Human rights activists have appealed to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) with a demand to ban facial recognition of buyers in supermarkets in the south of England. Reuters writes about it. According to Big Brother Watch, southern Co-operative uses scanners in 35 stores in ten cities. The system creates a biometric profile of each visitor, which...
Crypto exchange KuCoin polled 3,608 Twitter and LinkedIn users about their attitudes towards Web3. A brief report is published on the KuCoin blog; the full version can be downloaded from Google Drive. 30% of respondents answered that they do not believe in the success of Web3. The rest of the participants can be divided into professionals and enthusiasts. The share of the former is...
Crypto lending platform Celsius Network has filed a petition to hire former CFO Rod Bolger as an advisor in the bankruptcy proceedings. The court will consider the company's request on August 8. Bolger left Celsius in June after a few months. He replaced Yaron Shalem, arrested in November 2021 in Israel, and the founder of Sirin Labs ICO startup Moshe...
Vadim Shovkun, a practicing trader and founder of the Crypto Shaman project, talks about the current situation on the market. The price failed to consolidate above the mirror level of $21,100-$21,600. This range is resistant and quite strong. Data: Trading View. Currently, the price is testing the PoC of the entire range. A specific reaction may favor growth, but there are...
Cryptocurrency mining is a costly process. With the increasing complexity of top networks, mining costs have increased. In 2022, a home farm of 6 video cards will cost 300-500 thousand rubles. Therefore, developers began to think about more economical ways to mine digital coins. Mining on RAM is considered an alternative solution. In 2022, there is not yet a...
The Optimism team has developed Drippie, a programmable Ethereum transaction automation system that executes transactions in response to certain conditions. Drippie is essentially an Ethereum-native version of If This Then That (IFTTT), a programmable Web2 service that can combine different triggers with actions. According to the developers, the mechanism can perform most of the typical necessary transactions for Optimism...
The main thing Hedera Hashgraph is a public network based on distributed ledger technology ( DLT ) designed for businesses and companies as a platform for decentralized services and applications. Hedera positions itself as a third-generation public network - the next stage in the development of bitcoin and Ethereum. The project's strengths include high scalability, security, smart...
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt compared artificial intelligence to nuclear weapons and urged the global community to prevent AI-Hiroshima. Vice writes about it. Speaking at a security forum in Aspen, Schmidt allowed for the consolidation of an agreement between the United States and China to limit artificial intelligence technologies. “In the 50s and 60s, we ended up creating...
The head of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg Businessweek, accusing him of defamation. Watcher Guru initially reported this, and Zhao confirmed the information. The lawsuit has been filed with a Hong Kong court. Zhao claims that the 250th edition of Bloomberg Businessweek China contains material defaming and damaging to the image...
The Lido Finance platform community has voted against a proposal to sell 10 million LDO tokens to venture capital firm Dragonfly Capital. “The DAO seeks to create a position in the DAI stablecoin in exchange for 1% of the LDO supply (10 million tokens) at a price of $1.452153, with a total value of $14,521,530 $DAI,” the description of the...
