Electricity to all 118 legal crypto mining centers in Iran to cease from June 22 ahead of seasonal spike in power demand, Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, spokesman for country’s power industry says in interview with state TV.
A $14.95 smart lamp from Ikea apparently has enough computing power to run the classic PC game Doom. A software engineer named Nicola Wrachien removed the smart lamp’s computer chip and used it to build a miniaturized Doom gaming system. Over the weekend, he uploaded a video to YouTube, showing Read more…
Incredible new data presented recently at the European Hematology Association Congress has revealed an experimental CRISPR gene editing therapy is both safe and effective up to three years after treatment. The follow-up results come from one of the longest-running human trials using CRISPR technology to treat a pair of rare Read more…
Shares in NetEase dropped on Monday morning after the Chinese gaming company fell foul of China’s censors over a social media post that was suspected of alluding to Winnie the Pooh, a popular way to derisively refer to President Xi Jinping. From a report: The company said over the weekend Read more…
Meta’s Reality Labs division has revealed new prototypes in its roadmap toward lightweight, hyper-realistic virtual reality graphics. The breakthroughs remain far from consumer-ready, but the designs — codenamed Butterscotch, Starburst, Holocake 2, and Mirror Lake — could add up to a slender, brightly lit headset that supports finer detail than Read more…
Belief in God among Americans dipped to a new low, Gallup’s latest poll shows. While the majority of adults in the U.S. believe in God, belief has dropped to 81% — the lowest ever recorded by Gallup — and is down from 87% in 2017. Between 1944 and 2011, more Read more…
The Los Angeles Times reports on “a massive surge of criminal fraud that has been pummeling crypto users with unknown billions of dollars in losses with little relief in sight.” The growth in crypto fraud has turned exponential in recent years. The reported losses from crypto scams in 2021 were Read more…