People in Russia will soon no longer be allowed to use digital assets as a form of payment. Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed a bill into law prohibiting the use of digital assets, such as cryptocurrency and NFTs, to pay for goods and services. In addition, as Protocol notes, the new law also requires…
Blizzard has made further changes to its Overwatch 2 hero roster in another beta mid-cycle patch. Six more heroes have had their abilities tweaked in a bid to rebalance the game ahead of its formal release, including Doomfist, Junker Queen, Orisa, Sojourn, Symmetra, and Zenyatta. Doomfist’s changes include minimum damage required to empower Rocket Punch…
Counterfeit cases for the entire iPhone 14 lineup, seeking to imitate official Apple accessories, are already available in China. The cases, shared on Twitter by Majin Bu, are intended to look like official Apple silicone cases for all four of the expected iPhone 14 models, including the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro, and…
Workers install a new row of Bitcoin mining machines at the Whinstone US Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas, on October 9, 2021. | Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images On Friday, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to two federal regulators, urging them to take action on…
Enlarge (credit: Maskot/Getty) To graduate with a science major, college students must complete between 40 and 60 credit hours of science coursework. That means spending around 2,500 hours in the classroom throughout their undergraduate career. However, research has shown that despite all that effort, most college science courses give students only a fragmented understanding of…
As venture capital grew around the world, tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. Worth around a fifth of all venture dollars invested last year, fintech startups raised nearly unfathomable sums of capital but with…
The Southern Ring Nebula looks as though a bomb dropped into an ocean, tsunami waves surging away, into the darkness. Cosmic light, presented in the colors of a lapis stone, seems to fill a gaping crater in space. NASA scientists, giddy to reveal the new image from the James Webb Space Telescope at an event…
Marine researchers had a strange encounter during a recent dive in California’s Monterey Bay. A squid mom hauled a spawling sheet of eggs through the water. “During a recent deep-sea dive, MBARI researchers encountered this incredibly rare sight — a deep-sea squid (Bathyteuthis sp.) grasping hundreds of eggs in her arms,” the Monterey Bay Aquarium…
I like tweets. You like tweets. We all like tweets. Well, sometimes tweets can be pretty awful. But sometimes Twitter is hilarious. It has the absolute funniest and the worst people in the world, all in once place. Isn’t that something? Anyway, to celebrate the end of the week, we once again collected the best…
Princess Cruises Taking a cruise could be your cheapest vacation option amid a summer of expensive and chaotic travel. There are currently 45 cruises sailing for $50 a day or less through 2022. Cruise Sheet has seen a 17% drop in average cruise fares compared to the same time in 2019. Vacationing this summer has…