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Source: Coin Tegraph Judge John Koeltl ordered Alex Mashinsky and prosecutors to appear in court on Nov. 13 to address the former Celsius CEO’s motion to dismiss fraud and market manipulation charges. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge Astropad’s new Bookcase is a smartphone accessory designed to make reading on a smartphone feel more like reading on an e-reader. No, it doesn’t give your phone an easy-on-the-eyes screen, longer battery life, or any other features that have made devices like the Kindle popular. Instead, for $50 the Bookcase is really…
Source: Venture Beat New research details a novel approach to model merging that could help to improve enterprise AI deployments. Read Full Article
Source: Live Mint Newmont Corp., the world’s top gold producer, posted its biggest quarterly profit in five years as the price of bullion surged. Still, shares fell after sales and earnings missed analysts’ estimates. The Denver-based company’s net income attributable to shareholders was $922 million in the third quarter, nearly six times more than the…
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Source: The Verge Three industry groups are suing to prevent the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from enforcing its new “Click to Cancel” rule that requires companies to make it easy to cancel subscriptions, according to Reuters. And yes, it’s exactly who you’d expect. Click to cancel expands the Negative Option Rule to forbid businesses from…
Source: Venture Beat Livewire’s recent study shows that the next generations of gamers — Z and Alpha — expect ads, but they want a very particular kind. Read Full Article
Source: Bitcoinist As a response to the latest anti-Bitcoin paper by the European Central Bank (ECB), a new academic paper titled “Challenging Bias in the ECB’s Bitcoin Analysis” has been published. Authored by Murray A. Rudd, along with co-authors Allen Farrington, Freddie New, and Dennis Porter, the paper offers a comprehensive critique of a recent…
Source: Coin Tegraph According to Tesla’s Q3 financial filings, the company’s automotive sales declined slightly since Q2 2024, while leases increased slightly. Read Full Article
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Source: The Verge Tesla has been testing a robotaxi service in the Bay Area for the past few months, Elon Musk said during the company’s earnings call Wednesday. The company’s employees have been able to summon an autonomously operated Tesla vehicle for trips using the company’s prototype ride-hailing app, Musk said. The vehicles arrive with…
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Source: The Verge An LLM generates text one token at a time. These tokens can represent a single character, word or part of a phrase. To create a sequence of coherent text, the model predicts the next most likely token to generate. These predictions are based on the preceding words and the probability scores assigned…
