Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, has accused a “finance gerontocracy” including Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon of hindering bitcoin’s progress. The outspoken libertarian tech investor described multibillionaire Buffett, the world’s richest investor, as the “sociopathic grandpa from Omaha” in a keynote address at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami Read more…
Pinterest is to block all climate misinformation, as the image-focused social network seeks to limit the spread of false and misleading claims. Under the new policy the site is committing to take down content that distorts or denies the facts of the climate crisis, whether posted as adverts or normal Read more…
No one wants to be left behind in the metaverse. Two more big companies tossed their hats — or at least dollars — into the metaverse ring on Monday, as North Carolina-based Epic Games announced a $2 billion investment that values it at $31.5 billion. Epic said the new funding Read more…
The newest member of Twitter’s board of directors — Elon Musk — tweeted new ideas for improving Twitter last night. “Everyone who signs up for Twitter Blue (i.e. pays $3/month) should get an authentication checkmark,” Musk suggested, adding later that “It would massively expand the verified pool & make bot Read more…
The newest member of Twitter’s board of directors just tweeted “Is Twitter dying?” That would be Elon Musk — who’d preceded the question with a list of Twitter’s ten most-followed accounts, noting that most of them “tweet rarely and post very little content.” And in follow-up tweets, Musk pointed out Read more…
The U.S. government recently gave California approval to release millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes bred by British biotech company Oxitec. Oxitec, a private company, says its genetically modified bugs could help save half the world’s population from the invasive Aedes aegypti mosquito, which can spread diseases such as yellow fever, Read more…
David Spirk, the chief data officer for America’s Department of Defense, “called for the Pentagon to make urgent investments to defend against potential espionage from quantum computers” that could crack the encryption on sensitive data, Bloomberg reports: “I don’t think that there’s enough senior leaders getting their heads around the Read more…