Driverless vehicles are becoming mainstream, in part thanks to rapid advancements in artificial intelligence. More companies are now vying to add the technology to larger vehicles, including mass transit. One company in this space is Oxa. While attending Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, Oxa officials told Decrypt about the company vision for autonomous transportation—working with fellow transportation tech firm…
Crypto adoption is on the rise in Turkey, a country in the throes of high inflation, according to a research survey conducted by KuCoin. Over the last year and a half, adoption has increased from 40 percent to 52 percent of the Turkish population. KuCoin—the fifth largest crypto exchange in the world—collected this data based on the survey responses of…
Anyone who grew up in the 1980s, and ’90s probably remembers ads for 900 numbers on late-night TV. After the nightly news, commercials featuring beautiful people would fill the airwaves, inviting you to have “steamy” conversations or talk to your favorite celebrity—which were merely the bait for raking up charges on your phone bill. Fast forward to 2023, and generative…
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Most of the top thirty cryptocurrencies by market capitalization posted negligible losses or gains over the last seven days. Bitcoin (BTC) starts the weekend at $26,051, pretty much the same level it was at last week. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency briefly surged on Tuesday after a judge representing the U.S. Court of Appeals…
Summer is ending and school is starting—but don’t fret, there are lots of high-profile games releasing this month. While there are a few games offering open betas, like the cozy MMO Palia, the sci-fi trading card NFT game Parallel, and Yuga Labs’ Legends of the Mara, there are also plenty of major AAA titles that will fully launch in September.…
The purchase of the 55 million Robinhood shares had been expected following approval from the company’s board and a U.S. district court. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/app/public/index.php/news/robinhood-bought-sam-bankman-fried-stake-us-marshals
Decrypting DeFi is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) Whether you like it or not Coinbase’s “onchain summer” campaign appears to have been a massive marketing win for the firm. Or more specifically, for the firm’s buzzy layer-2 solution Base. Research from CoinGecko shows that Base was the fastest layer-2 network to hit 1 million addresses, reaching the milestone in…
Streaming video is one of the fastest-growing markets in the world, with the OTT video industry alone projected to reach $200 billion in 2023. Short for “over-the-top” video, the OTT video ecosystem includes on-demand video as well as ad-supported video content, and it is mainly driven by the growth of established Web2 streaming platforms, including Netflix, Hulu and Disney+. The…
Amidst a series of rapid developments, the XRP cryptocurrency market experiences heightened activity. A recent substantial purchase has been detected by Whale Alert, a renowned crypto-tracking platform. Whale Alert reported a significant transfer of 66,666,659 XRP (approximately $33,065,809) from Binance to an undisclosed wallet. This substantial move has sparked speculation about its potential impact and its proximity to the $1…
Bitcoin erases all trace of “Grayscale hype,” with September offering a trip below $26,000 and limited chance of upside, BTC price analysis warns. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/app/public/index.php/news/bitcoin-rsi-showdown-btc-price-new-2-week-low
