomberg: |
Taiwan's FTC blocks Uber's $950M acquisition of Delivery Hero's Foodpanda, arguing it would decrease competition as their combined market share would be 90%+ — - Fair Trade Commission concerned deal would limit competition — Uber had sought Delivery Hero's Foodpanda unit in Taiwan| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
AppLovin was 2024's top performing US tech stock, up 758% as of December 24, followed by MicroStrategy, up 467%, and Palantir, up 380%; the Nasdaq jumped 33% — Artificial intelligence is still an abstract concept for many everyday consumers unsure about how it will change their lives.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Analysis: in 2024, ~66% of 39 public digital health companies lost value, while the Nasdaq rose 32%; in 2021, digital health startups raised a record $29.1B — If the Covid era marked a boom time for digital health companies, 2024 was the reckoning. — In a year that saw the Nasdaq jump 32% … | Richard Deitsch / New York Times: |
Netflix's first livestream of NFL games avoided major buffering and freezing issues that plagued the Tyson-Paul fight for the most part, after early glitches — If you believe in omens, Netflix appeared to be in for a very long day on Wednesday. As the streaming giant began …
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| Politico: |
Examining Biden's tech legacy and the CHIPS Act, as the White House says $446B has been announced for chips and electronics manufacturing since he took office — President Joe Biden had just a single term to try to transform the nation's approach to energy, climate change, technology and jobs.| J. Clara Chan / Wired: |
A look at Toontown Rewritten, an unofficial recreation of Disney's Toontown Online game that shut down in 2013; Toontown Rewritten now has 10K DAUs and 50K MAUs — Thanks to a bunch of game-makers who were still teens when Toontown Online disappeared, the beloved online world lives on as Toontown Rewritten.
Bluesky: @joeyz.io and @toontownrewritten.com. X: @pandaphilplays
Forums: r/Toontown, r/toontownrewritten, and r/pcgaming
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Japan Airlines halts ticket sales after a cyberattack hit its network equipment, causing delays to more than 40 flights, and says flight safety was not impacted — The airline also temporarily stopped selling tickets for flights departing Thursday, but said that there was no impact on flight safety.| The Block: |
Analysis: Coinbase International saw its total trading volume grow 124% week-over-week to $119B+ this past week, up from $2.5B per day average in November 2024 — - The weekly total is 124% higher than the previous week's total. — The following is an excerpt from The Block's Data and Insights newsletter.
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X: @pancakeswap, @daancrypto, @martypartymusic, and @kyledoops
| Tharin Pillay / Time: |
A look at the more challenging AI evaluations emerging in response to the rapid progress of models, including FrontierMath, Humanity's Last Exam, and RE-Bench — Despite their expertise, AI developers don't always know what their most advanced systems are capable of—at least, not at first.| Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: |
Opensignal ranks Japan #1 in G7 mobile reliability experience between July 1 and September 28, followed by France, Germany, the US, Canada, Italy, and the UK — Research highlights impact of poor network performance on consumers — Mobile users in the UK had the least reliable experience …
More: iPhone in Canada Blog. Bluesky: @seanfionn. X: @workmj. Forums: r/ukpolitics and r/unitedkingdom
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