Mobile internet cost around the world 💸:
🇮🇱 Israel – $0.04
🇮🇹 Italy – $0.12
🇮🇳 India – $0.17
🇫🇷 France – $0.23
🇨🇳 China – $0.41
🇪🇸 Spain – $0.60
🇳🇬 Nigeria – $0.70
🇧🇷 Brazil – $0.74
🇬🇧 UK – $0.79
🇩🇪 Germany – $2.67
🇯🇵 Japan – $3.85
🇺🇸 US – $5.62
🇨🇭 Switzerland – $7.37
🇰🇷 South Korea – $12.55
🇸🇭 Saint Helena – $41.06
Tracking the Funding of Top Blockchain Ecosystems.
Ethereum projects received the most funding with $7.76B in total and 191 fundraising rounds over 2022. This is followed by BNB Chain with $2B, Polygon $1B and Solana $873M.
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▫️ OVER 50,000 NFTS ADDED TO 💰 BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN
As of Feb 11, 2023, there are 57,179 inscriptions hosted on the Bitcoin Blockchain. Just five days prior, there were only 7,000.
Famous Twitter announced via a tweet that he acquired 7 Ordinal Punks for 15.2 BTC with a comment saying "If you haven't looked into Ordinal NFTs on BTC yet, you should, now"
Data shows that people are not only adding images to the Bitcoin blockchain through Ordinal inscriptions, but also text, video, applications, and audio.
Google is getting its ChatGPT competitor ready for primetime.
The company said on Monday that its new conversational AI service, called Bard, would be opening up to trusted testers, and that it is readying the service for the public “in the coming weeks.” The service aims to generate detailed answers when given simple prompts, such as what to make for lunch or how to plan a friend’s baby shower.
Bard will be powered by LaMDA, a large language model developed by Google that stirred controversy in May when a Google software engineer publicly asserted that the AI was “sentient” — a claim that has since come under scrutiny.
Alchemy, has released a new "Transaction Simulation" that aims to build a safety mechanism letting users ensure their transaction data is correct and is going to the right place.
The product features new APIs that are available on Ethereum, Polygon, and Arbitrum blockchains, which include Asset Changes, Execution Simulation, and Bundle Simulation. All are focused on reducing the chances of scams and making crypto transactions safe and more user-friendly.
Despite the population being roughly split about breaking from Britain, Australia plans to drop Queen Elizabeth II from it's A$5 banknote. The note's design will be replaced with a tribute to First Australians, rather than the anticipated image of King Charles III.
Australia, which still has the British Monarch as head of state, previously announced it will shift coins to feature Charles at some point in 2023.
Uber Eats is introducing a new feature that shows users how much of their personal information is shared with their delivery person when they place an order on the app. The feature, which is called “View as Delivery Person,” is designed to add a level of transparency when ordering food via the app.
The feature will show how much of your information is shared with your courier at every stage of the delivery. For instance, when you request a delivery, the courier will see your approximate delivery location. When the courier accepts the delivery, they will see your first name and last initial, along with your exact delivery location and any customer notes you may have added regarding your order. Once the delivery is complete, the courier will see your delivery location, but not your house number or unit number.
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Chrome is rolling out an update for Android users that lets them lock their incognito sessions with a password code or biometric info when they exit the app. The feature has been available for iOS users for some time, but now it’s being made available to folks using Chrome on Android.
Users can activate this feature by going to Chrome Settings > Privacy & Security and turning on the “Lock incognito tabs when you close Chrome” toggle. So next time when a user exits Chrome, their incognito session will automatically be locked. To unlock the incognito tabs, you can use the biometric unlock on the phone such as a fingerprint unlock or lock code.
This feature works well when searching for a topic that you don’t want to appear in your recommendations or history.
Bill to establish Bitcoin & crypto as a form of payment in state agencies has been introduced to the New York Senate.
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Microsoft today said that it’s extending its partnership with OpenAI, the startup behind art- and text-generating AI systems like ChatGPT, DALL-E 2 and GPT-3, with a “multi-year, multi-billion-dollar” investment. OpenAI says that the infusion of new capital — the exact amount of which wasn’t disclosed — will be used to continue its independent research and develop AI that’s “safe, useful and powerful.”
The optics aren’t the best for Microsoft, which just last week announced plans to lay off 10,000 employees as a part of broader cost-cutting measures. But they’d been telegraphed by the company earlier this month — in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that Microsoft planned to make OpenAI’s foundational systemsf available as commercials platforms so that any entity in any industry can build on them.
OpenAI will remain a capped-profit company as a part of the new investment deal with Microsoft.
🇬🇧 UK’s Largest Bank Bans Customers From Purchasing Crypto with Credit Cards.
Bloomberg reported the UK’s largest bank, HSBC Holdings, has banned customers from purchasing crypto with their credit cards. Additionally, Nationwide has implemented a similar ban, as both entities have issued the reaction to current regulatory concerns within the digital asset industry.
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Crypto Firm Paxos to Stop Issuing Dollar-Pegged Binance BUSD Token
The New York Department of Financial Services ordered Paxos Trust Co., which issues and lists Binance’s dollar-pegged cryptocurrency, to stop creating more of its BUSD token, Binance said in a statement. Paxos will continue to manage redemptions of the product.
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Visa will launch Stablecoin settlements
Kai Sheffield, head of the company's cryptocurrency division, made the announcement when he spoke at the StarkWare Sessions 2023 conference.
Visa is now testing settlements based on the USD Coin Stablecoin (USDC).
In the future, blockchain technology will be integrated into existing transfer systems.
The top 100 largest companies in the world, and what blockchain projects they have already invested in in 2022
Most of these companies are investing in projects that offer solutions and services in the form of non-exchangeable tokens (NFTs)
Michael Saylor: FTX's meltdown was painful but necessary for the industry to grow up.
👉🏻 This is a common view among those in the industry, as it highlights the importance of having robust infrastructure and systems in place to handle high levels of volatility and trading volume.
Over the past 24 hours, Sandbox has started unlocking an estimated total of 170 million SAND coins, of which 78 million SAND ($60 million) has been transferred directly to the Binance deposit address.
Читать полностью…Twitter begins applying for regulatory licenses to introduce payments across the platform, which will "potentially" include Bitcoin and crypto.
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Nigeria's Bitcoin market skyrockets with a 63% premium ($37,869).
This demand comes just weeks after the Central Bank's cash withdrawal restrictions.
The country now leads the world in "Buy Bitcoin" searches.
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🚗 Car titles issued as NFTs in testing phase
California Department of Motor Vehicles is testing the Tezos network to issue car titles as NFTs. It said this would make title transfers between owners easier.
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Amazon is preparing to launch the NFT program in the spring, including getting Amazon customers to play crypto games and claim free NFTs in the process.
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When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed the algorithm, the stock photo and media giant also hinted that it would soon be bringing its own generative AI tools to users. Today the company took the wraps off that product. Customers of Shutterstock’s Creative Flow online design platform will now be able to create images based on text prompts, powered by OpenAI and Dall-E 2.
Key to the feature — which does not appear to have a brand name as such — is that Shutterstock says the images are “ready for licensing” right after they’re made.
This is significant given that one of Shutterstock’s big competitors, Getty Images, is currently embroiled in a lawsuit against Stability AI — maker of another generative AI service called Stable Diffusion — over using its images to train its AI without permission from Getty or rightsholders.
After cutting off prominent app makers like Tweetbot and Twitterific, Twitter quietly updated its developer terms to ban third-party clients altogether.
Spotted by Engadget, the “restrictions” section of Twitter’s 5,000-some-word developer agreement was updated with a clause prohibiting “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.” Earlier this week, Twitter said that it was “enforcing long-standing API rules” in disallowing clients access to its platform but didn’t cite which specific rules developers were violating. Now we know — retroactively.
As Engadget notes, Twitter clients are a part of Twitter history — Twitterific was created before Twitter had a native iOS app of its own. And they’ve gained a larger following in recent years, thanks in part to their lack of ads.
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Google parent Alphabet said it will eliminate about 12,000 jobs, more than 6% of its global workforce, becoming the latest tech giant to retrench after years of abundant growth and hiring.
The layoffs will affect jobs globally and across the entire company, CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an email on Friday, writing that he takes "full responsibility for the decisions that led us here."
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