Monthly Archives: December, 2021
Cryptocurrency funds post inflows of $184 million last week – FinanceFeeds
Cryptocurrency investment products and funds recorded inflows for an eighth straight week, data from digital asset manager CoinShares showed on Tuesday. Inflows last week into bitcoin and other crypto-based investment products were at $184 million, but Fridays price weakness led to $40 million outflows that day
FBI seized $2.3 million in cryptocurrency tied to ransomware group REvil – The Indian Express
US law enforcement seized approximately $2.3 million (roughly Rs 17 crores) in cryptocurrency connected to infamous hacker group, ReVil. The accused has been identified as a Russian citizen suspected of being associated with REvil, known for their ransomware attacks. REvil ransomware is a file blocking virus that encrypts files after infection and discards a ransom request message
Report: NFT sales in 2021 totalled over $26.9 billion worth of cryptocurrency – Music Ally
Chainalysis, a company that analyses blockchain technology and provides data to banks and governments, has launched a detailed NFT market report, with some useful insights into the space.
Crash? What Crash? This Cryptocurrency Just Replaced Dogecoin and Shiba Inu As a Top 10 Token – The Motley Fool
What happened This weekend, there was some rather impressive volatility in the crypto markets. A flash crash early Saturday morning led to a number of key large-cap cryptocurrencies losing a tremendous amount of value in short order
Expect 100 mn Indians to own cryptocurrencies in 2-3 years: Nischal Shetty – Economic Times
MUMBAI: More than 100 million Indians will have ownership or exposure to cryptocurrencies over the next two-three years holding assets worth more than $50 billion, said Nischal Shetty, founder at cryptocurrency exchange WazirX. Speaking at a CII virtual event earlier today, Shetty said he sees the cryptocurrency universe in India growing exponentially with more than 1,000 startups working on various technological aspects of the blockchain. India currently has more than 15 million cryptocurrency users in the country holding assets worth more than $6 billion.
DeepMind Cracks ‘Knot’ Conjecture That Bedeviled …
The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel how mathematicians understand knots.
DeepMinds AI lights path to faster drug development
Googles parent company, Alphabet, has announced the launch of Isomorphic Labs, an AI-driven drug discovery company, built on research from its DeepMind subsidiary. For over a decade DeepMind has been in the vanguard of advancing the state-of-the-art in AI, Demis Hassabis, founder and CEO of both Isomorphic Labs and DeepMind, wrote in a blog post.
Meadows said the ‘only thing on my mind’ was RBG’s vacant seat when she died: book – Business Insider
We are so sorry! We bumped into a system failure and couldnt take your email this time. Thank you for signing up! Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows says he immediately began thinking about the newly vacant seat on the Supreme Court after the death of liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 2020. According to Meadows' new book, "The Chief's Chief," Meadows learned of Ginsburg's death while his boss, former President Donald Trump, spoke at a rally in Minnesota
The Best Science and Tech Breakthroughs of 2021 – Nerdist
Scientists and engineers explored new frontiers in every technological category in 2021. Advances in everything from spaceflight to microrobotics to artificial intelligence abounded, offering a glimpse of a world in which humanity is a multiplanet species. As well as one physiologically connected to intelligent machines
Funding news: Cyrus lands $18M and buys startup developing COVID-19 therapeutic; Spare Labs snags $18M for mobility software – GeekWire
The news: Seattle-based protein engineering company Cyrus Biotechnology has raised $18 million and acquired Orthogonal Biologics, a spinout from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, which is developing a COVID-19 therapeutic. Combining forces: Cyrus has built up a software-and-screening platform to re-design natural proteins, leveraging tech spun out of the University of Washingtons Institute for Protein Design. IPDs tools to predict protein folding have been a boon to Cyrus, which was co-founded in 2015 by former IPD postdoc Lucas Nivon.