Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Los Angeles Lakers arena sponsoring and Matt Damon-endorsed cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com accidentally transferred $10.5 million AUD (~$7.2 million USD) to an Australian customer instead of issuing a standard $100 AUD (~$68 USD) due to a pretty unfortunate typo. According to Australian news outlet 7News (via CoinTelegraph), the…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Enlarge / Annotations recording Galileo’s discovery of the four moons of Jupiter, from the single-leaf manuscript in the collection of the University of Michigan. The library recently discovered the manuscript is a 20th-century forgery. (credit: University of Michigan Library) Since 1938, one of the most prized items in the University of Michigan library’s collection has…
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Ride safety has been a tricky subject for years. Dan Gold/Unsplash Uber’s history is checkered with well-documented history of labor exploitation alongside its ongoing legal woes pertaining to passengers’ countless sexual assault reports. And although the company has made commendable strides in repairing its ecosystem to provide customers with safer rides, “its actual response has…
Make sure you’ve got a place for all your shoes. Anastasia Shuraeva via Pexels The one thing sneakerheads, stiletto fanatics, and regular Joes and Joannes have in common is a surfeit of shoes. Because even if you aren’t particularly obsessed with footwear, chances are just the number of pairs you need to cover all the…
New COVD vaccine boosters will be available in a single dose and target two strains of the virus. Vcolvacik/Deposit Photos The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorize Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s new bivalent COVID-19 booster shots. The new vaccines, which the FDA will also call “updated boosters,” contain two messenger RNA (mRNA) components: one targets…
As code bases grow ever larger, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to understand how the work they are doing fits in with the big picture, where the service dependencies are and how the code flows. CodeSee, an early stage startup, wants to provide developers and teams with the ability to see the big picture…
Few areas in tech today are as polarized as the blockchain gaming space. Legacy developers and gamers are calling play-to-earn games Ponzi schemes, while crypto-believers say games that incorporate “tokenomics” are the future for empowering players and creators. Before the debate is settled, the ecosystem around blockchain games is already getting built and funded. Los…
Ticketmaster will now let event organizers issue NFTs (non-fungible tokens) tied to tickets on Flow, a blockchain operated by a16z-backed Dapper Labs. The Live Nation subsidiary said that event organizers can make these NFTs available before, during, or after the event and even enable special experiences like loyalty rewards or celebrity meet-and-greets — or simply…
Toyota said Wednesday it will triple its planned investment for its first U.S. battery factory due to rising consumer demand for electric vehicles. The automaker now plans to spend $3.8 billion, up from the initial $1.3 billion announced, to build a plant near Greensboro, North Carolina. Toyota Battery Manufacturing North Carolina is expected to begin…