FTX Cryptocurrency exchange CEO Gabe Bankman-Fried at a hearing on Capitol Hill on May 12, 2022. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images Binance reached an agreement to purchase Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto exchange FTX on Tuesday. Contagion fears were worsened by selling from Binance CEO and Bankman-Fried rival Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. Here’s what happened as FTX…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
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The Hero 11 Black is the latest top-end model in GoPro’s long line of action cameras, and as of this writing the camera is now down to $350 at GoPro’s online store with a one-year GoPro subscription. This deal technically started last week, but it’s still a new low and $50 off the bundle’s usual…
Two of the largest crypto exchanges have just announced one of the stranger tech mergers in recent memory (and that’s saying something). Binance plans to acquire its rival FTX after a brief but very public dispute. As Bloombergexplains, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao sold about $529 million in FTX’s native token on November 6th in response…
As expected, Zoom is looking to take on the likes of Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace in more areas than group video calls and chats. At its Zoomtopia conference, the company announced a bunch of features that are coming to its platform, including two key ones for productivity: email and calendars. You can connect third-party…
A year after Amazon launched its redesigned Amazon Photos app for iOS, it’s now giving us on Android the same courtesy. Inside, the app has gotten retooled top to bottom, with improved navigation and updated features being the main highlights in the changelog. While you scroll through your photos, new buttons in the UI allow…
With Awesome Games Done Quick’s next charity speedrun event rapidly gaining on us, organisers have revealed timings for all 140+ speedruns scheduled for the January 2023 show. Next year’s Awesome Games Done Quick runs from 8th-15th January, and will once again be an online-only event as organisers look to move its in-person component away from…
The European Commission has announced that, following its initial investigation into Microsoft’s proposed $69bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard, it will now be opening a more “in-depth” Phase 2 probe to determine the deal’s likely impact on competition. In a statement on its website, the European Commission said it had made the decision after its preliminary…
Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and key franchises like Call of Duty, faces more long delays as European regulators have decided to take a closer look at the $69m deal. As widely expected, the European Union has announced plans to carry out an “in-depth investigation” into the takeover, amid concerns the merger may “significantly…
You’ve seen curved displays, foldable displays and even rollable displays, but what about stretchable displays? LG Display has announced a 12-inch screen it says can be stretched out to 14-inches without distortion. The high-resolution display, which offers full colour RGB and 100 pixels-per-inch, has 20 per cent stretchability, which is world first. LG says the…