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View More NewsIn brief Australian scientists built the first working quantum battery prototype. Quantum batteries charge faster as they scale, defying classical limits. The breakthrough could power future quantum computers, but not yet consumer devices. Your phone takes an hour to charge. Your EV takes all night. That trade-off—more capacity means more waiting—is so embedded in how batteries work that nobody really questions it anymore. A team of Australian scientists just built something that breaks that rule entirely.Researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, together with teams from RMIT University and the University of Melbourne, have unveiled the world’s first working quantum…
Exchange giant Coinbase’s (COIN) asset management arm is bringing its bitcoin yield fund onchain, creating a tokenized share class of the fund with $3.5 trillion fund administrator Apex Group.The Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund, managed by Coinbase Asset Management (CBAM), will be available to investors on the Base network, Coinbase’s blockchain built on Ethereum. Apex remains the transfer agent, keeping records aligned with the fund’s net asset value.The launch comes as global asset managers are looking at tokenization as the next frontier in how capital markets evolve, making bonds, equites and funds tradable on blockchain rails. Firms including BlackRock (BLK), Fidelity…
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In 2022, James Cameron brought audiences the sequel to his 2009 sci-fi epic Avatar. In Avatar: The Way of Water, Cameron continues the story of protagonist Jake Sully (Sam Worthington). In the first film, Sully is a crippled marine living on a dying future Earth. He travels to the alien world of Pandora to help the militaristic Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and corporate overseer Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi) move the natives, the Na’vi, off their land so the humans can mine it. But then he falls in love with a native woman, her people, and their world, helps them…
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For more than a decade, American investors and innovators have operated under a cloud of uncertainty about when crypto assets implicate the federal securities…
EtherFi has allocated $25 million to Plume’s real-world asset (RWA) protocol Nest, marking a move to integrate tokenized RWA yield directly into its platform…
In brief Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 is a new state-of-the-art AI image generation model The model puts Microsoft in as the third-best AI lab on the…
from the protect-yourself dept We’ve all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our…
from the great-orange-hope dept Shortly after Trump took office for a second time, his administration made it clear that it felt constitutional rights were…
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined a proposed amicus brief supporting detained journalist Estefany Rodríguez’s habeas corpus petition in the United States District Court…
Dutch market maker IMC Trading has hired Alex Casimo as chief commercial officer of its cryptocurrency business, according to a person with direct knowledge…
Ryde Group, a Singapore-based ride-sharing and carpool platform, similar to Uber or Lyft, said Wednesday that it has adopted a crypto treasury strategy for…
In brief The World Gold Council, which helped establish the first gold-backed ETF in the U.S., is working on a service to standardize tokenized…
Governments around the world have increasingly sought to regulate online speech well beyond their borders.If global platforms are forced to comply with the world’s…
Kampala, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Tuesday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court of Uganda to declare criminal defamation unconstitutional, the latest…
Bitcoin BTC$70,426.40 drifted toward $69,000 on Thursday as the deepening conflict in Iran is spiraling across the Middle East, hitting energy infrastructure and spilling…