Stripe in talks to acquire Bridge for $1 billion

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Stripe is in talks to acquire stablecoin platform Bridge for a whopping $1 billion, according to Forbes. The talks are reportedly in advanced stages, although nothing has been finalized.  Bridge, cofounded by Coinbase alumni Zach Abrams and Sean Yu, has built an API that helps companies accept stablecoins. The pair raised $58 million from investors […]
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Elon Musk’s X is changing its privacy policy to allow third parties to train AI on your posts

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

On Wednesday, social network X (formerly Twitter) updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out. While X owner Elon Musk trained xAI’s Grok AI chatbot on X user data, leading to an investigation by the EU’s lead privacy regulator, […]
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Trump family gets 75% of crypto coin revenue, has no liability, new document reveals

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Donald Trump’s crypto project, World Liberty Financial, published a 13-page paper on Thursday laying out its mission and how tokens get allocated.

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Sam Altman’s Worldcoin becomes World and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded “proof of personhood” crypto startup that scans people’s eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the “coin” from its name and is now just “World.” The startup also unveiled its next generation of iris-scanning “Orb” and other tools at a live event in San Francisco. Co-founder and CEO of World, […]
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All mobile phones must be hearing aid compatible under new FCC rules

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

The FCC Thursday issued rules requiring that all mobile phones — including smartphones — sold in the U.S. be compatible with hearing aids. The news comes two years after the FDA made hearing aids available to all Americans without a prescription. The FCC has not yet issued a specific timeline for compliance, only noting that […]
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Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers’ cloud products

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Missing logs could make it more difficult to identify unauthorized access to the customers’ networks during that two-week window.
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POS Terminals Explained By Experts: A Complete Guide For 2024

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Today’s point of sale terminals bring convenience to both customers and businesses with mobile hardware, user-friendly touchscreens, and out-of-the-box setups.

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Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, is psyched about AI, but points out that it hasn’t cured cancer.
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Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Thursday that Prabhakar Raghavan, the executive in charge of the company’s search engine and ads products, is leaving his role. Longtime Google executive Nick Fox will replace Raghavan, who will now take on the role of chief technologist. “Prabhakar has decided it’s time to make a big leap in […]
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SpaceX Has a Plan for Starlink to Hit Gigabit Speeds

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Techme101

Elon Musk’s satellite internet company told the FCC that a few tweaks to its “orbital configuration and operational parameters” could result in nearly 10 times faster downloads.

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