ARK’s Cathie Wood bought bitcoins years ago for $100,000, she’s currently sitting on a $7.6 million profit

Cathie Wood recently revealed that she bought $100,000 worth of bitcoins several years ago, when they were trading at around $250. The referenced unit price of the crypto suggests Wood made the purchase somewhere in 2015. Speaking on the podcast …

Google forced by EU law to accept Face Unlock for transaction validation

Reintroduced on the Pixel 7 series at the insistence of fans, Face Unlock is intended for unlocking the screen, not as the primary method of identity validation in potentially risky scenarios, such as validating payments initiated from the phone. The …

Peter Brandt predicts a $13,000 floor for BTC and says it could take 32 months to reach a new high

Trader Peter Brandt has given a preview of what to expect from the world’s leading crypto-currency, bitcoin, over the next few years. The trader spoke on CoinDesk’s “First Mover” show on Monday about the current state of the crypto, and …

Mark Zuckerberg urged by investors to drop ambitions for Metavers

After a 2022 year in which Meta’s share price has plummeted 60% and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has “buried” more than $15 billion in developing a Metavers that no one else seems interested in, Meta shareholders are showing signs of running …

Apple bans the use of NFT in its App Store

Apple has banned apps in its App Store from using non-fungible tokens (NFT). According to reports, the move is aimed at discouraging NFT buyers and sellers from transacting in the app. Apple also wants these companies to operate outside of …

Google Chrome will no longer receive updates on Windows 7 and Windows 8

Those who still prefer Windows 7 will have one more reason to at least upgrade to Windows 10, as Google Chrome will run out of security updates on that OS. While the abandonment of Windows 8 was to be expected …

Romanian-born actress, adored by Americans, Germans and Austrians: she was Marlene Dietrich’s understudy and was called “the second Greta Garbo”

Although her name is less well known in our country, Tala Birell managed to impress film buffs in countries like Germany, Austria and the United States. Tara Birell was born in Romania, but soon realised her place was on the …

Billionaire says Britain may be forced to seek IMF bailout if it does not renegotiate Brexit deal

The billionaire has insisted that the UK’s current economic woes are the result of a poorly negotiated Brexit deal, not the controversial tax cut proposals of Liz Truss’ government. A billionaire says a bad Brexit deal is to blame for …

YouTube gets revamped interface, complete with pinch-to-zoom and other new features

Until now, YouTube only allowed full-screen mode to switch between black stripe display (vertical or horizontal) and the zoom-to-fill alternative that crops the image to fill the screen, simply cutting out the parts that don’t fit. From now on, users …

Fear of ‘tripledemia’, the joint epidemic of covid, influenza and syncytial virus

This Monday, the new ‘conseller’ de Salut, Manuel Balcellsa graduate in Medicine, had already warned: we should expect a “complicated” winter epidemiologically speaking due to the coincidence of influenza, coronavirus and other viruses, such as the syncytial. His concern is …

Santander proposes tokenization and asset swap project with Brazilian CBDC

Santander, one of the world’s largest banking institutions, has proposed to expand the scope of the potential use of Digital Real as a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in Brazil. Santander relies on technology from another company, ParFin, to symbolize …

IEA: 2022, a better year for the environment thanks to electric cars and renewables

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels, which are extremely harmful to the environment, will be less than 1% higher this year, thanks to the growing popularity of electric cars and investment in renewable energy sources. These are the …