An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record, written by Catalin Cimpanu: Hackers are estimated to have stolen more than $29 million in cryptocurrency assets from Cream Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that allows users to loan a…
Consumers Spent $40 Billion On App Store In First Half of 2021, Nearly Double That of Google Play Store
According to a study from Finbold, consumers spent an estimated $41.5 billion on apps from the Apple App Store during the first six months of 2021, which is almost double compared to $23.4 billion spent by Android consumers. 9to5Mac reports: The Apple …
PayPal Is Exploring a Stock-Trading Platform For US Customers
PayPal is exploring a possible stock-trading platform, after rolling out the ability to trade cryptocurrencies last year. CNBC reports: The San Jose, California-based company recently hired brokerage industry veteran Rich Hagen as part of the move, acc…
How Amazon Pressures Out 6% of Office Workers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Seattle Times, written by Katherine Anne Long: Amazon systematically attempts to channel 6% of its office employees out of the company each year, using processes embedded in proprietary software to help meet a t…
Previous Covid Prevents Delta Infection Better Than Pfizer Shot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: People who recovered from a bout of Covid-19 during one of the earlier waves of the pandemic appear to have a lower risk of contracting the delta variant than those who got two doses of the vaccine fr…
EU Agency Advises Against Using Search, Browsing History For Credit Scores
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record, written by Catalin Cimpanu: The European Union’s lead data protection supervisor has recommended on Thursday that personal data such as search queries & internet browsing history should not be us…
China Researching Challenges of Kilometer-Scale Ultra-large Spacecraft
Hmmmmmm shares a report from SpaceNews: The National Natural Science Foundation of China has outlined a five-year project for researchers to study the assembly of ultra-large spacecraft. Scientists are being directed to meet the “urgent need” for the c…
Titan’s Strange Chemical World Gets Simulated in Tiny Tubes
Eric Niiler writes via Wired: The landscape of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is both familiar and strange. Like Earth, Titan has rivers, lakes, clouds, and falling raindrops, as well as mountains of ice and a thick atmosphere. But instead of water, Tit…
The Most Popular Posts On Facebook Are Plagiarized
In Facebook’s “widely viewed content report” released last week, The Verge’s Casey Newton noticed something arguably just as damning as the spread of COVID-19 misinformation or rise of vaccine hesitancy: almost all of the most-viewed posts on Facebook …
‘Swiss Re’ Signs World’s First Long-Term Carbon Capture Deal
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Reinsurance giant Swiss Re announced Wednesday that it had signed the world’s first long-term agreement to take carbon directly out of the air. The contract with Climeworks AG, one of the world’s lead…